A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) (Video)

Music video by A Flock Of Seagulls performing Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You). (c) 1983 Zomba Productions Limited

[@robertdepatty7824]

Before my wife passed away, I played her this song. Just to see her smile again. To tell her it’s not the make-up or her hair, but it was the way her eyes laughed as she glanced across the room when I’d walk in from work, or met her at restaurant for our date nights. I’m now crying as I write this. Lotsa Lotsa Honey! Your pain is gone now, and your boys are growing up and doing well. God damn this hurts! 💔 💔

[@davidkosach3095]

Robert, I know exactly how you feel ! You wrote exactly how my girlfriend and I were. She used to say I was the only guy who was interested in her outside the bedroom. I was not a control freak, I didn’t go through her phone or email, I treated her as my lover not her father. Lia lived a wild crazy lifestyle, very independent, beautiful and smart. Sadly she died in my arms 2 months before her 38th birthday 😢. I cry almost everyday still, I struggle everyday wishing I could be with her there instead of here alone. You are 100% correct, God damn this hurts ! ❤ to 💔 🥺

[@monikasalvador9554]

Os acompaño en el sentimiento ♥️

[@Prawnstar.]

😢

[@ianrogers7495]

❤❤❤❤

[@sandrablackburn4583]

Sorry, bless you n kids too

[@user-nf7ph4hq1z]

Anyone wishing they could go back in time?????

[@user-od2um9mw8o]

I do! Straight to the summers of 1982 and 83.

[@misaalpha2106]

私は今が一番ですがそれもこの時代があったからなのでしょう✨その頃十代でしたが当時のワクワクを思い出します😊👍️💕

[@Cyydug]

Only my body

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Everyday 💯 24/7

[@Tim_Fink]

How I want to go back in time, and get away from all the bullshit we are going through today. Bring back the 80’s!

[@56squadron]

Tim the truth is the same people making life hell now were doing it then also. They just did not have the complete control they eventually came to enjoy, and the music industry, especially in the UK, had not yet been tainted and destroyed. The good news is we are not going back .... we are never going back. It was all a lie. We are going to move into something far, far better.

[@redkop510]

So true..total crap in the charts these days👍

[@johnbuss6926]

Jump back in a heart beat to the 80s ..so glad i lived my teens in the 80s...

[@fervorferments334]

100%

[@bhud1972]

We were so lucky to grow up in the 80s. I feel so bad for my kids. They listen to my stories and pine for a time that they never knew.

[@samizamy2282]

I am 31 years old and a friend from work (he is 58 years old) showed me this song because it is his favourite song. The 80s had must been a beautiful time (sorry my english is not that perfect). ❤

[@SevenSeeZero]

To be honest - your English is great. Great job - I'd maybe have used a contraction and wrote "it's his favorite song", but the way you wrote it was still correct and contractions are optional (just sound more casual). Then, "The 80s must have been a beautiful time" is the correct way to write what you meant there. That's it though - still understood it all. 🙂👍

[@louisewoolify]

Thank you

[@kanukistani2984]

The 80's were the best decade of western civilization. The 90's were good too. Its been an accelerating downhill from there - but we at least have the music and culture of the time.

[@kelbatt7729]

it's way up there for me too (I'm 59)

[@arseniolupin8851]

one of the best things about 50 years old, is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 80s that is priceless and i am grateful!!!

[@SuperScareface007]

Living legends? You guys vote on a curve...lmao

[@vincentgerritsen94]

Thanks!👍

[@pzakp311]

Thanks mate. Question is for how long...

[@arseniolupin8851]

@@pzakp311 for a very long time my friend!!!

[@pzakp311]

@@arseniolupin8851 Positve thinking in difficult times, that's what I like. Have a nice weekend!

[@bobbya.7854]

I was born in 1967. The 80's were MY decade. So often, I wish I could go back for only one single day.

[@Milesco]

Yep. I, too, was born in '67, and the '80s was indeed our time -- a very special time. There was never anything else like it, and there never will be.

[@raybon7939]

born 1970 .....apex culture glad i lived it,

[@sabrinatomasco1137]

Born 1967 and I had a great time in the 80er

[@0Turbox]

Same year here... The 80' were a great, innocent way to start with into the non stop partying day's of the 90'.

[@meesau2112]

@@Milesco your right about that will never be another time like that wish there was a time machine

[@noelmartinez202]

There will absolutely never be another era like the eighties as far as music, style and overall trends. It was the decade of my youth and I'm ever so happy to have been there...I wouldn't trade it for anything!

[@alaskantimberwolf109]

Only our generation will ever understand what growing up in the 80’s really meant, the age of fantastic music created by people that actually have talent! I can go on and on about how this generation and this decade was absolutely the greatest generation of talented musicians ever created!

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@alaskantimberwolf109 And then there are all those IDIOTS in here, who are saying that the 80s are never coming back... In my honest opinion, the 80s NEVER left!

[@annamarie2754]

❤❤❤❤

[@user-br6cu5jm1q]

yes so much better, now we have genocide, homelessness, and a crumbling society, its very ugly now compared to the eighties.

