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| Name = Broadcast
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| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Cutting Crew]]
| name = Broadcast
| Cover = Cutting Crew Broadcast CD cover.JPG
| type = studio
| Released = 1986
| artist = [[Cutting Crew]]
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| Length = 48:33
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| Label = [[Virgin Records]]
| recorded = February&ndash;July 1986
| Producer = [[Cutting Crew]] & Terry Brown
| studio = * [[Mediasound Studios|Mediasound]], [[New York City]], US
| Reviews = * [[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|4}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifrxqe5ldte link]
* [[AIR Oxford Circus|AIR]], London, UK
| Last album = &mdash;
* [[Andy Hill (composer)|Comforts Place]], Surrey, UK
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* Utopia, London, UK
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| label =
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* [[Siren Records|Siren]]
| producer =
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* [[Michael Barbiero]]
* [[Steve Thompson (musician)|Steve Thompson]]
* [[John Jansen (record producer)|John Jansen]]
* [[Terry Brown (record producer)|Terry Brown]]
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| single2 = [[I've Been in Love Before]]
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| single3 = One for the Mockingbird
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'''Broadcast''' is the debut album the English pop/rock band [[Cutting Crew]], released in 1986. It reached #16 on the US Charts & #41 on the UK Charts. The album was released in Europe with different packaging 8 months before it was released in America. For the American version, 4 tracks were re-mixed ([[Any Colour]], [[One For The Mocking-Bird]], [[I've Been In Love Before]] & [[(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 still with the American packaging
'''''Broadcast''''' is the debut studio album by the English [[Rock music|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 [[remix]]ed 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 [[Compact disc|CD]] "For the Longest Time", the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of "(I Just) Died In Your Arms".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cherryred.co.uk/cherrypop/product.php?display=cuttingcrew|title=Cherry Pop Records : Cutting Crew|date=7 July 2010|publisher=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707072650/http://cherryred.co.uk/cherrypop/product.php?display=cuttingcrew|access-date=30 August 2018|archive-date=7 July 2010}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" reached No. 1 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''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 Awards|Grammy]] nomination for [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]] of 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/cutting-crew|title=Cutting Crew|date=19 November 2019|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-07}}</ref> 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 and roll|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 music|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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/broadcast-mw0000189574|title=Broadcast - Cutting Crew {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref>

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 (album)|The Scattering]]'' (1989) and the single "If That's the Way You Want It" from ''Compus Mentus'' (1992).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kIamos8hntRM2GWT9HnB0ngu05o_UMwo4|title=The Best of Cutting Crew|work=[[YouTube Music]]|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-best-of-cutting-crew/724154362|title=The Best of Cutting Crew|work=[[Apple Music|Apple Music Canada]]|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/ransomed-healed-restored-forgiven/1506787358|title=Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven|work=[[Apple Music|Apple Music Canada]]|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
# "[[Any Colour]]" ([[Nick Van Eede]]; [[Kevin MacMichael|Kevin Scott MacMichael]]) – 4:57
# "Any Colour" ([[Nick Van Eede]], [[Kevin MacMichael|Kevin Scott MacMichael]]) – 4:57
# "[[One for the Mockingbird]]" ([[Nick Van Eede]]) – 4:23
# "One for the Mockingbird" (Van Eede) – 4:23
# "[[I've Been in Love Before]]" ([[Nick Van Eede]]) – 5:29
# "[[I've Been in Love Before]]" (Van Eede) – 5:09
# "Life in a Dangerous Time" ([[Nick Van Eede]]) – 4:34
# "Life in a Dangerous Time" (Van Eede) – 4:34
# "Fear of Falling" ([[Nick Van Eede]]; [[Kevin MacMichael|Kevin Scott MacMichael]]) – 4:50
# "Fear of Falling" (Van Eede, MacMichael) – 4:50
# "[[(I Just) Died in Your Arms]]" ([[Nick Van Eede]]) – 4:41
# "[[(I Just) Died in Your Arms]]" (Van Eede) – 4:39
# "Don't Look Back" ([[Nick Van Eede]]; [[Kevin MacMichael|Kevin Scott MacMichael]]) – 4:12
# "Don't Look Back" (Van Eede, MacMichael) – 4:12
# "Sahara" ([[Steve Boorer]]; [[Nick Van Eede]]) – 4:49
# "Sahara" (Steve Boorer; Van Eede) – 4:49
# "It Shouldn't Take Too Long" ([[Nick Van Eede]]; [[Kevin MacMichael|Kevin Scott MacMichael]]; [[Colin Farley]]; [[Martin Beedle]]; [[Mac Norman]]) – 4:05
# "It Shouldn't Take Too Long" (Van Eede, MacMichael, Colin Farley, [[Frosty Beedle|Martin Beedle]], Mac Norman) – 4:05
# "The Broadcast" ([[Nick Van Eede]]; [[Chris Townsend]]) – 6:33
# "The Broadcast" (Van Eede, Chris Townsend) – 6:33

