Vacation!

As I head off to a week at the Jersey Shore, I leave you with a fairly obscure Simple Minds track from 1980 -- "I Travel". Like most early Simple Minds, it sounds nothing like you'd think it would. It's dancy, edgy, political and arty.

By the way, Simple Minds released their first five albums -- all the ones before New Gold Dream -- as a special box set called Simple Minds x5. It's a great reminder of a band that totally changed its sound in an effort to become commercially viable. But there's some pretty cool stuff going on in the early Simple Minds catalog, and for $20 it's probably worth picking up.

Enjoy the week!