[@jpgrygus]

same here. i was lucky to be a teenager during the 80s and it was the best. the music and movies were far better than anything in other decades. you dont realize what youve had until its gone......i miss the 80s and the friends i had. but im glad i had them.

[@chrissalazar95]

In 1982 I was 11. At the beach there was a girl who kept looking at me and smiling. I never talked to her. Just a pure, innocent, tiny connection in the sun, sand and waves. This song burned into that image in my memory, her smiling face in that moment.

[@jasonpeters9716]

What it's all bout. Poetry in motion

[@abrahamhernadez8232]

Nice tale

[@stuartmorley3836]

there already

[@stuartmorley3836]

I was 14 in 1982. . Loads of lasses into stuff ,new romantic & punk.. I didn't have a fucking chance.. too many of my mates were in

[@kri2590]

What a beautiful post.....😊

[@mashedpotato8760]

Anybody else just feel a feeling of freedom and comfort when they listen to this?

[@pressplay7918]

Same feeling when I listen to this and SPACE AGE LOVE SONG.

[@Tyler-su1bu]

yes, this song is my top 3 for me :)

[@bjj1028]

I wish my teen years were during the 80’s I lived the wrong era

[@johnager9428]

I'm 70yrs old and have always thought the flock of seagull were great, listen as often as possible, 2021

[@davidvincent9545]

Great song. Let's wish for the things we do;)

[@HAVEAGREATDAYize]

I love the synth sounds of the 80's

[@spewgilist]

That growling synth at the bottom of this is key

[@TallysVids]

I feel really privileged to have grown up in a decade with music like this around.

[@pinkpanther2288]

💋

[@GodsVibes]

So true, I miss those days when bands were individualistic and not afraid of been different 🙂

[@apostolosmakrychoritis4000]

It was the best decade by far

[@DanT-godofpain]

Many modern bands are starting to bring back the 80s vibe. Check out Drab Majesty or Black Marble.

[@secretsquirrel8903]

If i had a photograph.... back then waiting for a week to be developed..🤣😅🤣 good days..👌

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Everyone talks about "I Ran" But this is their best song ever

[@tonyr8291]

Not sacrilege…this one and Space Age Love Song are better or on equal footing for sure.

[@albertalcozer7071]

I'm 59 time went by so fast .

[@AudreyyerduA]

@@albertalcozer7071you are not alone in those feelings.

[@mgparis]

Seriously, it just gets straight into your heart and melts it

[@alexcawthorne811]

Strange really, I Ran was only known because it was played a lot on MTV - this was their biggest hit and by far the best known in the UK homeland.

[@CrystaviaX]

One of the most underrated love songs ever

[@victorfurtado5578]

true!

[@nationalsocialist8382]

Underrated?

[@Fenncer24]

Very True. I love the synth music and sounds just gives you a great best to Bob your head up and down and if you want dance in you home or dance in your car seat.

[@martinrayner6822]

I'm an old rocker , but there's something about this song that puts me right there with them.

[@skatepark1ful]

8-24-20. Donna. You are a bella dona!!!! Thank you for your eyes and your help , even though you don’t know it, I feel great seeing u!! Cheers

[@JF-xq6fr]

This song brings painful nostalgia to this 54 y/o... The 80's to me was the last decade of national 'innocence', the last before we were eaten alive by too much tech, too little true freedom, suffocating under whatever this world is today. You could be happy back then; it was normal.

[@hollynonya6991]

I couldn't absolutely agree with you MORE Millennials got rid of everything good Hopefully Gen z will bring it back

[@kani9284]

@@hollynonya6991 no. Gen Z surely will not bring it back. How? And millenials is the generation that was born from the early 80's until the mid 90's so how did they get rid of everything good?

[@jonhohensee3258]

JF - BLAH BLAH BLAH....

[@mishabetts3466]

The 80's musical revolution was EPIC. These songs are still fresh and relevant. Nothing today even comes close

[@billbailey7193]

The 80s - Walking half a mile to find a phone box, and then the fucking thing is full of prostitute cards, has been vandalised and doesn’t work so it’s another long trek…… you find one that works and some fuckers in there for an hour. After 40 mins, exasperated and freezing, you politely knock on the glass, the man pokes his head out and tells you to fuck off or he’ll smash your face in. Finally he’s finished and as he walks off calls you a wanker. You’re in….and, fucking hells bells, the smell of piss hits you. Never mind all that, you put your money in and dial your mate’s number? …. his mum answers and says…………..‘ oh sorry, he’s just gone out’. Marvellous……the 80s were fucking great.

