I'm only three years younger. Between this song and Modern English's Melt With You, I felt like we had entered the modern era. I wish that feeling could have lasted longer.
I remember when this came out. They pretty much ushered in the New Wave sound. People started doing their hair like the band members and dressed like them. It was a pretty big deal.
This was the title song for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I've played that game so many times. It was definitely the 80s cuz that's when I was a teenager so songs like this are from my era. I didn't keep the style. I'm more of a Punky Brewster with my style choices. But I love the music from that decade and still listen to 80s playlists or internet radio stations often.
The whole album had a sci-fi theme to it. The creepy women could be aliens in referring to "A beam of light comes shining down on you".... from a ufo. Or it could be just a very beautiful woman that he feels is unattainable.
Flock of Seagulls were part of the post punk or “New Wave” movement that stretched from the seventies into the eighties. Also known as the “ Second British Invasion.”
They Were Also Known For Their Incredibly Creative Hairstyles,, Thanks To The Lead Vocalist/Keyboards (Mike Score) Also Being A Professional Hair Stylist.
I live where the huge US Festival was being held in 1983 and A Flock of Seagulls were playing there......we were bummed because our prom was being held the same weekend and we had to choose which one to go to. As luck would have it the prom was at the same hotel the band was staying at,and after their performance at the US Festival they came back to the hotel,crashed our prom and played 3 songs for us!!!❤❤✊🏼👍🏼
Man I love the Flock of seagulls! I still have their first two albums! In cassette!! Boy I’m old!👋😂this was when New Wave music was starting to hit the radio waves in the very early 80s. Great band and music!👌😎👍that song came out in 1982.
A Flock of Seagulls (pronounced SEA--GULLS) "I Ran" was part of the '80s "new wave" movement that swept over rock 'n roll music. Released in 1982 and reached the top ten on the American top 40 charts. A Flock of Seagulls' success was short lived. "I Ran" was their only top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Two other songs made the top 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart, "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)" and "The More You Live, the More You Love," but nobody remembers either one of them. Really, their only other song that got a lot of airplay here in the U. S. was the follow-up to "I Ran," with "Space Age Love Song," which I must admit I rather liked. But it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, so it didn't last long and was soon forgotten. By 1984, just two years after "I Ran" made its splash, A Flock of Seagulls was done. Look up "One Hit Wonder" in the dictionary and you just might find a picture of A Flock of Seagulls.
Another great 80's hit was Big Country - In A Big Country. They're a Scottish band, and they made their guitars specifically sound like bagpipes in this song.
@@anthonyferguson9282 Kinda funny because Stuart Adamson, the lead singer, did move to Nashville and, before he left us, their songs did take on a "country" sound. Especially on the album "Driving to Damascus". But he is Stuart so he made it awesome!
They had a few other hits in the early 80s most notably "Space Age Love Song" plus "Wishing (If I Had A Photgraph Of You),"Telecommunication" and "The More You Live The More You Love" and the band are still going. A Flock Of Seagulls were just one of many post punk/new wave acts that came out of Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s,like The Wild Swans,Pete Wylie and The Mighty Wah !,Echo and The Bunnymen,The Teardrop Explodes,Pale Fountains,The Icicle Works,Frankie Goes To Hollywood,Care,Lori and The Chameleons,and the list goes on
Asia...BJ...thank you for making me feel like I was 4 years old again. I needed this today. I used to run around like a maniac every time this song came on the radio when I was little. You guys are awesome, thank you for bringing us some joy ever single day. Cheers.
Saw these guys in 1982 open for The Police (along with The Fixx) for the Synchronicity tour. We all just waited for this song and we were good. Bring on the next band.....
Fun Fact: 1982 Their budget was low for this, the girls are wearing garbage bag dresses. Lots of money after this.Please rate The Cure: Pictures of You, and something totally different Lullaby - Robert Smith genius.
The band was given money and told to go buy clothes. They bought women clothes. It’s not that it was a cheap budget,they had to make the video at the last minute
I was in college when this came out (yeah, I'm old) and MTV was new resulting in a lot of 'air play' Flock of Seagulls had a number of minor hits and were popular dance songs in some of the clubs. I really liked them because they were good and very different from the standard guitar, bass, drums rock and roll.
