| Test Patterns For Living | |
| Type: | ep |
| Artist: | Blue Peter |
| Cover: | Testpatternsforliving.jpg |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Genre: | New wave |
| Label: | Ready Records RR005[1] |
| Producer: | Angus MacKay, Andrew Crosby |
| Next Title: | Radio Silence |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Test Patterns for Living was the first release, an EP, by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1979, it included the single "Factory Living", which helped the band get their first radio airplay on CFNY.[2] [3] The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection,[4] and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack for the vampire/rock and roll movie Suck;[5] the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, for the film's premiere.[6]
All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted:[8]
In 2007, Test Patterns for Living was re-issued by Universal Music Canada on compact disc, combined with Radio Silence, Blue Peter's first full-length album, from 1980.[9] Test Patterns for Living appeared as bonus tracks on the Radio Silence re-issue in the same order as on the original release.