12/29/2023 0 Comments Flock of seagulls hair cTodd (VO): A Flock of Seagulls was started in 1979 by lead singer and eventually lead synth player Mike Score as a side hobby away from his day job as. Who were they? What were they about? Why did they end up running so far away afterwards?īefore the hit Pictures of band and Mike Score by himself And yet, they never seemed to get their fair due. Todd (VO): Pretty much everything about this band-its sound, its look, its name-signifies pretty much everything iconic, for good or for bad, about the early 80s. Todd: Which.you should not need Captain Hindsight to point out how this happened, dude. Lead singer Mike Score has always lamented how the hairstyle has overshadowed the music. Todd (VO): Underneath that horrible styling-gel-and-chainsaw accident was an actual band, not that you would know. Of.it's.it's like part mullet, part emo-fringe, part pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. The other is their lead singer's unmatchably, legendarily ridiculous hairdo, one that has to be considered as the outright stupidest hairstyle of the '80s, and it's not like the 80s was short of competition for that title. Todd (VO): One of them is "I Ran", the MTV-powered Top 10 smash that was a big, major hit at the dawn of the '80s. Michael "Mike" Score: And I ran I ran so far away Todd: A band largely known for two things. Todd(VO): A Flock of Seagulls! Not the Flock of Seagulls, just A Flock of Seagulls! And today?Ĭlip from Pulp Fiction Jules (Samuel L. Todd: So I feel like I should get to work on that. Montage includes The Buggles - " Video Killed the Radio Star", Falco - " Rock Me Amadeus", Gary Numan - "Cars", Kajagoogoo - "Too Shy", Nena - "99 Luftballoons", and The Vapors - " Turning Japanese" Various clips of New Wave band songs as the opening of "I Ran (So Far Away)" plays in the background. Todd: I-I do try to space out the '80s New Wave bands I cover on One Hit Wonderland, but going more than a few episodes without covering at least one of them feels wrong. Sometimes we like to play it live, heavy and sometimes we like to play it a bit lighter and a bit more airy.” So what will we see in Catalina? Hopefully you have your tickets and are ready to go! In addition to A Flock of Seagulls, the weekend will have sets by English Beat, Missing Persons, Oingo Boingo Former Members, Dramarama, Wally Palmar of The Romantics, The Untouchables, Annabella’s Bow Wow Wow, Tommy Tutone, Stacey Q, Kon Kan, Josie Cotton, Shannon, Naked Eyes, Musical Youth, Burning Sensations, and Trans-X.Todd plays "I Ran (So Far Away)" on the pianoĪ FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - I RAN (SO FAR AWAY) People can kind of go, ‘Oh I never thought I’d hear it like that’ which is the orchestral version or maybe a stripped down version or a heavier version. “We try and just doctor them a little bit without going too far away from the original. A song like ‘I Ran’ should stand up forever and ‘Space Age’ should stand up forever. After spending lockdown with his home studio, there’s no telling how many hundreds he has now! He also told us, “Apart from writing new songs, we’ve got to look back at what we’ve done and say does it still stand up, and of course you want it to stand up all the time. But way back in early months of COVID in 2020, Score told he had between 100 and 200 songs he was working on. We are always looking for new ways to keep people interested in us and keep it interesting for us.” Will they do more orchestral versions? We can’t say for sure. I’ve heard a few rough mixes of it and it sounds better than the first one if you ask me. Last year, Score told us he was so excited about “String Theory.” “I did everything I needed to do for it,” he said. After the band released “Ascension” in 2018, there was such a positive response, they decided to do another orchestral album.
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