I was lucky enough to bump into Paul Reynolds in a bar in the UK about ten years ago. I asked him about him leaving the band and he told me he suffered from anxiety and depression, he was only 19-20 at the time. He seemed a lovely man and he is a great guitarist.
I saw Paul Reynolds at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Mike Score claims it was an accident. His hair was supposed to be poofed up in normal '80s style but someone smashed it down in the middle before he went on stage.
Me, to my band: "If we're going to cover A Flock Of Seagulls, we should do Space Age Love Song instead of I Ran." Band: "We've literally never heard of that song." Me: *plays song* Band: "We're doing this song."
Space Age Love Song is one of the best songs ever created. The best thing ever is driving down the road on a windy day and listening to that song with the windows open.
I'm torn between Space age love song and The more you live, the more you love being my favorite. I wish radio stations would play THESE sings instead of I ran
I absolutely adore Space Age Love Song, and am saddened that it was overshadowed by I Ran. It is clearly the superior song, and it still gives me chills when I hear the opening riff.
Not many know this, but before 2000, Waluigi tried to distance himself from Wario and the Mario brothers after Luigi spilled his milk one time in high school. So he tried to have a music career in England, until he found out his true calling in life: tennis.
Mike's hair was originally all spiked up, while Mike was in the backstage, the bassist, Frank Maudsley, smacked his hand on top of Mike's hair. Causing the middle part of his hair and bangs to be slanted. Shortly after that, Mike liked the look, so he kept it.
I love this 80s new wave/synth pop weirdness. Not even in any "ironic" sort of way. I know most of this stuff has all the depth of a rain puddle, but it's just enjoyable. I'm a metalhead and prog rock kinda dude, but stuff like this is an excellent counterpoint to the dense listening that is a band like Meshuggah.
I also usually listen to metal, but I enjoy synth stuff from time to time. It just gives a different vibe. Like metal brings me down into the dirt, screaming in anger. Synth brings me up to the sky, flying through the sunset-splashed clouds.
Didn’t also appear in at least one of the trailers for the Neil Gaiman short story adaptation “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”? (Haven’t seen it yet, seems to be a gender-flipped version of “Earth Girls Are Easy” with less fur, less seemingly racist post-coitus nightmare sequences that were inserted after test screenings (where you just replace the words “Mexican immigrants” with “Space Aliens”, and suddenly her anxiety dream about space aliens moving to her majority white California suburb seems less cute and wacky, and more of an accidental testament of how racist and out of touch late 80’s film executives were), and less bad blonde jokes set to song.)
Space Age Love Song should be the next Running Up That Hill. A somewhat overlooked 80s classic that finds second life through some sort of involvement with popular media. It deserves it.
Hearing Todd loves Space Age Love Song makes me so happy. My parents played A Flock of Seagulls’ main three hits a lot around me, and I forgot about them until someone played SALS this past summer. At which point, I fell in love with it
Yeah. Too bad Genndy left it unfinished so he could make fart jokes with Adam Sandler. But him reviving Samurai Jack does give me hope for Symbionic Titan being revived some day.
Kimi FW Actually, CN pulled the plug on it because they couldn't sell Generator Rex toys. The current president of the company only wanted to keep shows around that could sell toys (He was also the "genius" behind the CN Real block if programming). So, they did what they did with quite a few shows of that time, and they wrote it off on their taxes as failures. Luckily, Turner Broadcasting shipped off the old President, and Cartoon Network was reborn with shows like Adventure Time and Regular Show. Unfortunately, they were unable to get Titan back. Maybe Gennedy tried to convince them while he was over there working on the new Samurai Jack stuff, but we haven't heard anything yet. (Sorry for the long response, just knew some stuff and wanted to shed some light.)
Yeah, but for your typical British teenager that would've been listening to this band back in the day, Iran WAS quite far, considering most kids hadn't left the country, and those that did travel a bit probably only got about as far as Italy. You have to get into the mindset of the kids the music appealed to.
It’s bizarre how a lot of 80’s new wave and post punk was really big here in Australia Even more bizarre how songs like this get almost daily airplay on my cities Mix Radio station And continue to have a strong contemporary influence over our modern indie scene
8:30 I do know what that song is. It's "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester, whom one might remember from her other big hit single "Don't Cry Out Loud".
