Fiction (The Comsat Angels album)
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Allmusic | [1] |
Stylus | B[2] |
Fiction, released in 1982 on Polydor Records, was The Comsat Angels' third album. The album has been reissued on CD three times: in 1995 by RPM Records, in 2006 by Renascent Records and in 2015 by Edsel Records,[3] with different track listings (see below). The album peaked at No. 94 in the UK charts in September 1982.[4]
Fiction was less gloomy than the Comsats' previous album, Sleep No More. Frontman Stephen Fellows said of the change: "I certainly didn't want to make another record as intense as Sleep No More — at least not immediately. Sleep No More was so dark that I felt it skewed things a bit — possibly even mentally for me. I just felt if we carried on in that direction it'd lead to madness or maybe even something worse".[5]
Fellows was satisfied with many of the songs on Fiction, including "What Else!?", "Pictures" and "After the Rain",[6] but felt that the album as a whole could have been better. "We were a bit short of tunes when we recorded it", he said. "We were touring quite a bit after Sleep No More and there wasn't as much time to write as I would have liked".[7]
Track listing (1982)
All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake
- After the Rain
- Zinger
- Now I Know
- Not a Word
- Ju Ju Money
- More
- Pictures
- Birdman
- Don't Look Now
- What Else!?
Track listing (1995)
All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake
- After the Rain
- Zinger
- Now I Know
- Not a Word
- Ju Ju Money
- More
- Pictures
- Birdman
- Don't Look Now
- What Else!?
- It's History
- After the Rain (Remix)
- Private Party
- Mass
Track listing (2006)
All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake
- After the Rain
- Zinger
- Now I Know
- Not a Word
- Ju Ju Money
- More
- Pictures
- Birdman
- Don't Look Now
- What Else!?
- (Do The) Empty House
- Red Planet Revisited
- It's History
- Private Party
- For Your Information
- After the Rain (Remix)
- (Do The) Empty House (Live)
- What Else!? (Live)
Track listing (2015)
All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake
CD 1
- After the Rain
- Zinger
- Now I Know
- Not a Word
- Ju Ju Money
- More
- Pictures
- Birdman
- Don't Look Now
- What Else!?
CD 2
Bonus Tracks
- (Do The) Empty House
- Red Planet Revisited
- It's History
- Private Party
- For Your Information
- After the Rain (Remix)
John Peel Session
- Now I Know
- Ju Ju Money
- Our Secret
- Goat of the West
Personnel
- Stephen Fellows - vocals, guitar
- Andy Peake - synthesizer, vocals
- Kevin Bacon - bass guitar
- Mik Glaisher - drums
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Stylus review
- ^ Discogs.com entry for the Edsel edition of Fiction
- ^ Liner notes from Renascent reissue of Fiction
- ^ Liner notes from Renascent reissue of Fiction
- ^ Liner notes from Renascent reissue of Fiction
- ^ Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of Fiction