Waiting for a Miracle Review by Andy Kellman

Waiting for a Miracle is a sorcerous first album, at least once it sinks in, after short-to-long phases of puzzlement, bemusement, and fascination. Its songs of romantic ruin, paranoia, and doubt are spare, inelastic, and ceaselessly on edge. Even when the songs are at their bounciest and most alluring, they have an insular and alien quality. The instruments are played with intrepid simplicity, but when they're heard as one, they sound peculiar and complex -- the results aren't unlike slow, stern spins on Pere Ubu's "The Modern Dance" and "Street Waves" -- albeit with insidious lyrical hooks that are innocuous to the eye and startling to the ear, like "This is total war, girl," "Sometimes I feel out of control," and "I can't relax 'cause I haven't done a thing and I can't do a thing 'cause I can't relax."..

https://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-for-a-miracle-mw0000838708

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhpcRL56P0&list=PLy4u88AKUauLY0NgN2xQcYwtWRRjfZdFw&index=1

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New upload, with Peel's comments:

The Comsat Angels - Peel Session 1979

The complete session recorded by The Comsat Angels on 10 October 1979 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 25th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. Total War Girl (0:42)
2. Independence Day (5:47)
3. Ju-Ju Money (9:52)
4. Baby (14:45)

https://youtu.be/kJMN4qw-JU0

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I was thinking #IndependenceDay so I put this #record on - but of course it's not Independence Day yet, and that song isn't even on this #album. 🤪

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Comsat Angels - Independence Day
Originally from their debut album "Waiting for a miracle" from 1980, this version is actually from 1983. I like this version better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXw7a3FdBL4

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