In 1985, Scottish rockers Simple Minds burst onto the American music scene in a big way with "Don't You (Forget About Me)," the chart-topping theme to iconic teen drama The Breakfast Club. Before their brush with John Hughes-induced fame, though, the band released a batch of increasingly successful post-punk and New Wave records between 1979 and 1982.

This winter, to coincide with the "5x5 Tour" in Europe, which will see founding members - singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill - leading Simple Minds through five tracks from each of those first five albums per night, that section of the band's catalogue has been expanded and remastered for a brand new box set.

Simple Minds x5 includes the band's first five records - Life in a Day (1979), Real to Real Cacophony (1979), Empires and Dance (1980), Sons and Fascination (1981), Sister Feelings Call (1981) and New Gold Dream 81/82/83/84 (1982) - all featuring the same remastering job as applied to the albums in 2002, along with between two and six newly-remastered bonus cuts for every disc. These include original B-sides, extended remixes and live rarities, all of which have been previously released on various singles in the late '70s and early '80s.

After the jump, check out the rundown of Simple Minds x5, available February 13 in Europe, one day ahead of the tour's start in Lisbon, Portugal.

Simple Minds x5 (EMI SMBOX 2 (U.K.), 2012)

Disc 1: Life in a Day (originally released as Zoom Records ZULP 1, 1979)

1. Someone
2. Life in a Day
3. Sad Affair
4. All for You
5. Pleasantly Disturbed
6. No Cure
7. Chelsea Girl
8. Wasteland
9. Destiny
10. Murder Story
11. Special View (B-side to "Life in a Day" - Zoom ZUM 10, 1979)
12. Garden of Hate (B-side to "Chelsea Girl" - Zoom ZUM 11, 1979)

Disc 2: Real to Real Cacophony (originally released as Zoom Records/Arista SPART 1109, 1979)

1. Reel to Real
2. Naked Eye
3. Citizen (Dance of Youth)
4. Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase)
5. Factory
6. Cacophony
7. Veldt
8. Premonition
9. Changeling
10. Film Theme
11. Calling Your Name
12. Scar
13. Kaleidoscope (Flexi-disc A-side - Arista ARIST 372-C, 1980)
14. Film Theme (Dub) (Flexi-disc B-side - Arista ARIST 372-C, 1980)
15. Premonition (Live @ Hurrah's Club, New York - 10/24/1979) (B-side to "Changeling" - Arista ARIST 325, 1980)

Disc 3: Empires and Dance (originally released as Arista SPART 1140, 1980)

1. I Travel
2. Today I Died Again
3. Celebrate
4. This Fear of Gods
5. Capital City
6. Constantinople Line
7. Twist/Run/Repulsion
8. Thirty Frames a Second
9. Kant Kino
10. Room
11. New Warm Skin (B-side to "I Travel" - Arista ARIST 372, 1980)
12. I Travel (Extended Mix) (12" A-side - Arista 12-448, 1980)
13. Celebrate (Extended Mix) (12" A-side - Arista 12-394, 1980)

Disc 4: Sons and Fascination (originally released as Virgin V-2207, 1981)

1. In Trance As Mission
2. Sweat in Bullet
3. 70 Cities As Love Brings the Fall
4. Boys from Brazil
5. Love Song
6. This Earth That You Walk Upon
7. Sons and Fascination
8. Seeing Out the Angel
9. Sweat in Bullet (Extended Remix) (12" A-side - Virgin VS-451 12, 1981)
10. In Trance As Mission (Live @ Hammersmith Odeon, London - 9/25/1981) (B-side to "Sweat in Bullet" 12" -  Virgin VS-451 12, 1981)
11. This Earth That You Walk Upon (Instrumental) (B-side to "Love Song" 12" - Virgin VS-434 12, 1981)

Disc 5: Sister Feelings Call (originally released as Virgin OVED-2, 1981)

1. Theme for Great Cities
2. The American
3. 20th Century Promised Land
4. Wonderful in Young Life
5. League of Nations
6. Careful in Career
7. Sound in 70 Cities
8. The American (Extended Mix) (12" A-side - Virgin VS-410 12, 1981)
9. League of Nations (Live @ Hammersmith Odeon, London - 9/25/1981) (B-side to "Sweat in Bullet" 12" -  Virgin VS-451 12, 1981)

Disc 6: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (originally released as Virgin V-2230, 1982)

1. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
2. Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel
3. Promised You a Miracle
4. Big Sleep
5. Somebody Up There Likes You
6. New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
7. Glittering Prize
8. Hunter and the Hunted
9. King is White and in the Crowd
10. Promised You a Miracle (Extended Version) (12" A-side - Virgin VS-488 12, 1982)
11. Glittering Prize (Club Mix) (12" A-side - Virgin VS-511 12, 1982)
12. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) (Extended Mix) (12" A-side - Virgin VS-538 12, 1982)
13. Soundtrack for Every Heaven (B-side to "Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)" 12"  - Virgin VS-538 12, 1982)
14. New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) (German 12'' Remix) (12" A-side - Virgin VINX 1, 1983)
15. In Every Heaven (from New Gold Dream DVD-Audio - Virgin 72438 13171 9 8, 2005)