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

== Personnel ==

'''Cutting Crew'''
* [[Nick Van Eede]] – lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitars
* [[Kevin MacMichael]] – [[E-mu Emulator]], lead guitars, backing vocals
* Colin Farley – pianos, bass, backing vocals
* [[Frosty Beedle|Martin ‘Frosty’ Beedle]] – drums, percussion, backing vocals

'''Additional personnel'''
* [[Peter-John Vettese]] – [[Music sequencer|sequencing]] (1), keyboards (2, 4-10)
* Pete Adams – sequencing (2, 9)
* David LeBolt – keyboards (3)
* Pete Woodroffe – [[Fairlight CMI]] (9, 10)
* Chris Townsend – bass (4)
* [[Jimmy Maelen]] – percussion (3)
* [[Gary Barnacle]] – saxophone (7, 8)
* The Elephant and Castle Yob Choir – backing vocals (5)
* Peter Birch – backing vocals (6)

'''Production'''
* Cutting Crew – producers (1, 2, 4-10)
* [[Terry Brown (record producer)|Terry Brown]] – producer (1, 2, 4-10), engineer (1, 2, 4-10), mixing (2, 7)
* [[Michael Barbiero]] – producer (3), engineer (3), mixing (3)
* [[Steve Thompson (musician)|Steve Thompson]] – producer (3), engineer (3), mixing (3)
* [[John Jansen (producer)|John Jansen]] – producer (6)
* Tony Taverner – mixing (4)
* Phil Brown – mixing (7)
* [[Tim Palmer (record producer)|Tim Palmer]] – remixing (1, 5, 6, 8-10)
* Denis Blackham – mastering
* Bill Smith Studio – cover design
* Dirk Van Dooren – illustration
* Malcolm Heywood – group photography

==Singles==
* "[[(I Just) Died in Your Arms]]" – #1 US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], #4 [[UK Singles Chart]]<ref name="officialcharts.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23549/cutting-crew/|title=CUTTING CREW - full Official Chart History|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=30 August 2018}}</ref>
* "One for the Mockingbird" – #38 US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, #52 UK Singles Chart<ref name="officialcharts.com"/>
* "[[I've Been in Love Before]]" – #9 US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, #2 US [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary]],<ref>{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=69}}</ref> #24 UK Singles Chart
* "Any Colour" – #83 UK Singles Chart<ref name="officialcharts.com"/>

==Charts==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Weekly chart performance for ''Broadcast''
!scope="col"|Chart (1986–1987)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row"|Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=80}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|77
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|49|id=25729|artist=Cutting Crew|album=Broadcast|rowheader=true|access-date=7 September 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|3|artist=Cutting Crew|album=Broadcast|rowheader=true|access-date=7 September 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|30|artist=Cutting Crew|album=Broadcast|rowheader=true|access-date=7 September 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|41|artist=Cutting Crew|rowheader=true|access-date=7 September 2021}}
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/cutting-crew/chart-history/tlp/|title=Cutting Crew Broadcast Chart History|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|16
|}
{{col-2}}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Year-end chart performance for ''Broadcast''
!scope="col"|Chart (1987)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1987/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1987|work=Billboard|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|71
|}
{{col-end}}