[@olafpach8365]

Years later I heard this song again and immediately felt reminded of the 80s: my youth, my light-heartedness, the simplicity of being. I am melancholy listening to these heroes of my earlier years. Now I'm almost 52 but in my heart I feel like a 14 year old boy who is very happy with his SONY Walkman...and today brings tears to his eyes when he thinks back to the 80's

[@albertalcozer7071]

I was 19 then I wanted go back

[@fluffylynxpuss5043]

OMG ! 😆 How could we leave out the revolutionary Sony Walkman 👍 and the over the head headphones 🎧 with cheap 🍊 orange sponge. They REALLY hurt your 👂 👂 ears if u lay on them. Seriously painful LOL . My fav was Ran So Far Away. The intro of that tune SCREAMS 80’s. Today they’d rip this video apart but back then, it was very cool

[@shiftylad9938]

Sony Walkman such a classic TY 🙏

[@foxerella23]

Oh I hear you my friend! 💋💋❤️

[@scotchester2983]

Yeah it's sh.t but it takes me back.

[@Broady2212]

Absolutely amazing how a song like this can transport you back to a certain happy point in your life a long time ago. ❤️

[@paultreadaway102]

We wish we had more Photographs in that time never enough than what we had

[@martinakarnbach4813]

I know exately when i've heard this song the first time. In the arms of my first boyfriend......

[@robharding5345]

That's the beauty of music my friend.

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

Yup I'm in the night club biz and we do 80s nts English 80s. IAM 53 and know ill the new sounds and band like chromatics future island and so on

[@Davey_bfg71]

Absolutely agree, whenever I hear Level 42’s Heaven In My Hands or Tracie I am instantly transported back to London and a school trip in ‘88 and I think the first day we were there I bought the album Staring At The Sun timo stick in me Walkman (cassettes eh, those were the days), on that trip we went to see 42nd Street on the West End starring a relatively unknown (at the time) Catherine Zeta Jones, I now because my school mates took the mick outta me for buying a programme. And I distinctively reading her bio and noticing she was born and raised in Mumbles, Swansea about two mile from where I now live, memories eh 😊

[@juliemaver6520]

Yes, the 80 were magnificent, i'm lucky.

[@journeywithme9554]

Yess we are!!

[@davidwright4495]

Yes, they were. I'm 59 and I can this, "You never know what you have until it's gone FOREVER."

[@georgeschillinger6299]

The 1980s were the best era ever.... I thank God I grew up in the 1980s

[@laartwork]

Go to a Pearl Jam video and read the comments from people saying the 90's are the best. Go to a Fleetwood Mac video and see all the people say the 70's were the best. Go to a Beatles vid.... ok you get the idea. The decade you were 14 will be your favorite music era.

[@DM-qh6zq]

@@laartwork Anything but now! 2020 what a dreadful year. 70s 80s 90's loved them all, early 2000s also, but beyond then,,, blah

[@elizabethhein4261]

Wishing for those times and I am not even 50.

[@elizabethhein4261]

@@laartwork true.

[@jamiebrooks3251]

Too right

[@cleethorpesnews2453]

I’m 60 now and i can remember it like yesterday and the rest of the 80s 😊

[@tangerine825]

A Flock Of Seagulls...Erasure...Eurythmics...Pet Shop Boys...Depeche Mode...OMD...Great Synthpop Bands 80's From UK ! Greets From Poland ;-)

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend an indie song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix

[@weseaton6821]

Tears for fears, Duran Duran, U2, INXS, Simple Minds all of them 😊

[@weseaton6821]

Well maybe they weren't all synthpop but they were all good

[@joseantonioolivar1850]

and the band. U2

[@zombiedodge1426]

A Flock of Seagulls are usually dismissed as one-hit wonders, but this was actually their *third* Top 40 hit. It's my favorite of them all.

[@thiscorrosion900]

In reality, they were on quite a roll for a few albums, then internal dissent and other issues got the better of them, sadly. They had at least five bona fide hit songs, not too shabby. The next album with "The More You Live" did well too, but they were starting to fall apart by then. It sounds to me, in retrospect, that a lot of the 80s bands had similar issues (that VH1 Bands reunited series is utter proof), mainly pressure from the record companies to deliver hits, pressure to constantly tour, and the fickle nature of the music business, especially in the 80s but always, and all the usual other issues that many bands fall prey to. Even poor Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 said the pressure on them/him got too great, and he had to go off by himself and kind of recover from a near-nervous breakdown or somesuch. I don't think a lot of these people were prepared for fame. Sounds also like Paul Reynolds, Flocks guitar genius, had similar experiences later on and retired from music for a long time, plus he was the youngest of the bunch. One thing I regret was not seeing the double bill tour of The Fixx and Flock of Seagulls (this must have been 1983 or so): a friend of mine I used to work with who was a good deal older than me, had seen that tour in NYC (might have been The Ritz), and told me he'd hung out with members of both bands between sets outside the venue or whatever, I was quite jealous, and regretted not going! I should have called in sick. There was also at least one show where The Fixx and Flock opened for The Police.

[@irishjetnoise]

Me too. This is my favourite tune by them.

[@shanefrancis8947]

They also won a grammy for best instrumental for D.N.A.

[@alfredrondorf8717]

Indeed !😃🙂🙃❤💥💥💥

[@5orgen51]

Well, I only like 2 of their songs lol

[@Steven_Will]

KZbin is the closest thing we have to a time machine. This just picks you up and sets you down in the middle of the 80s😏

[@Shotokan227]

Kerosene Cooker you nailed it with that comment - exactly how it makes me feel!

