In 1981 Simple Minds released two albums simultaenously (because double albums weren't cool in 1981... mmmkay) called “Sons and Fascination” and “Sister Feelings Call”.

I just got the remastered version (re-released a couple of years ago) for the simple - and sad - reason that my original CD version - made in the days when they still though ~60 minutes was the limit for CDs - dropped “Sound in 70 Cities” and “League of Nations” to fit both releases on one CD. Though “Sound” is actually just an instrumental version of “70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall”, I think it's actually a better song - the vocals on “70 Cities” are a tad discordant.

“Sister” also contains an instrumental not derived from a track on “Sons”: “Theme For Great Cities”, which is an interesting thing because Simple Minds' lead singer Jim Kerr is just that, their lead singer. He doesn't play an instrument, so you have to wonder what he was supposed to do if they played it live. Still, they still managed to have an instrumental track on every album release up until they got to be stadium-huge (and everyone left the band apart from Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill). Apparently they've reappeared again on recent albums, though I didn't keep up with the band much after the preachy Street Fighting Years, when they stopped competing musically with U2 and started trying to match Bono on polemics.

On “Sister” and “Sons” though, they were firing on all guns.