An old boyfriend made me a homemade cassette of Land in 1984. I didn't know who they were but just loved it. I played it so much I wore it out. I eventually got an album (beautiful vinyl) from Germany about 5 years ago. So thank you to Peter Van Sonsbeek for getting me into this band, I love them!!!
I don't understand how an amazing band like The Comsat Angels, with so many albums and so many great songs, doesn' t have a decent and long live show edited anywhere, or even here, in UA-cam : (
Wow!!! How have I never heard of these guys? Lucky me that I get to discover them now! Something good came of this year. Happy Independence Day!🎉💥🇺🇸🎊💥🇺🇸
Ana, glad somebody out there digs this stuff, so it was worth diving through my old videos. this was shown on German TV just a few days after the gig. unfortunately, that's all there was...
Unbelievable, who would think that after all these years more footage would be uncovered on this fantastic band, would love too see more and hear about how you came to have this footage. Thank you so much for posting for the world to see.
As Mick Hercun is the tour guitarist, this can be accurately dated to the Spring 1984 tour of Germany, the only one he did with the band...fabulous quality footage! Thanks for posting...
Wow.....I was playing guitar in the 80s with gothic and post punk bands here in California and knew all about Sisters, Bauhaus, Lorries, Violets, etc but missed out on Comsats and The Sound which I am now solidly obsessed with......better late than never I spose
OMG how I love the band. How I love the music. Beams me right back to the 80‘s. Very little video material is available from or about them. I remember, in Berlin back in the day those 2 songs „Independence day“ and „You move me“ were played on the radio. „You move me“ was my absolute favorite for quite a while and I had a recording on compact cassette. Thank you for posting it...
Some of the best and clearest footage I've seen posted of this wonderful band from my youth. Feel lucky to have finally got to see them play live when they briefly got back together a few years ago. Totally awesome even then. Good work; thanks for posting!
still have the first album kev came to my parents with the prize still listen to it great band kev bacon superb bass good to see the videos brings back great school day memories Mortimer Wilson alfreton Derbyshire
Brilliant sounds, syndromman an excellent recording using several cameras, and well put together in the edit room. Too dangerous to succeed. 2019 02 15 18:24 before the revolution got very serious in France. You know that feeling.
I've tried for decades to figure out why this band - that I love - never had the success they deserved back then. The nearest I come is that sounded so much like ALL the best bits of every good Band (part Cure/Banshees, Part U2, Part Simple Minds etc) that they were just dismissed as copyists instead of the pioneers they were. Because they were better than all of them except maybe The Cure, mid-period U2 in their pomp perhaps. Anyway I'm glad to see new gems like this. Thanks.
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i think a great part of why they never made it big is that they pretty much lost their way during and after Fiction. Fiction, admitted by Stephen himself, was a bit lackluster, albeit still in the great direction set by their previous two albums. until then, the angels were a brooding, moody but sometimes energetic and fun band. they wanted to break into the mainstream, though, and this proved their ultimate downfall. i don't know what happened with "it's history" which was not released on fiction -- it should have been, as it had all the signs of a possible hit, and with some better marketing, it should have been one. instead, they let their once-opening-act, u2, copy the whole of that sound and make "new year's day" a year later. Land, on the other hand, apart from the great rework of Independence Day, is a trainwreck. it's not a _bad_ album per se, but it's not an honest one, and that stung the harshest, as one of the best qualities of the angels' previous records were their honesty and identity. it tries too much to be an adult pop record, and it succeeds, but it's a prominently boring one. and a boring album is a cardinal sin in pop. maybe you all had that friend who used to be a great friend, even if slightly depressed and moody... but you always loved to hang with them as their honesty and heart-on-their-sleeve attitude just resonated with your humanity. and then at one point, somebody told them that these qualities, this attitude, is not right. so a kind of mock cheerfulness, a mock seriousness was added to their character, and as much as you wanted to keep loving them, these synthetic, feigned good spirits were just too much of a departure for you... so you kind of broke off. Land feels like that. it lacks the bite, the moodiness and the grit that was present on the previous three. add to it that Stephen was never an immensely charismatic frontman like Bono, Robert Smith or Jaz Coleman, but their songs, their open nature on the first three records kind of did his work for him. this was lost with the change in sound and attitude. pretty sad, if you ask me. it's great that they sort of found themselves again with My Mind's Eye, but by that time they became followers, not inventors, and it was just a matter of time for them to fold eventually.
A thought which might possibly horrify the C.A.die-hards, but there's just something about the singer's voice and the way he puts himself across which reminds me of Martin Turner out of Wishbone Ash... I'll get me coat.
