COMSAT ANGELS After the Rain

[@jackfisher1265]

Top Track. Amazing how many of their songs sound like they could be part of Film Soundtracks.

[@marixpulp2000]

yes

[@bengallup9321]

Absolutely love this song. The Comsats deserved a way bigger audience.

[@garthlyon]

Fiction was on my Walkman, driving a Mack truck on wheat harvest 1986 Texas to Montana. Sweet 21, another life: a hard life, but kind of romantic to look back on with fondness.

[@Sleepnomore1]

I saw them 1981 in Bochum (Germany) It was the best Gig in my life.

[@funeralotusabk259]

One of the greatest songs ever written, such a vibe!

[@markgreen7378]

Stephen Fellows is such a brilliant Guitarist.

[@mattterry4546]

One of my favorite bands. Sleep No More was epic. If they came out as a band today, the music critics would gush!

[@sinisterfw]

What an album Fiction was. After the rain, birdman and lots of other terrific songs. I think the singer's voice is large part of why I love Comsat Angels

[@josssmith]

Their best album

[@KurtFuller]

I love this song. So spatial, so deep, so hypnotic, so original... so 80´s... I love The Comsat Angels.

[@marixpulp2000]

I Love 80s es hermosa

[@chrisbarlow2131]

The greatest unknown band ever. But for those in the know they will always be Our Secret

[@emotional1991]

@@chrisbarlow2131Unknown like CURVE in 90,s

[@oscarbarrios]

Such a beautiful song, so full of little details. Comsat Angels were Unique. A beautiful gem not many got to hear. I'm glad I stumbled onto their music. Thank you uploader, thank you Comsat Angels

[@davidellis5141]

This is one of many lost greats by this amazing band from Sheffield 🇬🇧 !

[@ieatorbs]

You know what's amazing? Knowing a ton about music and still being blown away by older bands! I love that feeling.! It seems never ending.

[@AdjustableSquelch]

The fact you are looking puts you a million points ahead of everybody else. Obscure or older bands that may not have kept around may have had just one wonderful track or an album full of different ideas. Around this era looking at the non famous Factory Records/Factory Belenlux bands may suit. The Names, Tunnelvision, Crispy Ambulance, Stockholm Monsters, Minny Pops, Section 25, Durutti Column - all worth a listen.

[@maryvitatoe4586]

I’m Currently exploring all the post punk, college rock and underground music of the years 1982- 83. I’m finding so much I didn’t know about when I was growing up in the 80’s. Such a fantastic era for music.

[@ericbosman2477]

@@maryvitatoe4586 Try The Sound, albums From the lions mouth and Jeopardy.

[@MarkAllenHyenaMotorcade]

agree 100%! I just recently discovered The Sound and Comsat Angels......I mean I've known about them but never really "got it" and didn't go back and listen to their back catalog.....but wow.....Comsats are brilliant......in 2020 still finding about bands I missed.....Railway Children, The Essence, Furniture, River Detectives, The Adventures, etc.....timeless music

[@tripzville7569]

@@AdjustableSquelch WOW Crispy Ambulance was me and my brothers all time fav great band name. And Durutti Column is a great artist.

[@BrianMaiden-o9c]

Used to follow these in the early 80`s, should have been massive, still got a few picture disc 12" and ep`s in my collection

[@paulf6855]

Comsat Angels. I saw them mid eighties near Aachen. Just also listen "Be brave" and "Independance day". Same level are The Sound ad The Chamelions. They are the best. That's my opinion,

[@rieuwertbuitenga3284]

I agree.

[@Postpunk-cx1ph]

That’s a great top 3 of bands joe public largely don’t know. Very jealous you got to see the Comsats live!

[@paulf6855]

@@Postpunk-cx1ph 👍

[@arjenvreeken1593]

Arnhem, '83. Very nice sound. PA-crew were excellent.

[@Sleepnomore1]

Bochum 1981. Soooooo schön.

[@neilprocter3755]

Saw them for the second time in 1981, this time supporting U2. Needless to say U2’s bombast wasn’t up to much after the power of the Comsats!

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Truly criminal that the Comsat Angels never really made it.

[@the1digitalwizard]

What? You have no idea

[@Neil-Aspinall]

@@the1digitalwizard Meaning?

[@timjohnston6493]

Brilliant! - Sleep no More and Fiction were superb albums,great memories listening to one of the great bands of the 80s

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

Mik was such a great drummer, he suited this band perfectly.

[@tripzville7569]

beautifully crafted song from a great band

[@disklamer]

Great song, totally relevant rn, I haven't heard this for so long, it's giving me flashbacks... thanks!

[@BrianTurboT]

Saw The Comsat Angels many moons ago, headlining at The Stonehouse in Nottingham ... and the 'support' act was (believe it or not) a fledgling U2 ... On THAT night ... the Comsats sounded astoundingly good ...

