| 词条 | Computer Games (song) | ||||||||||||
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| name = Computer Games | cover = Computer_Games_by_Mi-Sex.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Mi-Sex | album = Graffiti Crimes | released = September 1979 (Australia/NZ) | format = | recorded = 1979 | studio = | venue = | genre = Synth-pop | length = 3:54 | label = CBS | writer = Murray Burns, Steve Gilpin, B Stanton | producer = Peter Dawkins | prev_title = But You Don't Care | prev_year = 1979 | next_title = People | next_year = 1980 }} "Computer Games" is a song by New Zealand group Mi-Sex, released in September 1979 in Australia and New Zealand as the second single from their debut studio album, Graffiti Crimes (1979). The song peaked at number 1 in Australia and 5 in New Zealand. The music video was filmed on location at what was at the time Control Data Corporation's North Sydney centre and included gameplay from the 1979 arcade games Speed Freak, Basketball and Star Fire. The single won the award for Best Australian Single at the 1979 TV Week/Countdown Music Awards.[1] The single was also released in Europe and North America. The song was also re-recorded as the final track for the band's 1983 album Where Do They Go?, a dub version was the 12" B-side of their 1983 single "Lost Time"[2] and again on the 2016 EP Extended Play. ReceptionMusicologist, Ian McFarlane, opined that it was an "electro-pop anthem... with its simplistic, brain-teasing riff and Gilpin's mannered vocal yelps, "Computer Games" boasted little substance but was constructed for maximum effect. It came to epitomise the one word which has plagued the memory of Mi-Sex: 'contrived'."[3] Stewart Mason from All Music said "Steve Gilpin's theatrical vocals, full of Brian Connolly-style hiccups and leaps into falsetto, are an interesting counterpoint to the unvarying electronic rhythm, particularly on the memorable stuttering chorus."[4] Track listingsAustralia/New Zealand 7" (BA 222563)
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References1. ^Countdown Show no.235 Aired: 13/4/1979 on ABC, Australia {{Mi-Sex}}{{1970s-single-stub}}2. ^https://www.discogs.com/Mi-Sex-Lost-Time-Dub-Version/release/3644015 3. ^McFarlane, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040807051812/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=496 'Mi-Sex'] entry. Archived from the original on 7 August 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2016. 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/computer-games-mt0001121799|title=Computer Games by Mi-Sex|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=13 October 2017}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|page=202|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. 6. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.sergent.com.au/music/misex.html | title = Mi-Sex | last = Sergent | first = Bruce | work = New Zealand Music of the 60's and 70's | publisher = Bruce Sergent | accessdate = 7 May 2016 }} 7. ^{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p19320|pure_url=yes}} |title=allmusic ((( Mi-Sex > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles ))) |accessdate=6 July 2009}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|page=431|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. 7 : New Zealand songs|Mi-Sex songs|1979 singles|1981 singles|1979 songs|Number-one singles in Australia|CBS Records singles |
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