Or from her first and biggest hit single "Midnight Blue" (which is much better than "Don't Cry Out Loud"). Or at least from her occasional appearances on "Blossom" as Blossom's mother...which also makes her the TV mom of one-hit wonder Joey Lawrence!
Their Trinity of hits-I Ran, Space Age Love Song, and Wishing (I had a photograph of You) are among my favorite songs of all time, not just the 80's. I have tried to comb through their back catalog hoping to find some overlooked gem, but it's just not there. I have seen Mike Score in concert and when it comes time to play these hits, you could just feel the bitterness and resent just flowing from the stage. I get it, you want people to pay attention to the new stuff, but most musicians never get the kind of success he had. Apparently he went back to hair dressing as his day job. I want to root for him, but his resentment is just so palatable. I wonder what great clips he works at? I'd tip him extra.
I hadn't seen this one before, thanks for the re-upload. I saw AFOS when they first toured in the US, and they were SO GOOD in concert! The guitars were amazing, and they were just terrific performers.
Here's a fun fact about music videos: the medium was pretty much pioneered by the band ABBA. Agnetha Faltskog was not a fan of flying in an airplane (or touring, for that matter for various reasons) so the band produced videos of themselves instead. Many of their videos were directed by Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules). How's that for funny? An Academy Award nominated director was a music video pioneer.
Scott Smith A surprising number of successful and famous directors nowadays got their start by being music video pioneers as well! David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry... it was a fantastic way for visionaries to showcase their work to the world without having to get funding for a whole feature.
Ah, no. You can trace videos back way farther than that. The Beatles started doing them more when they stopped touring and they released a version of "1" which has a video for every song. The Monkees of course was a TV show where every song had a music video. Then there were Scopitones (music videos for a film based jukebox, done by a wide variety of artists) and even earlier than that (1940s!) the Soundies series which were shown in movie theaters and largely featured African-American artists.
@@blinski1 they chose that one because Gosling's character literally ran away from Stone's. Also he is into jazz so I guess having to play in an 80's cover band is the worst thing ever for him.
Your documentaries have a flash of humor that works, but also real professionalism with historical research. I've been scoping out new albums to purchase as a result of your pointing out songs I forgot about or other songs they made, which are great. Thank you much!
Yes, Space Age Love Song is a great song! The whole first album is also good, especially Man Made. My theory is that their sound was based on a certain feeling of alienation, and as they came out with more music, they became more sentimental and less alienated, and this is what led to their downfall. And actually, I liked the 1995 album, The Light at the End of the World--it actually has some decent songs on it--but it is a bit different from their earlier stuff.
Modern Love is Automatic still takes hold of me everytime I hear it, Its Not me Talking is incredible. There isn't one song by them I don't love from their early records. They're amazing live... one of my favorites (besides Duran who is my life).
I've been watching One Hit Wonderland for hours now and I'm still amazed how my tastes align with yours, Todd. I'll go to bat for Space Age Love Song (and Wishing) anytime.
I once watched Flock with one surviving member for an entire set at a free concert in St. Paul, hoping I would hear a song I would recognize. They played "I Ran" as their encore.
@@chuckbatman5 A poor man's David Bowie is as entertaining for music fans as a poor man's Kobe Bryant is for sports fans. I would do almost anything to be a poor man's Stephen King as a writer.
These guys were really ahead of their time. Aside from that crazy hair, their sound and heavy symbolism in their videos have a 90s alternative rock aesthetic.
I am watching these in order. this is one of my favorite bands of the series so far. I genuinely enjoyed... well... the followups. (looking back with rose colored glasses since I was born early that decade lol)
HangmanVa Hello HangmanVa, I am making a documentary and tracking down all the people who have "won the internet for a day". I am doing so to interview them post some time after their day in the spot light to see how it has effected them personally in their lives. Get back to me at you leasure, have a good day sir.
Thank you for this video and hello from the future. I found AFOS from my dad roasting me after i put my hair up (albeit more of a category 3 80's hairdo). I think I'll start listening to more of their songs
I was shocked to see them included in this series because I remembered them having three hits. Fortunately you did bring up the other two. (I also heard Nightmares once or twice on the radio back then, but I assume that was probably just the station trying it out to see if it got any reaction. They would often do that before deciding to add a song to their playlist.)