A perfect example of new wave techno pop from that era. But they always stood out because of creative electric guitar riffs that spread their appeal beyond young pop fans. Early new wave was synth dominant, but as time went by, guitar riffs started becoming more and more prominent as songs by Duran Duran, Simple Minds and Romeo Void started taking over rock radio. Interesting times that also gave rise to hair metal.
Any mention of Romeo Void gets an automatic thumbs-up! Although I understand why Never Says Never was dance club staple, I thought it subpar for them tbh. Delve deeper, and you start to see what an innovative, amazing band they were. The songwriting, lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation were all unique and, to me, still haunting after all these years. That first album, It's A Condition, is positively hypnotic - a forgotten classic.
MTV was a huge influence on music back the early eighties , it brought a lot of people together from all walks of life an exposed people to different artist that they normally wouldn’t have heard of, and the music videos were cool because they gave a face to the music. And this song was no different , one of the hottest new wave songs of the 80’s!
This is a song about alien abduction. That's why the girls are creeping you out, BJ. They represent the aliens in the song. "A cloud appears above your head. A beam of light comes shining down on you." John Lennon's #9 Dream was about the same stuff, just more popular.
When this Song came out it was ground breaking for us who were at the advent of New Wave music in the early 80's. We hadn't heard a sound like this before. As for the cameras in the Video nobody cared back then we were just glad to see what this group looked like! Remember Videos were a new medium at the time so we didn't know what to expect.
They where from my hometown, 😊 1979-1986: Formation and mainstream successEdit A Flock of Seagulls was started by Mike Score in late 1979 in Liverpool.[6] According to Mike Score, the band's name was taken from the song "Toiler on the Sea" by punk rock band the Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull.[7] The original line-up of the band featured Mike on lead vocals and keyboards, Ali Score on drums, and Frank Maudsley on bass. Guitarist Willie Woo was added, while Mark Edmondson replaced Ali on drums when the Score brothers fell out.[8] Soon afterwards, Edmondson departed to make way for a returning Ali, while teenager Paul Reynolds, a close friend of Edmondson, replaced Woo at the behest of Maudsley, thus creating the band's classic line-up. The band practised above Mike Score's hair salon,[9] and then started playing clubs, eventually signing a recording contract.
You mean when the music television channel actually played MUSIC????? Gosh I miss those countdown weekends and marathons on MTV and VH1 of actual musical artists. RIP Mike Nesmith for being the pioneer for those days and for MTV...
I'm a metal guy.but .my favorite song of my life and this was played at my wedding I MELT WITH YOU just a great time of my life when that song came out..thanks for mentioning it..
I was a teenager living with my parents. I changed the DIAL on the cable box to channel 13, wow, MTV was added to our service. What video did I first see? This one!
And that's what it meant in the 80's when it was played in the Dance clubs to us!!!! We had found someone that was absolutely Beautiful like Asia....and the intimidation of that Beauty made us run away even though that person was on our minds 24/7 which means we couldn't get away.....so we ran to the Beautiful person and now 9 years later......we don't want to run away!!! Hahahaha...lol....hahahaha..y'all are sooooo funny!!!! I love you guys!!!! Great couple!!!! Hahahaha....
This came out in '83 I saw them when I worked @ Bush Gardens, VA.. Bro's had be progressive for them. . They also had a song..."I had a photo of you, something to remind me"...."Wishing"..
Fun fact this was the third song played on M-TV and they were the first ones to use the electric drums in a major hit, it was a last-minute thing as one part of the drummers set was missing. Space Age love song is great.
Ok Seagulls is Cee-Gull phonetically. At the end, it was like watching an episode of Days of it Lifes, staring Asia and BJ. Quite while your behind BJ😂
Thumbs up for not breaking up the guitar solo alone. From the good old days of MTV. Videos were a relatively cheap way to advertise your song. A lot of groups you may not have ever normally heard of managed to break into the mainstream thanks to cheap videos and MTV. This group was one of them. These guys burned very bright but rather briefly, Guitarist Paul Reynolds was the distinctive sound here but he was very young and didn't handle the pressure of touring and fame very well. He had to leave the band and I believe his loss was also the demise in the popularity of the group. Fortunately, Paul was able to get rested and the group does get back together for gigs though a couple decades later.
Paul freaking Reynolds. Dude was a natural talent (he was only 17 when he joined the band). He was 19 when this song was released (turned 20 later that year).
