Do You Compute?

"Do You Compute?"
Single by Donnie Iris
from the album Fortune 410
Released	1983
Recorded	1983
Genre	Rock
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Mark Avsec, Donnie Iris [1]
Producer(s)	Mark Avsec
Donnie Iris singles chronology
"The High and the Mighty" (1982) "Do You Compute?" (1983) "Injured in the Game of Love" (1985)

"Do You Compute?" is a song by American rock musician Donnie Iris from his 1983 album Fortune 410 . The song was released as a single the same year and reached #64 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #20 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The song was made as a promotional musical advert for the Atari 1200XL computer. The music video for the song strongly features the computer, including Iris typing on it and his band performing inside of it.

Critical reception

Upon its release, Cash Box noted the "novel electronic percussion" opening which "then gives way to a heavy production thick with guitars and keyboards and the singer's heartfelt vocals". They added that "facing a communications barrier, Iris tries to break through in the lyrics". ^[2] Geoff Barton of Kerrang! called it "a kinda anthemic cross betw[een] Howard Jones' 'What Is Love?', Van Halen's controversial-but-commercial 'Jump' and Rick Springfield's techno-shocker 'Human Touch'" and noted the "sparse, steadily building, ultra-modern sound" which "brings AOR into the Eighties with a vengeance". ^[3]

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [4]	64
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Tracks	20

References

1. "discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
2. "Reviews: Singles". Cash Box . Vol. 44, no. 4. June 25, 1983. p. 9. ISSN   0008-7289.
3. Barton, Geoff (8 March 1984). "Singles". Kerrang! . No. 63. p. 37. ISSN   0262-6624.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 410.