Huge flock of Seagulls fan here! They are great, and their first 3 albums are still great listens. I’m personally a huge fan of The Story of the Young Heart, both the album and song. Sad their legacy is only I Ran. I saw them at a fair a few years back and I admit I teared up when they played Space Age Love Song
I loved, and still love, I Ran. The song was/is so catchy, and yes, even though it is about 'trying to get away', it is still infectious. In the realm of One Hit Wonders (Sugar Sugar, Rock Me Gently, and even The Lion Sleeps Tonight) it fits in well.
Wasn't the bowling for soup's cover of this song used as the opening theme song for the shitty english dub of saint seiya/ knight of the Zodiac that was on cartoon network during the late 90's early 2000's, someone correct me if I'm wrong but i think it might have been
So you're telling me, he resented the song so much, that he ran? Ran so far away? But then couldn't get away?
Jacob Hill 🤣
My dad is punching the air rn because he didn’t think of that one
My dad is punching the air rn because he didn’t think of that one
I was lucky enough to bump into Paul Reynolds in a bar in the UK about ten years ago. I asked him about him leaving the band and he told me he suffered from anxiety and depression, he was only 19-20 at the time. He seemed a lovely man and he is a great guitarist.
He's one of my favorite guitarists. I know it's unlikely but if you ever run into him again, tell him people in America still love him.
I saw Paul Reynolds at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
@@ulture I'm crying
@@ulture Wowza sounds like he's lost his mind? * how old is he now?
@@cb90222 it’s not a real story, it’s a copypasta that people replace the celebrity name in all the time
AURORA BOREALIS? IN THIS GENRE? IN THIS DECADE? LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN THIS ONE HIT WONDERLAND?
Yes!
Here's the comment I came looking for.
NeoNarcoleptic *No.*
Javier Rico Seymour the house is on FIRE!
No mother, it's just the northern lights.
I honestly thought the lead's hair was meant to be one of the seagulls in question.
A dead seagull propped up on someone's head like Neville Longbottom's grandmother's hat
It is.
The brothers had a hairdressers shop which is why they experimented with the hairstyles.
OMD were the best band from Liverpool at that time and they were a synth band. Flock of Seagulls were also bigger in UK.
got the tin foil from their tin hats and moon landing film.
This song's guitar solo is one of the best of that era and in a genre that typically abhorred guitar solos. The kid who played it was only 16.
@@pretorious700 damn you really are just deaf
@@pretorious700 it’s somewhere in between
That hair looks straight up like a Pokemon villain hair.
Swamp Cleaner Hahaha he does look like a member of team rocket.
Swamp Cleaner Saturn
That hair looks like the evolved form of Team Rocket hair
I was going to say Final Fantasy main character
Mike Score claims it was an accident. His hair was supposed to be poofed up in normal '80s style but someone smashed it down in the middle before he went on stage.
I'm happy to learn I'm not the only fan of "Space Age Love Song."
All it takes is one listen and one normally will get hooked.
I had never heard it before, so listening to it for the first time was truly special.
Each time I hear it, it just gets better
Honestly I thought that WAS their one hit lol
Me, to my band: "If we're going to cover A Flock Of Seagulls, we should do Space Age Love Song instead of I Ran."
Band: "We've literally never heard of that song."
Me: *plays song*
Band: "We're doing this song."
Space Age Love Song is a bop and is light years better than I Ran. It's probably the best song from a one hit wonder that's *not* the one hit.
well they said that's not THE hit
Telecommunication was fantastic as well.
Maybe one hit an the US, but in the UK, i think 3 hits.
they were more an album band than for singles.
ladydontekno also wishing (I had a photograph of you)
Remember David?
When Todd says a Space Age Love Song is one of his favorite songs of all time... I'm with him. I know what he feels.
Space Age Love Song is one of the best songs ever created. The best thing ever is driving down the road on a windy day and listening to that song with the windows open.
I'm torn between Space age love song and The more you live, the more you love being my favorite. I wish radio stations would play THESE sings instead of I ran
@@RainbowBrite80 I actually haven't heard that one! But I agree that I Ran isn't the song stations should be playing.
Absolutely. Friggin love that song
I think it works even better at night, but that aside, that's a mood.
Referring to car windows as "open" instead of "down" is really hilarious to me for some reason.
I absolutely adore Space Age Love Song, and am saddened that it was overshadowed by I Ran. It is clearly the superior song, and it still gives me chills when I hear the opening riff.
