Sophisticated Boom Boom is the debut album by the British pop group Dead or Alive, released in spring 1984. Containing mostly synth pop and dance elements, the record was a minor success in the UK where it peaked at #29 and contained the band's first UK Top 40 single, a cover version of KC & the Sunshine Band's "That's the Way (I Like It)". That song, with "Misty Circles", were hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
Although there was an unrelated Scottish female group called Sophisticated Boom Boom in the early 1980s, the title of the album derives from a Shangri-Las song of the same name, and alludes the Sixties pop influences that crop up in the band's body of work — most explicitly here on the track "You Make Me Wanna".
In 2007, the album was re-released on CD by Cherry Red Records with seven bonus tracks.
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