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| | A Flock of Seagulls | | | Music Artist : | | A Flock of Seagulls | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Jive | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. I Ran (So Far Away)
2. Space Age Love Song
3. You Can Run
4. Don't Ask Me
5. Messages
6. Telecommunication
7. Modern Love Is Automatic
8. Standing in the Doorway
9. D.N.A.
10. Manmade
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Solid, but not remastered, for whatever reason.
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
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| Funny how things get done, or not. It is surprising to me that this of all their releases has not been remastered. This must be the music industry getting in it's own way. I have found that sound quality can be improved by a great margin, yet the industry as a whole is satisfied to produce marginal quality products. Let's get with it and reissue this one remastered, ASAP! |
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 One of the best debuts ever
Submitted on: 2009-03-27 |
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Lately I'd been thinking about performers who had one album in their career that was so good it eclipsed everything else they did, rendering even greatest hits albums irrelevant. The first band I think of in that regard is A Flock of Seagulls. This first album is better than many of their peers' greatest hits collections. For that matter I'd put in on the shortlist of best debuts ever.
In this era of cherry picking just the memorable mp3s from an album, this is one of those albums that should just be downloaded as a whole. Oh, I could do without the two instrumentals that close the album; it doesn't matter to me that "DNA" won a grammy. But just about every other song here would rate at least an 8 on a scale of 10. Particular highlights are "Messages", which for my taste was one of the defining songs of 1982 and the best thing A Flock of Seagulls ever recorded, "Standing in the Doorway", and "Modern Love Is Automatic".
Over the years A Flock of Seagulls has endured a lot of ridicule for being supremely 80s in their fashion sense, but such envy is just an attempt to distract the listener from the fact that those criticizing the band never came close to putting out an album this good.
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 Space Age Romance Intrigue
Submitted on: 2009-03-23 |
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A Flock of Seagulls had me from the first time I heard "I Ran" on the radio. In 1982 "I Ran" and "Space Age Love Song" were receiving heavy airplay around Boston. I didn't know the name of the band; I didn't even know it was the same band doing both songs. What I knew was this was the sound for me. I never get tired of either song. No other song has duplicated the magic of the soaring guitars and cascading synths of "Space Age Love Song." The lyrics aren't much, but they're incidental to the music.
If only AFOS had shown up to receive their Grammy for D.N.A. I think the band is correct in their assertion they would have received a wider audience and more recognition if they had. Perhaps they would never have had to resort to "Dream Come True" if they had.
The most underrated song in the entire Flock canon is perhaps "Man Made" with its stark post-apocalyptic theme: "Man Made machines to control the days, now machines control while the man obeys/Second generation, generation lost, while the man prepares for the holocaust." The song culminates in an extended outro of guitar riffs with explosive attack and reverberating decay and eerie psychedelic synthesizer work.
Mike Howlett, formerly of the progressive rock band Gong, was really the fifth Seagull for the first two albums. He went the extra mile in helping the band add a tinge of acid rock to their New Wave sound, as on "Standing in the Doorway"). This is not to discount the Bill Nelson influenced guitar style of Paul Reynolds; however, "Story of a Young Heart," produced by Steve Lovell, did not have the same hard edge to compliment the cool synth pop sound and that album lacked the focus of the first two, which I attribute to Howlett's absence. |
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good but...
Submitted on: 2006-11-03 |
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| On second thought I would have rather of bought the best of flock of seagulls. Don't get me wrong, this is a very good album but I would rather enjoy a collection of their music. I miss not having "Nightmares". |
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Where's the original "I Ran"?
Submitted on: 2006-08-14 |
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| The debut album "A Flock of Seagulls" is a riveting work by a band who truly strove to craft a music for the ages. Mike Score, along with his brother Ali, Paul Reynolds and Frank Maudsley had made an album of substance, style, and wit, truly the bane of anything MTV wanted to promote, which is why their fortunes quickly waned in the US. The CD reissue is identical to the vinyl with just one small complaint: Why did Jive Records have to take the intro off of the Live B-side version of "I Ran" (found on the 45 of "(It's Not Me)Talking") and tack it onto the studio version of the song? BLASPHEMOUS!!! Also, I want to rub it in the face of reviewer M. Montgomery by telling him that I had the good fortune of seeing the band at Radio City in NY in August of 1983, and they did, indeed, rock the house!! |
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