ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “I Ran (So Far Away)” by A Flock of Seagulls
WARNING : Category 5 Eighties Hair approaching
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WARNING : Category 5 Eighties Hair approaching
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@fmphotooffice5513
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
The HAIR is a problem? Lawn trash bag with plastic sash aesthetic had its moment for a VERY short while.
Guitar A+++
Space age Love song A+++
I sense from other media the hair stylist is kind of a brute. Not a good leader.
(IMO)
@AJ17_
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
They are absolutely NOT a one hit wonder. Telecommunication was a big hit in the clubs. Space Age Love Song went top 30 in the US, Wishing went top 10 in their home UK, and The More You Live The More You Love went top 30 in the UK and top 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
@johnkirby8939
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
The Beatle's hairstyles were considered weird for their time too. Must be a Liverpool thing.
@steamdream19
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I grew up in the 80s in Vancouver, Canada. I went to school with a guy who emulated that hairdo in high school. Almost no one blinked. It was the 80s man…
@smergthedargon8974
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Space Age Love Song has become one of my all-time favorites. It's just so disgustingly perfect, like Take On Me.
@Markstubation01
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
We as a civilisation deserved more good music from A Flock of Seagulls.
@JoeMama-tl4tr
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I feel like as time goes on Space Age Love Song will be remembered more than I ran. Vice City had a lot to do with I ran returning to popularity in the 2000's
@richfix1183
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I do not consider them a One Hit Wonder….they had other great songs.
@neonwind
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I saw them for the cost of 50p at Doncaster Outlook UK 1982 I think?. Good band. Then they went to the US, like Space Hog from Leeds, 'Couldn't get away!' But they did.
@Neelo5000
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Space Age Love Song was a great song!
@Salem-Sins
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Todd put his full pussy into the playing in the intro
@bgray625
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Hearing (and being reminded of the existence of) their "Space Age Love Song" made me revisit DJ Shadow's "You Can't Go Home Again"
That one always sounded to me like every New Wave song ever, in one convenient listen; specifically, like A Flock Of Seagulls getting arrested by The Police
@themanateemansand2416
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Wishing is flock of seagulls best song.
@VaughnDingus
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
That bass though. You don’t see people rocking a Gibson RD bass very often outside of Kris from Nirvana.
@RealBarefootIsLegal
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Space Age Love Song is probably my favorite song ever. Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You) is in my Top 10.
@alexanderjames6328
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Not one hit wonders!
@user-cg8hu3kl1n
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
will never not piss me off how the US tracklist for their debut album got mangled, with even a song getting taken out altogether… either the label higher-ups didnt know it was a concept album or they knew & just didnt care lol
@VanBurenOfficial
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Do slim shady little aliens feeling rebellious
@auggiedoggiesmommy1734
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I thought Space Age Love Song did pretty well? I remember that song being pretty popular.
@auggiedoggiesmommy1734
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
We dressed up as an actual flock (colony!) of seagulls for Halloween that year.
@drbonkerssoundlabllc
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Nightmares was great.
@ezri6585
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Every time someone mentions Iran in the news I think of this song
@ChrisTopher-id4mz
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I heard “Wishing (If I had a Photograph)” for the first time in a grocery store at the tail end of 2022 and honestly, the fact that this got slept on as hard as it did is a crime.
This was my “Automatic Man”.
@jeremyhouston3438
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
The lead singer has Donald Trump’s current hairstyle lol
@friendlymachine9667
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Space Age Love Song is gorgeous but where are my Wishing enjoyers
@quavde
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I can't how much I'm delighted having found your Channel. That is so instructive and fun. I can't figure if I've already binge-watched but i take the risk to submit two artists that I'm not quite sure (even more risky, so) if they are one hit wonder : Nik Kershaw – The Riddle and Alphaville – Big In Japan. Please continue 'cause I'm afraid I may be addicted, now
@geoffelder2236
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Their "Best Of" from the "We Are The 80s" VH1 Classic series is pretty decent. If you are interested and/or unfamiliar with A Flock Of Seagulls or in New Wave, you really can't go wrong.
Their three Top 40 U.S. Hits:
– I Ran (So Far Away) 1982 #9
– Space Age Love Song 1982 #30
– Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You 1983 #26
But "The More You Live The More You Love", Telecommunications" and especially "Nightmares" are as solid as those.
@jrp7837
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
FOS had some of the best guitar playing of the new wave era.
@beckythompson4538
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
Only one hit? I’m surprised. I thought they were bigger
@MrConstant23.
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
space age love song sounds like angels and airwaves 😮
@Mostlyharmless1985
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
I like to put “I Ran” after the Proclaimers “I’m gonna be” and before Offspring’s “Tehran” in my playlists.
@Genethagenius
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 am
“Space Age Love Song” is so good!!!
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