Haa-Haaa... Wutz Up! with the C-r-o-w-d they are all just standing there like Zombies! DANG! (except for the Guy in the very Front) If I was there I would Be DANCING MY ASS OFF... Independence Day....Independence Day Thanx for posting and sharing this Awesome Oldie!
. . . that's awesome sir. In my opinion they are one of the best bands of all time. i play them all the time to this day. True quality is timeless. Many many thanks t
+tezzo55 -- *_"In my opinion they are one of the best bands of all time....True quality is timeless"_* Even though I discovered them late in the game (1995 or 1996) I am fully in agreement. I was lucky in that some great soul went the extra mile and made one or two compilation tapes for me after I put up a post on one of the 'Indie/Alternative Rock' forums via USENET (anyone remember that?) asking for further info. on TCA. I had just gotten a job at the library of my alma mater, and came across a _Trouser Press_ music guide in the reference section. After reading some comparison the author made to Joy Division and TCA's first three albums in addition to shaking my head almost in disbelief how this particular band most probably never came to my attention and that of my 'New Wave' peers in high school, my curiosity was peeked and the rest is history as the old saying goes. :) *EDIT:* Not that it really matters or is of utter importance, but I thought I'd re-edit my post and say the following. I still have that tape (or tapes) after all these years in addition to getting the first three albums on CD during the second remastering phase. To each his own but putting aside that I don't like or care much for digi-paks and other fancy compact disc packaging and much prefer good old jewel cases from the 80's, the remastering was on the money in regards to the sound output levels. Too bad the same can't be said for any number of other remastered albums which became victims of the so-called Loudness Wars. I just happen to be listening yesterday to a number of tracks from The Smiths (first CD pressings from the 80's which I'm quite satisfied with despite using the VLC media player's built-in compressor to punch up the sound for added depth) after not having heard them in quite sometime, and will do the same later on with TCA.
Sheffield has produced some great musicians, and Stephen has a much better voice than Joe Elliott. I will never understand how they weren't more famous. Maybe they needed Steve Clark too, a great mix with Stephens voice.
Something people fail to recognize is these guys were pulling off live versions of their songs almost flawlessly in the '80s!
Incredible talent.
imagine being able to play a song you made live.
Very good band
Wow, this is better than the album version! Comsats, Chameleons, The Sound.....all brilliant.
You forgot roxy music ;-)
Scars too
The Comsats where just amazing. Steve Fellows, one of the great singers and guitarists. The thinking mans U2.
@77doriella "The thinking mans U2" Brilliant.
Five "lost and rare" 80s post punk gems:
1. Chameleons
2. Sad lovers and Giants
3. Comsat Angels
4. Wild Swans
5. The Sound
5,1 and 3 are my favourite bands ever; my holy trinity, if you will. 🙂
Also was great Abecedarians (american band) and scottish band Lowlife.
The Opposition 👍🇩🇪
The second guitarist looks like Dave Fielding.
No Echo and the Bunnymen or even Psychedelic Furs?
An old boyfriend made me a homemade cassette of Land in 1984. I didn't know who they were but just loved it. I played it so much I wore it out. I eventually got an album (beautiful vinyl) from Germany about 5 years ago. So thank you to Peter Van Sonsbeek for getting me into this band, I love them!!!
You know this band was a beast when a dude like me from North Philadelphia stumbles accross this 30 years after it came out.,🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Best band of the 80's.
The audience all look dead. They have no idea how lucky they are to see this brilliant band. Never saw them in Australia, wish I had.
Maybe the live sound was not inviting enough? I mean it was DIY most of the time back in those days
Independence Day is one of the most finely crafted pop songs I know. It’s frickin’ awesome.
They were so good, and yet never gained the attention they should have. Brilliant band!
I don't understand how an amazing band like The Comsat Angels, with so many albums and so many great songs, doesn' t have a decent and long live show edited anywhere, or even here, in UA-cam : (
WOW memories of these geniuses blowing us away from the word go
This band gives me goosebumps...
Their 1st album is wonderful in more ways than I have words for...
Looks like the audience didn't know this song! I woulda been on my feet! Incredible piece of music, and the lead singer sounds great live!
Wow!!! How have I never heard of these guys? Lucky me that I get to discover them now! Something good came of this year. Happy Independence Day!🎉💥🇺🇸🎊💥🇺🇸
Wow they sound very good live.
One of the greatest of the eighties! But hey, that audience... Stiff as hell, just the smartphones missing!
German audiences sometimes just like to LISTEN in a fascinated way.....and that's not the worst !
A great band playing a great song.
