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.
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
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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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.
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!
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 ... 🌹
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...
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!!!
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
@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 !!!
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).
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.
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 one of my all time faves. incredible how its basically about picking up a chick for the night. still a gorgeous song and still have a 7 inch vinyl of it :)
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.
I got loads of their stuff on picture vinyl, gatefold sleeves and allsorts, anyone know if it is worth anything?, loved these in the 80`s, never understood how they never were a big band.
@mistomen As much as I hate to admit it "7" "Raspbery beret" and "Automatic" were good songs, yes Prince scares me to no end, but those were good songs.
Wow, somebody who remembers the brilliant pre-metal KNAC, back when they competed with KROQ to be the top new wave station in LA (in my opinion the NAC was infinitely superior to the ROQ)!
I love this band - but they were never meant to be a pop band, which is what they spent years trying to be. For me the Comsats Angels were imperious as a post punk new wave band who played broody intense atmospheric music, the like of which had never been heard before or since. I'm not saying they should have stayed in that groove indefinitely , but I do feel they was still a huge amount of mileage left in that musical landscape left to be explored. This musical chapter we find them in here is rather sad because their would be contemporaries , like the Human League were far more astute at writing commercial pop. In pursuit of something similar, The Comsats left their musical roots and found themselves in a musical no mans land of mediocrity. And this song typifies it. All those 'orrible cheesy keyboard sounds and Lynn drums etc make it sound like they were desperate for a hit, and it just didn't work for them. I will always be grateful for Waiting For A Miracle, Sleep No More and Fiction. No one can take that era away from them when The Comsats Angels truly were a magnificent moody and exhilarating bandwidth NO equals.
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!
Since I re-found this gem about a year ago I find that everytime I put on UA-cam I have to start my day with it. A really great song that captures all the best of the 80's feel/sound.
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.
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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
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Heard this today for the first time in 25 years and the lyrics came right back. Nothing like the 80s
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
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
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.
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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
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
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!
one of the most beautiful songs of
the 80s.
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.
Lost and unrequited love in clubland days...memories fade but the emotive feeling of this song remain.
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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I can listen to this song over and over again
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...
It's a crime this band is ignored by mainstream radio.
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.
This song still reminds me of my first big love, Anja in 1983-84. Love this song!
WFNX in Boston brought me here
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!
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
I happened upon this song by chance when looking for another song of this band.
This has easily become one of my favorites.
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!!!
Wonderful Song!
Great live band. Saw them in the 80's in Haarlem The Netherlands.
Such a good song!!!
Great song
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.
And Much Music is one the AIR!!!
City limits with Christopher Ward
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
Have the album. Wish I could get it on the itunes!
LOVE this song!!This entire record is wonderful.
Chaz Lamborghini I agree it's a real treat
Wow!!! Great lost 80s song. I had this album but the band was called C.S. Angels in the USA.
White Gold S2 bought me here 👍😮
@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 !!!
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...
awesome! on of the greatest tunes of the 80s decade. much appreciated post.
I like this song a lot
Simply amazing
Well said, friend. Now if it would only show up on itunes!
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).
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.
Fantastic song 🎵
great song...infectious melody and well written lyrics...one of my all time favs!
thx for the upload!
wow , i have been searching hi and low for this song and video.thank you for taking the time to upload this great song
Superb !!! Awesome band from the 80s...
que bella musica y siempre estara conmigo
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?
fantastic
brings back some great memories
thanks for posting:)
It came out on Jive Records here in the UK, not obscure and still going!
Had this on a cassette tape the entire thing was great .........Where can you get this on CD...........?
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!!
Thank youuuuuu for this videooo !!! :D
It is ridiculous that they never made it big...
Too bad this song is not on Spotify
i have a live version of this song great band(Y)
Fantastic, many thanks for this great video!
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.
to Hell with all the people who don't like this song!
The theme for everyone crushin on their coworker :)
why spend the after hours on your own?
this was their attempt at trying to be commercial, still a good tune though.
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That was the most eloquent thing I have ever read while playing in youtubeland. Single fella are ya?
absolutely one of my all time faves. incredible how its basically about picking up a chick for the night. still a gorgeous song and still have a 7 inch vinyl of it :)
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
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
me gusta
The lead singer is Phil Oakey from The Human League.
No but close lol
Both From Sheffield in the 🇬🇧
So this was their "commercial sound"?
What happened to all those Simmons Kits , they must be somewhere ?
@paulmoh Its because itunes can't be bothered with a lot of stuff from the 80s. Even bands with top 5 hits. Its a travesty.
Funny - I was having the same problem. How does one get the mp3 of this great tune?
I got loads of their stuff on picture vinyl, gatefold sleeves and allsorts, anyone know if it is worth anything?, loved these in the 80`s, never understood how they never were a big band.
I'd pay you for some of that stuff, although I am sure it is priceless to you.
@@fhumperdink8897 I`ll message you when l have a clear out, you can have it mate, stil love these bu can listen on Alexa and here!
@@fhumperdink8897 got Citadel on blue vinyl, 12" too!
plebe rude !
@mistomen As much as I hate to admit it "7" "Raspbery beret" and "Automatic" were good songs, yes Prince scares me to no end, but those were good songs.
@gumbygoalie61
John Macnamara
Wow, somebody who remembers the brilliant pre-metal KNAC, back when they competed with KROQ to be the top new wave station in LA (in my opinion the NAC was infinitely superior to the ROQ)!
I love this band - but they were never meant to be a pop band, which is what they spent years trying to be. For me the Comsats Angels were imperious as a post punk new wave band who played broody intense atmospheric music, the like of which had never been heard before or since. I'm not saying they should have stayed in that groove indefinitely , but I do feel they was still a huge amount of mileage left in that musical landscape left to be explored.
This musical chapter we find them in here is rather sad because their would be contemporaries , like the Human League were far more astute at writing commercial pop. In pursuit of something similar, The Comsats left their musical roots and found themselves in a musical no mans land of mediocrity. And this song typifies it. All those 'orrible cheesy keyboard sounds and Lynn drums etc make it sound like they were desperate for a hit, and it just didn't work for them.
I will always be grateful for Waiting For A Miracle, Sleep No More and Fiction. No one can take that era away from them when The Comsats Angels truly were a magnificent moody and exhilarating bandwidth NO equals.
U prolly don't mean Ben Manilla .?.
The singer looks like the non gay guy from Little Britain
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!
Ah the eighties, nothing but pure music. This is one of my favs. Simply beautiful.
Steve Fellows. One of the great voices. Saw them live a couple of times. Should have been massive.
Since I re-found this gem about a year ago I find that everytime I put on UA-cam I have to start my day with it. A really great song that captures all the best of the 80's feel/sound.
I think this was screamer or swrick of the week on WLIR
Here is another reason why the early 1980s were so awesome. Especially if the band was from the Northern UK.
92.7 WLIR (formally WDRE) FOREVER!
This Song Is Brillant!
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.
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 !
Awesome sound, great look, this group never got it's due.
John Debella morning DJ WLIR very early
This song gives me goosebumps
Thanks! I was desperate for more Comsat Angels videos and I love 'Land', although it seeems the band hate it and 'disowned it'.
A lot of comsat angels devotees won't like this'and don't think the band liked it too much themselves, "but still a good toon though"
WLIR forever
Brilliant band
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
The 80's when the world wasn't as messed up, and not so hateful as now!
John Hughes que muzik s/trax
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.