I loved this song when it first came out, along with Fade to Grey (Visage), Planet Earth (Duran Duran), Kids in America (Kim Wilde), To Cut a Long Story Short (Spandau Ballet) and Don't You Forget About Me (Simple MInds), Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles) - classics of the day, just to name a few - a very small few. Still love it - and all those brilliant songs to this day.
"I Ran (So Far Away)",[1] also released as "I Ran", is a song by English new wave band A Flock of Seagulls. It was released in 1982 as their third single and it was the second single from their self-titled debut album. I
( THE BEST - America～Rondo [LIVE '90] ) - I have just now found out that several of the best ever musicians would show up at a small Los Angeles venue and jam. They then decided to form a group - The Best were an English-American supergroup originally formed in London in 1990, featuring Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer) on keyboards, John Entwistle (of the Who) on bass and vocals, Joe Walsh (Eagles, James Gang, and solo fame) on guitar and vocals, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers) on guitar, and Simon Phillips (the Jack Bruce band, 801, the Jeff Beck Group; later of Toto) on drums.
Classic early 80s hit. Fun fact: the lead singer was a hairdresser before he got into music and his brother is the drummer. Check out these early 80s hits guys: Pop Music by M Cars by Gary Newman Obsession by Animotion Whip It by DEVO She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby
I live in Montréal, and back in the early eighties I use to hang at probably the most hip dance club called the LIMELIGHT. Let me tell you whan that song came on, good luck findind à spot on the dance floor.
You keep your love going ..you hear me the pair of you.... Asia's infectious smile and laugh.. and BJ's smart, intuitive honest dry humour... Thanks - Gold bless your love for each other!
Super iconic song and video. There's an interview where they say they were given like $300 and an hour to buy some clothes and gear for the video. Flock of Seagulls have some other great more serious works too.
This was in my twenties and I was playing in a post-punk band and why we like them sure enough and so did most of my friends, whenever that video came on, the drummer and I would always refer to them as Flock of Hairdos, laugh. Nice reaction.
In La La Land, when Emma Stone's character finds out in a party that Ryan Gosling's character is playing in an 80's cover band to make ends meet and the band's singer asks for request, this is the song she suggests.
The first time I saw this video, I was in 6th grade and it was the eighties. That night a friend from the neighborhood was sleeping over. So, after the folks were soundly asleep, we raided my mothers make up drawer. We did ourselves up punk/new wave style (even the hair). Doing our best to emulate the scary girls in the video. We then each put on a black plastic "Hefty" bag, with holes to fit our arms and heads through, some black leggings. Then added a colorful belt, and voila! We then took the dog for a walk around the block, just hoping someone would notice how cool we were. ... and this was only the tip of the big weird iceberg, that was my childhood.
This song helped launch MTV. They had just recorded it one day and I believe MTV was going live the next day but only had a couple of videos to play. Their producer or some record company guy liked the song and walked it over to MTV. And I believe MTV or someone else gave them a couple of hundred dollars to buy some clothes, they shot this video in like two hours and ran the tape over to MTV> Since MTV really had nothing to play just a mission and VJ's to fill air time they played the daylights out of this song, I believe putting it on the air every hour for weeks or months. And it became almost an anthem for the 1980's . ITs a fun story when I heard it. I saw this band perhaps two or three times in the last two years. I was surprised that while this song was an epic fan favorite the song that really brought the house down was Space Age Love Story. In fact at Sea World they played the song twice and the second time they played it the experience was special. The energy and the love. The lead singer is now bald which doesn't matter. He seems like a cool guy. This band is out of Liverpool. I look forward to seeing them again when they are in town.
Slow dancing in the cold bar at The Starck Club, 1984. New Wave music, XTC & debauchery at it's finest.
This is 1982. And it’s spectacular.
55 yrs old and this song represents a time when music was alive and fun, a new sound for my generation. Check out another Flock hit "Wishing"
I'm only three years younger. Between this song and Modern English's Melt With You, I felt like we had entered the modern era. I wish that feeling could have lasted longer.
52 over here and I still love it💗
@@berniemargolis4288 Same age...I miss the 80s.
Yeah, and remember when MTV was known as Music Television because it actually showed music videos?
58 here, for me this song is THE BEST !!!
This is British New Wave. Released 1982. As a metal head, I confess, I really like this song.😀
guilty
@Libby Libtard Maiden, Priest, Testament, Metallica, Megadeth, Overkill, Metal Church to name a few. Yes, I am.
