Man that intro was like a juicy burger dripping with 80s nostalgia 🥰 Love it! You are the best Professor at weaving in great videos and lathering it with your poetic words.
I love love everything 80s so your channel hits the spot Professor! I’ve learned so much since I started listening to you! And yeah Space Age Love Song is another gem from FOfS!
@@ProfessorofRock it’s one of the very best new wave tunes - and as a new wave fanatic that means a great deal to me! It’s beauty and the gorgeous synth work put it up with two songs I also think are new wave masterpieces: “More than this” by Roxy Music (Bryan’s voice is especially well featured in that tune) and “The Chauffeur” by Duran Duran (Nick Rhodes = absolute genius w-the synths. The whole band = great criminally underrated musicians - just recently I’ve started to hear “the kids” noticing that John Taylor was/is a sensational bassist. I never saw Roxy live but I did see D2 when they were doing the Ordinary World tour. A little new band from Ireland called The Cranberries opened for them - heehee. The show was fabulous. Also Dolores had an incredible stage presence - it makes my heart ache - gone way too soon.
Wishing was a great song. Brilliant, haunting riff . I was not a great fan of futurists, new romantics or synth pop, but I still think that Wishing was one of the finest moments of the 80s
The early days of MTV will never be duplicated by anything I’ll ever see in my lifetime. It was an absolutely mesmerizing revaluation! New Wave came and went so fast, but it will live in my memories for a lifetime. “The More You Live, the More You Love” is one of my all time FOS songs
Space Age Love Song was one of the first songs that actually made me LISTEN to the words. That song describes Love at First sight PERFECTLY. Thanks Prof.😎
“Ran” was the frontline of the 2nd wave, Airplay was solid. I expected more top hits but the competition was intense, and disco and the 70’s guitar bands weren’t going away without a fight. It was one of the most diverse genre times. Thanks Adam
I agree completely in regards to the diverse genres time. I have always felt that within what we call New Wave and Alternative there were sub genres being created as artist’s experimented. Good times for sure!
❤❤ Ah yes, a Flock of Seagulls, aka a bunch of birds. Absolutely love Space Age Love Song. Unfair to call these guys a one hit wonder. I would also group Howard Jones with A Flock of Seagulls. Thanks Professor! Have a great weekend 🎉!
FoS has four hits that charted - they are def not a one hit wonder band. Honestly imho Howard Jones doesn’t hold up. I think it’s clear from the relative lack of streaming Jones’ music has compared to many other new wavers like OMD or Tears for Fears or Gary Numan…I love “like to get to know you well” but the other songs seem rather shallow and repetitive now and lacking the haunting synth work that exemplifies new wave at its best as seen in FoS’s songs mentioned above or in masterpieces like “The Chauffeur” by Duran Duran
I owned their first 3 albums! I was a big fan of theirs before I got into Duran Duran, OMD, Or Depeche Mode. That first album was so good. Telecommunication, Modern Love is Automatic, Messages, and the instrumental DNA were terrific!
I really enjoy I Ran in the movie LaLa Land. I don't remember the other 3 songs you mentioned, except from your earlier video on Space Age Love Song. Greatvideo
I never get tired of Space Age Love Song or The More You Live The More You Love. To me they are timeless. Simple? Yes. But I don't care. A great song is a great song.
Of course, I like the musique concrete b-sides of "Nightmares." "Rosenmontag" and "The Last Flight of Yuri Gagarin." That's the direction I hoped the band go in. Not "Whose that Girl?"
I met Mike in Philadelphia in the mid 90's. He was so cool and talked to us and took a couple pictures. He was a short fellow, if I remember correctly. All of their songs I will still listen to. Happy new year, folks.
....I never even thought of it as 'New Wave'...me Radio station played it as a 'Dance Club' track at Night, along with Billy Idol's "White Wedding" INCESSANTLY, so I still think of it as a 'British Invasion' track.....go figga....
Mike Score seems like am immensely likable fellow! I’ve been jamming to I Ran (So Far Away) for a couple of months this winter, I’m going to give the rest of their catalogue a listen to! Thanks again, Professor!!!
In the late 90s I was a waitress in a night club. The Floc of Seagulls played at the club. I met Mike after the show. I got his autograph. Framed it and it's on the wall with my other band memorabilia I've collected. Very nice man! I was seventeen with MTV started. I spent two or three years glued to the t.v.! Those were the days!
It was in the Fall of 1982 that my cable company added MTV. The first band that I was introduced to through MTV's music videos was A Flock Of Seagulls. I Ran (So Far Away) was in heavy rotation and was played constantly. I really enjoyed their New Wave sound. It's a shame they disappeared so quickly but their songs did have a major impact on 80's music.
The 80s……..a much simpler time and space. Loved every minute of it. His reference to “the Saturday AM cartoon generation with a big bowl of cereal” was the perfect description.
I love this channel. From the subject matter, to the songs and artists that are featured, or even mentioned for that matter, to the way the stories are told, memories brought back, and the entire delivery of the information is top notch. I should also add that the interviews are astounding. Hearing the stories from the legends themselves is priceless. I will also add that every time this song comes on the volume goes up. From the very first notes to the end, it's an absolutely awesome song that still has the same effect today as it did the first time I heard it.
I got to see "A Flock Of Seagulls" at a night club called "Pop's" across the river from St. Louis about 2003-4(???). They rocked😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 They played "updated" versions of their old songs and the "regular" versions.
You should do an episode on The Hooters. They were huge for a minute... All You Zombies, And We Danced, Day by Day, etc.... Whatever happened to those guys?
