7 Day Weekend

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7 Day Weekend
7 Day Weekend cover
Studio album by Comsat Angels
Released 1985
Genre Post-punk
Length 43:02 (LP)
Label Jive Records
Producer Comsat Angels, James Mtume, Chris Tsangarides
Professional reviews
Comsat Angels chronology
Land
(1983)		 7 Day Weekend
(1985)		 Chasing Shadows
(1986)

7 Day Weekend was released in 1985 on Jive Records. It's The Comsat Angels' fifth album. The album was reissued on CD with bonus tracks in 2001 for Jive's Connoisseur Collection. Jive were trying hard to make the Comsats hitmakers and to this end they released 4 singles from this album: You Move Me (summer 1984), Day One (October 1984), I'm Falling and Forever Young (both 1985). In the end only I'm Falling ever charted in the United Kingdom, making it to #90, perhaps helped by it featuring in the movie Real Genius.

The Comsat Angels would leave they Jive label after this album, switching to Island Records for 1986's Chasing Shadows and turning away from their attempt at being pop stars.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake except where stated.

  1. "Believe It" – 4:09
  2. "Forever Young" – 3:59
  3. "You Move Me" – 4:22
  4. "I'm Falling" (Fellows, Glaisher, Bacon, Peake, James Mtume) – 3:59
  5. "Close Your Eyes" – 4:28
  6. "Day One" – 4:01
  7. "You're The Heroine" – 4:08
  8. "High Tide" – 4:43
  9. "New Heart & Hand" – 4:22
  10. "Still It's Not Enough" – 4:51
  11. "Land"* – 4:13
  12. "Citadel"* (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:10

Tracks marked (*) appear only on the CD-reissue.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Trivia

  • The album was named after an (unfinished) song by the band about unemployment.