Great song ❤ happy Independence Day America
Ana, glad somebody out there digs this stuff, so it was worth diving through my old videos. this was shown on German TV just a few days after the gig. unfortunately, that's all there was...
Thanx
Unbelievable, who would think that after all these years more footage would be uncovered on this fantastic band, would love too see more and hear about how you came to have this footage. Thank you so much for posting for the world to see.
WOW! Thanks for sharing this. I love this band.
As Mick Hercun is the tour guitarist, this can be accurately dated to the Spring 1984 tour of Germany, the only one he did with the band...fabulous quality footage! Thanks for posting...
Don't forget...there is a Fans of the Comsat Angels group on Facebook!
Band is tight as hell..."Joy Division with hope" I heard them once described as...
Wow.....I was playing guitar in the 80s with gothic and post punk bands here in California and knew all about Sisters, Bauhaus, Lorries, Violets, etc but missed out on Comsats and The Sound which I am now solidly obsessed with......better late than never I spose
Add The Chameleons to those two and you have the golden three! 🙂
@@plushy9849 and Echo and the Bunnymen!
The Psychedelic Furs are one of the best along The Chameleons, Lowlife and Kitchens of Distinction
WOW! The best Comsats live footage i've seen.............super tight........stevens voice is powerful,thanx for posting!!!!
along with the Fixx, the best band of the 80's, thank you for putting this up...
Fantastic sound and vision of this incredible band!
I love this band and have never seen this. Thank you, it's brilliant.
Have loved the for years!!
OMG how I love the band. How I love the music. Beams me right back to the 80‘s. Very little video material is available from or about them. I remember, in Berlin back in the day those 2 songs „Independence day“ and „You move me“ were played on the radio. „You move me“ was my absolute favorite for quite a while and I had a recording on compact cassette. Thank you for posting it...
Awesome recording of a great song.
Fantastic video! Thank You!
Some of the best and clearest footage I've seen posted of this wonderful band from my youth. Feel lucky to have finally got to see them play live when they briefly got back together a few years ago. Totally awesome even then. Good work; thanks for posting!
Superb performance and excellent video quality. Thank you 🙏
Great footage. Thanks Syndromman for posting !
When the live take sounds just as good as studio version, if not better.... insane talent
still have the first album kev came to my parents with the prize still listen to it great band kev bacon superb bass good to see the videos brings back great school day memories Mortimer Wilson alfreton Derbyshire
Brilliant sounds, syndromman an excellent recording using several cameras, and well put together in the edit room. Too dangerous to succeed. 2019 02 15 18:24 before the revolution got very serious in France. You know that feeling.
Excellent performance.
yes!!!
COMSATS at their peak!!!! thanx for posting!
According to Mick Hercun, it was recorded for cable TV at Munich Alabamahalle, the last night of the tour
I've tried for decades to figure out why this band - that I love - never had the success they deserved back then. The nearest I come is that sounded so much like ALL the best bits of every good Band (part Cure/Banshees, Part U2, Part Simple Minds etc) that they were just dismissed as copyists instead of the pioneers they were. Because they were better than all of them except maybe The Cure, mid-period U2 in their pomp perhaps. Anyway I'm glad to see new gems like this. Thanks.
i think a great part of why they never made it big is that they pretty much lost their way during and after Fiction. Fiction, admitted by Stephen himself, was a bit lackluster, albeit still in the great direction set by their previous two albums. until then, the angels were a brooding, moody but sometimes energetic and fun band. they wanted to break into the mainstream, though, and this proved their ultimate downfall.
i don't know what happened with "it's history" which was not released on fiction -- it should have been, as it had all the signs of a possible hit, and with some better marketing, it should have been one. instead, they let their once-opening-act, u2, copy the whole of that sound and make "new year's day" a year later.
Land, on the other hand, apart from the great rework of Independence Day, is a trainwreck. it's not a _bad_ album per se, but it's not an honest one, and that stung the harshest, as one of the best qualities of the angels' previous records were their honesty and identity. it tries too much to be an adult pop record, and it succeeds, but it's a prominently boring one. and a boring album is a cardinal sin in pop.
maybe you all had that friend who used to be a great friend, even if slightly depressed and moody... but you always loved to hang with them as their honesty and heart-on-their-sleeve attitude just resonated with your humanity. and then at one point, somebody told them that these qualities, this attitude, is not right. so a kind of mock cheerfulness, a mock seriousness was added to their character, and as much as you wanted to keep loving them, these synthetic, feigned good spirits were just too much of a departure for you... so you kind of broke off.