Don’t feel bad I like them too! And I also like metal 🤘
@Libby Libtard True if metalheads are that narrowminded. I like lots of stuff, for many different reasons, because life isn't one-dimensional.
Same
I'm 60 years old and this is still a nostalgic fave of mine!
I'm 60 years old too and this is one of my favourite songs from that era. Takes me right back there.
Right behind y'all at 59 and AMEN! Right back to having fun with friends in the sun! *Sigh*
Same here at 60! So fortunate to be in my 20’s the whole 80’s MTV decade!
Same here 60 and lovin thereactions to the throwbacks!
Count me in with the 60's crowd...and still listening to this.
New wave 1980's music at it's best...MTV played this sooo much!!! Memories ..:)
At 51...this is still new wave...I still want my MTV..lol
That wave didn't last long!
*Tia/Asia And BJ* Guys,this vid was one of the 1st vids of its (MTVS) Debut DAY..So you 3 are watching a Legendary Video!
This was one of the first videos to run on MTV when it debuted August 1, 1981 and was played twice every hour lol.
This song came out in 1982. 40 years ago.
I remember hearing this on the radio when it came out.....SHIT I FEEL OL NOW.
They performed at the US Festival in 1983 live on stage in front of 500.000 people
80’s were awesome
From the early 80s, it reminds me of high school dances. 'Space Age Lovesong' was another big one by them.
Guitarist just turned 17 when he joined the band. Classic 80's!
It doesn't get much more 80s than this.
Iconic 80's in my brain... turned 18 in 1989!
I remember when this came out. They pretty much ushered in the New Wave sound. People started doing their hair like the band members and dressed like them. It was a pretty big deal.
This was the title song for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I've played that game so many times. It was definitely the 80s cuz that's when I was a teenager so songs like this are from my era. I didn't keep the style. I'm more of a Punky Brewster with my style choices. But I love the music from that decade and still listen to 80s playlists or internet radio stations often.
Their hit song. Their "Space Age Love Song" was a minor hit, and "Telecommunication" hit # 19 on the US Dance chart. All 3 songs from the same album.
MTV's first videos back in the day....
The whole album had a sci-fi theme to it. The creepy women could be aliens in referring to "A beam of light comes shining down on you".... from a ufo. Or it could be just a very beautiful woman that he feels is unattainable.
In their home UK, their biggest hit was "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph)"
@@paulojrneto It didn't do too badly in the U.S., either. It hit #26 on Billboard's Hot 100.
I enjoy Modern Love is automatic too
1982. It was one of the first songs getting play on the new MTV.
Flock of Seagulls were part of the post punk or “New Wave” movement that stretched from the seventies into the eighties. Also known as the “ Second British Invasion.”
The second British Invasion also included New Romance & heavy metal bands like Def Leppard
I saw flock of sea gulls on Soul train when I was a kid ..the hair was crazy …great song of the past
They Were Also Known For Their Incredibly Creative Hairstyles,, Thanks To The Lead Vocalist/Keyboards (Mike Score) Also Being A Professional Hair Stylist.
I live where the huge US Festival was being held in 1983 and A Flock of Seagulls were playing there......we were bummed because our prom was being held the same weekend and we had to choose which one to go to. As luck would have it the prom was at the same hotel the band was staying at,and after their performance at the US Festival they came back to the hotel,crashed our prom and played 3 songs for us!!!❤❤✊🏼👍🏼
Fantastic story! If you have anymore details /memories of the band that night, please share!
Man I love the Flock of seagulls! I still have their first two albums! In cassette!! Boy I’m old!👋😂this was when New Wave music was starting to hit the radio waves in the very early 80s. Great band and music!👌😎👍that song came out in 1982.
Back in the mid 90's saw these guys in a small venue club at a long forgotten place in Las Vegas called The Beach!
This song was HUGE when it came out. And when they played it at the club....people flocked to the dance floor. 1983 I believe.
A Flock of Seagulls (pronounced SEA--GULLS) "I Ran" was part of the '80s "new wave" movement that swept over rock 'n roll music. Released in 1982 and reached the top ten on the American top 40 charts. A Flock of Seagulls' success was short lived. "I Ran" was their only top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Two other songs made the top 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart, "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)" and "The More You Live, the More You Love," but nobody remembers either one of them. Really, their only other song that got a lot of airplay here in the U. S. was the follow-up to "I Ran," with "Space Age Love Song," which I must admit I rather liked. But it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, so it didn't last long and was soon forgotten. By 1984, just two years after "I Ran" made its splash, A Flock of Seagulls was done. Look up "One Hit Wonder" in the dictionary and you just might find a picture of A Flock of Seagulls.
