Broken Record Prayers [Vinyl]

Comet Gain | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (May 5, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: What's Your Rupture
• ASIN: B00208EXK8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,099 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jack Nance Hair

2. You Can Hide Your Love Forever

3. Young Lions

4. If I Had a Soul

5. Brothers Off the Block

6. Beautiful Despair

7. Love Without Lies

8. Hard Times

9. If You Ever Walk Out of My Life

10. Books of California

11. Look At You Now (You're Crying)

12. Mainlining Mystery

13. Asleep On The Snow

14. Beatnik

15. He Walked By Nite

16. Orwell Liberty Dance

17. Emotion Picture

18. Tighten Up!

19. Germ of Youth Pt II

20. Record Prayer

Editorial Reviews

Comet Gain is a beloved British indie rock band, formed in 1993. Over five full-lengths and twenty or so 7-inches, their music has evolved into a culmination of sounds that range from Northern soul, the riot grrrl movement, and 60s girl groups. They're often considered contemporaries to the likes of Huggy Bear, The Clean, Bikini Kill, Heavenly, Television Personalities, and The Pastels, and they've been cited as a major influence on the rising jangly underground featuring Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, and caUSE co-MOTION! This release is a collection of Comet Gain's lost, hidden, and cherished singles, unreleased songs, and their historic John Peel session.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars where has this been all my life?, August 24, 2010

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Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broken Record Prayers (Audio CD)

A catch-all collection of singles from the second phase of this long-running British indie band, "Broken Record Prayers" contains some fantastically deft pop nuggets with surreally self-referential ("...I don't really have a French girlfriend/I just made her up for the song/The world will end December 2012/Good luck to you all") and pop/cult-culture ("Jack Nance Hair") touches, outspokenly left-wing and/or pro-creative lyrics, and a dizzying array of songwriting styles and playing techniques. The obvious product of restless souls with deep record collections, this collection boasts such instant classics as the blasting, propulsive "Love Without Lies" -- sounding like the demented offspring of a forced union between The Pixies and Elastica, the truly lovely "Books Of California" replete with la-la-la-la-la-la-las, and the disarming "You Can Hide Your Love Forever" (which I'm told is their best known song). They also neatly span the gulf between hi-fi and lo-fi, managing to sound fresh and loose even though there is clearly some agile song-crafting and arranging taking place behind the scenes.

I stumbled into this band after hearing a song on a Kill Rock Stars compilation ("One More Summer Before I Go"), but I had no idea of their sheer variety and breadth, not to mention their high ratio of insanely memorable, highly literate material. Very British, very good. I'll be digging into the back catalog.