I'm really glad you made this particular video.... when i think of specific sounds from the 80;s that take me back directly with a flood of not just great memories but feels like a foundation of what the 80's were.... the guitar in I Ran and Space Age Love Song to me (plus the synth of course) just is so incredible and never gets the love it should
Late 1991 there was a movement in music like the 79-82 period you refer to. The 80's were incredible though, no doubt about it ! I'm 51 and i lived in front of the TV like alot of kids did. The release of MTV in august of 1981 was very anticipated by kids all over. It was a great few years. 89 was the last of MTV for me though
Younger people have to remember that back in the day, MTV was 1 of the only ways to see new bands w/o going to a concert or bar, or maybe catching a TV special like Dick Clark's New Years bashes, American BandStand, etc. Suddenly you have a new song with a new band with new faces, all at once! Or maybe you would be seeing an older band play a new song, and now you had 'new faces' to go with it. The Cars is a great example of that. I was glued to MTV at friends' houses that had cable. We didn't until the early 90s. Anyhow, IMO, "I Ran" still stands up well today, catchy, mysterious, driving beat, layered, and enough guitar in it to lean it in a rock direction as well. It's still on my playlist.
Oh,I remember well when I Ran came out. I'm a Rock Hair Band girl, but this caught my attention like Blondie did in the late 70's early 80's. It was just different from what I normally listened to. Back then, I was still listening to Carly Simon and things like that. Of coarse growing up near Rockford IL., I was a huge Cheap Trick fan, more than any other band. When I Ran hit the airwaves, I loved it because you could actually dance to it. 😂 So for a brief period, it was a song I loved. Much like Heart Of Glass/ Blondie.
While stationed in West Germany I went to a concert in Dortmund where I got to see A Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Gary Moore with Ian Paise. Still have the t-shirt 😎
A Flock Of Seagulls are definitely one of the best new wave bands of the 80s. I bought most of their albums. On AOR commercial radio, when my favorite "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" was on the playlist, I'd make it the nine minute version anytime it would not mess up spots and legal ID timing of my break clock. "Space Age Love Song" was excellent too, but it would be even better, and I think would have done even better, if it had verses. (Some might say "if it had a chorus".) I'm glad to learn the update from Mike Score; great feature, Professor!
@@Narpets2112 No, not of "I Ran (So Far Away)." The version of "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (extended version)" on "The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls" is listed as being 9:08 long. "I Ran" is 4:55 there.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hi Lilly, Oh sure, that would be great, extend and keep looping the thing. There are a couple of reaction videos of "Space Age Love Song" on youtube, too. :-) I have eight CDs of A Flock Of Seagulls and I plan to buy the new one, too. :-)
I saw Flock of Seagulls headline the "Lost 80s Live" tour in the summer of 2018 at Ravinia Festival (Illinois). Also on the bill were Wang Chung, Animotion, Naked Eyes, Dramarama, and Gene Loves Jezebel. Later that summer at Ravinia was a triple bill of Thompson Twins, B52s, and Culture Club.
I RAN WAS FLOCK OF SEAGULLS ONLY top 40 HIT here in Australia peaking at at number 1 in august 1982 ; they had a further top 50 entry in April 83 with Wishing
I remember I first heard, I RAN so far away, and was completely blown away. I did not know any other songs really until later in the 80's from AFOS. My second fav is SPACE AGE love song. Truly masterpieces from that era. Thank you POR and Mike Score for this segment, always takes me back to a magical era.
Really cool story: My mom worked as a waitress in one of my hometown's most popular bars, and the Flock came flying in, playing the bar as a warm up for their gig the next night at our big hockey arena. My mom was their waitress, and apparently impressed the band so much, the lead singer INVITED HER BACKSTAGE THE NEXT NIGHT! So, her boss gave my mom the following night off, and she got to spend a night with the Flock of Seagulls! She's always teasing my Dad that she coulda been the wife of a rockstar instead of him..... He retaliates that the singer didn't have the same charisma as him... Well, goes to show that you REALLY don't know your parents until MUCH later...
I remember hearing the song I ran at the mall at one of the music stores and then later space age love song. I ended up buying the album instead due to the cassettes were sold out. Ended up getting high quality blank cassettes so I could make my own. This was definitely one of those bands that I can listen to every song on the album over and over. When they broke up so early I was one of those fans that was devastated and always thought about what could have been. It's great after all these years that they've come back together with some really cool stuff and truly love the orchestral versions.
@@ProfessorofRock That's awesome. Maybe if I hadn't grown up in the 60's, I might like that music more. In the 70's I lived in N. Carolina and it was all southern rock. When I got back home to Ohio in 1980, I couldn't believe the music the kids were listening to. Again, sorry, I'm still kinda stuck in the 60's and 70's.
The More You Live the More You Love became a lifelong mantra for me. The song is ethereal and wistful, just what teen me needed...but also full on wisdom about appreciation for what was and what still has yet to come. Mourn the losses, but look forward to the new. Embrace it all! I thank this band sincerely for shaping the present me!
Saw them in September 2023 in Guildford. Still really good and a hit filled set list, if you followed them at all. Keep going Mike and good luck with the new album.
I Ran and Photograph are essential 80s songs. I ❤ new wave synth pop. What does Flock Of Seagles sound like now? It sounds great! I still love and listen to 80s music.
If you abbreviate A Flick Of Seagulls' "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph Of You)" that way, you will remind some people of Def Leppard. :-) I agree with your tastes.
"Nightmares" is still one of my favorite songs ever. My old band got to open for them around 10yrs ago or so when I lived in Houston, TX. Mike and the entire OG band are legends, And he's a great, humble, gracious genius of a Man. God Bless Him.
Oh my goodness! This band has some of the best 80's out there! The guitar is a lot more rockin' then you expect with a band that also features a lot of synth. Its both heavy and lifting!
I looove Flock of Seagulls, especially the wall of sound perfect pop song Wishing, and the soaring and magnificent Space Age Love Song. Very underrated!
At the time, many established acts were reluctant to make videos a priority while new acts jumped on the trend hard. I liked FoS because they put synth and driving guitars together so well.
