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Released | November 1986 | |||
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 first released in the United Kingdom in November 1986,and was later released more widely,including in the United States,Canada and Japan in 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". [2]
"(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. [3] 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." [4]
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). [5] [6] 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. [7]
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Canada (Music Canada) [17] | Gold | 50,000^ |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [18] | Gold | 25,000 [18] |
United Kingdom (BPI) [19] | Silver | 60,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [20] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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