I recorded this video off TV on vhs, in 1983. I used to watch it and think how fucking cool the lead singer was.... I watch it now some 35+ years later, and all I can think is...... How fucking cool the lead singer is!
WLIR...there will never be another station like that one! While WBAB was playing Southern Rock, WLIR was playing music like this...so different from anything I'd ever heard while living on L.I. Obviously WLIR influenced the music tastes of tens of thousands of young Long Islanders in it's heyday! What was the name of the morning guy that was on forever...John something or other.
Used to listen to them practicing this song upstairs from the Tuck Inn Cafe off Division Street in Sheffield. I have all my albums and 12 inch singles signed.
Can't find any of their albums in the U.S. so I'm forced to pick some off Amazon. If you had to rank your favorite Comsat Angels albums, which would be in your top 3?
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i've never been able to get this song's pre-chorus out of my head.."seconds turn to minutes and the minutes turn to hours; how the time slips away"...wonderful!!! Thanks for posting!
the comments on this video make me so happy. i was born in the wrong era!!!!!!!! so thankful for the folks who are still around to tell their stories... you guys ROCK
Such an underrated band,sucks they don’t have any of their music through streaming services like Spotify cuz the only way to find their music is looking real hard at record stores or record shows.
There is not a single song from a single album that falls down from this jewel of a group! Even their more commercial endeavors like the "Land" or the "Seven day weekend" Lp respectively ended up in beacon compositions for the new wave scene at the time. Their first three albums do make a difference and are so aesthetically profound... Just knowing that the band had an important influence on Adrian Borland's sound with the Sound says many things by itself about how important the comsat angels were...
Must have had a brain fart because this song popped back into my head after 35 years just the other day and I can't stop thinking about it! I absolutely loved this song back when I was a kid and cannot believe it's so hard to find. Not available anywhere but here. I also realize this was posted over a decade ago but thank you!
I listened to WLIR also, but I lived down the shore in NJ. It was the best alternative radio station ever! They played the best music. A Techie guy I used to work with brought it into our department using an antenna up on the building in Oceanport, NJ. It was the best working on computers there and listening to this fabulous music! I have the record. I bought it @ Vintage Vinyl in Union back then.
Love their earliest works (so well that I bought the first 3 albums as soon as they were reissued), though I must admit this is such a great song. Stephen Fellows looks very cute ... 🌹
Brilliant. Discovered them in a great record store in Boston when this was released. Since I was from the rural hinterlands I had to go on pilgramages to the big city for new music. Saw them in Leeds UK a couple of years later while studying nearby. Wonderful memories.
We all have our outlets to sanity. John Lennon used to stay up nights GLUED to Radio Luxemberg, you had WLIR and I had Mark Bradley's Black Vinyl Programme KVMR 89.3 FM Nevada City, CA or Today's Aberation/Tomorrows Fashion KDVS UC Davis, 90.3. Regretably, I had a job as a Security Guard during college (graves). The shift started Midnt to 6 but Bradley began spinning 11:30 (2330hrs). So I popped in a Maxel UDXL 90 tape, hit the play button and taped about 100 shows. Thank god for Shazam!!!
Since I re-found this gem about a year ago I find that everytime I put on RUclips I have to start my day with it. A really great song that captures all the best of the 80's feel/sound.
I remember they got play time in the early '80s on Long Island's 92.7 WDRE. It was a new music station and they played this song a lot. I miss the'80s. It seems bands took more chances back then.
Allend181 KNAC was the coolest new wave station back in the day! Nice to know that there are other folks out there that remember the station. Remember Love Shadow by Fashion, Roxy Music - The Space Between, Science Fiction - The Divinyls, X- The Have Nots, Just Too Easy by Romeo Void, Real World - Bangles.... Man I could muse on for hours. I know I have an old KNAC sticker in the garage somewhere
ruclips.net/video/XN4sPb1M2YA/видео.html David, agree👍🏻👍🏻Stumbled upon this very interesting character who dissects and reacts to great music 😎he has an eclectic taste you might enjoy!
@gumbygoalie61 WLIR -WDRE was awesome. Ithink the guy your thinking of was John DeBella. I loved them all, Dennis Mc Namara, Donna Donna, Malibu Sue, Larry the Duck and Max. On Saturday nights LIR broadcasted live from Malibu with Max as the DJ good times for sure back then !!!
Never knew there was a video for this song. I remember hearing this tune on KNAC 105 in L.A back in the day when the station was all new wave. Still have the album in the garage. Thanks for the post.
