| Test Patterns For Living | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP by Blue Peter | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Genre | New Wave | |||
| Label | Ready Records RR005[1] | |||
| Producer | Angus MacKay, Andrew Crosby | |||
| Blue Peter chronology | ||||
|
||||
Test Patterns for Living was the first release, an EP, by the Toronto-based New Wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1979, it included the single "Factory Living" , which helped the band get their first radio airplay on CFNY.[2][3] The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters — The Millennium Collection,[4] and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack[5] for the vampire/rock and roll movie Suck; the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, for the film's premiere.[6]
Contents |
All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted:
Side A
1. "Same Old Place" 3:08
2. "Out With the Boys" 3:03 (Humphrey)[8]
3. "Living in the Eighties" 2:17
4. "Time and Money" 2:10
Side B
6. "Do the Robot" 3:29
7. "Cloak and Dagger" 3:45
8. "Factory Living" 2:48[9] [7]
In 2007, Test Patterns for Living was re-issued by Universal Music Canada on compact disc, combined with Radio Silence, Blue Peter's first full-length album, from 1980.[8] Test Patterns for Living appeared as bonus tracks on the Radio Silence re-issue in the same order as on the original release.[8]