Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

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All lyrics are written by Jim Kerr; all music is composed by Simple Minds.

Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
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Studio album by
Released4 September 1981 [1]
StudioFarmyard Studios, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire
Regent's Park Studios, London [2]
Genre
Length78:59(originally 43:50 + 35:09)
Label Virgin
Producer Steve Hillage
Simple Minds chronology
Empires and Dance
(1980)
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
(1981)
Themes for Great Cities 79/81
(1981)
Simple Minds studio albums chronology
Empires and Dance
(1980)
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
(1981)
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
(1982)
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."In Trance as Mission"6:50
2."Sweat in Bullet"4:30
3."70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"4:48
4."Boys from Brazil"5:30
Side B
No.TitleLength
5."Love Song"5:03
6."This Earth That You Walk Upon"5:26
7."Sons and Fascination"5:23
8."Seeing out the Angel"6:11

Sister Feelings Call

All lyrics are written by Jim Kerr; all music is composed by Simple Minds.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Theme for Great Cities"5:50
2."The American"3:49
3."20th Century Promised Land"4:53
Side B
No.TitleLength
4."Wonderful in Young Life"5:20
5."League of Nations"4:55
6."Careful in Career"5:08
7."Sound in 70 Cities" (Dub mix of "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall")5:01

The Canadian versions of both Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call contained respectively tracklists and running orders differing from the original versions, with Sons removing two tracks ("70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" and "Seeing out the Angel") from the original and adding four ("Theme for Great Cities", "The American", "20th Century Promised Land" and "League of Nations") from Sister. Sons thus contained ten rather than eight tracks, and Sister five rather than seven tracks.

Sons and Fascination (Canadian version) [29]

All lyrics are written by Jim Kerr; all music is composed by Simple Minds.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Love Song"5:03
2."Theme for Great Cities"5:50
3."This Earth That You Walk Upon"5:26
4."Sweat in Bullet"4:30
5."In Trance as Mission"6:50
Side B
No.TitleLength
6."The American"3:49
7."20th Century Promised Land"4:53
8."League of Nations"4:55
9."Boys from Brazil"5:30
10."Sons and Fascination"5:23

Sister Feelings Call(Canadian version) [30]

All lyrics are written by Jim Kerr; all music is composed by Simple Minds.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"4:48
2."Careful in Career"5:08
3."Seeing out the Angel"6:11
Side B
No.TitleLength
4."Wonderful in Young Life"5:20
5."Sound in 70 Cities" (Dub mix of "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall")5:01

Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

The 2002 remastered reissue includes all titles from both albums. It was also released in heavy duty gatefold picture card sleeve with black inner sleeve. The original 1985 CD omits "League of Nations" and "Sound in 70 Cities" due to space constraints being in force then.

All lyrics are written by Jim Kerr; all music is composed by Simple Minds.

No.TitleLength
1."In Trance as Mission"6:50
2."Sweat in Bullet"4:30
3."70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall"4:48
4."Boys from Brazil"5:30
5."Love Song"5:03
6."This Earth That You Walk Upon"5:26
7."Sons and Fascination"5:23
8."Seeing out the Angel"6:11
9."Theme for Great Cities"5:50
10."The American"3:49
11."20th Century Promised Land"4:53
12."Wonderful in Young Life"5:20
13."League of Nations"4:55
14."Careful in Career"5:08
15."Sound in 70 Cities" (Dub mix of "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall")5:01

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes. [31]

Simple Minds

Additional personnel

Technical

Charts

Chart (1981–82)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [10] 31
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [11] 46
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [12] 7
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [32] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [33] 11

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [14] Gold100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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