Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Wikipedia credits Almond and Ball; MusicBrainz lists Ball as composer and Almond as lyricist. It closes the album, released on November 27, 1981 on Some Bizzare, produced by Mike Thorne and recorded at Mediasound in New York and Camden Cell and Advision in London; no studio is given for this track. The single followed in January 1982 as Some Bizzare BZS 7 and peaked at 3 in the UK. A 1991 remix by Julian Mendelsohn, with Almond re-recording his vocal to promote the compilation Memorabilia, reached 38.

The video features the actress Eileen Daly in a fictional Pink Flamingo club modeled on a Pink Piano bar on Brewer Street in Soho; Wikipedia's categories credit Tim Pope as director, which we could not confirm. Rolling Stone placed the song 65th among the best of 1982, and Classic Pop put it 12th among the best synth-pop songs. Soft Cell closed their 2018 farewell O2 shows with it, and a live recording from the Eventim Apollo in November 2021 runs 8:28. David Gray covered it on White Ladder (1998) as the fifth single, reaching 26 in the UK, adding lines from Van Morrison's "Madame George" and "Into the Mystic". Legiao Urbana's "Será" (1985) borrowed lyrics from it. We found no statement from Almond or Ball on its meaning.