EXACTLY!!! the riffs, i really liked (it's not me) talking, nightmares, modern love it's automatic, Messages, Telecommunication
@@griseldadominguez8734 Space Age Love Song is like Thor and I Ran is like Iron Man.
@@RenaldyCalixte So both songs are awesome?
@@joshuacoleman8000 Yes I do
"there's a reason for that. it's aliens"
oh, I was gonna guess coke...
“The Mighty Wah!”? Apparently one of their band members was Waluigi in disguise.
Or just a big Kirk Hammett fan lol
Not many know this, but before 2000, Waluigi tried to distance himself from Wario and the Mario brothers after Luigi spilled his milk one time in high school. So he tried to have a music career in England, until he found out his true calling in life: tennis.
Space Age Love Song is one of the best songs of the 80s. It's grounded in 1982 but man is that understated guitar fabulous
1:22 I know anime hair styles can be ridiculous but I think this guy dethroned all the YuGiOh protagonists for stupid hair cut ever.
Today's word is "dethroned"!
... Before YuGiOh even came out!
Mike's hair was originally all spiked up, while Mike was in the backstage, the bassist, Frank Maudsley, smacked his hand on top of Mike's hair. Causing the middle part of his hair and bangs to be slanted. Shortly after that, Mike liked the look, so he kept it.
That’s a happy accident!
Should've been "A Flock of Owls" with that haircut
Space Age Love Song was such an under rated song when it came out.
I love this 80s new wave/synth pop weirdness. Not even in any "ironic" sort of way. I know most of this stuff has all the depth of a rain puddle, but it's just enjoyable. I'm a metalhead and prog rock kinda dude, but stuff like this is an excellent counterpoint to the dense listening that is a band like Meshuggah.
Have you ever listened to "vaporwave" remixes of 80s new wave songs? Definitely give it a try.
PS- Check out Ween and the Butthole Surfers
I am the embodiment of this comment
Wait, so are you.
Uh...my situation is very similar to yours
That is relatable as a metalhead I kinda understand this scene and all the fucking weirdness.
I also usually listen to metal, but I enjoy synth stuff from time to time. It just gives a different vibe. Like metal brings me down into the dirt, screaming in anger. Synth brings me up to the sky, flying through the sunset-splashed clouds.
Well you clearly are a queen of culture…
Every time one of your videos gets taken down and re-uploaded, I re-watch it just so you don't lose my view.
You deserve it Todd.
Indigo Swirl I always end up going back to watch his videos in background and stuff anyway haha
Jake Jutras same
Same here. I've rewatched all of his videos numerous times. Maybe the most rewatch value of any TH-camr.
Why was there never a band named Yet Another Flock of Seagulls? Huge missed opportunity.
I think thats a tribute/parody band
They got old and sang I walked
YES! Another "Space Age Love Song" fan. That makes two of us.
Space Age Love Song was in Spiderman: Homecoming and I was really glad to see this song come back in a big movie, hopefully more people will buy it.
Fitting, as it is basically a John Hughes movie set in the modern day with Spider-Man.
It also appeared recently in “What If..?”.
I think someone at Marvel just REALLY likes A Flock of Seagulls.
Didn’t also appear in at least one of the trailers for the Neil Gaiman short story adaptation “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”? (Haven’t seen it yet, seems to be a gender-flipped version of “Earth Girls Are Easy” with less fur, less seemingly racist post-coitus nightmare sequences that were inserted after test screenings (where you just replace the words “Mexican immigrants” with “Space Aliens”, and suddenly her anxiety dream about space aliens moving to her majority white California suburb seems less cute and wacky, and more of an accidental testament of how racist and out of touch late 80’s film executives were), and less bad blonde jokes set to song.)
Space Age Love Song should be the next Running Up That Hill. A somewhat overlooked 80s classic that finds second life through some sort of involvement with popular media. It deserves it.
I’ll forever be grateful to Todd for introducing me to Space Age Love Song.
Todd, thank you for introducing me to "Space Age Love Song." It's beautiful!
Finally someone who gives props to Space Age Love Song. One of my favorites of all time.
The keyboardist's hair makes him looks like a Thundercat
Hearing Todd loves Space Age Love Song makes me so happy. My parents played A Flock of Seagulls’ main three hits a lot around me, and I forgot about them until someone played SALS this past summer. At which point, I fell in love with it
"Space Age Love Song" was featured in an episode of Symbionic Titan. I just felt the need to share that.
