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The lyrics are anything but lilting, though, because even as one rocks down to Electric Avenue, out on the street one is surrounded by poverty, violence, and inner-city misery. Electric Avenue opened 1982's Killer on the Rampage and was the second single culled from the album. It was to become an international smash, reaching number two in the U.K. and pounding its way to the same place in the U.S., where it flooded from radios and clubs over the spring and summer of 1983.