Huge fan of the New Wave era, and "I Ran" is one of the Top 5 songs that defined the era and sound. Almost got a chance to see them in Jacksonville, FL in 2005, as they were scheduled to play at a venue that was literally in walking distance from my house. Because pre-show ticket sales were so low, they canceled the gig. So bummed..... NOBODY in Florida buys tickets before the show: we just arrive at showtime in droves. Always thought that was a missed opportunity for the band (and me, as well)
There was nothing better at the time, but cutting high school after lunch, smoking Thai weed and watching this on MTV for hours..... That was the life of a 17 year old in 1982.
Professor you forget the Stones lead the British Invasion of the early 80s with their Emotional Rescue album in 1980 and Tattoo You in 1981 .....with hits like Emotional Rescue and the big hits Start me up and Waiting on a friend
I grew up during this time of music. I was in grade school in the late 70s and, of course, in HS at the beginning of the 80s until I graduated in '85. Anyway, it was a great time to be young. So many music genres and so many changes in music were happening in that time period. Like the late 60s and earliest 70s, there were a slew of deaths in the music world that would change the direction of music, for better or for worse. MTV appearing on the music landscape was the big game changer. Some artists happened to be in the right place at the right time, to be sure, BUT their music still had to be decent. True, there was a lot of not so good stuff out there because they got their video out at the right time. But there were some very good acts that really benefitted from the new medium. I will add that Flock of Seagulls was not the only act that seemed to just disappear after tremendous success. In fact, there were a lot of bands that did that back then. Maybe it was due to musoc changing so rapidly and bands getting videos out quickly to get airtime on MTV. But history repeats itself, and a similar thing happened in the late 80s and earliest 90s when another seismic shift in music place with the grunge era.
Thanks for sharing! I've subscribed. While "M" and "The Buggles" were technically the first music videos, Flock of Seagulls arguably took that new era and ran with it-no pun intended-both in sound and style. Their impact highlighted how newer electric instruments (namely the synthesizer ) were seamlessly integrating into the evolving musical landscape of that time.
The Flock of Seagulls, Sade, Duran Duran, and Bow Wow Wow were the groups that I watched on MTV gave me the dream of one day going to Europe. The videos were so fun, adventurous, and intellectual for a 16 year old it felt like going to a different world on the same planet. The Flock of Seagulls video was so futuristic it made you feel that the world would be different once you became an adult. So I joined the military and was given an opportunity to live in Europe. The fashion, the music, and the lifestyle was so different and sophisticated. European music that was on MTV showed you a different world and I was fortunate to live in that world for a few years. The music from the 80's gave me an opportunity to dream.
They were our soundtrack when I was a freshman in college. Wish I had a dollar for every time we danced to their songs! Space Age Love Song is my favorite!💟
The best part about listening to Flock of Seagulls and indeed all the bands in the those decades and days prior this current one, is that we get to have a choice to listen to a whole range of genres. It's like viewing a smorgas board of music. Moreover, we get to know their stories. I have an eclectic mix of tastes in music and it is great that we have this vast library available to us to listen to and make memories. Thanks for sharing.
thier song Space Age Love Song is THE definitive 80's song even more than I Ran. everytime i hear it it takes me back to 1984 and seeing my beautiful blonde haired future wife for the first time the first week of 10th grade and high school!!. i was an early hip hop head growing up in Detroit, but i like the punk, new wave, and funk stuff too, all thanks our late night DJ The Electrifying Mojo, he broadened a lot of peoples horizons musically. you can find him on youtube.
I feel like Adam Sandler's joke from The Wedding Singer ("You like a flock of seagulls?", "I can see you do") was about them already being dated by 1984-85
Well it was nice to see both Michael Score and I have aged. I got a tears listening to this. After I graduated high school in 1982, I was married and working full time. We didn't have cable TV in the California desert at that time, so there was no MTV for us. Besides, this wasn't my kind of music. I was too busy listening to Ozzy's Diary of a Madman. My sister was in her Junior year of high school and decided to cut school one day and asked if my wife and I could take her and a friend to the beach. I was off work that day and obliged. It was about a 2 hour drive from the desert. My sister asked if we could listen to a couple of cassette tapes on the way. One of the tapes was Flock of Seagulls, the other was Human League. Both tapes were NOT my kind of music, but I was out-voted by my wife and sister. I heard this song and Human League's Don't You Want Me at least a dozen times that day. Now I love these songs simply because of the memories. Where the hell did 41 years go? My wife and I have been married 41 years but it seems like yesterday we were newlyweds helping my sister cut school.
Flock of Seagulls is what I like to call 'Timeless futurism' You can play those songs at any point in time, 17th century, 25th century, 100,000th century, and those songs will still ground you and have you looking towards the future with your feet planted in emotion. Timeless.
Thanks you for this, and your previous FOS vids. I dug out one of their greatest hits cds to play in my car. All my cassettes from the 80s rendered useless now, and the Bluetooth won't work in my car! A Flock of Seagulls were a massive part of my life in 82. In a time when I went to the library to borrow cassettes, as I was still at high school and couldn't afford to buy all my music. I Ran, Modern Love is Automatic, Space Age Love Song, Telecommunication etc LOVE!! Through you I discovered that Prague Philharmonic Orchestra version of Space Age Love Song fr 2018. I just love them! ❤
As a teen I was obsessed with "Over The Border". I used to play the song at half speed because I loved the groove it had at 64bpm. In 2008 I started working on an arrangement of a few parts that became it's own song. In 2014 I wrote lyrics. It has taken me until now to train my falsetto voice to match what I hear in my head and to feel confident enough to make a demo for someone else to make a professional version. It pains me that I only have an mp3 of the music since the hard drive that had the raw FuityLoops 8 files stopped working in 2012.
Hi Adam, imagine if we had YOU, side by side, with the dawn of MTV !! Professor of Rock and MTV, a musical marriage made in heaven. I remember the first day we got cable in our home in Miami and the day MTV came to town. I had a stereo with a Cassette/8-track/and a turntable. If I did not have the record I sat in front of the tv with my trusty tape recorder and a blank cassette. This was well before we got our first Beta Max Machine.