Awesome song that I played for a girl I met in University and she loved it! We ended up being quite close for some time, the comsats do well with the ladys
This was a "screamer of the week" at WLIR in the summer of 83. Remember also "Independence Day" by this band, especially since it is the holiday weekend.
It has taken me 20+ years to find this! And a fair portion of those have been somewhat sober. Thank You SO Very Much for posting!I would bear your son, if I were a tad younger, and this song plays in the background...
I remained at a crappy college when I had a chance to transfer to a much better one in a different state because of WLIR. It was the best ("Screamer of the Week", etc).
Always loved this song and it was one of 3 songs that took me over 15 years to discover who it was (thank you internet!) However.. anyone notice not one instrument is plugged in?
Absolutely Wonderful, I also have this on a cassette tape from the late 80s I thought it was a WDRE but maybe it was WLIR from Long Island! Thanks for Posting!
magic did actually occur, it was back in the 80s!!!!singing at the top of your lungs,covered in sweat whilst dancing to songs like this in a nightclub called The Asylum :) m48
This is the beginning of the end for this brilliant band. Their first three albums were INCREDIBLE and this song, while very good, does not capture who they truly were. "Sleep No More" is an absolute fucking masterpiece. This is when JIVE picked them up and signed them in '83, only to drop them less than 3 years later.
Thanks, and sorry to go off on this tangent but one of the reasons KNAC was so cool was that they would play somewhat obscure bands like the Comsat Angels and KROQ wouldn't (or at least wouldn't very often). The other thing about KNAC was that in addition to new wave and other "new music" they would occasionally play old blues and R&B songs too--my impression was that the DJs at KNAC had a lot of discretion about what to play.
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I recorded this video off TV on vhs, in 1983. I used to watch it and think how fucking cool the lead singer was.... I watch it now some 35+ years later, and all I can think is...... How fucking cool the lead singer is!
big time.
Can't believe they never made it big! To this day, they are one of the best bands to come out of the eighties! I still have their LP's too!
WLIR...there will never be another station like that one! While WBAB was playing Southern Rock, WLIR was playing music like this...so different from anything I'd ever heard while living on L.I.
Obviously WLIR influenced the music tastes of tens of thousands of young Long Islanders in it's heyday! What was the name of the morning guy that was on forever...John something or other.
check us out on Facebook... about 20,000 of us grouped under "Growing up listening to WLIR" on Facebook
I was so lucky that WLIR was a huge part of my teenage years in the early 80's....
Lir was the brst
Grew up on WLIR.
and WBAB keeps on truckin, lol
Heard this today for the first time in 25 years and the lyrics came right back. Nothing like the 80s
This song really should have been a hit for them. Day one too!
Used to listen to them practicing this song upstairs from the Tuck Inn Cafe off Division Street in Sheffield. I have all my albums and 12 inch singles signed.
Can't find any of their albums in the U.S. so I'm forced to pick some off Amazon. If you had to rank your favorite Comsat Angels albums, which would be in your top 3?
WOW thats an interesting piece of history my unknown friend. Thanks for sharing.
@@tripzville7569 You're most welcome. Looks very different now the old buildings have been knocked down and replaced with flats for University students www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3787701,-1.4773433,3a,75y,10.67h,63.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st-FbzHjgxsvXOZ-MYx9g1A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Ah the eighties, nothing but pure music. This is one of my favs. Simply beautiful.
i've never been able to get this song's pre-chorus out of my head.."seconds turn to minutes and the minutes turn to hours; how the time slips away"...wonderful!!! Thanks for posting!
Its my favorite part of the song for sure
Such a good song!!!
the comments on this video make me so happy. i was born in the wrong era!!!!!!!! so thankful for the folks who are still around to tell their stories... you guys ROCK
Nah. You were born at the right time if your're feeling it. This song is epic.
My goodness! How can you not love this. Sounds just a brilliant as it did when I bought this all those years ago. Time slips away, oh so true!
Too bad this song is not on Spotify
Steve Fellows. One of the great voices. Saw them live a couple of times. Should have been massive.
Such an underrated band,sucks they don’t have any of their music through streaming services like Spotify cuz the only way to find their music is looking real hard at record stores or record shows.
SomaFM plays them on a regular basis and is how I discovered them, despite being in my teens and 20s in the 80s
SiriusXM plays them on First Wave Deep Cuts
First three albums are available on Spotify/Amazon Music etc here in the UK.
Thank you to Dave Marsden and CFNY in Toronto!
