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Waiting for a Miracle
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Track Listing
- Missing In Action
- Baby
- Independence Day
- Waiting For A Miracle
- Total War
- On The Beach
- Monkey Pilot
- Real Story
- Map Of The World
- Postcard
- Home Is The Range
- We Were
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #532974 in Music
- Released on: 1995-11-23
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
The best album I ever heard
Thumping slow bass with stark angular guitar (with just about the only guitar solo I ever heard using harmonics) and quirky keyboards. Lyrics to cry for... and I often have. "Don't want to be your baby, don't want to have to crawl for you" & "sometimes I feel like a monkey pilot, sometimes I feel out of control".
Around 1979, when everyone else in Coventry had only ears for 2 Tone, I saw the Comsats and was converted. This is their first album and in my opinion it has never been bettered. It still makes me tingle to hear a single song. If you like alternative music from this time (Magazine, Television, early Cure...) or even modern equivalents (Bloc Party) you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't own this.
Disaffection expressed geometrically
A debut album with a dark vision of life in a northern town, but strangely uplifting, and still powerful after all these years.
Precise, meticulous percussion work from Mik Glaisher providing the geometric structures for these fractured songs of raw emotional disaffection with life: the failure to communicate, but communicated so well by Steve Fellows' weary baritone voice on songs like "Total war", the title track itself and the chillingly bleak end piece "Postcard". Bassist Kevin Bacon underpins all this with keyboard man Andy Peake to give this music a unique texture that goes beyond punk and into a darker, dare I say, drum and bass territory. ..hear how this works so well in "On the beach"; hear also the classic lyrical conundrum expressed in "Independence day", a song that should have been a much bigger chart hit at the time. A debut to be proud of and one on which they built well in succeeding albums. Fractured geometry in sound expressive of timeless issues. This band grasped the thorns to possess the rose. Don't forget them.
