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01. Comateens - Ghosts
02. Comateens - Late Night City
03. Comateens - One By One
04. Comateens - TVC 15
05. Comateens - All Ways
06. Comateens - Summer in the City
07. Comateens - Nightmare
08. Comateens - Strangler
09. Comateens - Overseas
10. Comateens - The Munsters Theme
11. Comateens - Raceway
12. Comateens - Keep The Pace
13. Comateens - Get Off my Case
14. Comateens - The Late Mistake
15. Comateens - Ice Machine
16. Comateens - Comateens
17. Comateens - Pictures on a String
18. Comateens - Garbanzo
19. Comateens - Uptown
20. Comateens - Cinnamon
21. Comateens - Cold Eyes
22. Comateens - Desert Song
23. Comateens - Donna
24. Comateens - Crime Time
25. Comateens - Resist Her
26. Comateens - Confessions
27. Comateens - Love Will Follow You
28. Comateens - Satin Hop
29. Comateens - Deal With It
30. Comateens - Nightmare
31. Comateens - Walking Watching
32. Comateens - Don't Come Back
33. Comateens - Jo-Ni
34. Comateens - Ask Yourself
ARTIST
TITLE
1980-1985
FORMAT
3LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
TRILPFR 055LP TRILPFR 055LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2019

In the fall of 1978, after working with a series of bands, New York-based musician and composer Nick West became interested in experimenting with minimalism, collaborating with guitarist and songwriter Ramona Jan and Lyn Byrd. They decided to play pure pop but to substitute a primitive electronic beatbox for a human drummer. The result was Comateens, becoming one of the first groups to discard the traditional sounds and line-ups used by everyone else in New York City's downtown music scene of the late 1970s. In 1980, Nick's brother Oliver joined them as guitarist, and after going on to release three major label albums -- Comateens (1981), Pictures On A String (1983), and Deal With It (1984) -- and with some successful tours and dance-club hits behind them, the band split up following the terribly untimely death of Oliver in June 1987. However, in 1988, Virgin Records issued another LP entitled West & Byrd, recorded by Nick and Lyn as a duo, and in 1991 released a retrospective compilation called One By One: Best Of Comateens, now a rare and much sought-after record among collectors of new wave music. Acclaimed by Etienne Daho, the band has made a name for itself with the singles "Late Night City", "Get Off My Case", and "Don't Come Back". 1980-1985 collects the band's three major label albums. Triple-LP comes in gatefold sleeve; includes eight-page booklet, printed inner sleeves, and download code.