Mike seems a lot more comfortable with the legacy of I Ran (So Far Away) nowadays. I saw an interview I think on VH1 or something like that and he hated it because that was all people wanted to hear live.
I was 21 when MTV started. I remember leaving it on in our apartment most of the day, every day. My wife on the other hand grew up in a very small farming town. No cable. She never saw mtv or listened to 80s music. When we hear an 80s song, I'll quiz her "who is that" I ask her. It doesn't matter who the band is, she says "is it flock of seagulls?". I have have loved the beatles since I was a kid in the 60s. My wife HATES the beatles. If we are out and about and a beatles song comes on. I'll hear her singing along. I say "I thought you hated the beatles". She'll go "euwww, thats the beatles?...I hate them" and stop singing. Priceless.
They really kicked off that New Wave look and sound that others followed. And being in the states hearing that style of music that was not on the radio was mind blowing.
You missed the first reunion album _'Ascension'_ that came before _'Inflight'_ and _'String Theory'._ Still, these vids you made with Mike Score are pure gold. 👌👍🤞
I remember watching I Ran on MTV and of course every detail of the video. Finally I spotted the camera in the mirrors. Covered in foil up to the camera lens. For that time in history, elegant solution. Great song.
Went to a great 80s collab concert recently. A lot of artists that had a couple hits all got together. Flock of Seagulls was the headliner. Still sounds great!
@@ProfessorofRock yes it was! It was an amazing show that my wife and I really enjoyed. If anyone reading this has a chance to get tickets I highly recomrecommend it!
Poll: Who was the GREATEST BRITISH Band of the 1980s?
Madness
New Order
Queen
The Outfield
Depeche Mode
Another chance to answer with The Smiths. After them would be Shreikback and Squeeze
The Police
The Cure
There are the 80s songs that give me a sense of pure nostalgia. A Flock of Seagulls is definitely one of them!!
For sure!
Definitely this one does!
Same.
Man that intro was like a juicy burger dripping with 80s nostalgia 🥰 Love it! You are the best Professor at weaving in great videos and lathering it with your poetic words.
Wow, thanks! How about Space age Love song?
...NEVER heard it referred to as a 'juicy burger', but I'll take me 80's nostalgia ANYWAY I can! ...ha-HAA!!
I love love everything 80s so your channel hits the spot Professor! I’ve learned so much since I started listening to you! And yeah Space Age Love Song is another gem from FOfS!
@@ProfessorofRock it’s one of the very best new wave tunes - and as a new wave fanatic that means a great deal to me! It’s beauty and the gorgeous synth work put it up with two songs I also think are new wave masterpieces: “More than this” by Roxy Music (Bryan’s voice is especially well featured in that tune) and “The Chauffeur” by Duran Duran (Nick Rhodes = absolute genius w-the synths. The whole band = great criminally underrated musicians - just recently I’ve started to hear “the kids” noticing that John Taylor was/is a sensational bassist. I never saw Roxy live but I did see D2 when they were doing the Ordinary World tour. A little new band from Ireland called The Cranberries opened for them - heehee. The show was fabulous. Also Dolores had an incredible stage presence - it makes my heart ache - gone way too soon.
The long version has such an amazing build up!
Wishing was a great song. Brilliant, haunting riff . I was not a great fan of futurists, new romantics or synth pop, but I still think that Wishing was one of the finest moments of the 80s
Agree. so many good songs these guys!
Transfer affection is great too. As for NR bands, Ultravox is my favourite one.
It’s such a cool song, and I love the way it ends.
Wishing by AFOS and Rio by duran duran are two of my favorites of the decade.
The early days of MTV will never be duplicated by anything I’ll ever see in my lifetime.
It was an absolutely mesmerizing revaluation! New Wave came and went so fast, but it will live in my memories for a lifetime.
“The More You Live, the More You Love” is one of my all time FOS songs
'Space Age Love Song' was and still is a #1 in my heart.
Amen! One of the best songs to come out of the 80s!
Right there with you.
40 years ago, Christmas 1983, I got "Listen" on cassette. I loved AFOS! Great music & great band.
Space Age Love Song was one of the first songs that actually made me LISTEN to the words. That song describes Love at First sight PERFECTLY.
Thanks Prof.😎
I miss MTV ! Especialy the days when they actually played music videos ! I was a fan from day one ! Great video ! P.O.R 💯
Thanks for watching!
“Ran” was the frontline of the 2nd wave, Airplay was solid. I expected more top hits but the competition was intense, and disco and the 70’s guitar bands weren’t going away without a fight. It was one of the most diverse genre times. Thanks Adam
I agree completely in regards to the diverse genres time. I have always felt that within what we call New Wave and Alternative there were sub genres being created as artist’s experimented. Good times for sure!
@@danieloswald844 completely agree
@danieloswald844 Yes, New Wave was really an umbrella term for sub-genres like Synthpop, Post Punk, Power pop, Ska, and even Disco and Blue eyed soul.
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Ah yes, a Flock of Seagulls, aka a bunch of birds. Absolutely love Space Age Love Song.
Unfair to call these guys a one hit wonder. I would also group Howard Jones with A Flock of Seagulls.
Thanks Professor!
Have a great weekend 🎉!
FoS has four hits that charted - they are def not a one hit wonder band. Honestly imho Howard Jones doesn’t hold up. I think it’s clear from the relative lack of streaming Jones’ music has compared to many other new wavers like OMD or Tears for Fears or Gary Numan…I love “like to get to know you well” but the other songs seem rather shallow and repetitive now and lacking the haunting synth work that exemplifies new wave at its best as seen in FoS’s songs mentioned above or in masterpieces like “The Chauffeur” by Duran Duran
Also, Madness are not a one hit wonder.
