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The Comsat Angels

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The Comsat Angels were an English post-punk band from Sheffield England, initially active from 1978 to 1995. [1]

95 relations: A-side and B-side, Album-oriented rock, AllMusic, Appendicitis, Band (rock and pop), Bass (sound), BBC, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Television, BBC Two, Bell Hollow, Blacklist (band), Captain Beefheart, Caroline Records, Catherine Wheel (band), Chasing Shadows (The Comsat Angels album), Cherry Red Records, COMSAT, Control (2007 film), Counterfeit e.p., Curve (band), Depeche Mode, Dream Command, Drum kit, Editors (band), Electric guitar, England, Europe, Fiction (The Comsat Angels album), Film, Fire on the Moon (Dream Command album), Gang of Four (band), Gomez (band), Ian Curtis, IMDb, Interpol (band), Island Records, J. G. Ballard, Jive Records, Joy Division, Kevin Bacon (producer), Keyboard instrument, Land (The Comsat Angels album), Last.fm, Little Glitches, Loop (band), Mark Kermode, Martin Gore, Melody Maker, ..., My Mind's Eye (album), Myspace, Netherlands, New wave music, Nick Robinson (paperfolder), O2 Academy Sheffield, Polydor Records, PopMatters, Post-punk, Post-punk revival, Q (magazine), Real Genius, Record chart, Record label, Recording contract, Robert Palmer (singer), Samuel R. Delany, Sheffield, Shoegazing, Silkworm (band), Simon Armitage, Singing, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sleep No More (The Comsat Angels album), Soundtrack, Stephen Fellows, The Big Takeover, The Culture Show, The Glamour, The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Sound (band), Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979–1984, TiVo Corporation, To Before, U2, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United Kingdom, United States, Val Kilmer, Waiting for a Miracle, Wall of Voodoo, Yellow Magic Orchestra, YouTube, 7 Day Weekend (album). Expand index (45 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Album-oriented rock

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Appendicitis

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Bass (sound)

Bass describes tones of low (also called "deep") frequency, pitch and range from 16-256 Hz (C0 to middle C4) and bass instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range C2-C4.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Bell Hollow

Bell Hollow were a post-punk revival band based in Brooklyn, New York, composed of Nick Niles (vocals/keyboards/guitar), Greg Fasolino (guitar), Christopher Bollman (bass) and Todd Karasik (drums).

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Blacklist (band)

Blacklist was a band from Brooklyn, New York composed of Joshua Strawn (vocals, guitar), Ryan Rayhill (bass), Glenn Maryansky (drums) and James Minor (guitar).

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.

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Caroline Records

Caroline Records is an American record label that started as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records America during the early to mid-1970s.

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Catherine Wheel (band)

Catherine Wheel was an English alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth.

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Chasing Shadows (The Comsat Angels album)

Chasing Shadows is the Comsat Angels' sixth album, released in 1986 on Island Records.

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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COMSAT

COMSAT (Communications Satellite Corporation) is a global telecommunications company, based in the United States, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and several other countries in the Americas.

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Control (2007 film)

Control is a 2007 British biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division.

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Counterfeit e.p.

Counterfeit e.p. is the first solo recording by Martin L. Gore, the primary songwriter for the band Depeche Mode.

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Curve (band)

Curve were an English alternative rock and electronica duo from London, formed in 1990 and split in 2005.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Dream Command

Dream Command was an alternate name for the band the Comsat Angels, used briefly in their history.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Editors (band)

Editors are an English rock band, formed in 2002 in Birmingham.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fiction (The Comsat Angels album)

Fiction is the Comsat Angels' third album, released in August 1982 on Polydor Records.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fire on the Moon (Dream Command album)

Fire on the Moon is the Comsat Angels' seventh album, released in 1990 on Island Records.

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Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group, formed in 1977 in Leeds.

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Gomez (band)

Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball (vocals, guitar), Paul "Blackie" Blackburn (bass), Tom Gray (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Ben Ottewell (vocals, guitars) and Olly Peacock (drums, synths, computers).

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Ian Curtis

Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer-songwriter and musician.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Interpol (band)

Interpol is an American rock band from New York City.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962).

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Jive Records

Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s and early 2000s. Jive Records operated as an independently managed label until 2003, when Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) acquired the remainder of its parent company Zomba for US $2.74 billion, which at the time was the largest-ever acquisition of an independent label with major-label distribution.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Kevin Bacon (producer)

Kevin John Bacon (born 30 March 1959 in Rotherham) is an English musician and record producer best known for his work with fellow Brit Jonathan Quarmby under the moniker Bacon & Quarmby, as well as his tenure as bassist for the band the Comsat Angels.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Land (The Comsat Angels album)

Land is the Comsat Angels' fourth album, released in September 1983 on Jive Records.

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Last.fm

Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002.

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Little Glitches

Little Glitches are a folktronica collective from Sheffield, UK.

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Loop (band)

Loop are an English rock band, formed in 1986 by Robert Hampson in Croydon.

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Mark Kermode

Mark James Patrick Kermode (nocat Fairey; born 2 July 1963) is an English television and film critic and musician.

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Martin Gore

Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, remixer, and DJ.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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My Mind's Eye (album)

My Mind’s Eye is the eighth album by the Comsat Angels, released in 1992 on RPM Records, and in 1993 on Caroline Records in the US.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nick Robinson (paperfolder)

Nick Robinson (born 8 January 1957 in Burnham-on-Sea, England) is a British paperfolder.

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O2 Academy Sheffield

The O2 Academy Sheffield (formerly the Carling Academy Sheffield), is a live music venue in the centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as "new wave revival", "garage rock revival"J. Stuessy and S. D. Lipscomb, Rock and roll: its History and Stylistic Development (London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 5th edn., 2006),, p. 451. or "new rock revolution") is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Real Genius

Real Genius is a 1985 science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Robert Palmer (singer)

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Samuel R. Delany

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Silkworm (band)

Silkworm was an American indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005 whose core members were Tim Midyett, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist.

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Simon Armitage

Simon Robert Armitage CBE (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Sleep No More (The Comsat Angels album)

Sleep No More is the Comsat Angels' second album, released 21 August 1981 on Polydor Records.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Stephen Fellows

Stephen Fellows is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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The Big Takeover

The Big Takeover is a bi-annual music magazine published out of New York City since May 1980 by critic Jack Rabid.

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The Culture Show

The Culture Show was a weekly BBC Two arts magazine programme, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts.

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The Glamour

The Glamour is the ninth and final album by the Comsat Angels, released in 1995 on RPM Records and on Caroline Records in the US.

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The Old Grey Whistle Test

The Old Grey Whistle Test (usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) was a British television music show.

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The Sound (band)

The Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in South London in 1979 and dissolved in 1988.

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Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979–1984

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979-1984, a compilation album by the Comsat Angels, was released in 1992 by BBC Music and reissed by Renascent in 2006.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation (formerly Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation) is an American technology company.

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To Before

To Before is a double album of Comsat Angels demos and outtakes, released on CD by Renascent in 2007.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.

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Waiting for a Miracle

Waiting for a Miracle is the debut album by The Comsat Angels, released 5 September 1980 on Polydor Records.

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Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio".

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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7 Day Weekend (album)

7 Day Weekend is the Comsat Angels' fifth album, released in 1985 on Jive Records.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comsat_Angels

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