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tracks
catalogue
Virgin 5099921648427
optimal media production A833595-02
format
Picture CD included in Themes Volume Five box set.
release date
June 2008
additional information
See The Lights was issued the same month as
Real Life, issued to further promote the new album.
The title track was mixed again by Julian Mendelsohn and issued in three different forms.
The B-side was an old Simple Minds favourite, Theme For Great Cities.
The track had been remixed by a New York DJ and issued as
Corporation Of One’s The Real Life in 1988.
This didn’t escape the attention of the band who used a similarly reworked version as the opener to their
live shows, and then subsequently recorded it again as
Theme For Great Cities '91. (A version with lyrics called
Let The Children Speak appeared on
Real Life).
The 12" featured the full length version of both tracks, and a limited edition 12" (which featured laser etched images of
Jim,
Charlie and
Mel on one side) also included a wonderful live version of
Soul Crying Out recorded at
Verona. Whilst the video only included an edited
instrumental version of the song, this 12" included the full live recording.
The Theme combined the tracks from both 12" releases and marked the appearance of this live
version of Soul Crying Out on CD for the first time.
This was the only track in Themes Volume Five to get its CD debut.
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