[@kath2934]

you got it!! break out into 80's moves!!

[@Twinkle3067]

Absolutely right you are Kerosene Cooker!!

[@vanillagorilla2230]

You have a great point. If you wanted to hear the song again on the radio in the 80's ... you had to wait.

[@Narcosatanico333]

Absolutely yes.

[@joannemazurek9075]

This song NEVER get old. TOTALLY TIMELESS

[@rickymolina3494]

Totally agree

[@nickirons100]

55 years old now. A teenager when it came out. Pure class 80's track. Such a good band...

[@RustyNickels]

A Flock of Seagulls is the most 80's band of the 80's.

[@DavidTron63]

True. Couldnt get a more 80's song.

[@lindalovelace6768]

What about human league

[@guaporichard]

I gotta go with Depeche Mode.

[@craigmcguire6573]

Along with The Furs

[@michaelgiese9933]

Micha

[@Geordie-Racer-Luke]

Always a surreal feeling when I listen to this song. A glorious mixture of elation and melancholy sadness due to the 80s synth. This song is incredible. it really is. If you're sat there enjoying this in 2021 then I'd like to say all the best for the future and that you have Wondeful taste in music.

[@joejones9520]

yes, melancholy is what I was thinking too...Ode To Melancholy.

[@rpmacmurphy5133]

Yeah lovely guitar at end. And yer man from Fargo on drums...

[@Geordie-Racer-Luke]

@@rpmacmurphy5133 Sláinte

[@MrMpvincent69]

And all the best for your future although it's shorter now unfortunately. Make sure you enjoy it and don't just wish it, do it❤️

[@JudgeMarmianWiZard]

thanks this was the first record i bought aged 11 for £1.10

[@alanrabjohns4656]

I was 23 when this classic hit the charts now I'm 64 I STILL LOVE IT❤❤❤

[@timb0man]

I'm 74 and I've never heard it

[@reddevil70]

I was13 ❤

[@jenniferjones188]

I was 18 loved this song great times

[@dreamstudiotvnetwork9225]

I grew up during the 80s. What a time to be alive. 80s rule. Love this song in June 2024!!

[@razerbern35]

Fuck.. how I miss the eighties. I'm 51, getting more older and more bitter when it comes to today's music. The 80's were a time of innocence and discovery. This song started it all for me. 16, sophomore in high school and then this comes on..

[@nmrh]

I’m 56 and was in my early 20’s when this came out and I’m here to tell you the 80’s were awesome 😎

[@maxinehulme2009]

Eric Barkley ..just wish I could go back, I would do things so very differently!

[@belenramirez3726]

I agree with you. The 80’s was a totally awesome era.

[@hideouslyugly]

I'm 56 too. I have this record still. I loved electro- pop, if that's what it's called.

[@bobbyjohnson7069]

We had - hair bands, hip hop, new wave, punk. Even in the 80s it was less commercial What do they have today? What do they have today? “ Cardi B”... Nuff said

[@signal76codeblue24]

Agreed!!! I love how i never saw this video til right now ...I'm 55 and remember buying these albums though really were cassettes 😊 Jac....I'm using hubs phone

[@debra1232]

I turned 17 in Feb '80 - a true '80s' girl from start to finish on the UK pub/club scene! Anyone who was there will cherish the memories of a fabulous youth. forever!!

[@0The0Web0]

That guitar in the end still gives me goose bumps

[@herbieshine1312]

I want to start again. I'm getting old and running out of time. I want to be young again and have hopes, dreams, excitement for life/ the future. not be old, bitter and twisted like I am. I'd love to hear this for the first time again. what a song

[@fwsauerteig]

Those aren't the lyrics, are they?

[@thegteam4349]

I’m so with you Herbie, all we have now is the realization that the anticipation of growing up was far greater than the reality.

[@bartleby2012]

Life catches up with you real fast. Try to live it to the fullest.

[@CTID]

You just read my mind word for word... 😢

[@herbieshine1312]

@@fwsauerteig sorry no just my mad old man ramblings from several months ago!

[@Nick_Turpin]

The 80`s can not be repeated or recaptured you just had to of been there.

[@irishkabyle3406]

OH OUI, J'ADORE!

[@LuisXRivas]

I apologize, it’s “had to have”, but I agree, I’m 24 but 80s has amazing music. This is a great song. My personal favorite from the decade is Tears for Fears

[@irishkabyle3406]

@@LuisXRivas AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE 80s, OH NON 😆

[@crystalteardrop2605]

I was born in 91 where it all just basically went down hill hahahaha

[@irishkabyle3406]

@@crystalteardrop2605 OH OUI, SO TRUE!

[@richiemac8410]

Mike Score's hair style in this video is something to be celebrated.

[@journeywithme9554]

😂yeah

[@mirrencorin]

It’s unique for sure and I’ve never seen a style like this 😃

[@barryparker4066]

74 years old 2022, still rocking to Flock Of Seagulls!

[@perrynn7173]

Great stuff.

