Broadcast (Cutting Crew album) explained

Broadcast
Type:studio
Artist:Cutting Crew
Cover:Cutting crew broadcast vinyl UK Europe cover.jpg
Caption:Standard vinyl edition
Recorded:February - July 1986
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Length:48:33
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Next Title:The Scattering
Next Year:1989

Broadcast is the debut studio album by English rock band Cutting Crew. It was first released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1986, and was later released more widely, including in the United States, Canada and Japan on 21 March 1987 with different packaging and four remixed tracks ("Any Colour", "One for the Mockingbird", "I've Been in Love Before" and "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"), all of which were released as singles. It was the first album to be released in the US by Virgin Records' new American imprint, Virgin Records America.

Broadcast was re-released by Cherry Red Records on 24 May 2010, with bonus tracks including for the first time on CD "For the Longest Time", the B-side of "(I Just) Died In Your Arms".[1]

Critical reception

"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, and later on, "I've Been in Love Before" and "One for the Mockingbird" became top 10 and top 40 hits respectively across various countries. The band then received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist of 1987.[2] Despite all this, however, contemporary reception to the album was mixed from critics and muted commercially.

Both the album and the band have been looked upon more positively in hindsight. In a retrospective review, Michael Sutton of AllMusic gave the album four stars. He said the album "never deserved the hacking [it] received from critics", and said that "the slick guitar rock on Broadcast may not have wowed the rock & roll intelligentsia, but it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, an underrated collection of simple, heartfelt love songs and up-tempo pop that reside between the stylistic boundaries of new wave and mainstream rock." He concludes the review by saying the album "is not a creative breakthrough", but is "simply an LP absent of any filler."[3]

In the early '90s, the first seven tracks were included in the compilation album The Best of Cutting Crew, along with select songs from the follow-up studio album The Scattering (1989) and the single "If That's the Way You Want It" from Compus Mentus (1992).[4] [5] The band's second compilation album, Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven, released in 2020, features orchestral versions of the four singles spanned from Broadcast, plus the title track, this one in a version half the length of the original incarnation.[6]

Track listing

  1. "Any Colour" (Nick Van Eede, Kevin Scott MacMichael) – 4:57
  2. "One for the Mockingbird" (Van Eede) – 4:23
  3. "I've Been in Love Before" (Van Eede) – 5:09
  4. "Life in a Dangerous Time" (Van Eede) – 4:34
  5. "Fear of Falling" (Van Eede, MacMichael) – 4:50
  6. "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" (Van Eede) – 4:39
  7. "Don't Look Back" (Van Eede, MacMichael) – 4:12
  8. "Sahara" (Steve Boorer; Van Eede) – 4:49
  9. "It Shouldn't Take Too Long" (Van Eede, MacMichael, Colin Farley, Martin Beedle, Mac Norman) – 4:05
  10. "The Broadcast" (Van Eede, Chris Townsend) – 6:33

Remastered and expanded version

  1. "Any Colour" (USA Mix) – 4:58
  2. "One for the Mockingbird" (USA Mix) – 4:27
  3. "I've Been in Love Before" – 5:32
  4. "Life in a Dangerous Time" – 4:36
  5. "Fear of Falling" – 4:55
  6. "(I Just) Died in Your Arms (USA Mix)" – 4:46
  7. "Don't Look Back" – 4:11
  8. "Sahara" – 4:52
  9. "It Shouldn't Take Too Long" – 4:05
  10. "The Broadcast" – 6:39
  11. "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" (12" Mix) – 6:46
  12. "I've Been in Love Before" (Live in London) – 5:16
  13. "The Broadcast"/"Any Colour" (Live in the USA) – 8:03
  14. "For the Longest Time" – 4:29

Personnel

Cutting Crew

Additional personnel

Production

Singles

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1986–1987)!scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[9] 77
US Billboard 200[10] 16

Year-end charts

Chart (1987)!scope="col"
Position
US Billboard 200[11] 71

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cherry Pop Records : Cutting Crew. 7 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707072650/http://cherryred.co.uk/cherrypop/product.php?display=cuttingcrew. 30 August 2018. 7 July 2010.
  2. Web site: Cutting Crew. 19 November 2019. GRAMMY.com. en. 2020-04-07.
  3. Web site: Broadcast - Cutting Crew Songs, Reviews, Credits. AllMusic. en-us. 7 April 2020.
  4. Web site: The Best of Cutting Crew. YouTube Music. 14 April 2020.
  5. Web site: The Best of Cutting Crew. Apple Music Canada. 14 April 2020.
  6. Web site: Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven. Apple Music Canada. 14 April 2020.
  7. Web site: CUTTING CREW - full Official Chart History. Officialcharts.com. 30 August 2018.
  8. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 69.
  9. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 80.
  10. Cutting Crew Broadcast Chart History. Billboard. 11 September 2018.
  11. Web site: Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1987. Billboard. 7 September 2021.

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