Lights in the Night

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Lights In The Night
Flash And The Pan - Lights In The Night CD album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedAlbert Studios, Sydney, Australia.
Label Albert Productions (AUS)
Ensign (EUR)
Epic (US)
Producer Vanda & Young
Flash and the Pan chronology
Flash and the Pan
(1979)
Lights In The Night
(1980)
Headlines
(1982)

Lights in the Night is the second album by Flash and the Pan, released in 1980.

Contents

Critical reception

Billboard editors placed album review in Recommended section found the sound of the band similar to M and The Buggles but noticed the synthesized talk-sing voices of performers sounds tiring. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Media Man" 5:53
  2. "Headhunter" 5:51
  3. "Restless" 3:45
  4. "Welcome To The Universe" 8:43
  5. "Make Your Own Cross" 5:26
  6. "Lights In The Night" 4:33
  7. "Let The Captain Beware" 4:35
  8. "Atlantis Calling" 6:03

Renaissance remaster bonus tracks

  1. "Early Morning Wake Up Call" 4:09 [from 1985]
  2. "Ayla" 4:29 [from 1987]
  3. "Where Were You" 3:23 [from 1983]
  4. "Midnight Man" 4:57 [from 1985]
  5. "Media Man (Single mix)" 3:36


Charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)78 [2]

Personnel

Notes

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References

  1. "Review: Flash and the Pan — Lights in the Night" (PDF). Billboard . 85 (20). 17 May 1980. p. 66. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved 31 May 2020 via American Radio History.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 113. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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