Kimi FW Finally, someone who remembers! :D
It was in "Lessons In Love" and was amazing. That show should definitely get a revival.
Yeah. Too bad Genndy left it unfinished so he could make fart jokes with Adam Sandler. But him reviving Samurai Jack does give me hope for Symbionic Titan being revived some day.
Kimi FW Actually, CN pulled the plug on it because they couldn't sell Generator Rex toys. The current president of the company only wanted to keep shows around that could sell toys (He was also the "genius" behind the CN Real block if programming). So, they did what they did with quite a few shows of that time, and they wrote it off on their taxes as failures. Luckily, Turner Broadcasting shipped off the old President, and Cartoon Network was reborn with shows like Adventure Time and Regular Show. Unfortunately, they were unable to get Titan back. Maybe Gennedy tried to convince them while he was over there working on the new Samurai Jack stuff, but we haven't heard anything yet. (Sorry for the long response, just knew some stuff and wanted to shed some light.)
Now it's played in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Iran is very far away, it turns out!
Live long and prosper ;]
And Iran, Iran’s so far away...
Lol
Teep we can hope
it's pronounced ee-rahn
Paul Reynolds is a crazy great underrated guitarist
Iran isn't THAT far away from the UK. I mean it's not neighboring or anything but it could be further.
Pandsu Yo Exactly why he couldn't get away.
Pandsu Yo I laughed harder than I wanted to at that
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Yeah, but for your typical British teenager that would've been listening to this band back in the day, Iran WAS quite far, considering most kids hadn't left the country, and those that did travel a bit probably only got about as far as Italy. You have to get into the mindset of the kids the music appealed to.
The joke doesn’t work in the UK. It’s not pronounced I-ran there, it’s ir-an.
500 miles got banned before I got to see it.
jason4275 I came one minute after posting and it was already banned in the U. S.
You can still download it and watch it.
jason4275 it's the second time today
You can find it on vimeo
vimeo.com/149246366
Ian Malcolm Lol, I'm sure it's their label that's so butthurt about these videos, but I know that you know that
It’s bizarre how a lot of 80’s new wave and post punk was really big here in Australia
Even more bizarre how songs like this get almost daily airplay on my cities Mix Radio station
And continue to have a strong contemporary influence over our modern indie scene
Oh man "I Ran" a true 80's classic. I love this song so much.
me too
Hearing Todd talking about my hometown's music sceme is kinda surreal
Hello scouser!
8:30 I do know what that song is. It's "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester, whom one might remember from her other big hit single "Don't Cry Out Loud".
Solid Gold
Or from her first and biggest hit single "Midnight Blue" (which is much better than "Don't Cry Out Loud"). Or at least from her occasional appearances on "Blossom" as Blossom's mother...which also makes her the TV mom of one-hit wonder Joey Lawrence!
Even weirder, she sings as the voice of the stripper-mouse at the seedy pub in DISNEY'S "Great Mouse Detective"!
I still hope Todd does a "One Hit Wonderland"/retrospective of Marcy Playground. That band flew completely under the radar.
MagCynic yeah, Mama that surely is a dream.
THey played their one hit on KROQ totally TO DEATH.
I still enter rooms and say it smells like sex and candy in here!
every time I hear Sex and Candy I immediately say, "C'mon the rest of the album is so much better"
@@TheDirectMessenger88 You’ve spent too much time hangin’ ‘round downtown by yourself, it seems.
"Telecommunication" and "Modern Love Is Automatic" are also absolute bangers
'Messages' & Wishing I Had a Photograph are two more great songs of theirs.
Yes! Space age love song is sooooooooooooo underrated. I love it, it's so cool that you do too.
Quick, before it's taken down!
Jack Alano they already it I gonna be for the second time today alone
Their Trinity of hits-I Ran, Space Age Love Song, and Wishing (I had a photograph of You) are among my favorite songs of all time, not just the 80's. I have tried to comb through their back catalog hoping to find some overlooked gem, but it's just not there. I have seen Mike Score in concert and when it comes time to play these hits, you could just feel the bitterness and resent just flowing from the stage. I get it, you want people to pay attention to the new stuff, but most musicians never get the kind of success he had. Apparently he went back to hair dressing as his day job. I want to root for him, but his resentment is just so palatable. I wonder what great clips he works at? I'd tip him extra.