==Certifications and sales==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications and sales for ''Broadcast''}}
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{{certification Table Entry|region=Finland|type=album|artist=Cutting Crew|title=Broadcast|award=Gold|certyear=1987|relyear=1986|salesamount=25,000}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|artist=Cutting Crew|title=Broadcast|award=Silver|certyear=1987|relyear=1986|id=1104-447-2|refname=BPI}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Cutting Crew|title=Broadcast|award=Gold|certyear=1987|relyear=1987}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}


== Singles ==
==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
# "[[(I Just) Died in Your Arms]]" #1
* {{discogs master|65301}}
# "[[One for the Mockingbird]]" #38
# "[[I've Been in Love Before]]" #9
# "[[Any Colour]]"


{{Cutting Crew}}
Chart positions all Billboard Hot 100.


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Latest revision as of 03:20, 26 December 2024

Broadcast
Standard vinyl edition
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1986 (1986-11)
RecordedFebruary–July 1986
Studio
Genre
Length48:33
Label
Producer
Cutting Crew chronology
Broadcast
(1986)
The Scattering
(1989)
US edition
Singles from Broadcast
  1. "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
    Released: July 1986
  2. "I've Been in Love Before"
    Released: October 1986
  3. "One for the Mockingbird"
    Released: February 1987
  4. "Any Colour"
    Released: May 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

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]

Critical reception

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"(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]

Track listing

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  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

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  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

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Cutting Crew

Additional personnel

  • Peter-John Vettesesequencing (1), keyboards (2, 4-10)
  • Pete Adams – sequencing (2, 9)
  • David LeBolt – keyboards (3)
  • Pete Woodroffe – Fairlight CMI (9, 10)
  • Chris Townsend – bass (4)
  • Jimmy Maelen – percussion (3)
  • Gary Barnacle – saxophone (7, 8)
  • The Elephant and Castle Yob Choir – backing vocals (5)
  • Peter Birch – backing vocals (6)

Production

  • Cutting Crew – producers (1, 2, 4-10)
  • Terry Brown – producer (1, 2, 4-10), engineer (1, 2, 4-10), mixing (2, 7)
  • Michael Barbiero – producer (3), engineer (3), mixing (3)
  • Steve Thompson – producer (3), engineer (3), mixing (3)
  • John Jansen – producer (6)
  • Tony Taverner – mixing (4)
  • Phil Brown – mixing (7)
  • Tim Palmer – remixing (1, 5, 6, 8-10)
  • Denis Blackham – mastering
  • Bill Smith Studio – cover design
  • Dirk Van Dooren – illustration
  • Malcolm Heywood – group photography

Singles

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Charts

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Certifications and sales

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Certifications and sales for Broadcast
Region Certification Certified units/sales
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.

References

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  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ "Cherry Pop Records : Cutting Crew". 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Cutting Crew". GRAMMY.com. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Broadcast - Cutting Crew | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  5. ^ "The Best of Cutting Crew". YouTube Music. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. ^ "The Best of Cutting Crew". Apple Music Canada. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven". Apple Music Canada. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  8. ^ a b c "CUTTING CREW - full Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  9. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 69.
  10. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 80. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  11. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Cutting Crew – Broadcast" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Cutting Crew – Broadcast". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Cutting Crew – Broadcast". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  14. ^ "Cutting Crew | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Cutting Crew Broadcast Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  16. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1987". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  17. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Cutting Crew – Broadcast". Music Canada.
  18. ^ a b "Cutting Crew" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
  19. ^ "British album certifications – Cutting Crew – Broadcast". British Phonographic Industry.
  20. ^ "American album certifications – Cutting Crew – Broadcast". Recording Industry Association of America.
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