Lil dude on guitar was only 17
He had a nervous breakdown a few years later, the touring and all was too much
Great guy
Best song of 1982 😁
The synthesizer was huge in the 80s
Another great 80's hit was Big Country - In A Big Country. They're a Scottish band, and they made their guitars specifically sound like bagpipes in this song.
Everyone should hear Big Country. My favorite band in the world!
That’s a GREAT song! Yes to that!! 👏🏻👏🏻
I remember I wouldn't even listen to them because I hate country music, lol. Oops.
@@anthonyferguson9282 LMAO!!!
@@anthonyferguson9282 Kinda funny because Stuart Adamson, the lead singer, did move to Nashville and, before he left us, their songs did take on a "country" sound. Especially on the album "Driving to Damascus". But he is Stuart so he made it awesome!
Radio get cranked up a notch when this comes on...great tune...Grandma Boomer child here.
They had a few other hits in the early 80s most notably "Space Age Love Song" plus "Wishing (If I Had A Photgraph Of You),"Telecommunication" and "The More You Live The More You Love" and the band are still going. A Flock Of Seagulls were just one of many post punk/new wave acts that came out of Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s,like The Wild Swans,Pete Wylie and The Mighty Wah !,Echo and The Bunnymen,The Teardrop Explodes,Pale Fountains,The Icicle Works,Frankie Goes To Hollywood,Care,Lori and The Chameleons,and the list goes on
This is the definition of 80s new wave. Love this song. Flock of Seagulls really had a great sound.
Another song that brings back so many good memories .
Asia...BJ...thank you for making me feel like I was 4 years old again. I needed this today. I used to run around like a maniac every time this song came on the radio when I was little. You guys are awesome, thank you for bringing us some joy ever single day. Cheers.
The 80's are the greatest time period in history. I'm so glad I got to experience it in all it's Glory.
Me too🙋💯
1982 is when this one came out. This type of music was know as "New Wave" and this song is the epitome
"The guitar SOLO!" .... best commentary ever.
Saw these guys in 1982 open for The Police (along with The Fixx) for the Synchronicity tour. We all just waited for this song and we were good. Bring on the next band.....
I saw these guys when I was stationed in Germany in the 1980's, they were a lot of fun and believe me they did not take themselves to seriously.
I heard it before this, but I loved when that GTA commercial came out with this song playing! Brought it back even more!
Fun Fact: 1982 Their budget was low for this, the girls are wearing garbage bag dresses. Lots of money after this.Please rate The Cure: Pictures of You, and something totally different Lullaby - Robert Smith genius.
YES! So low budget that you can see the reflection of the cameraman in the mirrors. Gotta love the very early days of music videos!
The band was given money and told to go buy clothes. They bought women clothes. It’s not that it was a cheap budget,they had to make the video at the last minute
Were they hefty bags?
Garbage bags 😂
BJ has the pronunciation right - Sea Gull for sure
Pronunciation is good, spelling is Seagull. Just one word.
Love this band. That album was amazing.
I was in college when this came out (yeah, I'm old) and MTV was new resulting in a lot of 'air play' Flock of Seagulls had a number of minor hits and were popular dance songs in some of the clubs. I really liked them because they were good and very different from the standard guitar, bass, drums rock and roll.
One of the most Iconic 80's songs. Also was showcased as a commercial Add for Grand theft auto. May have heard it there
A perfect example of new wave techno pop from that era. But they always stood out because of creative electric guitar riffs that spread their appeal beyond young pop fans. Early new wave was synth dominant, but as time went by, guitar riffs started becoming more and more prominent as songs by Duran Duran, Simple Minds and Romeo Void started taking over rock radio. Interesting times that also gave rise to hair metal.
Any mention of Romeo Void gets an automatic thumbs-up! Although I understand why Never Says Never was dance club staple, I thought it subpar for them tbh. Delve deeper, and you start to see what an innovative, amazing band they were. The songwriting, lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation were all unique and, to me, still haunting after all these years. That first album, It's A Condition, is positively hypnotic - a forgotten classic.
MTV was a huge influence on music back the early eighties , it brought a lot of people together from all walks of life an exposed people to different artist that they normally wouldn’t have heard of, and the music videos were cool because they gave a face to the music. And this song was no different , one of the hottest new wave songs of the 80’s!
