Electric Eye is the second studio album

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 by the Christian rock

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 band Prodigal

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, released in 1984

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The band created promotional music videos for "Scene of the Crime," "Fast Forward" and "Boxes," which were featured on Trinity Broadcasting Network

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's music video show Real Videos at the time of the album's release.

In a 2009 interview, frontman Loyd Boldman said "we put a “stop-groove” at the end of Side Two that would “catch” the vinyl record and wouldn’t allow it to eject on an automatic turntable

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. If you picked up the needle and set it down again on the other side of the stop-groove, you’d hear a packet of computer code that could be deciphered by a Commodore 64

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, the most popular computer of that time. If you used a cassette drive

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, the Commodore would show you lyrics and graphics and some facts about the album."

Side One

1. Scene of the Crime

2. Fast Forward

3. Masks

4. Just What I Need

5. Emerald City

Side Two

1. "Electric Eye"
2. "Bobby"
3. "Shout it Out"
4. "Neon"
5. "Boxes"
6. "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus"

Band members

• Loyd Boldman: Keyboards, vocals
• Dave Workman: Drums, vocals
• Rick Fields: Guitars, saxophones, vocals
• Mike Wilson: Bass guitar

Production

• Producer: Jon Phelps
• Recording engineer: Greg McNeily:
• Engineers: Rytt Hershburg, Brad Kuenning, Paul Thompson
• Mixer: Gary Platt
• Mastering: Mike Fuller