Lost and unrequited love in clubland days...memories fade but the emotive feeling of this song remain.
There is not a single song from a single album that falls down from this jewel of a group! Even their more commercial endeavors like the "Land" or the "Seven day weekend" Lp respectively ended up in beacon compositions for the new wave scene at the time. Their first three albums do make a difference and are so aesthetically profound... Just knowing that the band had an important influence on Adrian Borland's sound with the Sound says many things by itself about how important the comsat angels were...
Must have had a brain fart because this song popped back into my head after 35 years just the other day and I can't stop thinking about it! I absolutely loved this song back when I was a kid and cannot believe it's so hard to find. Not available anywhere but here. I also realize this was posted over a decade ago but thank you!
I listened to WLIR also, but I lived down the shore in NJ. It was the best alternative radio station ever! They played the best music. A Techie guy I used to work with brought it into our department using an antenna up on the building in Oceanport, NJ. It was the best working on computers there and listening to this fabulous music! I have the record. I bought it @ Vintage Vinyl in Union back then.
one of the most beautiful songs of
the 80s.
I can listen to this song over and over again
This song still reminds me of my first big love, Anja in 1983-84. Love this song!
Yep. My first love 83, punk girl, Jackie from L.A. visited CT. Clubbing to this music in CT was epic before she want back after the summer.
It's a crime this band is ignored by mainstream radio.
I happened upon this song by chance when looking for another song of this band.
This has easily become one of my favorites.
Love their earliest works (so well that I bought the first 3 albums as soon as they were reissued), though I must admit this is such a great song. Stephen Fellows looks very cute ... 🌹
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Brilliant. Discovered them in a great record store in Boston when this was released. Since I was from the rural hinterlands I had to go on pilgramages to the big city for new music. Saw them in Leeds UK a couple of years later while studying nearby. Wonderful memories.
We all have our outlets to sanity. John Lennon used to stay up nights GLUED to Radio Luxemberg, you had WLIR and I had Mark Bradley's Black Vinyl Programme KVMR 89.3 FM Nevada City, CA or Today's Aberation/Tomorrows Fashion KDVS UC Davis, 90.3. Regretably, I had a job as a Security Guard during college (graves). The shift started Midnt to 6 but Bradley began spinning 11:30 (2330hrs). So I popped in a Maxel UDXL 90 tape, hit the play button and taped about 100 shows. Thank god for Shazam!!!
This Song Is Brillant!
Perfect musical elements of melody, rhythm and lyrics. If you want a quintessential 80s song, it's this one! CS Angels should have been chart toppers.
💯 per cent
Since I re-found this gem about a year ago I find that everytime I put on RUclips I have to start my day with it. A really great song that captures all the best of the 80's feel/sound.
I remember they got play time in the early '80s on Long Island's 92.7 WDRE. It was a new music station and they played this song a lot. I miss the'80s. It seems bands took more chances back then.
This was all over college radio in '83. I would jump up to CRANK THE TUNES when it came on. I consider this part of the soundtrack of those days.
This song gives me goosebumps
Awesome sound, great look, this group never got it's due.
Allend181 KNAC was the coolest new wave station back in the day! Nice to know that there are other folks out there that remember the station. Remember Love Shadow by Fashion, Roxy Music - The Space Between, Science Fiction - The Divinyls, X- The Have Nots, Just Too Easy by Romeo Void, Real World - Bangles.... Man I could muse on for hours. I know I have an old KNAC sticker in the garage somewhere
As this is credited to CS Angels it is a 🇺🇸 source for the video. Never saw it on MTV. Great song , rudimentary video.
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@@keith9482 Thanks 👌 - kinda of a surprise to see !
Brilliant band
Wonderful Song!
Great song
Great live band. Saw them in the 80's in Haarlem The Netherlands.
@gumbygoalie61
WLIR -WDRE was awesome. Ithink the guy your thinking of was John DeBella. I loved them all, Dennis Mc Namara, Donna Donna, Malibu Sue, Larry the Duck and Max. On Saturday nights LIR broadcasted live from Malibu with Max as the DJ good times for sure back then !!!
Not only one of the best songs of the 80's, but definitely one of the best band names ever.
what does it mean
Yep. They were one of the first bands, post punk late 70s.
WFNX in Boston brought me here
Here is another reason why the early 1980s were so awesome. Especially if the band was from the Northern UK.
Yep. America owes the UK big time for post punk early 80s.
Have the album. Wish I could get it on the itunes!
And Much Music is one the AIR!!!
