Having completed my “50 Albums in 50 Days” expansion of Mr. Chris Estey’s August 24th directive “to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on you”, I’ve decided to add a THIRD [slash] final batch of 25, in order to fill some remaining “gaps”—at least as I perceive such matters—in this, ahem, “map of my musical sensibility”!
I also want to nominate 25 MORE friends whom I’d love to see post their own sets of “25 albums that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me”! (Though of course NO ONE should feel the least bit obligated to do so.)
As before, I’ll be posting “just album covers without any explanation”, though I AM planning to craft and post a summary essay once this madness reaches its Ballardian “terminus”!
By the by, please feel free to follow the eventual links (in the comments) to EAST PORTLAND BLOG, where my indefatigable EPB editor, Ricky, has been re-posting these daily album selections—in an expansive layout where you can view ALL the variant album covers and aural media formats AT ONCE—plus a link to one song I’ve chosen to spotlight from each recording!
If you’ve missed any albums along the way, wish to revisit a particular selection, or would simply enjoy listening to the songs, you’ll find it MUCH easier to scroll back through these posts on EAST PORTLAND BLOG than to attempt such an endeavor via Facebook!
To simplify matters further, here’s a direct link to the “Tom Kipp” section of EPB, which presently contains/archives over 200 of my posts (on a wide variety of subjects!), going back to June 25th, 2010:
https://www.eastportlandblog.com/category/tom-kipp/
Today I nominate: Tom Smith
Day 59:
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (Polydor Records, UK, LP, 1980)
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (Polydor Records, UK, cassette tape, 1980)
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (Polydor Records, Canada, completely re-sequenced LP—deletes three songs from original release, adds 3 tracks from subsequent 12-inch single “Eye of the Lens”/”Another World”/”Gone”, 1981)
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (RPM Records, UK, compact disc reissue w/ 3 bonus cuts, 1995)
The Comsat Angels: IT’S HISTORY (Nano Records, country of origin unclear, numbered/limited edition 4 x compact disc bootleg box set reissue of band’s first three albums w/ 21 bonus cuts, unofficial release, 2003)
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (Renascent Records, UK, compact disc reissue w/ 8 bonus cuts, 2006)
The Comsat Angels: WAITING FOR A MIRACLE: DELUXE EDITION (Edsel Records, UK & Europe, 2 x compact disc reissue w/ 19 bonus cuts, 2015)
Note: I believe this is the SOLE album among the 75 I plan to anoint that has NEVER been officially released in the United States! (Thank heaven for import bins, used record stores, and online retailers, as ever.)
Acquired: 15 January 1983 via Rough Trade mail-order from San Francisco, CA (original LP).
https://www.eastportlandblog.com/category/tom-kipp/
Day 59:
The Comsat Angels: “Independence Day” (1980)
