Cybernetic Dreams of Pi, released in 1983, is an album by
The Slickee Boys. It was released on LP by the
Minneapolis record label
Twin/Tone (catalog number TTR 8337). Along with songs penned by the band, there are cover versions of songs by Hamilton Streetcar and the
Status Quo. 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[citation needed]
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
New Rose, too (with the Twin/Tone cover art, catalog number ROSE 33).
An expanded CD version was released on
Dacoit 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.[3]