''Cybernetic Dreams of Pi'', released in 1983, is an album by

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. It was released on LP by the

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record label

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(catalog number TTR 8337). Along with songs penned by the band, there are cover versions of songs by Hamilton Streetcar and the

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. 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.

Track listing

#"Escalator 66" – 2:39 (Marshall Keith, Mark Noone) #"You've Got What It Takes" – 3:37 (Noone) #"Life of the Party" – 3:25 (Noone) #"When I Go to the Beach" – 2:42 (Noone) #"Pushin' My Luck" – 3:45 (Kim Kane, Keith, Noone) #"Invisible People" – 3:32 (Ralph Plummer) #*Originally recorded by Hamilton Streetcar, 1968 #"Nagasaki Neuter" – 3:16 (Keith, Kane) #"Say Goodbye" – 3:03 (Noone) #"Time Spent Waiting" – 3:06 (Keith, Noone) #"The Crawling Hand" – 2:45 (Keith) #"

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" – 2:41 (

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) #"Marble Orchard" – 6:02 (Kane) #"Gotta Tell Me Why" – 4:22 (Noone)

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#" Glendora" – 2:39 (Ray Stanley)

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, 1956 #"Golden Love" – 3:48 (Kane)

#"Forbidden Alliance" – 2:32 (Keith, Noone)

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, Ed Schnug, Don Henny)

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, 1967 #"Reverse Psychiatry" – 4:03 (Noone, Keith, Emery Olexa)

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, Gary Lewis)

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, Chris Bailey)

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Personnel

The band

*Mark Noone – Lead vocals *Marshall Keith – Lead guitar, keyboards,

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*Kim Kane – Rhythm guitar,

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*Dan Palenski – Drums, back-up vocals *John Chumbris – Bass guitar *Emery Olexa – Bass guitar ("Escalator 66", "Life of the Party", "When I Go to the Beach", "Pushin' My Luck", "Invisible People", "The Crawling Hand")

Production

*John Chumbris – Producer *The Slickee Boys – Producer *

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— Engineer

Additional credits

*Recorded at Inner Ear Studio, Arlington, Virginia *Kim Kane – Cover art *Tom Shea – Photos *Dedicated to Richard Sobol *Steve Carr – Digital remastering (for CD) *Digitally remastered at Hit & Run Recordings

Alternative versions

*The LP was also released by the German Line label (1000 copies on white vinyl with significantly different cover artwork, catalog number LILP 4.00094) and on

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, too (with the Twin/Tone cover art, catalog number ROSE 33). *An expanded CD version was released on

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in 2005 (catalog number 2005-3). The CD includes eight additional songs: all four songs from 1979's '' 3rd EP'' ("Gotta Tell Me Why", "Glendora", "Golden Love", "Forbidden Alliance") plus four songs "found in the trunk of Kim Kane's orange Fury" ("A Question of Temperature", "Reverse Psychiatry", "Without a Word of Warning", "(I'm) Misunderstood"). The cover art was slightly altered.

Sales

The Twin/Tone pressing of the LP sold 6738 copies.Twin/Tone website
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Sources

*LP, CD and cassette liner notes
ASCAP AceBMI Repertoire

References

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