[@ChristineInNornia]

Awesome!🤩😊

[@mojavedesertsonorandesert9531]

📻🎶🎶🎶🎧

[@josefinagarza241]

You never too old to rock and roll 😊😊

[@HaysBoyf]

i love that! im 17 and still listen to the Older music, its just simply better than the music of the time that is now

[@johnbooker9168]

56 years old now, 19 then, time machine please, everyone welcome X

[@naughtydorf18]

GTA a TARDIS

[@ipurpleyou7777]

i was born in 89 love 80s music for 4 years now it helps me with anxiety and depression

[@marinomendoza2945]

I am 54 before nd if they somehow invented the time machine i would like to go back to the 80's, i would give everything i have and star over.

[@marksmith5324]

Yep I'm 56 to I would love to go back if only for a day

[@marinomendoza2945]

@@marksmith5324 i can't wait that someone create the time machine, just to go back to the 80's.

[@shirleypena4133]

An absolutely exquisite song on every level possible, from the gorgeous, complex, interweaving melodies to the graceful, poetic lyrics. What a pleasure it was to meet Mike Score and tell him face to face just what this amazing song means to me. He was a complete gentleman, very classy.

[@janebraun4482]

Wow, you got to tell him just what I have felt about this true masterpiece of a song. Did Mike write it I wonder? Yes on every level, including 'the way' they perform this video and also on UT a live performance where Mike makes it even better!! I rank this song up there as the best of the 80s where there's a lot of competition!!

[@paulamiles9559]

Wow! You met him? I would really like to. I would like to tell him what his music has meant to me- especially this particular song.

[@terencemeikle534]

I love your comment almost as much as I love this music. 👌

[@Marcos-lq6qy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5K2XodpdreHm5I.

[@xboxonegameplay9842]

There's nothing complex about this song and its quite basic

[@robmarino314]

I Want My MTV...Back!

[@robertsole9970]

This beats any of the Taylor Swift crap

[@user-oi1ti6iy4k]

Shes a little rip anyway

[@CharlieApples]

This was the Taylor Swift crap of the era when it came out.

[@scottweir6799]

Taylor Swift is the modern version of these guys

[@martinvink2699]

😅It most certainly does!

[@bettorwin9325]

Let's not hate on Taylor Swift. She's an icon even if her music isn't for us.

[@ermackowiak]

I actually love this song more than “I ran”. As a kid in the 80s, my parents would play this song and I would dance around the house. I miss the 80s

[@timvanboening9432]

ErIcka Tsiboukis Space Age Love Song is my jam, but this is no slouch😝

[@jomontanee]

You have great parents. 😍🥰😘

[@bjoe385]

I think wishing is more popular in the UK and I ran is more popular in the USA.

[@ACESandElGHTS]

This is touching. Such a hook.

[@nossasenhoradoo871]

"I miss the 80s " Oh I miss them, too. And the the 70s, 60s, 50s and even the 40s! Cuba in the 40s and 50s before self-righteous Fidel took over. After that poor whores could only serve the communists - for almost nothing. Fidel Castro - I piss on his grave!

[@rox006]

Haunting song, what a great time to be alive.

[@briandaly8880]

What a great time to be alive indeed

[@didier2124]

I'm an 80's teen, Seagulls were my band, love this song especially the last 60 seconds the music is simple and total beautiful

[@MrHeisskalter]

that's right

[@christopherlevesque3353]

Really wish I grew up in the 80s. I’m just glad my old man brought me up with this music.

[@grahamcheesman2252]

You have 80's music and youth me and possibly your dad have 80's music and arthritis lol

[@bobburke6179]

How lucky are we to be able to reminisce about the great 80's and just for a few minutes we are back there for the greatest decade and time of our lives.

[@F15ElectricEagle]

Yeah,.... and remembering when MTV actually had music videos. Really missed the 80s.

[@artdeco9535]

We are. But make the most of it while you can. You know what these big music companies are like. They like moving the goal post if they can make a quick buck.

[@tomcarberry2489]

I second that emotion.

[@royhaire2]

I was lucky grow up through it having been born in 79,and even luckier have a dad who loved music

[@LAGERUNG3]

Damned straight!

[@simoneward4217]

This song captures the love and essence of a precious time gone by. How different life feels today.

[@dennismoler9710]

Evolution time travel

[@augustacorns]

I think we in Generation X are blessed to have grown up with the music we had, from the 70s through the early 2000s.

[@Toshackeegan1nil]

You've nailed it with that simple comment. Our generation with privileged to have late 70s Glam Bowie Roxy Marc B T rex sweet Slade etc. Then my favourite punk era then new romantic, then Special s madness Kraftwerk Depeche Mode etc etc etc. Unbelievable ❤

[@livinglifeinanrv5473]

amen

[@DomPeriod]

I think us from the later generations are blessed in the fact we have the ability to listen to this sort of music whenever we please. We didn't experience them when they first came out, but we can hear them whenever, now. It's a good thing.

[@ellzedd4113]

Yes! Music was wonderful.

