Back From The Dead...Again
Originally posted March 27, 2009 & June 9 , 2016
“Erroneously regarded as a synth pop band — and, every now and then — as a band that peaked with a song placed in a scene of [the film] ‘Real Genius’, the Comsat Angels were one of the finest bands of the post-punk/new wave era. Often as moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their first and best albums — 1980’s ‘Waiting for a Miracle’;, 1981’s ‘Sleep No More’, and 1982’s ‘Fiction’ — featured abstract pop songs with spare instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form of heartache. The albums were almost unrelentingly sullen, but they were always transfixing. The band then fell prey to various commercial pressures for several years. In the ’90s they resurfaced with a pair of powerful albums that resembled logical extensions of their earliest work, and then they vanished again.”
~AMG
Originally posted March 27, 2009 & June 9 , 2016
Comsat Angels - Live Rotterdam Arena
October 22, 1983,
Rotterdam, Holland
FM Source @192
“Erroneously regarded as a synth pop band — and, every now and then — as a band that peaked with a song placed in a scene of [the film] ‘Real Genius’, the Comsat Angels were one of the finest bands of the post-punk/new wave era. Often as moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their first and best albums — 1980’s ‘Waiting for a Miracle’;, 1981’s ‘Sleep No More’, and 1982’s ‘Fiction’ — featured abstract pop songs with spare instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form of heartache. The albums were almost unrelentingly sullen, but they were always transfixing. The band then fell prey to various commercial pressures for several years. In the ’90s they resurfaced with a pair of powerful albums that resembled logical extensions of their earliest work, and then they vanished again.”
~AMG
Track List:
01 Nature Trails (intro)
02 Will You Stay Tonight
03 Mister Memory
04 Do The Empty House
05 Total War
06 A World Away
07 Alicia (can you hear me)
08 I Know That Feeling
09 Real Story
10 What Else!
11 Waiting For a Miracle
01 Nature Trails (intro)
02 Will You Stay Tonight
03 Mister Memory
04 Do The Empty House
05 Total War
06 A World Away
07 Alicia (can you hear me)
08 I Know That Feeling
09 Real Story
10 What Else!
11 Waiting For a Miracle