Land [Import]

The Comsat Angels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Connoisseur Coll.
• ASIN: B00004YYYD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Will You Stay Tonight

2. Alicia (Can You Hear Me)

3. A World Away

4. Independence Day

5. Nature Trails

6. Mister Memory

7. Island Heart

8. I Know That Feeling

9. As Above So Below

10. A World Away (Dub) (Non Album Bonus Track)

11. Shining Hour (Non Album Bonus Track)

12. Island Heart (Dub) (Non Album Bonus Track)

13. Scissors And The Stone (Non Album Bonus Track)

14. Intelligence (Non Album Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of the post punk/synth pop act's 1983 album. Tracksinclude a re-working of their earlier hit 'Independence Day' and 'Will You Stay Tonight?'. Produced by Mike Howlett (Berlin, OMD, A Flock of Seagulls). First time on CD it includes five bonus trac

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous band falters, February 15, 2001

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Stephen Saunders (O'CONNOR, ACT Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Land (Audio CD)

This pleasant album is just about the only one from the Comsats long career (circa 1978-95) which is not an essential item in the thinking person's rock collection.

When they came to do Land in 1983, Steve Fellows' band was dismayed by tour hiccups (the US Communication Satellite company had stymied a critical US tour)and the relative commercial failure of their first three albums of 1980-82.

The album was undermined by overzealous efforts to find a commercial sound. Mike Howlett's slavish 1980s-pop style production stripped away the doom-steady brilliance of Fellows' compositions. Lost were the waspish guitar and keyboard atmospherics which had distinguished Fiction, the peak of Comsats' early period. The better moments are a rerun of their first indie hit, Independence Day, and the plaintive strains of I Know that Feeling.

Improbably, the finest English band of the 1980s bounced back with two great albums of the 1990s, My Mind's Eye and The Glamour. Get these at all costs. Or, failing that, you can find a kind of poor man's Comsat Angels on the early U-2 albums.

Fellows, something of a shadowy eminence in his home city of Sheffield, has been known to cauterise his Comsats period as one of "failure, depression and poverty". The good news is that, spurred by his production successes with Gomez, he has climbed out of the well and written more songs. If previous track form counts for anything, there will be a few classics among them.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent New Wave album, December 9, 2008

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A Music Lover (the seaside) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Land (Audio CD)

Sure, this ain't as angst ridden or dark and cold as their first 3 albums. It's a sharp turn toward pop and new wave. I love it. It sounds a bit like The Armoury Show and Echo and the Bunnymen from the same period. Echo went in the same pop direction with excellent results as well. I love Comsat Angels in all their periods. Whatever they did, they did very well and with heart. There are a few songs that don't go over so well, sure, that happens to nearly everyone.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Checking Out, November 13, 2002

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

A very good CD from one of the great 80's bands.