Cybernetic Dreams of Pi

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Cybernetic Dreams of Pi
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Studio album by
Released1983
Genre Rock
Length40:28 (CD 66:19)
Label Twin/Tone
Producer John Chumbris, The Slickee Boys
The Slickee Boys chronology
Separated Vegetables
(1977)
Cybernetic Dreams of Pi
(1983)
Uh Oh… No Breaks!
(1985)
Alternative cover
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Line Records version
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Flex!(Extremely favorable) [1]
Trouser Press (Favorable) [2]

Cybernetic Dreams of Pi, released in 1983, is an album by The Slickee Boys. It was released on LP by the Minneapolis record label Twin/Tone (catalog number TTR 8337). Along with songs penned by the band, there are cover versions of songs by Hamilton Streetcar and the Status Quo. To support the album, the band shot music videos for "Life of the Party" and "When I Go to the Beach", the latter video receiving semi-regular airplay on MTV, thanks to a second-place finish on that channel's Basement Tapes show. A CD version with eight additional tracks was released 22 years later.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Escalator 66" – 2:39 (Marshall Keith, Mark Noone)
  2. "You've Got What It Takes" – 3:37 (Noone)
  3. "Life of the Party" – 3:25 (Noone)
  4. "When I Go to the Beach" – 2:42 (Noone)
  5. "Pushin' My Luck" – 3:45 (Kim Kane, Keith, Noone)
  6. "Invisible People" – 3:32 (Ralph Plummer)
  7. "Nagasaki Neuter" – 3:16 (Keith, Kane)
  8. "Say Goodbye" – 3:03 (Noone)
  9. "Time Spent Waiting" – 3:06 (Keith, Noone)
  10. "The Crawling Hand" – 2:45 (Keith)
  11. "Pictures of Matchstick Men" – 2:41 (Francis Rossi)
  12. "Marble Orchard" – 6:02 (Kane)
  13. "Gotta Tell Me Why" – 4:22 (Noone) [CD bonus track]
  14. "Glendora" – 2:39 (Ray Stanley) [CD bonus track]
  15. "Golden Love" – 3:48 (Kane) [CD bonus track]
  16. "Forbidden Alliance" – 2:32 (Keith, Noone) [CD bonus track]
  17. "A Question of Temperature" – 3:31 (Mike Appel, Ed Schnug, Don Henny) [CD bonus track]
  18. "Reverse Psychiatry" – 4:03 (Noone, Keith, Emery Olexa) [CD bonus track]
  19. "Without a Word of Warning" – 2:22 (Snuff Garrett, Leon Russell, Gary Lewis) [CD bonus track]
  20. "(I'm) Misunderstood" – 2:34 (Ed Kuepper, Chris Bailey) [CD bonus track]

Personnel

The band

Production

Additional credits

Alternative versions

Sales

The Twin/Tone pressing of the LP sold 6738 copies. [3]

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