Glamour [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

The Comsat Angels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Renascent UK
• ASIN: B000JU7IUQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,882 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Rocks... Beautifully, March 23, 2000

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Michael D. Abernethy (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glamour (Audio CD)

I finally got hold of a copy of this album a couple of weeks ago. It is incredible! There is so much melody for these songs to be able to rock as much as they do. The first listen is a little claustrophobic - there is little room to breathe in these arrangements - but that's part of this album's strength. It is so tight, so produced, yet still a little budgeted, there are some jagged edges. This is my second Comsats album. I previously found Fiction (which is also incredible), and the difference between that album's sparseness and this album's steady rock feel - complete with actual steady rhythm guitar and distorted riffs, pounding drums, thumping bass - is really shocking. The whole set of songs is strong. And its very easy to let it wash over you. The strongest tracks, in my opinion, are: "Web of Sound" a pop-rock gem, "Sailor" a sweeping anthemic rocker, "Pacific Ocean Blues" with its gorgeous guitar arpeggios and nice bass line (a Comsat trademark, as I understand), "Demon Lover" a nice mock-gothic rock piece, and "Valley of The Nile" which could have been the last song on the album, since it is kind of cyclical and subliminal while at the same time being gorgeous and attention grabbing. Actually, like I said, every track is solid - that's what makes THE GLAMOUR so good. Steve Fellow's vocals and lyrics are strong throughout, the playing is excellent, the arrangements are tight, the production a little light but at the same time very deliberate. A very very nice swan song for the Comsats. Now if I could only get hold of the others. If you can find The Glamour or Fiction, they are both worth the import prices. Trust me!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Abernethy Is Absolutely Right, September 8, 2000

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Gregory Clark (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glamour (Audio CD)

Just to support what Michael Abernethy wrote earlier about this CD: it is indeed a masterpiece. Already in the early 1980s, when the group was releasing LPs first on Polydor and then on Jive in the UK, I described the Comsat Angels' music to my friends as "expansive rock à la U2 with richer melodies, a nagging underlying tension, and without the sanctimonious self-righteousness". (Or as David Lee Roth is said to have put it: "U2 have a VERY important message. Unfortunately, it's also a very long one...")

Michael Abernethy's CD copy of "Fiction", the last of the three Polydor LPs, was presumably the UK CD reissue of the mid-1990s on the RPM label. RPM also reissued at that time the first two Polydor LPs, "Waiting For A Miracle" and "Sleep No More", together with a CD of live performances recorded for radio in the Netherlands, where the group enjoyed its greatest success (such as it was); to the best of my knowledge, the Jive LPs have never been reissued on CD. All are superb. As I wrote elsewhere on this website with respect to the mid-1990s Polydor-Germany CDs of Katrina & The Waves, the Comsat Angels are a totally undeservedly hidden treasure; find them out and regale yourself.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I Could Only Give 6 Stars, February 20, 2007

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Jay P. Francis (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glamour (Audio CD)

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

I have been waiting an eternity to get a copy of The Glamour. Thank you Renascent for coordinating the re-issue of this and the others.

And I would be person number 12.