City limits with Christopher Ward
LOVE this song!!This entire record is wonderful.
Chaz Lamborghini I agree it's a real treat
Never knew there was a video for this song. I remember hearing this tune on KNAC 105 in L.A back in the day when the station was all new wave. Still have the album in the garage. Thanks for the post.
Wow!!! Great lost 80s song. I had this album but the band was called C.S. Angels in the USA.
Awesome song that I played for a girl I met in University and she loved it! We ended up being quite close for some time, the comsats do well with the ladys
I like this song a lot
Fantastic song 🎵
BADASS JAM
WLIR forever
awesome! on of the greatest tunes of the 80s decade. much appreciated post.
This was a "screamer of the week" at WLIR in the summer of 83. Remember also "Independence Day" by this band, especially since it is the holiday weekend.
Well said, friend. Now if it would only show up on itunes!
White Gold S2 bought me here 👍😮
The 80's when the world wasn't as messed up, and not so hateful as now!
Simply amazing
It has taken me 20+ years to find this! And a fair portion of those have been somewhat sober. Thank You SO Very Much for posting!I would bear your son, if I were a tad younger, and this song plays in the background...
Thanks! I was desperate for more Comsat Angels videos and I love 'Land', although it seeems the band hate it and 'disowned it'.
que bella musica y siempre estara conmigo
I remained at a crappy college when I had a chance to transfer to a much better one in a different state because of WLIR. It was the best ("Screamer of the Week", etc).
Superb !!! Awesome band from the 80s...
Always loved this song and it was one of 3 songs that took me over 15 years to discover who it was (thank you internet!) However.. anyone notice not one instrument is plugged in?
great song...infectious melody and well written lyrics...one of my all time favs!
thx for the upload!
uno de los mejores temas new wave de os 80s..
wow , i have been searching hi and low for this song and video.thank you for taking the time to upload this great song
fantastic
brings back some great memories
thanks for posting:)
Thanks for posting. I never seen the video until now. I have this song on vinyl
Love this song.....
Absolutely Wonderful, I also have this on a cassette tape from the late 80s I thought it was a WDRE but maybe it was WLIR from Long Island!
Thanks for Posting!
Classic,,
It came out on Jive Records here in the UK, not obscure and still going!
I think this was screamer or swrick of the week on WLIR
92.7 WLIR (formally WDRE) FOREVER!
Alguém do Brasil ouvindo essa linda música ?????
やっとこのバンド名を思い出した。
I remember this was the theme song for the fledgling Much Music in Canada :)
magic did actually occur, it was back in the 80s!!!!singing at the top of your lungs,covered in sweat whilst dancing to songs like this in a nightclub called The Asylum :) m48
Hi, please let me know how the gig goes, what a treat!!!!, don't think we will ever see them in New Zealand Ha Ha, enjoy!!
Had this on a cassette tape the entire thing was great .........Where can you get this on CD...........?
Fantastic, many thanks for this great video!
Thank youuuuuu for this videooo !!! :D
Fantastic! Even at their supposed "worst" (well, according to some people) they were still brilliant-- Simmons drums and all.
i have a live version of this song great band(Y)
I know there must be a live version somewhere, I think also published on a single. That was even better than the original studio version.
That was the most eloquent thing I have ever read while playing in youtubeland. Single fella are ya?
Epic.
*lovely* ♥
It is ridiculous that they never made it big...
This is the beginning of the end for this brilliant band. Their first three albums were INCREDIBLE and this song, while very good, does not capture who they truly were. "Sleep No More" is an absolute fucking masterpiece. This is when JIVE picked them up and signed them in '83, only to drop them less than 3 years later.
all there stuff is good to my ears!!
I think they peaked with Fiction, Steve has since said he regrets the direction the band took after that album
83 was the beginning of the end for the best music/post punk ever. Quick but epic.
Yeah your right
me gusta
to true watchy, actually I came across one last week marvelous"'''
Thanks, and sorry to go off on this tangent but one of the reasons KNAC was so cool was that they would play somewhat obscure bands like the Comsat Angels and KROQ wouldn't (or at least wouldn't very often). The other thing about KNAC was that in addition to new wave and other "new music" they would occasionally play old blues and R&B songs too--my impression was that the DJs at KNAC had a lot of discretion about what to play.
The theme for everyone crushin on their coworker :)
why spend the after hours on your own?
Probably cus it was on an obscure european label from the early 80s that no longer exists. Happens a lot when you get into this era of music
John Debella morning DJ WLIR very early