[@tallisinwonderland4724]

Yes and with Mariah, Whitney and Celine in the charts. Even if they weren’t your thing, they were incredibly talented and vocal powerhouses. There was such a wealth of quality when we were growing up

[@francescakatz2884]

How beautiful this song is,the beat. There will never be another band like his because it's once in a lifetime

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a new indie song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

[@chrissz1762]

👍

[@prnsessj2219]

My parents had this album in the 80s when I was in grade school and my mom would blast it while she vacuumed. I thought I had the coolest parents!

[@charlieboutin3341]

They were the coolest! I graduated in 80 and still love all the great music from then! 🎶👍✌️🙂

[@jameshourston8800]

You did!

[@topbanana4013]

i cant believe people actually buy this, go watch the dock The New Romantics bbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5XOlaVnqJtnfqM that is what i remember of the 80s this song is mentioned in it and it got very bad reviews even a laughing stock with the fellas hairdo.

[@charlieboutin3341]

@@topbanana4013 Yeah I was more Aerosmith, Rush, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon etc.. but Seagulls we’re definitely big on airwaves back then, we laughed at his hair too, but to each their own. Most music then still beats most music today, in my opinion. Rock On! 🎶

[@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167]

So? Everyone knows Liam Gallagher is a knob. Still fronted Oasis.

[@willmoore7582]

Born in '67, grew up in the 80's... pure gold! Timeless. Synths are a timeless sound, like a Hammond organ, thanks Lord for allowing me that era as my playground.

[@Tim_Fink]

Born in 61 and pure gold 2 me as well

[@neilsarath9812]

Born 1956, loved the 80s music. 👍

[@PolDelange]

Also born in '67. I have the same feeling too

[@thomasschafer7268]

​@@neilsarath9812 me too.oct 67

[@rumpel8037]

mee too 67. Born for the 80's.

[@michaelmoore8371]

It's not just a legend, it's on another stratosphere.

[@perrys63]

I am a sentimental old man, this song, space age love song and I ran. Hold a special place in my heart.

[@raffaeledibernardo8582]

Because no one wonders what the 80s were like: they were just amazing.

[@chrissz1762]

Absolutely.

[@TwoPinkPeasTerri]

The 80's is truly the only era that people are longing to go back to & experience life all over again. No other era can compete with how amazing the 80's were! I miss it EVERY day! (Disclaimer: I am obviously not saying that everyone feels this way about the 80's..I am simply sharing my personal opinion. It's ok if you don't agree!). Stay Safe Everyone!

[@SunShine-ws5be]

Such kind of words make my tears splash out...

[@joejones9520]

in the 80s when i was a teen i longed for the sixties which seemed so much cooler, still do actually.

[@paddyodawsmaclaferty3093]

Think you had to be there

[@jonhohensee3258]

How the hell do you know the 80s are the only era?

[@paddyodawsmaclaferty3093]

@@jonhohensee3258 err..probably if u lived in that era..just a guess tho

[@gloomyvale3671]

The extended version of this song is effing phenomenal. No other band in my eyes typifies the 80s than FOS.

[@terencemeikle534]

Nailed it, dude. 👍

[@silentqueue2344]

Indeed. The longer lead into Reynolds' E-bow solo makes it more impactful.

[@alanrabjohns4656]

In 1982 I was 23 years old and in a Dorset night club I heard this tune played over and over when it was released 🎉❤ I still love this in 2023 and its better than the dogs mess😅😊in the current chart!

[@andyj639]

Better by a country mile. Alot of real classy inventive music around in the early 80s, brings back warm feelings of nostalgia.

[@1STBUCKLEY]

I was 22. Great times

[@Betamax84]

Why does this song go SO HARD! Damn they were genius!

[@oughtonoughton2634]

I agree with you ,, what bunch of fab genius guys ,, this lovely song is iceing on the cake lolx

[@jayriley1162]

I know everyone looks back to their youth with rose tinted glasses but the 80s were magnificent.

[@markthurley2724]

Good shout

[@yorkshiregrit2889]

Apart from my kids i'd go back there to the 80's without a doubt.

[@bjj1028]

I’m a 90’s baby but man do I love the 80’s wishing I grew up in that era

[@CitizenValve]

You are so right! It was a magnificent era! The shape of music has only gone downhill since! Bravo!

[@richardjoslin2260]

The 80's were the best

[@MrRusspel]

I will always love the 80s. Thanks Mike Score and A Flock of Seagulls

[@thegteam4349]

Such an amazing sound, I remember hearing this when I was a kid and I was blown away. Forty+ years later it still blows my mind. Like the rest of you, I’d love to go back, even just for one day.

[@threeptt]

my favourite of theirs back then, and still is

[@robertflippin9112]

Me too because everybody that loved were still alive.

[@shelbygtsoo]

I wish I could go back and never return

[@fonsecarichard]

Yeah I wish we could get in a Time Machine so bad!!!

[@JediPitch]

I've been told many many times that I need to get out of the 80's. I just tell them I cant, it was the best time of my Life. Not only have I got my children to Love much of the Music I am going to get my grandchildren to fall in love with it too. When my 25 year old wanted me to make a playlist of my 80's music, I said "HELL YAH"

[@kath2934]

My 26yr old daughter went to see Teardrop Explodes..had to break it to her I beat her to it 40 yrs ago..Hell Yeah!!!

