Broadcast (Cutting Crew album)
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| Studio album by Cutting Crew | ||||
| Released | 22 November 1986 (30 July 1987 - USA Release) | |||
| Recorded | February - July 1986 | |||
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| Length | 48:33 | |||
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Broadcast is the debut studio album by the English rock band Cutting Crew. It was released on 22 November 1986 (30 July 1987 in the USA) in Europe with different packaging eight months before it was released in the United States. For the American version, four tracks were remixed ("Any Colour", "One for the Mockingbird", "I've Been in Love Before" and "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"), all of which were the singles from the album. The current American CD in print is the European version but with the American packaging. It was the first album to be released in the United States 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 1st time ever on CD "For the Longest Time", the B-side of "(I Just) Died In Your Arms".
In addition to the 12" mix of "(I just) died in your arms", the following extended 12" versions were originally released:
The former can be found on the "One for the Mocking Bird" Maxi CD, while the latter was only available on 12" vinyl.
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."
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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