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A Flock of Seagulls - The Best of A Flock of Seagulls Audio CD

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A Flock of Seagulls Band: A Flock of Seagulls
Title: The Best of A Flock of Seagulls
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Release Date: 1998-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) 2: Nightmares 3: Space Age Love Song 4: Never Again (The Dancer) 5: I Ran (So Far Away) 6: Heartbeat Like a Drum 7: Transfer Affection 8: D.N.A. 9: More You Live, the More You Love 10: Windows 11: Who's That Girl (She's Got It) 12: Committed 13: Living in Heaven 14: (It's Not Me) Talking 15: Telecommunication 16: Modern Love Is Automatic

A Very Thorough Yet Still Lacking Retrospective
Included are their big hits- I RAN, SPACE AGE LOVE SONG, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, etc. Of all their 'Greatest Hits' compilations available, this no doubt is the best of them all. But also some of their later songs (IT'S NOT ME TALKING, THE MORE YOU LIVE THE MORE YOU LOVE, WHO'S THAT GIRL [SHE'S GOT IT], WISHING. . . ) are all worthy of honourable mention. The only titles that, in my opinion, could have easily been replaced are the likes of NIGHTMARES, COMMITTED, LIVING IN HEAVEN, and WINDOWS. Other catchy tracks from perhaps their debut album (MESSAGES, YOU CAN RUN, DON'T ASK ME, + STANDING IN THE DOORWAY) could better have been their substitutes. Even better yet, had they all together been combined, no future 'Best Of' could have come near it's match. As it remains, however, the final star of this hits collection and review is better shining somewhere off into eternity.


Best collection by AFOS
Riding the crest of the synthpop/new wave explosion in America in 1982, they mastered not only the art of guitar and synth fusion but of writing simple yet infectious melodies. This is the most comprehensive of the Flock of Seagulls collections, and it demonstrates just how good these guys were. Beyond the radio hits "I Ran" and "Space Age Love Song", you have to witness truly touching songs like "Wishing", "The More You Live, The More You Love" and "Transfer Affection", and experience the haunting "Nightmares" or paranoid "It's Not Me Talking". They quickly became laughable icons of the New Wave movement, thanks in part to Mike Score's absurd haircut, but they really were so much better than what any superficial retro 80's kitsch might have you believe, and it's a crime that their excellent first two albums have not been properly reissued on CD (ignoring the long out-of-print versions).


synth+guitar=AFOS
S. A new wave group with a lot of rock influence: songs like "Never Again", "Space age L. ", "The more you live", "Wishing" makes them the Roxy Music of the 80's (as far as there was P. Reynolds on guitar). Plus "Telecommunication" is way post punk, and "It's not me talking" would make happy any Cure's fan; if you like synths,drum machines as well as guitars and you're looking for romantic melodies & lyrics DON'T MISS THIS CD.


Most of the best of AFOS, plus some questionable choices
AFOS was a highly influential band, albeit a short-lived one, and this disc has many of their best. I was in high school when AFOS's first album was released, and being a synth junkie I fell in love with the quirky band immediately. This import version also contains "Windows", an excellent little tune that was only released in the US as the B side of "Space Age Love Song" and is thus very hard to find. I particularly like "Nightmares", "Transfer Affection", the instrumental "DNA", and "It's Not Me Talking". Unfortunately, there are also some of AFOS's later songs on here, when they were trying to sound more like New Order than New Order did. Example: "Who's That Girl".


Wishing they were still rockin.
This greatest hits CD has the songs us A. This is a band that captivated me in the early 80's and I still listen to them on a regular basis. F. O. S. fans all love and has three that I never heard before. Commited being the less favorite of the three, and Windows being the best of the three as Living in heaven is a good song also. If you're a true fan you'll like them all because it's a FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, right? A CD company could do us all a favore and release LISTEN on CD for us fans.


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