As with the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry, that’s Simple Minds’ most direct and accessible album - and it’s still mostly guitar rock! (None of the rest are) If you’re proceeding chronologically, the next one is ironically their least accessible. Reel to Real Cacophony is akin to the Cars’ Panorama: an artsy fusion of the more experimental sides of Wire and Joy Division. Then they went Eurodisco with the self explanatory Empires and Dance.

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Now reading: Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber. Surprisingly amusing for a nonfiction pop economics book that’s so uncomfortably 100% on the nose. My favorite anecdote is the guy who tells him that his job duties consist solely of sitting at the front desk and refilling the mints jar, sorting the paper clips by color, and once a week rewinding the grandfather clock in the big meeting room.