Tag: 5×5 Live

New releases: Simple Minds, Dinosaur Jr, The Jam, The Pogues, Elvis Costello, Blue Nile

New releases: Simple Minds, Dinosaur Jr, The Jam, The Pogues, Elvis Costello, Blue Nile

This week’s new releases include a 2CD live set from Simple Minds, an archival live album from Dinosaur Jr on vinyl and MP3, reissues from The Jam and The Blue Nile, a CD/DVD 30th anniversary live set from The Pogues and a collection of Elvis Costello songs used in films.

Simple Minds detail ‘5X5 Live’ album featuring songs originally recorded from 1979-1982

Simple Minds detail ‘5X5 Live’ album featuring songs originally recorded from 1979-1982

Simple Minds last week announced plans to release a double-CD live album culled from this year’s “5×5 Live” tour of Europe, and now comes the full tracklist, which, keeping with the tour’s concept, draws five songs apiece off of each of the band’s first five albums. Check out the full tracklist.

Simple Minds prepping 2CD live album culled from this year’s ‘5×5 Live’ tour

Simple Minds prepping 2CD live album culled from this year’s ‘5×5 Live’ tour

Simple Minds are putting the finishing touches on a live album culled from this year’s “5×5 Live” tour of Europe, which found the band each night performing five songs off of each of its first five albums — ‘Life In A Day,’ ‘Real To Real Cacophony,’ ‘Empires and Dance,’ ‘Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Calling’ and ‘New Gold Dream.’