I loved them in the 80s .....and as I got older I learned to appreciate just how far ahead of their time they were .......Songs will live forever!
Space Age Love Song is my top favorite Seagulls song. Amazing what they could do with only 25 words and a few minutes of rocking instrumental.
So good!
That song is a work of pure masterful beauty - so melancholic and such beautiful synth work!
Agree. One of my top synthpop songs.
I was thinking the same thing. Space Age Love Song is a while 'nother level to I Ran.
Agreed, gorgeous song.
I owned their first 3 albums! I was a big fan of theirs before I got into Duran Duran, OMD, Or Depeche Mode. That first album was so good. Telecommunication, Modern Love is Automatic, Messages, and the instrumental DNA were terrific!
Quite humble and candid. Great interview. Hard to believe he was the lead singer of an iconic 80’s band. Certainly doesn’t look the part today.
Such a nice guy!
He cut all his hair out! But I still love him.
Gotta say Mike Score looks amazing! I really hope him all the best in life. That song will live forever. 💪👍🙏💯
He's such a great guy!
@@ProfessorofRocklove your interviews! Anything on English Beat? Special Beat Service? Pato and Roger Go Talk? Right?
I really enjoy I Ran in the movie LaLa Land. I don't remember the other 3 songs you mentioned, except from your earlier video on Space Age Love Song. Greatvideo
He still looks youthful.
I never get tired of Space Age Love Song or The More You Live The More You Love. To me they are timeless. Simple? Yes. But I don't care. A great song is a great song.
Exactly!
Don’t forget Wishing!
They always get called a synth band, but they were as much a guitar band as anything. Paul Reynolds is woefully underappreciated.
Paul gave them a rock edge.
One of the precursor guys to shoe-gaze guitar. He had an ear for mesmerizing effects & tones.
Of course, I like the musique concrete b-sides of "Nightmares." "Rosenmontag" and "The Last Flight of Yuri Gagarin." That's the direction I hoped the band go in. Not "Whose that Girl?"
Paul, hands down an incredible talent!
Is it true he used a penny for a guitar pick?
I met Mike in Philadelphia in the mid 90's. He was so cool and talked to us and took a couple pictures. He was a short fellow, if I remember correctly. All of their songs I will still listen to. Happy new year, folks.
Love I Ran. My favourite new wave pop song. I always felt it’s almost a rock song and a great song when you’re driving
....I never even thought of it as 'New Wave'...me Radio station played it as a 'Dance Club' track at Night, along with Billy Idol's "White Wedding" INCESSANTLY, so I still think of it as a 'British Invasion' track.....go figga....
I agreed Stephen! Such a great sound. What do you think of Space Age Lovesong?
@@ProfessorofRock good song, although not a huge hit in the UK
Pop rock, they call it.
Mike Score seems like am immensely likable fellow! I’ve been jamming to I Ran (So Far Away) for a couple of months this winter, I’m going to give the rest of their catalogue a listen to! Thanks again, Professor!!!
Flock of Seagulls are under appreciated. Great Band!
Yes they are!
One of the best new wave bands
In the late 90s I was a waitress in a night club. The Floc of Seagulls played at the club. I met Mike after the show. I got his autograph. Framed it and it's on the wall with my other band memorabilia I've collected. Very nice man! I was seventeen with MTV started. I spent two or three years glued to the t.v.! Those were the days!
Very cool! thanks for sharing!
Awesome.
"Do you like Flock of Seagulls?" " I can see you do." I was typing this when the clip played!!!😂😂😂
Ha ha! Awesome!
It was in the Fall of 1982 that my cable company added MTV. The first band that I was introduced to through MTV's music videos was A Flock Of Seagulls. I Ran (So Far Away) was in heavy rotation and was played constantly. I really enjoyed their New Wave sound. It's a shame they disappeared so quickly but their songs did have a major impact on 80's music.
The 80s……..a much simpler time and space. Loved every minute of it. His reference to “the Saturday AM cartoon generation with a big bowl of cereal” was the perfect description.
I love this channel. From the subject matter, to the songs and artists that are featured, or even mentioned for that matter, to the way the stories are told, memories brought back, and the entire delivery of the information is top notch. I should also add that the interviews are astounding. Hearing the stories from the legends themselves is priceless. I will also add that every time this song comes on the volume goes up. From the very first notes to the end, it's an absolutely awesome song that still has the same effect today as it did the first time I heard it.
I got to see "A Flock Of Seagulls" at a night club called "Pop's" across the river from St. Louis about 2003-4(???). They rocked😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 They played "updated" versions of their old songs and the "regular" versions.
Very cool. What was your favorite song?
That’s a show worth going to.
@@ProfessorofRock it was "Wishing"
Anyone who’s made a song or movie or show that’s been listened loved watched enjoyed by millions is a life well lived
You should do an episode on The Hooters. They were huge for a minute... All You Zombies, And We Danced, Day by Day, etc.... Whatever happened to those guys?
I interviewed them! Search for it.
Awesome! And this is why I love your channel. Off to search! Thank you.@@ProfessorofRock
I'm really glad you made this particular video.... when i think of specific sounds from the 80;s that take me back directly with a flood of not just great memories but feels like a foundation of what the 80's were.... the guitar in I Ran and Space Age Love Song to me (plus the synth of course) just is so incredible and never gets the love it should
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Late 1991 there was a movement in music like the 79-82 period you refer to. The 80's were incredible though, no doubt about it ! I'm 51 and i lived in front of the TV like alot of kids did. The release of MTV in august of 1981 was very anticipated by kids all over. It was a great few years. 89 was the last of MTV for me though
Younger people have to remember that back in the day, MTV was 1 of the only ways to see new bands w/o going to a concert or bar, or maybe catching a TV special like Dick Clark's New Years bashes, American BandStand, etc. Suddenly you have a new song with a new band with new faces, all at once! Or maybe you would be seeing an older band play a new song, and now you had 'new faces' to go with it. The Cars is a great example of that. I was glued to MTV at friends' houses that had cable. We didn't until the early 90s. Anyhow, IMO, "I Ran" still stands up well today, catchy, mysterious, driving beat, layered, and enough guitar in it to lean it in a rock direction as well. It's still on my playlist.
