Band'its At Ten O'clock is another 101 release that came out the same year as Live Letters . Unlike that album, this record is a collection of studio cuts and not live records. But it's equally, if not more so, impressive and well worth the listen today. The Scene All People Go Mad You like mod music? These guys sure did. This album came out in 1980, but this song sounds like it was ripped straight out of the late-60s. Great stuff, very [...]
From all the way back in 1983 come the Comsat Angels. Another of those middle-ranking, Northern post-punk bands. This track is probably their best known and the choppy guitar is the star. Comsat Angels - Independence Day The version above is the album version. Here's the single version from two years earlier: Buy http://www.comsatangels.net/
One of the more underrated movies of the 802s has to be Real Genius . And this song, from the soundtrack, is pure gold. Plus the movie includes val kilmer as a teen, giant lasers, and turning your dorm into an ice rink. Bonus. The Comsat Angels - I'm Falling (MP3) Happy friday. ( thnx qutter )
Baller. This week's song is from the original soundtrack of the 1985 classic Real Genius . Win for finding the CED cover for it. CEDs were conceived in 1964 by RCA , but their production was stalled for 17 years until 1981. This led to the CED being beaten out by the DiscoVision (LaserDisc) and emerging Betamax and VHS videocassette formats. Retro technology is everything in 2011. At any rate, here's the track. The Comsat Angels: "I'm Falling:" Also, here's a bonus gem from the movie for your [...]
Remodel From: London, United Kingdom With a sound that would have been de riguer when the Jam were at the peak of their powers or at the height of the Oasis -v- Blur wars, London four piece Remodel are perfectly named. In 2010 they sound like a relic of a different age, an age when British bands knew how to write intelligent pop/punk songs that engage the brain and stir the blood. Unfortunately it's a sound that seems doomed to gather dust [...]
The Hundred Days From: San Francisco, California, United States San Fran indie quartet The Hundred Days sound like The Killers if Brandon Flowers had been force-fed the entire back catalogue of The Comsat Angels . It's widescreen moody indie like your grandad used to tell you about when you were a kid. MP3 - The Hundred Days - Red Bucket [...]
A band's name is often one of its most important and identifying characteristics. The name might represent the roots of the group such as the Rolling Stones, a tribute to Muddy Waters; anarchy against the establishment with monikers like the Sex Pistols or Dead Kennedys; a place of origin – Boston, Kansas, Chicago; or the boringly obvious band name being that of the frontman, i.e. Dave Matthews Band (at least J. Geils was the guitar player in his band!). Despite how great, accurate, or brazenly outrageous a band's name might be, there is one thing that it may not be – [...]
To be honest, I would like to take about 300 albums with me to this proverbial island, which, like Gilligan's, must have a professor on it who's rigged up some electricity so I can actually play recorded music at all! But if you're only giving me five, then here is what is coming with me: The Kinks - Arthur, or the Rise and Fall of the British Empire (1969) There will never be a better rock album than this: Ray Davies at the absolute height of his inexhaustible songwriting powers on [...]
So, I don't come to the record store thing just out of the blue. To be fair, I've worked in TWO record stores to date. Both were Record Worlds—the corporate variety—where it was mandated that all of the employees, except for the managers, sport blue polyester vests. Y'know – to differentiate you from the other riff raff browsing through the import bins or what have you. Record World, both based in malls at the time, wasn't the type of place that would buy used LPs however—it was purely new stuff and catalog items. Which didn't bother me [...]
I was at the excellent SESAC CMJ showcase last night at Cake Shop , and got in a conversation about songs that "just sound great". Not because of brilliant songwriting, great production, or amazing playing...but because they just have that "magic". The woman I was talking to is a huge student of '80s pop & new wave, and used the example of Comsat Angels' "Stay Tonight" as such a song. As soon as she mentioned that song, which I hadn't heard or thought about in years, I knew exactly what she was talking about. [...]
This post is a couple of weeks late, but considering I was very ill last week, I think you'll forgive me. Whatever coldette I had a few weeks ago was nothing compared to this all-out attack on my immune system. It just stopped short of the lung searing bronchitis of a couple years ago. Nonetheless, I only allowed myself to miss roughly one day of work (the illness guilt my mother instilled in me as a child is still there). I'm really starting to believe I have an immunodeficiency disorder what with my chronic allergies and seemingly high risk of [...]
Not to jump to too many premature conclusions with our 'fresh ears on New Wave' thesis this week, but ...uh. I had a hard time finding five more that were out and out crap. (And why make Spandau Ballet our whipping boys, right?) So, five more freshly (re)picked from a fine vine. Ultravox - All Stood Still (Mp3) Comsat Angels - Independence Day (Mp3) Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach (Mp3) [...]
The Comsat Angels were a post-punk band from Sheffield, England, active from 1978 to 1995. Their music has been described as "abstract pop songs with spare instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form of heartache." A great tune played by Tensnake in his recent BIS mix, "I'm Falling" was also featured in the movie Real Genius with Val Kilmer. Awesome jerky 80s pop, it even has some panpipes! Download audio file (04%20I%27m%20Falling%201.mp3) [...]
comsat angels (do the empty) house 1982 (française version) Cinq questions. Sous la peau, des os. Seulement des os. Où. Dans mon bureau. Quand. A l'instant. Qui. Comsat Angels. Comment. Le plus simplement du monde : au moyen d'un lecteur cd. Pourquoi. Parce qu'il était sur le dessus de la pile. (englikhtonian version) [...]
Yesterday I was in a running race. It was a cross-country race of about 7 miles. And it rained. In fact it rained so hard at the beginning that within 5 minutes I was absolutely drenched. After about 15 minutes the rain stopped but by then the fun and games had began. The rest of the race was extremely muddy with massive puddles blocking our way. The only solution was to charge head-long through them and just accept you were going to get very dirty. It was great fun. After a shower afterwards I felt invigorated. I reckon everybody should [...]
The Singles Collection is contributor Jason Jackowiak's weekly column focusing on rare and essential 7″ releases. We gladly accept all types of 7″ for consideration. This week's Singles Collection is awash in the boozy afterglow of South by Southwest , a festival we survived for the 10th year running... but just barely. If you are a true music fan and have never been, you really owe it to yourself to get down to Austin at least once and experience the mayhem and hysteria for yourself, because a slew of blog/twitter posts really [...]
Post Punk had a mad crush on all things German. German art. German novels. German music. John Lydon regularly name checked Can. Ultravox! nicked their exclamation mark from Neu! And OMD's Paul Humphreys was so besotted with Kraftwerk that he slept with one of their albums under his pillow. With its gleaming new cities, its multi-lane roadways and high-speed rail links, and its cool, technical proficiency, Germany seemed to embody the spirit of modernity, even as it was haunted by the ghost of its tragic past. This strange fascination with the Teutonic provided The Passions with their sole hit, a [...]
"When you get older, you'll understand." So speaks the purported voice of "realism" when cautioning on the pitfalls of youthful idealism. The underlying message is that once one has "bought in" or "sold out" or however one wants wants to spin it, logic dictates that hungry radicalism must give way to a defensive stance. Lock the doors, man the barricades, and beware the ravenous hordes that covet your treasures. The rousing, yet polite debate in the comments of the Crass post from the other day got me to thinking about politics, specifically where I stand on [...]
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