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Simple Minds ' first release on Virgin was actually two albums: the Steve Hillage-produced Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call.

The latter album was initially included as a bonus disc with the first 10, 000 vinyl copies of Sons and Fascination, but it was later re-issued as an album in its own right.

( For the CD release, it was paired on a single disc with Sons and Fascination — at first with two tracks deleted, but on later issues, in full.

) Sons and Fascination perfected the formula that began with Empires and Dance, and showcased the band ’ s musicianship during their most prolific period.

The band ’ s comparative musical virtuosity aligned them with the more streamlined end of progressive rock rather than the flippancy of many other New Wave musicians.

One significant progressive rock musician – Peter Gabriel – selected Simple Minds as the opening act on several dates of his European tour.

Further increasing the band's visibility, the single " Love Song " was an international hit ( reaching the Top 20 in Canada and Australia ) and the instrumental " Theme for Great Cities " proved so enduring a composition that it was later re-recorded in 1991 as a B-side to the single " See the Lights ".

These minimalist, dance-oriented compositions, like those of Neu!

before them, were examples of man-made trance well before trance itself.