Oh,I remember well when I Ran came out. I'm a Rock Hair Band girl, but this caught my attention like Blondie did in the late 70's early 80's. It was just different from what I normally listened to. Back then, I was still listening to Carly Simon and things like that. Of coarse growing up near Rockford IL., I was a huge Cheap Trick fan, more than any other band. When I Ran hit the airwaves, I loved it because you could actually dance to it. 😂 So for a brief period, it was a song I loved. Much like Heart Of Glass/ Blondie.
Thanks for sharing! I know what you mean!
It can be groovy to some.
I'm now 66 years old but in 82 was magical in music and film anything was possible ! what a wonderful time! Best days of my life!
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While stationed in West Germany I went to a concert in Dortmund where I got to see A Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Gary Moore with Ian Paise. Still have the t-shirt 😎
Thanks for your service!
When was this? Sounds like THE concert!
December 20,1982
I was in 3rd Grade when "I Ran" came out. I'm always taken back to that period every time I hear the song to this day.
A Flock Of Seagulls are definitely one of the best new wave bands of the 80s. I bought most of their albums. On AOR commercial radio, when my favorite "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" was on the playlist, I'd make it the nine minute version anytime it would not mess up spots and legal ID timing of my break clock. "Space Age Love Song" was excellent too, but it would be even better, and I think would have done even better, if it had verses. (Some might say "if it had a chorus".) I'm glad to learn the update from Mike Score; great feature, Professor!
There's a 9 minute version of I Ran? I've got to look for it.
@@Narpets2112 No, not of "I Ran (So Far Away)." The version of "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (extended version)" on "The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls" is listed as being 9:08 long. "I Ran" is 4:55 there.
Don’t you wish Space Age Love Song went on forever?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hi Lilly, Oh sure, that would be great, extend and keep looping the thing. There are a couple of reaction videos of "Space Age Love Song" on youtube, too. :-) I have eight CDs of A Flock Of Seagulls and I plan to buy the new one, too. :-)
@@shiroibasketshoes I’ve seen some of those reaction videos.
I saw Flock of Seagulls headline the "Lost 80s Live" tour in the summer of 2018 at Ravinia Festival (Illinois). Also on the bill were Wang Chung, Animotion, Naked Eyes, Dramarama, and Gene Loves Jezebel. Later that summer at Ravinia was a triple bill of Thompson Twins, B52s, and Culture Club.
Dang, I’m from Chicago. I can’t believe I missed that!
I RAN WAS FLOCK OF SEAGULLS ONLY top 40 HIT here in Australia peaking at at number 1 in august 1982 ; they had a further top 50 entry in April 83 with Wishing
I remember I first heard, I RAN so far away, and was completely blown away. I did not know any other songs really until later in the 80's from AFOS. My second fav is SPACE AGE love song. Truly masterpieces from that era. Thank you POR and Mike Score for this segment, always takes me back to a magical era.
I can't remember how many of their cassettes (as well as Duran Duran) I wore out in high school.
Rio was a fantastic DD album.
You LOVED new wave!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 New Wave is great stuff. Same with Metal which was born at that time.
I remember the loop of videos! Cool story Professor! See you tomorrow!🤘🔥
You rock! Thanks Brent!
Really cool story: My mom worked as a waitress in one of my hometown's most popular bars, and the Flock came flying in, playing the bar as a warm up for their gig the next night at our big hockey arena. My mom was their waitress, and apparently impressed the band so much, the lead singer INVITED HER BACKSTAGE THE NEXT NIGHT! So, her boss gave my mom the following night off, and she got to spend a night with the Flock of Seagulls! She's always teasing my Dad that she coulda been the wife of a rockstar instead of him..... He retaliates that the singer didn't have the same charisma as him... Well, goes to show that you REALLY don't know your parents until MUCH later...
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My fav Flock of Seagulls tune was their first single It’s not me talking. Loved the alien space connection Pure early 80s
That Kenny Loggins Album in the top of the rack is a criminally overlooked album! Get it if you see it in your local record store
I remember hearing the song I ran at the mall at one of the music stores and then later space age love song. I ended up buying the album instead due to the cassettes were sold out. Ended up getting high quality blank cassettes so I could make my own. This was definitely one of those bands that I can listen to every song on the album over and over. When they broke up so early I was one of those fans that was devastated and always thought about what could have been. It's great after all these
years that they've come back together with some really cool stuff and truly love the orchestral versions.
Sorry, I got nothin' for this one. The only thing I watched on MTV back then was Headbangers Ball. And that was way after this video.
I know headbangers that love A Flock of Seagulls!
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That's awesome. Maybe if I hadn't grown up in the 60's, I might like that music more. In the 70's I lived in N. Carolina and it was all southern rock. When I got back home to Ohio in 1980, I couldn't believe the music the kids were listening to. Again, sorry, I'm still kinda stuck in the 60's and 70's.
The More You Live the More You Love became a lifelong mantra for me. The song is ethereal and wistful, just what teen me needed...but also full on wisdom about appreciation for what was and what still has yet to come.
Mourn the losses, but look forward to the new.
Embrace it all!
I thank this band sincerely for shaping the present me!
Saw them in September 2023 in Guildford. Still really good and a hit filled set list, if you followed them at all.
Keep going Mike and good luck with the new album.
Very cool. What did they open with?
They have a new album? I’ll have to listen to it!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It's due out 'soon', so Q1 2024.
Iconic, memorable, listenable, what more can you ask of music? I'm biased, but it's music that is part of my history.
I Ran and Photograph are essential 80s songs. I ❤ new wave synth pop. What does Flock Of Seagles sound like now? It sounds great! I still love and listen to 80s music.
