Personally "All for You" is one of my four favourite tracks from Life in a Day with its tense guitar chords, its baroque keyboards (hats off to you Matt!) and cryptic lyrics. Early biographies recorded how Simple Minds realised they were a song short whilst recording their debut album, so they resurrected an older, previously discarded song called All For You. This suggested that the song was performed live in the early part of 1978 and subsequently dropped. Yet there was no prior evidence of this song. It didn't appear on any early bootlegs, it didn't feature in any early set-lists, there were no mentions in fanzines or magazines, and it wasn't considered worthy of a place on the two demo tapes which led up to the album. So was it actually a old live song? Or was it written in the studio? This song was specifically remembered by Derek. "'All For You' we wrote. I remember doing that in the Townhouse Studios. The bass line is me starting my whacky bass lines. There were a few things - we definitely added to it - we didn't get any publishing for that. But to be fair that was the first album. And we made quite a pretty penny out of it, but not anything like what was to come." The studio tape trail does confirm that the song was recorded late in the sessions. It was one of the three tracks recorded at The Townhouse, after the majority of the album had been committed to tape at the initial sessions at Farmyard Studios. It was recorded before the 23rd February 1979, along with other late contenders Destiny (which had been played live) and Children Of The Game (another new song). An early rough mix prepared by John Leckie between the 19th and 23rd February 1979 featured different synths during the choruses and an undeveloped middle-8. The question of the middle-8 was unexpectedly resolved by by a drunk Bruce Findlay (manager) galavanting on the keyboards in the studio late one night. Leckie was amused by the "whooshes" and weird effects and mixed them into the track. The final mix (including one very similar out-take) was committed to tape on the 28th February 1979. All For You was a simple song, reminiscent of their light-weight poppier work, and bascially album filler. It was performed live in 1979 as Simple Minds toured the UK but was quickly forgotten.

Allways loved Charles Flying V sounds amazing on this album but the next albums my favourite real to real

Another album I almost never put back on the plate, nice to listen to it again with you! They're young, they're fresh, they experiment. This one's an engaging if a bit clunky song. Looking forward to your reaction to the next track, Pleasantly Disturbed already gives out hints of Empires and Dance!

Sorry thank you matt

Very cool! I really liked it. 👍 I didn't know this side of Simple Minds either. 😲 Wow! Haha, you will be amused to know this reminded me a bit of the Bridges. 😛 "Insane in a good way" were words you used for some Briges tunes, too, so maybe I am not that wrong. Maybe a bit of Doors, too. Although there is a different vibe here that I can't describe. 🤔 Anyway, enjoyed it a lot. ☺

@mattsnider2667

21 күн бұрын

Yes, I fully agree! It has a very similar aura of wild unpredictability, and the fusion of notably distinct sonic elements. Very pleased you enjoyed this one, baby. 🥰😘

@SofiaMarques18

21 күн бұрын

@@mattsnider2667 What an honour, you agree! ☺ We can agree sometimes! 😜😁😘

Destiny and murder story are my favourite Be interesting, what will be your thoughts on these tracks