Artist · chart history
The Comsat Angels
Band Sheffield United Kingdom Active 1979–2010
The Comsat Angels formed in 1979 in Sheffield, United Kingdom and was active until 2010. The Comsat Angels has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–1999. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You Move Me”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #362. The station that charted The Comsat Angels most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
The Comsat Angels came out of Sheffield in the post-punk rush with Stephen Fellows, Kevin Bacon and Andy Peake at the core, writing what somebody once called abstract pop songs: sparse, bleak and nursing a broken heart. It's a sound built out of space, the guitar chiming into the gloom and the rhythm section pacing like it's waiting for bad news.
They were road dogs, touring hard across the UK and Western Europe, with the Netherlands in particular taking them to heart. Two shows in Iceland in August 1982 left a lasting mark on the music scene in Reykjavik, and they made it to the United States twice.
Chasing Shadows, on Polydor in 1986, carried "Lost Continent", moodier and more polished than their early records but still haunted around the edges. "You Move Me" kept them on the countdowns into the '90s. Their catalog has been reissued and repackaged many times since 1995, and bands like Editors and Interpol owe them a debt, whether or not the kids know it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Comsat Angels on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Move Me | 2 | #362 | – | – | |
| 2 | Lost Continent | 1 | #37 | – | 1987 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 795 | You Move Me | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) |
| 1991 | 362 | You Move Me | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) |
| 1987 | 37 | Lost Continent | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987 |
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