Comedy [Import]

Black | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B000026H00
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,468 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Big One

2. I Can Laugh About It Now

3. Whatever People Say You Are

4. You're A Big Girl Now

5. Let Me Watch You Make Love

6. Hey, I Was Right You Were Wrong

7. All We Need Is The Money

8. You Don't Always Do What's Best For You

9. Now You're Gone

10. No-One, None, Nothing

11. It's Not Over Yet

12. Paradise Lost

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Too good to be this obscure, April 15, 2005

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S. Schafer (Bay Area, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comedy (Audio CD)

I love this album, and really don't understand why it and this artist hasn't gotten more attention. Great production, vocals, songwriting and humor.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best pop albums ever!, October 15, 2002

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A. G. Bailey "Dadge" (Birmingham, - United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comedy (Audio CD)

Colin Vearncombe (Black's real name) shifted truckloads of his first album 'Wonderful Life' but he was too good to be commercially successful for long and none of his later albums got anywhere near that early success. That doesn't stop you finding out what you've been missing!

Some people prefer his third, eponymous, album, but I've always loved 'Comedy'. The ten tracks are miraculously both perfectly produced and full of emotion. They're beautifully written too, and speak volumes with titles like 'You don't always do what's best for you' and 'You are whatever people say you are' a bit reminiscent of The Smiths.

Most of the tracks are uptempo, like the excellent 'I can laugh about it now' and 'I was right you were wrong' but there are some great (scary!) downbeat moments: 'No-one, none, nothing' and 'Let me watch you make love'.

Final thought: 'We're all in trouble - is there room in the sky for all of us angels here on earth?'

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my 10 "desert island" records, April 18, 2009

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Marcos Ferreyra "marcosff" (highland village, tx USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comedy (Audio CD)

Back in the 80's me and all my friends were into punk, and as such professed utter contempt for anything as radio friendly as "Wonderful Life". Even if you could not agree (or even define) what "good music" was, this song screamed "GOOD".
I bought all of Black's subsequent albums (in cassette) and became a (closet) fan of the band. And man, what a passionate love affair I had with the music. Black seems to be one of these artists that you can only define in terms of itself. No references to other bands seem to describe it. Roxy Music is another. Even if you can list some features that sound like some other song or artist, the sum of the parts is distinctly "Black" or "Roxy Music".
And for me "Comedy" is Black's finest hour. No song tops "Wonderful Life" -a re-recording of which is on this CD (*)- but the whole is an incredible collection of elegant, poignant, intelligent, sophisticated poetry intertwined with music that is non-obvious but familiar.
One of the records in my top 10.

(*) I have the A&M Records release (CD-5222) which includes both the re-recording of "Wonderful Life" and the remix of "Sweetest Smile"