[@billybarrett2778]

Agree with you.

[@bigw8549]

Way to go Dad 👍

[@EricLV2020]

Whatever happens don't quit the 80ies

[@davidbaxter8091]

My youngest daughter loves everything '80's 😎

[@mikser]

Probably The Flock's best song, sums up the new wave movement of the early 80's. All hail The Flock!

[@StuzRoz]

hailed 😊😊

[@johndoe-mg7gw]

studiomix is great...live they suck big time

[@abiella11]

+john doe And some!! Great studio band but utter dross live. Tears for Fears were exactly the same.

[@richardikin]

+Alan Walden I don't agree, Tears For Fears were a decent live band.

[@captainarcher2]

+mikser You couldn't have said it any better !!! Bravo !!! Soooo True.

[@michaelmoore8371]

Another great 👍 great band from Liverpool, awesome classic song brilliant sound, 👏 thank you ❤ 😊 🙏.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The 80s was such a special time when it comes to music, Everyone feels energetic and unique. We will never get this kind of music again.

[@denise1932]

Perhaps one day when people one again let the heart rule instead of the money

[@alanmorgan3661]

One of the greatest melodies ever written, absolutely beautiful.!

[@leonandres8914]

agreeeeeeed

[@anthonylacey4234]

Leon Andres ,,

[@morgoth16]

Is it just me who think there's a melancholic feel to it? Beautiful but really makes me sad.

[@bartleby2012]

I saw these dudes in San Diego. Yeah, they played this tune. And yeah, it is a sad yearning song.

[@alfredoaatwater3117]

yeah, alan. its so real and fascinating. The powerful sounds of the keyboards.

[@CBDM777]

We were so lucky to have this music in the 80s

[@amandabunn117]

Mark Richardson good shout lol

[@sharquimetal]

I don't get it.

[@AfghanApothecary]

+Kian Woll that sounds fucking badass my friend!

[@hallnoats4ever942]

CBDM777 this video should have 42 million views

[@emiliesmith9403]

Garrett Wynn

[@stuartjones3011]

What a group! British music in the 80s was unbelievably good. We didn't realise what a decade we were living in. Special times.

[@clairenoon4070]

Agree. The great music just kept coming, and we assumed it would always be like that. Practically every week when you listened to the new chart there'd be something truly innovative. And the sheer range of stuff in the charts - post-punk, New Romantic, electronic, mod, reggae, ska, 2-tone, heavy metal, soft rock, pop, folk, blues, hippy, it was absolutely mind-boggling.

[@chrissz1762]

Agree.

[@moisesojeda1085]

especially from Liverpool

[@Makado14]

​@@moisesojeda1085absolutely! I love Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen.

[@xoxxobob61]

I think we knew how special our Music was in the 80s

[@lawsondesrochers8765]

MASTERPIECE.

[@t.beierle7685]

This song is still rad nearly 40 years after its release. ♥

[@nancysmith8626]

Amazing, eh? I agree 100 percent!

[@michaelpallett8650]

ye what a fecked world we now live in

[@tucandevotion]

Esta musica nos hace sentir adolescentes... un viaje al paso con A flock of seagulls .

[@andyhoops.6156]

This WAS the 80's. Absolutely brilliant.

[@jaimansson979]

An under appreciated band. An under appreciated song. Truly a classic

[@BC....]

56 years old and I Still Rock The Flock.

[@radiosiesta]

Another legendary song of the golden 80's. This music will never get old. Put it on your headphones, close your eyes and return to your youth.

[@ticn]

im 14

[@_RAINBOWSHOES_]

The 80's is where everyone wants to go back to, because of the awesome music! 💜🖤

[@sindarpeacheyeisacommie8688]

The 1980s were so much better than today.

[@pearcehawk8071]

Take me back to that happier time and leave me there.

[@dmomcilovic9185]

80s such a decade never ever to be equalled,. Feeling very nostalgic

[@oughtonoughton2634]

i feel the same way as you ,, this band were a real tremendous asset to the 80s era ,, what utter pleasure they gave us ,,, what a sound WOW ,, IM SO VERY HAPPY I WAS THEIR LOL X

[@loudmusic67]

Every time I listen to an 80s station all they ever play is "I ran" sure wish they would play other songs by the Flock of Seagulls

[@michielblok9224]

+

[@tracyharris2617]

Yes. This was always my favorite Flock of Seagulls song. Loved it in the 80's and love it now.

[@KolkolyaoiEh]

It's the same thing with Phil Collins. All they ever play is in the air tonight, land of confusion, and I don't care anymore. I mean cmon there is way more music from these people than that lol

[@tracyharris2617]

+First Name Last Name I agree Space Age Love Song was another good one. I also really liked Telecommunication.