[@keithbrumpton1758]

better than u2 actually!

[@Koetoezov]

This is a recording from VPRO's Götterdämmerung, broadcasted on Dutch television back in the eighties

[@marixpulp2000]

+Koetoezov gracias por el dato.

[@jaapspaanderman5876]

And I watched it live, back then on our old tv. Good memories

[@voederbietels]

comsat angels are so insane fantastic

[@cesarmelomano396]

Bandasa, que recuerdos LPtm... Mis años de oscuridad pero siempre con esta maravillosa música... 🍻 Saludos desde Perú y gracias por publicar esta joya que no la escuchaba hace años, si me cayó un lagrimon es porque esos años nunca regresarán...

[@Goatboyfly]

Haven't heard this for ages. Great band.

[@maryvitatoe4586]

He sounds so much like Colin Blunstone of the Zombies on this track. Beautiful delivery.

[@timsayers4496]

Recorded this lot as a teenager on reel to reel and still love them very much - a very special crew

[@piperfox74]

Love the bass that kicks in at 2:00.

[@BarbieChaite]

great bassist indeed

[@SunshineClementine]

Oh my gosh, this song is so awesome. x

[@emotional1991]

Much beautiful as it would be

[@whoah1988]

Comsat Angels: spread the word!

[@charlesnyssen6046]

une chanson magnifique!Greatings!

[@marixpulp2000]

the great song!

[@gikalagee]

Nice and simple..but so complex and moving.

[@theeepimpD]

I wish more of their music was on Spotify

[@christhomasism]

Really well written song. Arrangement is awesome in this song even though so simple it sounds so good.

[@marixpulp2000]

is what I like to be as simple and beautiful at the same time

[@professorvivaldosimao7367]

I've heard this song for the first time after the death do a friend (i'd been her teacher some years before). He simply hang herself after the last carnival night (here in Brazil we call the post carnival day Ashes's Wednesday). Nobody knows the reason. She just wrote appologies to her brother and mother with a lipstick in the mirror. I was so sad, because i'd like to have met her before it. Maybe i could say something to make her feel better. Maybe i could save her anyway. I wrote her a song (in portuguese - i am brazilian) called Elegia. Then i was sitting in front of my home computer and this video simply appeared to me . This song is absurdly beautiful and strong. A real masterpeace.

[@switchy6]

Just great!

[@zOOmzity]

Awesomest band. Just listened to Steve Fellows new solo album last night "Slow Glass" Just wow.

[@blerkh]

Thanks for the tip. It's great that he's still creating.

[@phillipabond8044]

It's amazing.

[@Joey-qb7mf]

This song is really good.

[@robertvalentine6806]

Sounds like another great song 🎶

[@digblack]

what a band! so underrated but still there, here......

[@rebelmann876]

Great walk-in music

[@WarrenCromartie2]

I have a Comsat Angels question.. Was their single The eye of the Lens inspired by the book of the same name by Langdon Jones? Their name was taken from a J G Ballard story IIRC, kind of similar era and literary genre.

[@The1stMrJohn]

memory returning! also saw them in 1982 ... somewhere in London

[@mauroneghe2452]

great song

[@TheEarthling2]

With Songs like eye of the lens, total war, waiting for a miracle, our secret, pictures, baby, gone and so on the Comsats are head and shoulders better than Sound or chameleons..for me But both bands were also very great

[@nickbalding3185]

The sky will clear again, after the rain

[@adalexbelgistan2203]

beautiful song

[@prigmatus2012]

thanks for posting this, man! years I have been looking for this one and finally found! ;-)

[@iksarmada7197]

New Wave in its finest form,Such an underrated band...it frustrates me that The Thompson Twins are far known than Comsat.

[@chazlamborghini]

Thompson Twins are good too.

[@liamgallagher5673]

I enjoy knowing that the better bands are sometimes overlooked in the mainstream. It’s the very quality of the work that makes The Comsat Angels less popular than horrible muck like the thompson twins. They would have to appeal to those with bad taste to become popular & the only way to achieve that would be to sound like the thompson twins. Who wants that?

[@clockwisecat1310]

I love TT, but I put it into perspective. Early CSA are markedly better because they are more cerebral, but TT had their place in the more pop-arty scene. Plus, early TT was fantastic.

[@davidellis5141]

The Sky will clear again.What a song Another should have been hit. Polydor blew it with them.

[@IAmFat1968]

In the 80's I was dreaming of wearing shiny shirts and playing keyboard with one hand in the pocket....

[@soepil]

Christophe, you can still do that! Only, for us males in our late-forties, 80s haircuts are not possible anymore ... :-)

[@oov55]

one of the greats

[@bruzar12]

Very unique, "COMSAT ANGELS" f----n excellent, like many of the new wave music of the era. Bloody good to be able hear again. I'm re-livin my youth with it. This would piss over some of the commercial shit we hear on radio now.