Rock on! I agree. Love their sound! Did you ever see them live Catherine?
If you abbreviate A Flick Of Seagulls' "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph Of You)" that way, you will remind some people of Def Leppard. :-) I agree with your tastes.
I just found out they have a new album. I’m excited to hear what it sounds like.
"Nightmares" is still one of my favorite songs ever.
My old band got to open for them around 10yrs ago or so when I lived in Houston, TX. Mike and the entire OG band are legends, And he's a great, humble, gracious genius of a Man. God Bless Him.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s. Totally amazing.
"The 70s and the 80s? You're not missing anything, believe me. I've looked into it. There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it."
Where is this quote from? I know I've heard it before
@@mrhappyherb8431 I dunno, movie quotes aren't my bag, baby!
@@mrhappyherb8431Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
I love it when Austin Powers is quoted 😂😂😂 your comment and reply made me laugh 😂😂😂
The More You Live the More You Love is, for me, their best song, and their best song title. Wonderful music. :-)
1982. I was fortunate to see them at a small club Hitsville in Passaic, NJ.. Great show but I couldn’t hear for a week!
IT was that big wall of sound! Right?
The Professor knows!!!😅
It was loud!
They have so many great songs,"Listen" is solid all the way through,the bassline for "What Am I Supposed To Do" is brilliant.
I absolutely loved those first two albums. I remember ESPN using D.N.A. all the time on SportsCenter in the early 80s. Another great song.
I saw these guys live a couple times back in the 90s and they were GREAT! One of the better bands I've ever seen live
I've seen 'em a couple times too and I agree.
I hope they’re still doing concerts today.
Oh my goodness! This band has some of the best 80's out there! The guitar is a lot more rockin' then you expect with a band that also features a lot of synth. Its both heavy and lifting!
I looove Flock of Seagulls, especially the wall of sound perfect pop song Wishing, and the soaring and magnificent Space Age Love Song. Very underrated!
At the time, many established acts were reluctant to make videos a priority while new acts jumped on the trend hard. I liked FoS because they put synth and driving guitars together so well.
Huge fan of the New Wave era, and "I Ran" is one of the Top 5 songs that defined the era and sound.
Almost got a chance to see them in Jacksonville, FL in 2005, as they were scheduled to play at a venue that was literally in walking distance from my house. Because pre-show ticket sales were so low, they canceled the gig. So bummed..... NOBODY in Florida buys tickets before the show: we just arrive at showtime in droves. Always thought that was a missed opportunity for the band (and me, as well)
There was nothing better at the time, but cutting high school after lunch, smoking Thai weed and watching this on MTV for hours..... That was the life of a 17 year old in 1982.
I RAN was my son's favorite song back in the day. Always played it!
I love this band so much! They were way ahead of their time.
Professor you forget the Stones lead the British Invasion of the early 80s with their Emotional Rescue album in 1980 and Tattoo You in 1981 .....with hits like Emotional Rescue and the big hits Start me up and Waiting on a friend
Ok. Do you count that? They had already invaded America.
@@ProfessorofRock....sure it counts, they're still British...
@@williamwilkinson6665 But I always thought "invasion" referred to the initial big impact. For the Stones, that was in the 60s.
I grew up during this time of music. I was in grade school in the late 70s and, of course, in HS at the beginning of the 80s until I graduated in '85. Anyway, it was a great time to be young. So many music genres and so many changes in music were happening in that time period. Like the late 60s and earliest 70s, there were a slew of deaths in the music world that would change the direction of music, for better or for worse. MTV appearing on the music landscape was the big game changer. Some artists happened to be in the right place at the right time, to be sure, BUT their music still had to be decent. True, there was a lot of not so good stuff out there because they got their video out at the right time. But there were some very good acts that really benefitted from the new medium. I will add that Flock of Seagulls was not the only act that seemed to just disappear after tremendous success. In fact, there were a lot of bands that did that back then. Maybe it was due to musoc changing so rapidly and bands getting videos out quickly to get airtime on MTV. But history repeats itself, and a similar thing happened in the late 80s and earliest 90s when another seismic shift in music place with the grunge era.
Thanks Greg! Love it.
Love it!
Good point.
Saw them live in 1985 at a 2000 seat event. I was right in front. It was awesome.
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I saw them on 80s night at The Nyabingy when I first went to college. Just as great as they ever were. Dude’s hair was on point. 😊👍
Within ten seconds of listening to your description, I _knew_ you had to be talking about Flock Of Seagulls! 😄
I cried watching ❤️ I remember dancing and loving everything A Flock Of Seagulls THANK YOU for the wonderful memories 💛⭐️💛🥰
Thanks for sharing! I've subscribed. While "M" and "The Buggles" were technically the first music videos, Flock of Seagulls arguably took that new era and ran with it-no pun intended-both in sound and style. Their impact highlighted how newer electric instruments (namely the synthesizer ) were seamlessly integrating into the evolving musical landscape of that time.
The Flock of Seagulls, Sade, Duran Duran, and Bow Wow Wow were the groups that I watched on MTV gave me the dream of one day going to Europe. The videos were so fun, adventurous, and intellectual for a 16 year old it felt like going to a different world on the same planet. The Flock of Seagulls video was so futuristic it made you feel that the world would be different once you became an adult. So I joined the military and was given an opportunity to live in Europe. The fashion, the music, and the lifestyle was so different and sophisticated. European music that was on MTV showed you a different world and I was fortunate to live in that world for a few years. The music from the 80's gave me an opportunity to dream.
They were our soundtrack when I was a freshman in college. Wish I had a dollar for every time we danced to their songs! Space Age Love Song is my favorite!💟
The best part about listening to Flock of Seagulls and indeed all the bands in the those decades and days prior this current one, is that we get to have a choice to listen to a whole range of genres. It's like viewing a smorgas board of music. Moreover, we get to know their stories. I have an eclectic mix of tastes in music and it is great that we have this vast library available to us to listen to and make memories. Thanks for sharing.
