Shanghaied!

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{{Infobox album

| name = Shanghaied!

| type = Studio

| artist = Mi-Sex

| cover = Mi-Sex - Shanghaied!.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1981

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Studios 301, Music Farms Studios, Sydney

| genre = New wave, synth-pop

| length = 35:01

| label = CBS

| producer = John L Sayers and Misex

| prev_title = Space Race

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = Where Do They Go?

| next_year = 1983

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Shanghaied!

| type = Studio

| single1 = Falling In and Out

| single1date = April 1981

| single2 = Missing Person

| single2date = September 1981

| single3 = Shanghaied!

| single3date = November 1981

}}

}}

Shanghaied! is the third studio album by New Zealand new wave band Mi-Sex, released in October 1981. The album peaked at number 28 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/shanghaied-mw0000963858 |title=Mi-Sex – Shanghaied! |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=13 October 2017 }}

}}

Ian McFarlane described the album as "arguably the band's best album... [which] failed to impress the record-buying public."McFarlane, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040807051812/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=496 'Mi-Sex'] entry. Archived from [http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=496 the original] on 7 August 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2016.

Track listing

{{Track listing

| headline = Vinyl/cassette (237701)
Side one

| title1 = The Jungle

| writer1 = Kevin Stanton, Murray Burns

| length1 = 3:23

| title2 = Be Quiet

| writer2 = Stanton, Burns, Steve Gilpin

| length2 = 3:37

| title3 = Mystery

| writer3 = Stanton

| length3 = 2:13

| title4 = Water

| writer4 = Stanton, Don Martin

| length4 = 3:20

| title5 = Talking to Myself

| writer5 = Stanton

| length5 = 3:39

}}

{{Track listing

| collapsed =

| headline = Side two

| title1 = Missing Person

| writer1 = Richard Hodgkinson

| length1 = 2:44

| title2 = Tears in Her Wine

| writer2 = Stanton, Burns

| length2 = 3:19

| title3 = Caught in the Act

| writer3 = Hodgkinson

| length3 = 2:47

| title4 = Shanghaied!

|writer4 = Stanton, Burns

|length4 = 3:24

| title5 = Falling In and Out

| writer5 = Stanton, Burns

| length5 = 3:19

| title6 = Young Maniacs

| writer6 = Stanton

| length6 = 3:15

}}

Charts

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
Chart (1981–1982)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australian Kent Music Report{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|page=204|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

| style="text-align:center;"|28

References

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{{Mi-Sex}}

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Category:Mi-Sex albums

Category:CBS Records albums

Category:1981 albums