Yes the 80's, good music and good times🤗🤘✌️
This is a song about alien abduction. That's why the girls are creeping you out, BJ. They represent the aliens in the song. "A cloud appears above your head. A beam of light comes shining down on you." John Lennon's #9 Dream was about the same stuff, just more popular.
When this Song came out it was ground breaking for us who were at the advent of New Wave music in the early 80's. We hadn't heard a sound like this before. As for the cameras in the Video nobody cared back then we were just glad to see what this group looked like! Remember Videos were a new medium at the time so we didn't know what to expect.
ALmost all 80s music was born in the late 70s.
Takes me back to the skating rink. Early 80s
They where from my hometown, 😊 1979-1986: Formation and mainstream successEdit
A Flock of Seagulls was started by Mike Score in late 1979 in Liverpool.[6] According to Mike Score, the band's name was taken from the song "Toiler on the Sea" by punk rock band the Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull.[7] The original line-up of the band featured Mike on lead vocals and keyboards, Ali Score on drums, and Frank Maudsley on bass. Guitarist Willie Woo was added, while Mark Edmondson replaced Ali on drums when the Score brothers fell out.[8] Soon afterwards, Edmondson departed to make way for a returning Ali, while teenager Paul Reynolds, a close friend of Edmondson, replaced Woo at the behest of Maudsley, thus creating the band's classic line-up. The band practised above Mike Score's hair salon,[9] and then started playing clubs, eventually signing a recording contract.
This video was in heavy rotation on MTV back when MTV was actually Music Television Videos.
You mean when the music television channel actually played MUSIC????? Gosh I miss those countdown weekends and marathons on MTV and VH1 of actual musical artists. RIP Mike Nesmith for being the pioneer for those days and for MTV...
Another classic 80s 👍
Other songs along this same vain are I Melt With You by Modern English, Safety Dance by Men Without Hats and Our House by Madness.
I'm a metal guy.but .my favorite song of my life and this was played at my wedding
I MELT WITH YOU just a great time of my life when that song came out..thanks for mentioning it..
I was a teenager living with my parents. I changed the DIAL on the cable box to channel 13, wow, MTV was added to our service. What video did I first see? This one!
This is 1 of my favorite song I listen to it everyday to pump myself up before work
One of the most classic songs of the 1980´s.
Flock of Seagulls "Space age love song" (original version) ❤️
My Jam!🥰🙆😂🤗🎶
And that's what it meant in the 80's when it was played in the Dance clubs to us!!!! We had found someone that was absolutely Beautiful like Asia....and the intimidation of that Beauty made us run away even though that person was on our minds 24/7 which means we couldn't get away.....so we ran to the Beautiful person and now 9 years later......we don't want to run away!!! Hahahaha...lol....hahahaha..y'all are sooooo funny!!!! I love you guys!!!! Great couple!!!! Hahahaha....
Yes, I agree.
They make me laugh,
and they warm my heart.
This is from near 1982....I was just 20 yrs then. If wanting more, try: Space Age Love Song__Wishing.
can't hear this song without being transported back to my childhood playing Vice City running from the cops with this blaring on the radio ;)
10:00 the "girl" he meets in the song is an 👽 alien.
holy crap this song is 40 years old this year! I was 13 that year.
This came out in '83 I saw them when I worked @ Bush Gardens, VA.. Bro's had be progressive for them. . They also had a song..."I had a photo of you, something to remind me"...."Wishing"..
Fun fact this was the third song played on M-TV and they were the first ones to use the electric drums in a major hit, it was a last-minute thing as one part of the drummers set was missing. Space Age love song is great.
robin gibb used them in 1969 on his uk number 2 hit saved by the bell
@@graemefarrow8 ahh fr?
Ok Seagulls is Cee-Gull phonetically. At the end, it was like watching an episode of Days of it Lifes, staring Asia and BJ. Quite while your behind BJ😂
80’s…again…..great song! You can tell we didn’t have Pokémon yet…..looking like Pidgeotto……😂❤️🎼❤️
Thumbs up for not breaking up the guitar solo alone. From the good old days of MTV. Videos were a relatively cheap way to advertise your song. A lot of groups you may not have ever normally heard of managed to break into the mainstream thanks to cheap videos and MTV. This group was one of them. These guys burned very bright but rather briefly, Guitarist Paul Reynolds was the distinctive sound here but he was very young and didn't handle the pressure of touring and fame very well. He had to leave the band and I believe his loss was also the demise in the popularity of the group. Fortunately, Paul was able to get rested and the group does get back together for gigs though a couple decades later.