Land feels like that. it lacks the bite, the moodiness and the grit that was present on the previous three. add to it that Stephen was never an immensely charismatic frontman like Bono, Robert Smith or Jaz Coleman, but their songs, their open nature on the first three records kind of did his work for him. this was lost with the change in sound and attitude.
pretty sad, if you ask me. it's great that they sort of found themselves again with My Mind's Eye, but by that time they became followers, not inventors, and it was just a matter of time for them to fold eventually.
I Know That Feeling. The way the song was written, in my mind, I can hear a version in German. Don't know why.
Great footage. Any more? Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Terrific clip.💥
cамая лучшая группа 80х, самая сияющая, в их музыке я нашел то, что искал, прослушав тысячи банд
Класний пост-панк, new wave гурт. В основному це п'ятеро музикантів які грають пост-панк з електронним звучанням маю на увазі це клавішник в гурті
Should have been huge
Legends!!!
Flawless
Awesome
Sounds as good as the albums if not better!
A thought which might possibly horrify the C.A.die-hards, but there's just something about the singer's voice and the way he puts himself across which reminds me of Martin Turner out of Wishbone Ash...
I'll get me coat.
Haa-Haaa... Wutz Up! with the C-r-o-w-d they are all just standing there like Zombies! DANG! (except for the Guy in the very Front) If I was there I would Be DANCING MY ASS OFF... Independence Day....Independence Day Thanx for posting and sharing this Awesome Oldie!
this isn' t exactly dance music though
lacsa727 Germany... what can you do
Geniale Aufnahme, Danke !!!
stimmt!
There best song, for me, and the puplick .....
Cool live version. Neutral version between Polydor and Arista takes. Nice
My dad's Michael hercun in the stripes
i hope he enjoys this ride back to the 80's :-) Big respect to him and thks for looking in!
. . . that's awesome sir. In my opinion they are one of the best bands of all time. i play them all the time to this day. True quality is timeless. Many many thanks t
Tell your dad this song kept me from putting a gun to my head.. Long story but tell him and his mates THANK YOU.
+tezzo55 -- *_"In my opinion they are one of the best bands of all time....True quality is timeless"_* Even though I discovered them late in the game (1995 or 1996) I am fully in agreement. I was lucky in that some great soul went the extra mile and made one or two compilation tapes for me after I put up a post on one of the 'Indie/Alternative Rock' forums via USENET (anyone remember that?) asking for further info. on TCA. I had just gotten a job at the library of my alma mater, and came across a _Trouser Press_ music guide in the reference section. After reading some comparison the author made to Joy Division and TCA's first three albums in addition to shaking my head almost in disbelief how this particular band most probably never came to my attention and that of my 'New Wave' peers in high school, my curiosity was peeked and the rest is history as the old saying goes. :)
*EDIT:* Not that it really matters or is of utter importance, but I thought I'd re-edit my post and say the following. I still have that tape (or tapes) after all these years in addition to getting the first three albums on CD during the second remastering phase. To each his own but putting aside that I don't like or care much for digi-paks and other fancy compact disc packaging and much prefer good old jewel cases from the 80's, the remastering was on the money in regards to the sound output levels. Too bad the same can't be said for any number of other remastered albums which became victims of the so-called Loudness Wars. I just happen to be listening yesterday to a number of tracks from The Smiths (first CD pressings from the 80's which I'm quite satisfied with despite using the VLC media player's built-in compressor to punch up the sound for added depth) after not having heard them in quite sometime, and will do the same later on with TCA.
Your dad was in one of the best English bands in the history of rock music.
Wonderful stuff!
Andy Peak keybords/////Yeah....
good video to digital conversion.
Great.
The Masters of MINIMALISM.
Doesn't look like Markthalle to me - I've been a good few times. But it might have been revamped since 84 of course.
hard to understand why this wasnt a major hit.... would have bought this back then,,, they didnt get the breaks it seems
Three people didn’t understand the 80s at all.
The audience look like they're at a physics lecture.
LOL.
Perhaps they were actually listening to the music?
The room was filled with germs!
(joke - leck mich am arsch, I'm only joking!)
Wow! Cheers for posting this. The fuck was with that crowd?
Germans ...
its interesting. You see these bands on you-tube and think - wow, I wish i could been there. So why is audience
acting so bored?!!!
Sheffield has produced some great musicians, and Stephen has a much better voice than Joe Elliott. I will never understand how they weren't more famous. Maybe they needed Steve Clark too, a great mix with Stephens voice.
they know how to have fun those germans lol
Not Hamburg, I have some stills from that gig. Maybe Koln or Bochum
why does he say 'you are' at the beginning?
Then you'll know you're in a different place
Epic 80's ! The lamest crowd - ever recorded .
Getting some serious Julian Cope vibes from Fellows here.