Adventures in Modern Recording

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Adventures In Modern Recording
Adventures In Modern Recording cover
Studio album by The Buggles
Released 1982
Recorded 1981
Genre New Wave
Length 44:05
Label ZTT
Producer(s) Trevor Horn
Simon Darlow
Geoff Downes
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The Buggles chronology
The Age of Plastic
(1980)
Adventures In Modern Recording
(1981)


Adventures in Modern Recording is the second and last record from the British synth-pop duo The Buggles. Made one year after their stint as members of Yes, the album contains nine tracks, including a stripped-down version of Yes's "Into the Lens", here entitled, "I Am A Camera". The album contained no hits, and the Buggles broke up a short time later, with Geoff Downes joining band Asia and Trevor Horn becoming a producer. The album is tentatively planned to be reissued worldwide on ZTT Records in 2007.

In the title track, Trevor Horn starts the song with a live audience effect and is heard to be saying something. It sounds like "Are we rocking tonight, Houston?", but it is too unclear to be sure.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Adventures in Modern Recording" – 3:46
  2. "Beatnik" – 3:38
  3. "Vermillion Sands" – 6:48
  4. "I Am A Camera" – 4:56
  5. "On TV" – 2:48
  6. "Inner City" – 3:22
  7. "Lenny" – 3:12
  8. "Rainbow Warrior" – 5:22
  9. "Adventures in Modern Recording (reprise)" – 0:51
  10. "Fade Away" – 2:36
  11. "Blue Nylon" – 2:25
  12. "I Am a Camera (12-inch mix)" – 4:13

(tracks 10-12 bonus on 1997 rerelease)

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