I hadn't seen this one before, thanks for the re-upload. I saw AFOS when they first toured in the US, and they were SO GOOD in concert! The guitars were amazing, and they were just terrific performers.
Holy cow, this one actually jams out as a piano tune! I didn't expect that
Here's a fun fact about music videos: the medium was pretty much pioneered by the band ABBA. Agnetha Faltskog was not a fan of flying in an airplane (or touring, for that matter for various reasons) so the band produced videos of themselves instead. Many of their videos were directed by Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules). How's that for funny? An Academy Award nominated director was a music video pioneer.
Scott Smith A surprising number of successful and famous directors nowadays got their start by being music video pioneers as well! David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry... it was a fantastic way for visionaries to showcase their work to the world without having to get funding for a whole feature.
@@Best-Match And also Michael Bay, because they can't all be winners
Ah, no. You can trace videos back way farther than that. The Beatles started doing them more when they stopped touring and they released a version of "1" which has a video for every song. The Monkees of course was a TV show where every song had a music video. Then there were Scopitones (music videos for a film based jukebox, done by a wide variety of artists) and even earlier than that (1940s!) the Soundies series which were shown in movie theaters and largely featured African-American artists.
Ah, the praise for 'Space Age Love Song' felt almost reassuring, this song rules so much.
"They were never that big in England"
A Flock of Seagulls: The Samurai Pizza Cats of British New Wave!!
"Requesting I Ran from a serious musician is too far" guess the movie quote xD
La La Land, I believe.
They had soooo many terrible songs to make fun of, and they chose a decent one. Hm.
@@blinski1 they chose that one because Gosling's character literally ran away from Stone's. Also he is into jazz so I guess having to play in an 80's cover band is the worst thing ever for him.
La la land!
This song sure got a scathing reference in the La La Land movie.
This song is like the god-tier 80s melody
And Todd ran, Todd ran so far away--from the copyright bots.
The lead singer's hair reminds me of Harvey Birdman's mask
I love A Flock Of Seagulls and I still listen to them on a regular basis. Their sci-fi themes are really, really cool!
I Love Space Age Love Song!!!
This is one of my favorite songs of all time! Glad to see Todd reviewing it.
For once I actually know the cover at the end. It’s the one that was used as the opening to Saint Seiya.
Hoshimaru57 Yes, that wasn't some kid's AMV, that was legit.
I love how into it he was during that piano intro, he seemed so hype.
There is always his Vimeo channel if it gets taken down here again.
Even if "Space age love song" would have been No. 1 in every single country in 1982 it would still be underapreciated. This song is perfect.
Your documentaries have a flash of humor that works, but also real professionalism with historical research. I've been scoping out new albums to purchase as a result of your pointing out songs I forgot about or other songs they made, which are great. Thank you much!
It's like the 80s version of Wolverine, with the V hair, bleached his hair, stopped working out, and started a hair metal band
Yes, Space Age Love Song is a great song! The whole first album is also good, especially Man Made.
My theory is that their sound was based on a certain feeling of alienation, and as they came out with more music, they became more sentimental and less alienated, and this is what led to their downfall.
And actually, I liked the 1995 album, The Light at the End of the World--it actually has some decent songs on it--but it is a bit different from their earlier stuff.
Oh yeah. There's a definite vibe to their first album that was so perfectly sculpted.
I love you Todd! thank you for acknowledging A Flock of Seagulls for their fantastic early work!
The guitar in Space Age Love Song is one of my top 10 80s guitar riffs.
Most of what's going on in I Ran is glorious, glorious bass! Paul Reynolds leans very heavily on his delay pedal
I actually love flock of seagulls , one of my favorite songs is Space Age Love Song
Ikr?! that song along with others are truly great song but I feel like no one face them a chance
I've spent most of my day consumed by your content, the format and style you have is just *chefs kiss* my dude
Modern Love is Automatic still takes hold of me everytime I hear it, Its Not me Talking is incredible. There isn't one song by them I don't love from their early records. They're amazing live... one of my favorites (besides Duran who is my life).
"Wishing" was the big one in the UK. I had no Idea that the Gulls were a thing in the US until they were referenced in Pulp Fiction.
Echo and the Bunnymen is an awesome band name 1, and 2, they are one of my favorite bands. Highly suggest checking them out actually.
I've been watching One Hit Wonderland for hours now and I'm still amazed how my tastes align with yours, Todd. I'll go to bat for Space Age Love Song (and Wishing) anytime.
