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''Land'' was released in 1983 on Jive Records. It was The Comsat Angels' fourth album. The album was reissued on CD in 2001 with five b-sides as bonus tracks for Jive's "Connoisseur Collection". The song "Independence Day," originally from their debut album, ''Waiting for a Miracle'', was rerecorded for ''Land''. "Will You Stay Tonight" and "Independence Day" received a reasonable amount of airplay and charted in the UK at #81 and #71 respectively. "Island Heart" was also released as a single.〔Comsat Angels website ()〕 ''Land'' was the first of two albums for the Jive label and was viewed as a major departure from the Comsats' first three albums. Frontman Steve Fellows looked back in a 2006 interview: "We made more commercial albums in the mid-'80s because the record company wanted us to do so. We were happy to find a new label after the commercially not-so-successful first albums." He regretted the result, but their options seemed limited because of the pop music world at the time. "Indie didn’t really exist, so we had no choice. But in retrospect we should have () to our early sound."〔Steve Fellows interview, 2006()〕 Bass player Kevin Bacon put it this way: "The demos we did for ''Land'' were really good. It was a weird time for us – we felt deflated after being dropped after three albums by Polydor. Eighties pop values were rife; we didn’t naturally fit in, but were all into being popular (pop) and felt we could achieve it in a more damning way. We didn’t think ''Land'' was crap at the time, we just didn’t think it was us."〔the comsat angels, q&a, ()〕 == Track listing 1983 == ''All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake'' #"Will You Stay Tonight?" – 4:21 #"Alicia (Can You Hear Me?)" – 3:54 #"A World Away" – 5:11 #"Independence Day (re-recording)" – 3:50 #"Nature Trails" – 4:55 #"Mister Memory" – 5:18 #"Island Heart" – 3:54 #"I Know That Feeling" – 5:20 #"As Above, So Below" – 5:39 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land (The Comsat Angels album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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