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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.[2]

Modern Love Is Automatic
EP by A Flock of Seagulls
Released	November 1981 [1]
Studio	Battery Studios, London
Genre	New wave, rock
Label	Jive
Producer	Mike 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.[3]

Lyrics

The song details a love-affair between a mismatched pair. As with many of the group's lyrics, harmonies and videos, there is a suggestion of cosmic energy and other-world imagery.[4] 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)

12" Jive T12 (UK)

_A^ _{Telecommunication produced by Bill Nelson}

12" Arista VK22001 (US)

_B^ _{Tanglimara produced by Steve Lovell}

7" Jive 12 (UK)

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Dance Club Play[2]	19

Usage in other media

• The song's title was used in a 2009 independent movie.[5]

References

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