Shanghaied!

Shanghaied!
Shanghaied!
Studio album by Mi-Sex
Released	October 1981
Studio	Studios 301, Music Farms Studios, Sydney
Genre	New Wave, Synthpop
Length	35:01
Label	CBS
Producer	John L Sayers and Misex
Mi-Sex chronology
Singles from Shanghaied!
	"Falling In and Out / Round And Round"; Released: April 1981; "Missing Person / Water"; Released: September 1981; "Shanghaied! / The Bend"; Released: 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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Ian McFarlane described the album as "arguably the band's best album... [which] failed to impress the record-buying public."^[2]

Vinyl/cassette (237701)
Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Jungle"	Kevin Stanton, Murray Burns	3:23
2.	"Be Quiet"	Stanton, Burns, Steve Gilpin	3:37
3.	"Mystery"	Stanton	2:13
4.	"Water"	Stanton, Don Martin	3:20
5.	"Talking to Myself"	Stanton	3:39

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Missing Person"	Richard Hodgkinson	2:44
2.	"Tears in Her Wine"	Stanton, Burns	3:19
3.	"Caught in the Act"	Hodgkinson	2:47
4.	"Shanghaied!"	Stanton, Burns	3:24
5.	"Falling In and Out"	Stanton, Burns	3:19
6.	"Young Maniacs"	Stanton	3:15

Chart (1981/82)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report ^[3]	28

^ "Mi-Sex – Shanghaied!". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
^ McFarlane, 'Mi-Sex' entry. Archived from the original on 7 August 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 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.

v t e Mi-Sex
Murray Burns Paul Dunningham Colin Bayley Steve Balbi Travis New Steve Gilpin Kevin Stanton Don Martin Phil Smart Steve Osborne Richard Hodgkinson
Studio albums	Graffiti Crimes Space Race Shanghaied! Where Do They Go? Not from Here
Compilations	'79-'85 The Essential Mi-Sex
Extended Plays	Extended Play
Singles	"But You Don't Care" "Computer Games" "People" "Space Race" "It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing" "Falling In and Out" "Castaway" "Only Thinking" "Blue Day"