I'm so jealous of people who grew up with music like this. They can hear this and remember all of the good times they had, but people in my generation will get to look back on Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa. FUCK.
@david08060 Thanks for pointing that out. I should have known that the tech back then had a cord that attaches to the back of your head. We've certainly come along way.
Badass band. badass sound. Thank you 1980's. Thanx for the upload. People seem some what happy now. But I felt people were more happy during the 70's, and even more during the 80's opening up envelopes of rock creativity, and sustaining it, and more great bands came about thru the 90's and people seem to be even more sports active. Thanks 4 this great era of music. Great music also came from the 60's and 70's. Everyone has something in common.....Music.
This song and 80's Music reminds me of a punk hair salon I worked in back then. The guy who owned it was from London and he wanted to dress and act the part; plus you HAD to have the hair to go with it When I went for the interview I dressed professionally, he said "You're hired, but don't ever dress like that again...from then on my whole wardrobe changed, It was a blast working there. Oh this music relives some great memories!!!
Hearing this song tonight-well this morning-brought me back to a day walking in the mall in '84 shopping and hanging out and the world did seem almost perfect. I remember hearing the other song by this band that was the big hit and somehow listening to wishing it hit me that I am really wishing to go back to that world filled with all things possible.
@grayghostxiii My comment certainly does reflect my rather gloomy outlook on the world. It just seems so broken and empty of hope whereas I did not feel that way many years ago. It seemed bright and full of life. It may just be the passage of time and age alone that has brought on such thoughts and feelings. It may be that the world is better in many ways. Just not for me and hearing this song triggered those thoughts.
@japinvt It's your life, make your decisions. Everyday is a new day and a chance to start over or begin something new. Don't despair...get back up, you're alive...so live. :)
if only i was born 20 years earlier from my birth date, i bet my life would be 100x better then now... we're in the 10's of the 21st century and i feel depressed, the woman looked better back then, the muscle cars, the MUSIC!!! all of it was great, even the fucking economy was WAY better then our shitty economy now. i swear if a fucking time machine isn't invented in the upcoming years... i going 2 kill myself because i can't take it any more in this fucking decade!!!
egads i remember my college daze er days and going to see them here in philly at the mann with another aussie group The Fixx. Great times then and this tune leaves an inpact as i am a cameraholic/collector of vintage cams and avid shooter
There was something about the 80's. One could laugh at the hair, the clothes. But I grew up up in the decade and it was a coming of age for many of us. Salute to the class of 1984.
@ironwoodadq I love their hair! Unfortunately, the silly clothes are somewhat back in style where I live. Kids who were born in 1996 are dressing like 1984 and it's so weird! Yesterday I saw a girl who looked 14 years old dressed like she was straight out of the "Pour Some Sugar On Me" video!
This song reminds me of my german girlfriend. She played this record the first time we did it, whil making love to her, every time the cymbal hit was a stroke. Every record she played after that day became a beat marking time for us to do it to. lol. PSHHHHT! PSHHHT! PSHHHT! lol,
Gen X er's had the best music during their day !!!!!! Rock, Punk, Ska, Mod, NuWave, Reggae - all mixed together on mainstream radio at the same time!! WooHoo! Now, it's all pre-programmed junk. Thank God for satellite radio...
@gojirasan This sort of thing really didn't get played on the radio much back then either, unless you were lucky enough to live within earshot of one of the handful of "Rock of the 80s" format stations like LA's KROQ or Long Island's WLIR. