Modern Love Is Automatic

Modern Love Is Automatic is a 1981 EP by the British new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, written by Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds. The song of the same name was also showcased on their self-titled album the following year. The song peaked at #19 on the US Dance Club Play chart as a double A-side with Telecommunication.[1]

Modern Love Is Automatic
EP by
A Flock of Seagulls
Released1981
StudioBattery Studios, London
GenreNew wave, rock
LabelJive
ProducerMike Howlett
A Flock of Seagulls chronology
Telecommunication
(1981)		 Modern Love Is Automatic
(1981)		 I Ran (So Far Away)
(1982)

Phil Spector expressed admiration for the song – as with many other tracks on the album – and at one point planned on producing the band's next album. However, this never happened due to a conflict with Jive Records and his increasingly reclusive lifestyle.[2]

Lyrics

The song details a love-affair between a mismatched pair. As with many of the groups lyrics, harmonies and videos, there is a suggestion of cosmic energy and other-world imagery.[3] The woman is an "automatic" perhaps symbolizing an android of some type. The man is a "cosmic" perhaps from another planet. The song closes with the man "locked away" but the narrator suggesting he is in fact free.

Track listing
7" Jive 8 (UK)
No.TitleLength
1."Modern Love Is Automatic"4:00
2."D.N.A."2:30
3."Windows"3:28
4."You Can Run"4:28
12" Jive T12 (UK)
No.TitleLength
1."Modern Love Is Automatic" 
2."Telecommunication" 
3."D.N.A." 
4."Windows" 
5."You Can Run" 

A^ Telecommunication produced by Bill Nelson

12" Arista VK22001 (US)
No.TitleLength
1."Telecommunication"2:33
2."Tanglimara"4:37
3."You Can Run"4:26
4."Modern Love Is Automatic"3:44
5."D.N.A."2:31

B^ Tanglimara produced by Steve Lovell

Charts
Chart Peak position
US Dance Club Play[1]
19

Usage in other media

References
  1. "A Flock of Seagulls Chart History". billboard. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  2. Wall of pain: the biography of Phil Spector David Thompson – 2003 – Sanctuary Pub Ltd
  3. The music video guide. J Chu, E Cafritz - 1986 - McGraw-Hill Companies
  4. "SXSW 09 Interview: Modern Love Is Automatic Director Zach Clark". eFilmCritic. 24 October 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2010.


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