[@NebojsaNikolic-lv4yk]

Everything Is clear...after the rain!

[@stephenmatthias6408]

Great tune!

[@dreadzeppelindottv]

Beautiful.

[@conradhunter3093]

I first heard them on the Polydor sampler "Made in Britain." Still a fan and I wish Stephen would join social media but he's a bit of a recluse.

[@laszlotibbe3802]

So dark despite the words, unsetling nuke era piece of work

[@andrewkeeling9935]

Comsats were by far the best band if the 1980s. See AK - Concise Musical Guide to the Comsat Angels www.spaceward.co.uk

[@tennismoos6448]

Comsat Angels never caught the eye of the big audiences because the were not into gimmicks and other things, the just wanted to perform. In the USA they couldn't perform under their name due to copyright on the name “Comsat”. So they slowly disappeared. In the Netherlands they were well known and popular, the album “Enz” was specially recorded for the Netherlands.

[@ekimako]

Is “enz” anywhere to hear?

[@tennismoos6448]

@@ekimako Difficult to find on the internet. I have the vinyl and the mp3’s.

[@johnjohnsnowto5267]

Crazy ahead of its time

[@michaelmccue751]

Wonderful

[@cosmicdrifter287]

top tune!

[@marixpulp2000]

Gracias por gustarte

[@coogano]

chills

[@Limesubmusic]

Sleep no More was the best album

[@josssmith]

I personally think they peaked with Fiction

[@anastasiabickley9049]

I loved the Comsats after hearing Sleep No More... I love Fiction too and the rest... there is an album for all moods. Check out Stephens new material at stephenfellows.bandcamp.com/

[@robbie65nl]

Made In Heaven !

[@The1stMrJohn]

saw them in either 1979 or 1980? too many gigs and ale Comsats were from Sheffield, a good live band that should have done more! U2 were on the same bill , it was the first time I heard a U2 song, the were not bad live either.

[@orlandomasise]

gracias Mary por el post, eres de Peru? uno de mis maestros en esta musica es de Peru, ahora habita en Costa Rica, ponemos musica en un bar, en este estilo, no tan underground pero en esta linea... saludos...

[@marixpulp2000]

De Lima. Espero estén bien por casa .

[@franciscoalarconplatero3542]

Muy bueno

[@katia60707]

❤️‍🔥🖤❤️‍🔥🖤❤️‍🔥🖤❤️‍🔥🖤

[@jakedibiase7404]

Catherine Wheel and Rob Dickinson's vocals were heavily indebted to the Comsats

[@davidellis5141]

Great XTC song!!

[@jakedibiase7404]

Pardon?

[@inkpenguy]

For me, they never reached the heights that The Sound or Chameleons did, but I think Fellows was a better singer than the men who fronted the two groups mentioned. I wish they hadn't tried to go so commercial after Fiction.

[@josssmith]

I think the first 3 albums are as good as anything The Sound and The Chameleons did

[@garty2237]

I even like when they went commercial.. You Move Me, I'm Falling, great songs. Their middle-period and late-period albums are so hard to get hold of but definitely worth getting.

[@ummetozcan773]

fuck !! don't know how igot here! but so grateful i did. amazing song, any other songs like this???

[@marixpulp2000]

+Ummet Ozcan thank you. other song kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnqbpmuPrr5ge5Y

[@ummetozcan773]

Loving it! share more please with this kind of sounds in the melody! :D

[@rickwhear4016]

+Ummet Ozcan ..The cutting edge is killer,probably their most well known song

[@IAmFat1968]

unjustly unknown song...

[@sibbald]

harmonic at 2.50 ....ooooh

[@corentinesummers8259]

I was brought here by Yukino Yukinoshita

[@ericlewis77]

💖

[@knobber666]

underrated

[@rubenthekid]

I agree.

[@felipefmj]

❤❤❤

[@paulf6855]

Yes I agree. But listen also to The Celibate Rifles from Australia (also one of my favourites).

[@BrendanPramjee]

Why is the band not in Spotify??? Like how!

[@blerkh]

Why are you on Spotify?

[@inkpenguy]

I like those songs, but feel like the other two bands had stronger songs than Comsat. It really depends on taste. I would like to retract my comment about The Comsat Angels never reaching the heights of the other two bands. The three bands had their own style, and I would say all deserve more attention. I still have an appreciation for Sleep No More that is gradually growing.

[@inkpenguy]

I'll look into them.

[@felipefmj]

❤

[@rosannevanderveen3274]

After

[@mike5202]

there best song is Birdman

[@richm711]

What happened after their first album?

[@flachlandbraut]

where are you?

[@angelfallsmusic1952]

[@SkywalkerSamadhi]

I think the drummer’s hairdo had a career in Greece and Turkey for a few years in the late 80’s, but yeah this band should have been way bigger than they were.