Adventures in Modern Recording (1981)

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May 16, 2024

Title: Adventures in Modern Recording
Artist: Buggles
Genre: Synthpop
Released: 1981

Tracks:
1 - Adventures in Modern Recording - 3:46 -

2 - Beatnik - 3:38
3 - Vermilion 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" single) - 4:13

Overview:

Adventures in Modern Recording is the second and last studio album by the British synthpop duo The Buggles released in 1981 on Carrere Records. 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 during recording, with Geoffrey Downes joining Asia and Trevor Horn becoming a producer. The album as released was mostly a Trevor Horn solo effort, with Bruce Woolley assisting in completing the tracks.

Both "We Can Fly from Here" and "Riding a Tide" (appearing as demos on the 2010 reissue) were rerecorded by Yes (with Horn as producer and Downes on keyboards) for their 2011 album release Fly from Here.

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