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Released | August 1982 | |||
Recorded | May–June 1982 | |||
Studio | Strawberry 1 & 2, Stockport; Polydor Workshop Studios | |||
Genre | New wave, post-punk | |||
Length | 41:16 | |||
Label | Polydor | |||
Producer | Peter Wilson and the Comsat Angels | |||
The Comsat Angels chronology | ||||
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Singles from Fiction | ||||
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Stylus | B[2] |
Fiction is the Comsat Angels' third album, released in August 1982 on Polydor Records. The album has been reissued on CD three times: in 1995 by RPM Records, in 2006 by Renascent 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".[4]
Fellows was satisfied with many of the songs on Fiction, including "What Else!?", "Pictures" and "After the Rain",[4] 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".[4]
Track listing (1982)
[edit]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)
[edit]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)
[edit]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)
[edit]All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake.
Disc 1
- "After the Rain"
- "Zinger"
- "Now I Know"
- "Not a Word"
- "Ju Ju Money"
- "More"
- "Pictures"
- "Birdman"
- "Don't Look Now"
- "What Else!?"
Disc 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
[edit]- The Comsat Angels
- Stephen Fellows – vocals, guitar, artwork
- Andy Peake – synthesizer, vocals
- Kevin Bacon – bass guitar
- Mik Glaisher – drums
References
[edit]- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ "The Comsat Angels - Fiction". Discogs.
- ^ a b c d Liner notes from Renascent reissue of Fiction