Space Age has become a staple on most of my playlists. Thanks Todd in the Shadows
I loooove this band. Always have. I clicked on this so fast...
6:20 At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
Steamed hams.
my favorite song of all times thank you
Thanks for reminding me about this band and their great songs.
I once watched Flock with one surviving member for an entire set at a free concert in St. Paul, hoping I would hear a song I would recognize. They played "I Ran" as their encore.
As much as I love this song, the singer here looks like the poor man's David Bowie
Gustavo Almanza the singer kind of sounds like a poor man's David Bowie too (keep in mind that a poor man's David Bowie is still a damn good singer)
Depends on which of the 20 thousand eras of David Bowie you're refering to.
And in the mid-80's, even David Bowie was the poor man's David Bowie. Listen to 'Tonight' and you'll see why.
Coolman Hahn that’s because Bowie is so good that even a bootleg would be pretty great
@@chuckbatman5 A poor man's David Bowie is as entertaining for music fans as a poor man's Kobe Bryant is for sports fans. I would do almost anything to be a poor man's Stephen King as a writer.
These guys were really ahead of their time. Aside from that crazy hair, their sound and heavy symbolism in their videos have a 90s alternative rock aesthetic.
Glad you spent some time with Space Age Love Song - one of my faves of my high school years.
There's a video on TH-cam for Space Age Love Song with Jennifer Connelly in and it's perfect
The movie is Career Opportunities. It definitely should have been mentioned.
ahh yes :) I remember seeing this from regular show, awesome song!
Todd your
great at what you do. This is a very good analysis of recent pop history.
I am watching these in order. this is one of my favorite bands of the series so far. I genuinely enjoyed... well... the followups. (looking back with rose colored glasses since I was born early that decade lol)
Here comes a whole new wave of taken down videos, wahey
HangmanVa You, sir, have won the internet for today!
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Jesus christ the 500 miles one went down in under a minute in the U. S.
It's great that Space Age Love Song has still stuck around to this day
Thank you for this video and hello from the future. I found AFOS from my dad roasting me after i put my hair up (albeit more of a category 3 80's hairdo). I think I'll start listening to more of their songs
Man they REALLY don't want you to release that Proclaimers video...
Mahugunny Productions oddly, it's up with no issues here in Scotland.
Mens Rights Edinburgh weird
Mens Rights Edinburgh That's because it's a Scottish cultural treasure, so you have full rights to it as a Scottish national.
if that's the case at least the copyright bots decided to share the love...
There is no band I hate more than the Proclaimers
3:11 "The Mighty WAH!"? Did Waluigi start this group himself?
Your appreciation of Space Age Love Song really makes this review for me. A magnificent song.
I was shocked to see them included in this series because I remembered them having three hits. Fortunately you did bring up the other two. (I also heard Nightmares once or twice on the radio back then, but I assume that was probably just the station trying it out to see if it got any reaction. They would often do that before deciding to add a song to their playlist.)
7:31-7:43
The best 12 seconds of 2017 on TH-cam
Huge flock of Seagulls fan here! They are great, and their first 3 albums are still great listens. I’m personally a huge fan of The Story of the Young Heart, both the album and song. Sad their legacy is only I Ran. I saw them at a fair a few years back and I admit I teared up when they played Space Age Love Song
I loved, and still love, I Ran. The song was/is so catchy, and yes, even though it is about 'trying to get away', it is still infectious. In the realm of One Hit Wonders (Sugar Sugar, Rock Me Gently, and even The Lion Sleeps Tonight) it fits in well.
love this series so much. I really hope you touch on gary numan eventually. We don't realize how much influence he had across the pond.
Wasn't the bowling for soup's cover of this song used as the opening theme song for the shitty english dub of saint seiya/ knight of the Zodiac that was on cartoon network during the late 90's early 2000's, someone correct me if I'm wrong but i think it might have been
Oh wow you're right, it was their cover that was featured in the DIC version of the Saint Seiya dub!
DIC version, appropiate name.
Yup, I used to watch that version when I was younger.
I thought this sound sounded familiar...
thewalrusclown Oh yeah it looked like a Shitty Edgy kid's AMV.
Thank god in Argentina we got Pegasus Fantasy......and the complete series
Yer man looks like he came straight out of a Pokemon game
Still love everything about this band. Love their songs. Peace ✌
Thank you for uploading old vids