Y'all are cracking me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've always loved the solo on this! 🔥🔥🤘🤘
Paul freaking Reynolds. Dude was a natural talent (he was only 17 when he joined the band). He was 19 when this song was released (turned 20 later that year).
These guys have a great story
Band reunited on youtube
I loved this song when it first came out, along with Fade to Grey (Visage), Planet Earth (Duran Duran), Kids in America (Kim Wilde), To Cut a Long Story Short (Spandau Ballet) and Don't You Forget About Me (Simple MInds), Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles) - classics of the day, just to name a few - a very small few. Still love it - and all those brilliant songs to this day.
Don’t forget Adam Ant & Split Enz!
"I Ran (So Far Away)",[1] also released as "I Ran", is a song by English new wave band A Flock of Seagulls. It was released in 1982 as their third single and it was the second single from their self-titled debut album. I
They are so many movies with songs on video games and tv show great song
1 of my favourites from the 80’s and another great band from my home town 👍👍
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Classic early 80s hit. Fun fact: the lead singer was a hairdresser before he got into music and his brother is the drummer. Check out these early 80s hits guys:
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I live in Montréal, and back in the early eighties I use to hang at probably the most hip dance club called the LIMELIGHT. Let me tell you whan that song came on, good luck findind à spot on the dance floor.
Early 80s classic MTV
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I was 10 when this came out. Man, real sounds of my childhood. And i pronounce it SEA gulls
The first time I saw this was on a new Cable channel MTV , when all they did was play Video's, 24/7. That was in late 1980
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Super iconic song and video. There's an interview where they say they were given like $300 and an hour to buy some clothes and gear for the video. Flock of Seagulls have some other great more serious works too.
Absolutely love 'A flock of seagulls'. Awesome 80's new romantic group 🥰
This was in my twenties and I was playing in a post-punk band and why we like them sure enough and so did most of my friends, whenever that video came on, the drummer and I would always refer to them as Flock of Hairdos, laugh. Nice reaction.
The video for this was the first one I saw the first time I ever saw MTV. I'm 55.
In La La Land, when Emma Stone's character finds out in a party that Ryan Gosling's character is playing in an 80's cover band to make ends meet and the band's singer asks for request, this is the song she suggests.
The first time I saw this video,
I was in 6th grade and it was the eighties.
That night a friend from the neighborhood was sleeping over.
So, after the folks were soundly asleep, we raided my mothers make up drawer.
We did ourselves up punk/new wave style (even the hair).
Doing our best to emulate the scary girls in the video.
We then each put on a black plastic "Hefty" bag, with holes to fit our arms and heads through, some black leggings. Then added a colorful belt, and voila!
We then took the dog for a walk around the block, just hoping someone would notice how cool we were.
... and this was only the tip of the big weird iceberg, that was my childhood.
He put his foot in it all right!
I MISS THE 80s!!!!!!
This was one of the first videos on MTV. I remember thinking what the hell. Then we had so many bands similar sound and look in that period.
Their Poor Drummer Heartbreaking 😢
I loved this song when it came out! I still love it all these years later!
This song & Lunatic Fringe were my 2 favorite of the new wave songs 👍
great electronic 80s iconic song!
Classic 80s song and video. Space Age Love Song is my fave of theirs.
This song helped launch MTV. They had just recorded it one day and I believe MTV was going live the next day but only had a couple of videos to play. Their producer or some record company guy liked the song and walked it over to MTV. And I believe MTV or someone else gave them a couple of hundred dollars to buy some clothes, they shot this video in like two hours and ran the tape over to MTV> Since MTV really had nothing to play just a mission and VJ's to fill air time they played the daylights out of this song, I believe putting it on the air every hour for weeks or months. And it became almost an anthem for the 1980's . ITs a fun story when I heard it. I saw this band perhaps two or three times in the last two years. I was surprised that while this song was an epic fan favorite the song that really brought the house down was Space Age Love Story. In fact at Sea World they played the song twice and the second time they played it the experience was special. The energy and the love. The lead singer is now bald which doesn't matter. He seems like a cool guy. This band is out of Liverpool. I look forward to seeing them again when they are in town.