Strange Behavior
Studio album by Animotion
Released	February 1986
Studio	Oasis Recording Studios (North Hollywood, California); Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, California); Encore Studios (Burbank, California)
Genre	Synthpop, new wave
Length	39:14
Label	Casablanca Records 826691
Producer	Richie Zito
Animotion chronology
Animotion (1984) Strange Behavior (1986) Animotion (Room to Move) (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Strange Behavior is an album by Animotion released by Casablanca Records.^[2][3] It was the last album to be released by Casablanca before the record label folded.

The single "I Engineer" hit #2 in Germany and #6 in Switzerland in 1986. The single "I Want You" hit #27 in Germany and #84 in the United States. The album went to #21 in Switzerland^[4] and reached #71 on the Billboard 200 chart.^[5]

Track listing

1. "I Want You" (Rick Neigher, Bill Wadhams) – 4:35
2. "I Engineer" (Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, Bernie Taupin) – 4:13
3. "Strange Behavior" (Don Kirkpatrick, Randy Sharp) – 3:55
4. "Stealing Time" (Sue Shifrin, Wadhams) – 3:54
5. "Anxiety" (John Davis, Kirkpatrick, Dennis Morgan) – 4:11
6. "Out of Control" (Greg Smith, Louie Stone) – 3:28
7. "Stranded" (Smith, Stone) – 3:19
8. "The Essence" (Wadhams) – 4:06
9. "One Step Ahead" (Smith, Stone) – 3:36
10. "Staring Down the Demons" (Kirkpatrick, Sharp) – 4:12

Personnel

Animotion

• Astrid Plane – vocals
• Bill Wadhams – vocals, keyboards, guitars
• Greg Smith – keyboards, gang vocals
• Don Kirkpatrick – guitars, gang vocals
• Charles Ottavio – bass guitar, gang vocals
• Jim Blair – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Gary Chang – synthesizers
• Tad Wadhams – fretless bass
• Mike Baird – drums

Production

• Richie Zito – producer, arrangements
• Animotion – arrangements
• Michael Frondelli – engineer (1)
• David Leonard – engineer (2–10), mixing
• Brian Reeves – engineer (2–10)
• David Concors – additional engineer
• Peggy Leonard – additional engineer
• Howie Weinberg – mastering at Masterdisk (New York City, New York)
• Matthew Rolston – photography
• Bill Levy – art direction
• Vigon/Seireeni – art direction

Chart performance

The album spent 14 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts and reached its peak position of #71 in April 1986.^[6]

Singles