Waiting for a Miracle [Extra tracks, Import]

Comsat Angels (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Renascent UK
• ASIN: B000E41KPQ
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,653 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Missing In Action

2. Baby

3. Independence Day

4. Waiting For A Miracle

5. Total War

6. On The Beach

7. Monkey Pilot

8. Real Story

9. Map Of The World

10. Postcard

11. Home Is The Range (Bonus Track)

12. We Were (Bonus Track)

13. Ju Ju Money (Out-Take) (Bonus Track)

14. Work (Out-Take) (Bonus Track)

15. Independence Day (Demo) (Bonus Track)

16. Real Story (Demo) (Bonus Track)

17. Target Talk (Demo) (Bonus Track)

18. Living In (Demo) (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Band Finally Gets Recognition, April 9, 2006

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directions "neuralbuddhist" (Space Time Foam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for a Miracle (Audio CD)

With today's post punk revival, many unknown albums of the 80's are being reissued and reevaluated. The Comsat Angels are more than worthy of this recognition. Its hard to describe Waiting for a Miracle in exact terms. It is obviously inspired by Joy Division or early Echo and the Bunnymen but more slowed down and atmospheric. Think "17 Seconds" era Cure but depressing rather than nihilistic. The band, the Sound has also garnered some attention but the Comsats were more subtle and unnerving. The Comsat Angels were a cult favorite of the time and often toured with U2, who picked up some of their ideas. However, unlike U2, the Comsat Angels are not political. Their world is that of existential dread. Their second album Sleep No More is also worth picking up but eventually they became a derivative new wave band. However, when their ideas were focused as on Waiting for a Miracle, they captured the climate of the times as successfully as other, more famous bands. Get this album before it goes out of print again.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite album by my favorite band..., May 17, 2006

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Eric Hamen "Governor of Texas" (Hilliard, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waiting for a Miracle (Audio CD)

If you aren't familiar with this album, imagine a less relentless, subtler Joy Division. This is, in my estimation, the finest, most chilling post-punk record in existance. They don't hit you over the head with existential gloom...they merely snake around it.

Fans of early 80's British new-wave ie. Chameleons, Echo and the Bunnymen or The Sound would be doing themselves a tremendous dis-service not owning this albums. Renascent UK has done a wonderful job with the new liner notes.

"Sleep No More" may be a "better" album, but I find it a bit too self-consciously dour (but still absolutely brilliant...). All four Renascent UK reissues are requisite as far as I'm conserned, but this is the one I would have to choose if absolutely forced to.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive UK post punk, February 10, 2007

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Snowballthrower (Lake Tahoe) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Waiting for a Miracle (Audio CD)

Fans of The Sound, Echo and the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Psychedelic Furs first LP, and maybe even Joy Division should give a listen. While living in the UK in the late 70's I considered The Comsat Angels to be a great singles band. While "Red Planet" doesn't appear here, pre Polydor I guess, "Independence Day" and "Total War" fit in well as part of their first full length effort. This music represents a fine era in rock music. Headiness, great songs, lyrics that say something, and of course drums, bass, and guitars. I reviewed this because I feel it is an important recording.