A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

Very inspirational.

One of my favourite songs from the 80's... regretted not seeing AFOS reunited on a tour in the late 90's...

great tune, got in on my 'random pop' Spotify playlist

if the contents of that particular playlist ever leaked onto watmm, I'd probably go into hiding....

Classic one-hit wonder, damn good pop song but not my favorite of the era though TBH, give me A-Ha, OMD, Simple Minds, etc. over that track

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Classic one-hit wonder

Don't forget about this'n.

very enjoyable era of music 

I'll be listening to AFOS, Tears for Fears, and Simple Minds for the rest of the day. ha

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Simple Minds

  On 1/2/2018 at 4:56 PM, whosebrian said:

Hell, he has not aged well - kind of like Boy George

  On 1/2/2018 at 8:06 PM, ManjuShri said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Classic one-hit wonder

Don't forget about this'n.

 

 

That was always my favourite AFOS song over I Ran. Their "Best of" album basically is the perfect AFOS compilation: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKFjD28qPwQ

  On 1/2/2018 at 8:06 PM, ManjuShri said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Classic one-hit wonder

Don't forget about this'n.

 

 

Well I'll be damned, never heard this somehow. Maybe some satiellie radio stations play it but I only ever heard "I Ran" on classic pop radio rotations. UK charts seem to be kinder to bands in terms ushering more hits...and more fluke and weird singles. 

  On 1/2/2018 at 8:32 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Simple Minds

I felt nostalgic for this one a while back and discovered that they did not age well at all.

 

I can't say I know any song besides "don't you (forget about me)"

You know what has aged well, or was like stupid prophetic / influential? Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" - from Enya "Orinoco Flow" to Bastille's "Pompeii" I feel like that chorus has been rehashed a lot over the decades.

  On 1/3/2018 at 12:31 AM, whosebrian said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKFjD28qPwQ

damn they had some great tracks besides "I Ran", I had no idea!

  On 1/3/2018 at 8:25 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

  On 1/3/2018 at 8:25 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

  On 1/3/2018 at 6:17 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 8:06 PM, ManjuShri said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Classic one-hit wonder

Don't forget about this'n.

 

 

 

Well I'll be damned, never heard this somehow. Maybe some satiellie radio stations play it but I only ever heard "I Ran" on classic pop radio rotations. UK charts seem to be kinder to bands in terms ushering more hits...and more fluke and weird singles. 

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 8:32 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:56 PM, joshuatx said:

Simple Minds

I felt nostalgic for this one a while back and discovered that they did not age well at all.

 

 

I can't say I know any song besides "don't you (forget about me)"

 

You know what has aged well, or was like stupid prophetic / influential? Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" - from Enya "Orinoco Flow" to Bastille's "Pompeii" I feel like that chorus has been rehashed a lot over the decades.

 

 

  On 1/3/2018 at 12:31 AM, whosebrian said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKFjD28qPwQ

 

damn they had some great tracks besides "I Ran", I had no idea!

 

Interesting tidbit: Simple Minds didn't even write Don't You (Forget About Me) - it was written for the movie The Breakfast Club, and Simple Minds initially didn't want to perform someone else's song. Add insult to injury when it became their biggest hit!

I'll stand by Simple Minds being an awesome band. Their first few albums (up to and including Sparkle in the Rain) were fkn excellent.

Also, A-ha's discography is worth a look. Scoundrel Days has some great Synclavier tracks:

^ the middle section sounds like early 90s demoscene music!

I'm not standing for this dissing of Simple Minds. Listen to I Travel then come back here and apologise.

  On 1/4/2018 at 8:48 AM, tec said:

I'm not standing for this dissing of Simple Minds. Listen to I Travel then come back here and apologise.

Oh, don't get me wrong - I love Simple Minds - On The Catwalk is one of my faves!

  On 1/2/2018 at 4:52 PM, Joyrex said:

One of my favourite songs from the 80's... regretted not seeing AFOS reunited on a tour in the late 90's...

The singer moved down to my area in Clearwater FL in the 90s. They did a lot of small gigs, basically any local club or bar that would host them. They still tour.

excellent instrumental Simple Minds

Flock of segulls & Simple Minds are the kind of bands i actively seek when the IDM scene is dull...(majority of the time for me)

In fact pretty much all 180 songs on my Hello Kitty Mp3 player are pop songs...

80's bands can have some killer tunes hidden away in their back catalogue (before they got famous or before they got stereotyped by their big pop chart song)