Waiting for a Miracle

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Waiting for a Miracle
Waiting for a Miracle cover
Studio album by Comsat Angels
Released September 5, 1980
Recorded January 1980
Genre Post-punk
Length 37:31 (LP)
Label Polydor
Producer(s) Comsat Angels
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Comsat Angels chronology
Waiting for a Miracle
(1980)
Sleep No More
(1981)


Waiting for a Miracle was released in September 1980 on Polydor Records. It's The Comsat Angels' debut album. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM records and in 2006 by Renascent, with different track listings.

The album contains the original version of Independence Day, perhaps their best-known song.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake

  1. Missing In Action
  2. "Baby"
  3. Independence Day
  4. Waiting For A Miracle
  5. Total War
  6. On The Beach
  7. Monkey Pilot
  8. Real Story
  9. Map Of The World
  10. Postcard
  11. Home Is The Range*
  12. We Were*
  13. Ju Ju Money*
  14. Work**
  15. Independence Day (demo version)**
  16. Real Story (demo version)**
  17. Target Talk (demo version)**
  18. Living In (demo version)**

Tracks marked (*) appear only on both CD-reissues. Tracks marked (**) appear only on the 2006 Renascent reissue.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Trivia

  • 5000 LP's were pressed with an alternate mix of Independence Day, these say "Comsat Angles" on the label.