[@Bladerunner4924764]

I so agree with you on this. There are soooo many songs from so many bands but all the radio plays are the Number Ones. What about the songs that didn't quite make No. 1 but still had a significant impact on our lives in any decade? I wish the radio stations would have a "Not quite No. 1" night or something...I'd even settle for a mini-concert and just play an album all the way through. Many groups had great songs that were never released as singles but were on the albums. LETS HEAR THEM!

[@alrxanderbannister5227]

Best decade for music

[@analogsynthplayer]

late 70's early 80's analog synth's evoked emotion, this song proved it

[@ravipeiris4388]

It was 1982 and this was one of the first songs I heard from the group and was hooked instantly. Come back to us MTV.....

[@thma8423]

MTV still exists but it has become a channel as stupid as many others, unfortunately.

[@torstenfleischer3051]

Amazing. You already listened to it one year before it came out. 👍

[@davidflitcroft7101]

@@torstenfleischer3051 Amazing, I am holding the LP in my hands [before typing] and the cover states it was made in 1982. They scored a #7 on MTV that year. but don't ask me about the details, I was working the Radar sites of remote Alaska. We had radio.

[@torstenfleischer3051]

@@davidflitcroft7101 Well, seems I was wrong then! That Vevo site (still) maintains '83 and I did not re-check before writing. Sorry for that! Your record proof can't be beaten... Have a good one!

[@danerichter2289]

There's nothing that compares to the 80's,NOTHING!!@

[@nikon19799]

70's

[@debowiec3]

Except the 60's and 70's...........

[@tarek1991]

the 90s lol

[@ray817oneDEEP]

I would say 50's bc the Chevy impala 58'

[@mareklakomski2256]

You havent been around long enough , yet to say anything lol

[@tds6599]

Score's effortless vocals during the verses is sublime. Almost spoken, yet sung. Magic.

[@grandben]

I'm 60 years old, and AFOS will be my fav. group off all time

[@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351]

Timeless masterpiece of a song 🎵❤️

[@arnie8604]

37yrs later it's still the weirdest haircut EVER .... I'm 50 now, will always be an 80's child at heart.

[@thecocktailian2091]

I had a toned down version of that haircut. Forelock wasn't as big, And I only had go up on one side. It was my favorite haircut even to this day. I looked SO good.

[@lonewolfgeoff]

you know that haircut was actually an accident? while he was waiting for the hair styling stuff to dry one of the band put his arm on his head and there was no time to redo it... bloody good haircut tho!

[@arnonuhm7193]

the haircut / styling is ok, the rest of the head and the facial expressions are the problem here arent they LUL ok that was mean Im sorry but theres some truth in it isnt it

[@peterriley2704]

What about Donald Trump !

[@Aemond2024]

@@lonewolfgeoff his brother, the drummer was annoyed he was taking so long so he slapped him on top of his head, then they had to go on :p

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

This and Space Age Love Song are timeless classics. The 80's were great AND the girls had great hair too.

[@andrewperkins8532]

this immediately transports me back to 1982 when I was 18 and I'm in another world.

[@purpleryder]

They hit the jackpot with this one, what a sound.

[@tangelone2164]

Another of Liverpool's finest exports. A Flock of Seagulls were progressive and futuristic. Light years ahead of their time. Great yet very underrated band who wrote brilliant songs.

[@minkles1330]

Born 76.... so glad I got to enjoy bangers like this growing up

[@BrianSquiers]

Paul's guitar work at the end is epic.

[@ZipLineFine]

I wish i had photographs of many people I knew of who are no longer alive !!! The memories this song brings back are awesome.Tinged with a tear or two !!!

[@desertrose1226]

aww, me too...all those forgotten memories would just come back to us!

[@DavidSilverPrecious]

I was a baby when this came out, but I totally appreciate the sound now. This one feels somehow melancholy and happy at the same time 🩷🩷🩷

[@grahamflowers]

I am 77 this time and danced to this when I was 35 at the Place disco in Hanley Stoke-on-Trent in 1982 Dancing saved my life

[@sterlingskins2204]

What a beautiful song and a awesome video! I miss the 80's

[@SciSciToys]

80's were great

[@haveanicedave1551]

the 80's are gone, but not my memories of that decade.

[@hankhenry8160]

@@haveanicedave1551 true. 80s sucked but movies & music were/are great.

[@tracyconner1497]

Sterling Skins same 🧚🏼‍♀️🧚🏼‍♂️

[@drewgrows7765]

@@hankhenry8160 Were you around then. People were not afraid to be themselves. People were easy going And none of all this political correctness.

[@NightOwlie]

I remember this song! 80's forever!

[@user-eb3cs5lp8u]

forever!!

[@Hall566]

best time ever for songs to be written

[@mangaelk]

or until the 90's

[@hamdizzle]

Dodge the Duck! Fucking duck.

[@baldytom65]

Very good band and very good music.many jears ago

[@jasonbelter3536]

One of the best songs ever, I remember hearing this as a kid and even in my 50s I still enjoy it, especially the mesmerizing synth tracks in this song

[@kenneth.handsome3443]

I have loved this song ever since it came out

[@peterellis9105]

You're are in synth heaven for the last minute and half.

[@troyallen8405]

LOL U ain't lyin'...