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Themes for Great Cities – Definitive Collection 79–81 is an American-only[3] compilation album by Simple Minds. It was released in November 1981 by Stiff Records. At the time, the only Simple Minds album released in the US was Life in a Day and this was designed to introduce the American audience to their other albums (which would soon be issued there by Virgin).

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Side one
No.TitleLength
1."I Travel"3:56
2."Celebrate"5:09
3."In Trance as Mission"6:51
4."Thirty Frames a Second"5:14
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Premonition"5:29
2."Sweat in Bullet" (Single Edit Remix)3:05
3."Love Song" (Single Edit)3:54
4."The American"3:51
5."Theme for Great Cities"5:50

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