Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Infobox Album
Name = Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Type = Studio album
Artist = Simple Minds


Released = 1981/2002/2003
Recorded = 1981
Genre = New Wave
Length = 78:59 (originally 43:50 + 35:09)
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = Steve Hillage
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfqxq85ld0e "Sons and Fascination" review]
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9fexqu5ld6e "Sister Feelings Call" review]

Last album = "Empires and Dance"
(1980)
This album = "Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call" (1981)
Next album = "Themes For Great Cities 79/81" (1981)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Background = lightsteelblue


Lower caption = "Sister Feelings Call" cover|

"Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call" is the current (2002/2003 CD re-issue) common title for what were once two technically separate releases by Simple Minds, both assembled from the same sessions and released at the same time and, in some instances, sold as a double-LP set. Since the current CD version contains all the tracks once split onto two LPs, with their respective track running orders preserved, "Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call" may be considered a single album with a near 80-minute running length.

Viewed as vinyl LPs, "Sons and Fascination" is the fourth Simple Minds album, released in 1981, with "Sister Feelings Call" the fifth. The two were released simultaneously, "Sons and Fascination" being the main feature, and "Sister Feelings Call" included as a bonus disc with the first 10,000 copies of the original release. The apparent reason for having two single LPs was Virgin Records' reluctance to release all the material as a double LP. As a result, "Sons And Fascination" came out as the somewhat more coherent album, leaving "Sister Feelings Call" with tracks that were rejected for the main feature. Despite this policy, "Sister Feelings Call" may be viewed as a fully-fledged album or at least as the second disc in a double set.

Upon its first CD release in mid-1980s "Sons and Fascination" came with tracks from "Sister Feelings Call" added directly after the main set, so that the CD played as a single long album. Due to technical limitations, the disc's running length having to fit within 74 minutes, two tracks from "Sister Feelings Call", "League of Nations" and "Sound in 70 Cities" (an instrumental version of "Sons and Fascination"'s "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall") were dropped. However they appeared on the CD single of the 12-inch cut of "The American" and would re-appear in album form in 2002 and 2003 when remasters of the double set were issued under the title "Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call".

These albums were the first recordings the band made for Virgin Records (having ended their contract with Arista) and their first with producer Steve Hillage, who was a guitarist in the hippy progressive rock band Gong. One thing Hillage and Simple Minds had in common was a love of krautrock music.

Track listing: Sons and Fascination

LP: Virgin / V 2207 (UK)

#"In Trance as Mission" - 6:50
#"Sweat in Bullet" - 4:30
#"70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
#"Boys From Brazil" - 5:30
#"Love Song" - 5:03
#"This Earth That You Walk Upon" - 5:26
#"Sons & Fascination" - 5:23
#"Seeing out the Angel" - 6:11

LP: Virgin / VL 2224 (Canada)

#"Love Song" - 5:03
# "Theme for Great Cities" - 5:50
#"This Earth That You Walk Upon" - 5:26
#"Sweat in Bullet" - 4:30
#"In Trance as Mission" - 6:50
# "The American" - 3:49
# "20th Century Promised Land" - 4:53
# "League of Nations" - 4:55
# "Boys From Brazil" - 5:30
#"Sons & Fascination" - 5:23

* includes tracks from both releases

Track listing: Sister Feelings Call

LP: Virgin / Virgin OVED 2 (UK)

# "Theme for Great Cities" - 5:50
# "The American" - 3:49
# "20th Century Promised Land" - 4:53
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "League of Nations" - 4:55
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08
# "Sound in 70 Cities" - 5:01

* also released on MC (Virgin / OVEDC 2)

LP: Virgin / VEP 311 (Canada)

# "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08
# "Seeing out the Angel" - 6:10
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "Sound in 70 Cities" - 5:01

MC: Virgin / VEP4-311 (Canada)

# "70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08
# "This Earth That You Walk Upon" (Instrumental) - 5:26
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "Seeing out the Angel" - 6:10
# "Sound in 70 Cities" - 5:01

* includes instrumental mix of "This Earth That You Walk Upon" previously issued as B-side to "Love Song"

Track listing: Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

MC: Virgin / TCV 2207 (UK)

#"In Trance as Mission" - 6:50
#"Sweat in Bullet" - 4:30
#"70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
#"Boys From Brazil" - 5:30
# "Theme for Great Cities" - 5:50
# "The American" - 3:49
# "20th Century Promised Land" - 4:53

#"Love Song" - 5:03
#"This Earth That You Walk Upon" - 5:26
#"Sons & Fascination" - 5:23
#"Seeing out the Angel" - 6:11
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "League of Nations" - 4:55
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08
# "Sound in 70 Cities" - 5:01

CD: Virgin / CDV 2207 (UK)

#"In Trance as Mission" - 6:50
#"Sweat in Bullet" - 4:30
#"70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
#"Boys From Brazil" - 5:30
#"Love Song" - 5:03
#"This Earth That You Walk Upon" - 5:26
#"Sons & Fascination" - 5:23
#"Seeing out the Angel" - 6:11
#"Theme for Great Cities" - 5:50
# "The American" - 3:49
# "20th Century Promised Land" - 4:53
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08

* omits "League of Nations" and "Sound in 70 Cities" due to space constraints

CD: Virgin / Virgin SIMCD 4 (UK)

#"In Trance as Mission" - 6:50
#"Sweat in Bullet" - 4:30
#"70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall" - 4:48
#"Boys From Brazil" - 5:30
#"Love Song" - 5:03
#"This Earth That You Walk Upon" - 5:26
#"Sons & Fascination" - 5:23
#"Seeing out the Angel" - 6:11
# "Theme for Great Cities" - 5:50
# "The American" - 3:49
# "20th Century Promised Land" - 4:53
# "Wonderful in Young Life" - 5:20
# "League of Nations" - 4:55
# "Careful in Career" - 5:08
# "Sound in 70 Cities" - 5:01

* 2002 remastered reissue
* also released in heavy duty gatefold picture card sleeve with black inner sleeve (Virgin / SIMCDX 4)

Personnel

*Jim Kerr – voice
*Charlie Burchill – guitars
*Mick MacNeil – keyboards
*Derek Forbes - basses
*Brian McGee - drums

Additional personnel

*Ken Lockie, Jaqui - "Next" Chorus

Miscellanea

*This was the last Simple Minds album to have the same line-up as all its predecessors. Drummer Brian McGee left just after recording the set, and was replaced by Kenny Hyslop as part-time member for the upcoming tour. Hyslop also appeared in the "Sweat In Bullet" and "Love Song" videos.
*"Boys from Brazil" is inspired by the novel, as Kerr has said in interviews. The line "babies cannot manage crocodiles" is likely inspired by the Lewis Carroll logic puzzle: "All babies are illogical / Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile / Illogical persons are dispised".Fact|date=August 2007