COMSAT ANGELS What Else!

[@howardrogers1147]

Been playing this song for nearly 40 years now. Sound tack to memories

[@johnmurillo257]

Tremendous brutality of song! Unbelievable! Just wow!

[@TCmastr]

I love every bit of this band. Love the drums. Love the vocals and the minimalistic guitar style. Love the bass. But I think the keyboard player is really the unsung hero of this band. I love his arrangements and countermelodies. Listen to this song or Alicia and you will understand what I mean.

[@levisguy53]

Kevin Bacon on bass, no not that Kevin Bacon!

[@martindegooijer1892]

Drums by Mik glaiser

[@martinvaneijk556]

Comsats forever! Fellows top singer. Great song. Most underrated band of the 80s, for sure.

[@massimilianofrancese332]

My favorite band along with Sound...🖤🖤🖤

[@brettcampbell778]

One of the best songs from one of the best bands ever.

[@jaapspaanderman5876]

Masterpiece! This band got me into real music, Comsats forever

[@tafur1099]

What a song! What a band! What a time the '80s were, miss them!

[@gabxln]

yeah man... this song is a masterpiece

[@ieatorbs]

Filling the void from garbage of today.

[@timjohnston6493]

Still sounds superb today....brilliant song from a brilliant band!

[@emmettmckenna4565]

This band was amazing! I saw them at The Chestnut Cabaret on 38th & Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia.

[@sps179]

Always have a mischievous urge to change 'big bad world' to 'wicked world', but otherwise this is one of the best songs by one of the greatest bands of the 1980s. Drums and keyboards, whatever, but Glaisher and Peake combine to take this one to a whole new level. Fellows' first declaration of ''there's always something else' never fails to move me. Fellows echoes this song in the equally grand And All The Stars (1992), check it out, seemingly as simple as a children's lullaby, but much more to it. Comsats once supported U2, who could only dream of being half as good. While Bono has his Lithuanian mall to manage, and The Edge fights to build his vanity project atop a Malibu mesa, the genius Fellows subsists in virtual obscurity. Such is life.

[@chrisbarlow2131]

Well said.

[@hummelspatz]

Always has been a musicians band, and to be fair both the Edge and Charlie Burghill of Simple Minds thought highly of CA, I remember several interviews from that era. But yeah... the band that shaped my outlook on music a lot.

[@jdmresearch]

Agree on all accounts except for the lyrics. Given this is likely something 'she' is saying or something she believes.... I believe 'big bad' works better than 'wicked' because it's clumsy and obvious. As in "oh, the big bad world is against you and your ambitious plans". Just my opinion.

[@neilprocter3755]

@Stephen Saunders yeah, I saw Comsat Angels twice in the early 80s. The second time, in 1982 I think, they were supporting U2 at the Kings Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. As your comment suggests, they blew U2 off the stage! A phenomenal performance! And yet there has been no sign of them over the last decades, rather we have had to suffer Bonio and his pompous, yet fatuous, nonsense ever since.

[@levisguy53]

have you checked out his latest solo album Slow Glass from 2000?

[@peterkadelbach7010]

Miming but still great to see. Such a great song and great album.

[@shionarris2958]

i love the way this band is totally. incredible.

[@TheMastermike67]

What an era! Great band. Truly, thanks for posting.

[@davidellis5141]

One of the only video clips of The Comsats ! Very 😎 !

[@Neil-Aspinall]

If you want a real treat you must get their 'Waiting for a Miracle' album

[@levisguy53]

good luck getting it at a reasonable priced. supposed to be reissued back in 2015 along with the rest of their early output.

[@andrewwilson711]

Great band so style as The Sound and Chameleons classic moody post punk

[@abrahamhernandez6928]

The 80s, the best decade.

[@janjigurbuks3470]

this track is so powerful

[@ilyuva]

La prolijidad rítmica del Fiction y sobre todo la atmósfera del Sleep No More deben ser mi época predilecta de los Comsat.

[@rocknroller81]

Brilliant!

[@marixpulp2000]

gracias

[@frednoble1833]

😮 WORD. ☝ UP. BRO. A TRUE. MASTERPIECE. WOW. SOUNDS. VERY. SIMMILAR. TO. DURAN DURAN. DRUMS VOCALS. A. UNIQUE. SOUND. THAT CAN GET STUCK IN YA HEAD. LIKE. ITS CRAWLING. INTO MY HEAD. 😢 IM HOOKED. TIME TO EAT. A 🍄 😂 NIGHTFENCER. GATEKEEPER. BRAINTREE. WORD. BRO. KOOL KOOL FUCKIN TUNE

[@phillipabond8044]

Still the best live band I ever saw.

[@sergeromelart3528]

Same for me. One of the best gigs ever seen!!! 1982 in a little venue in Wetteren, Belgium. Awe!!!

[@TheTonywojo]

Possibly the second best song ever - has everything...

[@TheTonywojo]

Killing moon

[@cesarmelomano396]

Maravilloso tema

[@mauriciootalora86]

MI MEJOR BANDA,,,,,,, YO UN COLOMBIANO QUE NUNCA LA PUDE VER EN MI PAIS,,,,,,,,,,FELLOWS DEBERIA REORGANIZAR LA BANDA.......

[@marixpulp2000]

Si Mauricio, excelente banda.

[@ericlewis77]

😎👌

[@karinchristina8345]

Is this playback? Never mind. Thanks for sharing.

[@nickgodfrey1148]

Mesmerising. The English do it better than anyone.

[@nicolasmrn]

what an outro

[@muckamuckofgleep]

I agree - and ditto the amazing latter half of the 'B'' side single (not the demo) 'Something's Gotta Give' - a real gem that was never on the 'Chasing Shadows' vinyl lp - only on side B of 'The Cutting Edge' single...........

[@jonathanbevan6923]

if only the visuals matched the soundtrack...

[@muckamuckofgleep]

....which of course is the actual album recording we're hearing - still, never mind, as there's so little video of the Comsats - so every bit is appreciated - thanks for posting !