Silver Box – 2004

Silver Box – 2004

Silver Box is a 5-CD box set by Simple Minds, released on 18 October 2004. It is made up of previously unreleased demos, radio & TV sessions and various live recordings from 1979 to 1995… and is also including (as a final bonus disc) their unreleased studio album, Our Secrets Are the Same, originally recorded between April and June 1999 and originally planned to be released on its own in early 2000 but delayed many times until its final inclusion in this box set.

Disc 1
1. “Life in a Day” (Live, London for the BBC in Concert Series, 8 September 1979)
2. “Chelsea Girl” (Live, London for the ‘BBC in Concert’ Series, 8 September 1979)
3. “Here Comes the Fool” (Live, London for the ‘BBC in Concert’ Series, 8 September 1979)
4. “Changeling” (Session recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 19 December 1979)
5. “Premonition” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 19 December 1979)
6. “Citizen (Dance of Youth)” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 19 December 1979)
7. “Room” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 19 December 1979)
8. “I Travel” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
9. “Celebrate” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
10. “Thirty Frames a Second” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
11. “Twist/Run/Repulsion” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
12. “Capital City” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
13. “New Warm Skin” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
14. “Constantinople Line” (Demo for the album Empires and Dance)
15. “Careful in Career” (Demo for the album Sister Feelings Call)

 

Disc 2
1. “The American” (Demo for the album Sister Feelings Call)
2. “Life in Oils” (Demo for the album Sons and Fascination)
3. “Sweat in Bullet” (Demo for the album Sons and Fascination)
4. “Love Song” (Demo for the album Sons and Fascination)
5. “Promised You a Miracle” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 11 February 1982)
6. “In Trance as Mission” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 11 February 1982)
7. “Someone Somewhere in Summertime” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 26 August 1982)
8. “Glittering Prize” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 26 August 1982)
9. “Hunter & the Hunted” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 26 August 1982)
10. “The Kick Inside of Me” (Recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, 11 September 1983)
11. “New Gold Dream” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 5 January 1985)
12. “Don’t You (Forget about Me)” (Rehearsal for ‘Live Aid’, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 July 1985)

 

Disc 3
1. “Waterfront” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
2. “Ghost Dancing” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
3. “Book of Brilliant Things” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
4. “Once Upon a Time” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
5. “All the Things She Said” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
6. “Alive & Kicking” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
7. “Sanctify Yourself” (Live at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 3 December 1985)
8. “Mandela Day” (Live at Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988)
9. “Real Life” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
10. “See the Lights” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)

Disc 4
1. “Travelling Man” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
2. “East at Easter” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
3. “Banging on the Door” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
4. “Stand by Love” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
5. “Oh Jungleland” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
6. “King Is White & in the Crowd” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
7. “Big Sleep” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
8. “Let There Be Love” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
9. “Ghostrider” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
10. “Belfast Child” (Live at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 13 August 1991)
11. “She’s a River” (Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 10 September 1995)
12. “Up on the Catwalk” (Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 10 September 1995)
13. “Hypnotised” (Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 10 September 1995)

Disc 5 – Our Secrets Are the Same
1. “Swimming Towards the Sun” 4:33
2. “Jeweller to the Stars” 3:28
3. “Space” 4:16
4. “Death by Chocolate” 3:36
5. “Waiting at the End of the World” 3:26
6. “Neon Cowboys” 3:52
7. “She Knows” 4:07
8. “Hello” 3:23
9. “Happy Is the Man” 4:23
10. “Sleeping” 4:32