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thier song Space Age Love Song is THE definitive 80's song even more than I Ran. everytime i hear it it takes me back to 1984 and seeing my beautiful blonde haired future wife for the first time the first week of 10th grade and high school!!. i was an early hip hop head growing up in Detroit, but i like the punk, new wave, and funk stuff too, all thanks our late night DJ The Electrifying Mojo, he broadened a lot of peoples horizons musically. you can find him on youtube.
I feel like Adam Sandler's joke from The Wedding Singer ("You like a flock of seagulls?", "I can see you do") was about them already being dated by 1984-85
Well it was nice to see both Michael Score and I have aged.
I got a tears listening to this. After I graduated high school in 1982, I was married and working full time. We didn't have cable TV in the California desert at that time, so there was no MTV for us. Besides, this wasn't my kind of music. I was too busy listening to Ozzy's Diary of a Madman.
My sister was in her Junior year of high school and decided to cut school one day and asked if my wife and I could take her and a friend to the beach. I was off work that day and obliged. It was about a 2 hour drive from the desert. My sister asked if we could listen to a couple of cassette tapes on the way. One of the tapes was Flock of Seagulls, the other was Human League. Both tapes were NOT my kind of music, but I was out-voted by my wife and sister. I heard this song and Human League's Don't You Want Me at least a dozen times that day.
Now I love these songs simply because of the memories. Where the hell did 41 years go? My wife and I have been married 41 years but it seems like yesterday we were newlyweds helping my sister cut school.
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I Ran is one of my favorite songs. I could watch it every day.
Flock of Seagulls is what I like to call 'Timeless futurism' You can play those songs at any point in time, 17th century, 25th century, 100,000th century, and those songs will still ground you and have you looking towards the future with your feet planted in emotion. Timeless.
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Thanks you for this, and your previous FOS vids. I dug out one of their greatest hits cds to play in my car. All my cassettes from the 80s rendered useless now, and the Bluetooth won't work in my car! A Flock of Seagulls were a massive part of my life in 82. In a time when I went to the library to borrow cassettes, as I was still at high school and couldn't afford to buy all my music. I Ran, Modern Love is Automatic, Space Age Love Song, Telecommunication etc LOVE!! Through you I discovered that Prague Philharmonic Orchestra version of Space Age Love Song fr 2018. I just love them! ❤
As a teen I was obsessed with "Over The Border". I used to play the song at half speed because I loved the groove it had at 64bpm. In 2008 I started working on an arrangement of a few parts that became it's own song. In 2014 I wrote lyrics. It has taken me until now to train my falsetto voice to match what I hear in my head and to feel confident enough to make a demo for someone else to make a professional version. It pains me that I only have an mp3 of the music since the hard drive that had the raw FuityLoops 8 files stopped working in 2012.
Brilliant band, I loved how different and innovative they were!
"I Ran" was tbe song playing when I rode "Guardians Of The Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind". Awesome!
I Ran, Wishing & Space Age Love Song are all timeless songs capturing the emotions so many experience through life.
Amen!
Of course!
Hi Adam, imagine if we had YOU, side by side, with the dawn of MTV !! Professor of Rock and MTV, a musical marriage made in heaven. I remember the first day we got cable in our home in Miami and the day MTV came to town. I had a stereo with a Cassette/8-track/and a turntable. If I did not have the record I sat in front of the tv with my trusty tape recorder and a blank cassette. This was well before we got our first Beta Max Machine.
Mike seems a lot more comfortable with the legacy of I Ran (So Far Away) nowadays. I saw an interview I think on VH1 or something like that and he hated it because that was all people wanted to hear live.
Favorite song by Flock of Seagulls is “Wishing.” Love that song!
It's so good. Love Space Age Love song too!
Great song
In case anyone else wondered, the movie with the line "we're futurists" is called "Sing Street".
Such a great movie!
I was 21 when MTV started. I remember leaving it on in our apartment most of the day, every day. My wife on the other hand grew up in a very small farming town. No cable. She never saw mtv or listened to 80s music. When we hear an 80s song, I'll quiz her "who is that" I ask her. It doesn't matter who the band is, she says "is it flock of seagulls?".
I have have loved the beatles since I was a kid in the 60s. My wife HATES the beatles. If we are out and about and a beatles song comes on. I'll hear her singing along. I say "I thought you hated the beatles". She'll go "euwww, thats the beatles?...I hate them" and stop singing. Priceless.
They really kicked off that New Wave look and sound that others followed. And being in the states hearing that style of music that was not on the radio was mind blowing.
So true. Thanks for watching.
Even Hungry Like the Wolf can owe some credit to Flock of Seagulls for starting the new wave trend.
Love their songs. Space Age Love Song with the orchestra is a pretty good version too.
You missed the first reunion album _'Ascension'_ that came before _'Inflight'_ and _'String Theory'._ Still, these vids you made with Mike Score are pure gold. 👌👍🤞
Saw them in 2022’s 80s Cruise. Awesome show and the nicest band to meet.
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I remember watching I Ran on MTV and of course every detail of the video. Finally I spotted the camera in the mirrors. Covered in foil up to the camera lens. For that time in history, elegant solution. Great song.
Love it.
The twinkling eye of the woman in the video.
Space Age Love Song is just gorgeous and, although it sounds like the '80s, it still sounds great today!
Went to a great 80s collab concert recently. A lot of artists that had a couple hits all got together. Flock of Seagulls was the headliner. Still sounds great!
Was it Lost 80s Live?
@@ProfessorofRock yes it was! It was an amazing show that my wife and I really enjoyed. If anyone reading this has a chance to get tickets I highly recomrecommend it!
Who else played?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Naked eyes, wang chung, when in Rome and animotion are the ones I remember…
@@OsoBlanco17 Oh, I should have seen that!