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Track: Computer Games
Artist: Mi-Sex
Album: Graffiti Crimes

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Name: Mi-Sex
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Formed: 1978 in Hamilton, New Zealand Disbanded: 1984 Reformed: 2014 Mi-Sex were formed out an earlier band called Fragments of Time, which in turn came from Father Time. Both earlier bands were in the prog-rock genres and known for their solos and lighting (and smoke). They became Misex (then Mi-Sex) after the punk explosion in an effort to stay contemporary, the band name inspired by an Ultravox track name, 'My Sex'. Their debut single was on EMI, before moving to Australia, where their earlier history (including [a=Steve Gilpin]'s earlier career as a cabaret and covers singer) was unknown, and immediately broke with [Link] which was number one at the end of 1979. Steve Gilpin died in January 1992. The band briefly reformed in 2011, before permanently reforming in 2014 and making a new album Not from Here (2016) with vocalist Steve Balbi, who continues to lead Mi-Sex as of 2025 with original keyboardist Murray Burns. Kevin Stanton died in May 2017. Don Martin died in August 2020.

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Release: Mi-Sex - Computer Games
Year: 1979
Genres: Electronic, Rock
Styles: Synth-pop, Alternative Rock

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LYRICS

I fidget with the digit dots
and cry an anxious tear
As the XU-1 connects the spot
But the Matrix Grid don't care
Got a message to my mother
What number would she be?
There's a million angry citizens
Looking down their tubes, at me!


Computer Games!
Computer Games!

There's safety in numbers, they say
'Cause the figures never lie
No perfect persons ever noticed one computer die
I'm programmed to a schedule
What will the answer be?
It's a suicide run till the work gets done,
'Cause the Matrix Grid don't say

Computer Games!
Computer Games!

Jammed up by red Traffic Lights
Advance one level on green
These opportune commuters
They're blasting on their hooters!

I fidgit with the digit dots
Frustration rules out there
As the XU-1 connects the spot
but the Matrix Grid don't care

Computer Games!
Computer Games!
Computer Games!
Computer Games!
Com-puter Games!