Fiction (Comsat Angels album)

Infobox Album
Name = Fiction
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Comsat Angels


Released = 1982
Recorded =
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 41:16 (LP)
Label = Polydor
Producer = Comsat Angels
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xt2ibkk96akb link]
Last album = Sleep No More (1981)
This album = Fiction (1982)
Next album = Land (1983)

"Fiction" was released in 1982 on Polydor Records. It was the Comsat Angels' third album. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM Records and in 2006 by Renascent, with different track listings (see below). The album peaked at #94 in the UK charts in September 1982. [Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of "Ficton"]

"Fiction" was less gloomy than the Comsats' previous album, "Sleep No More". Frontman Steve 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." [Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of "Ficton"]

Fellows felt satisfied with many of the songs on "Fiction", including "What Else!?," "Pictures," and "After The Rain." [Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of "Ficton"] He did feel 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." [Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of "Ficton"]

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)

Personnel

*Stephen Fellows - vocals, guitar
*Andy Peake - synthesizer, vocals
*Kevin Bacon - bass guitar
*Mik Glaisher - drums

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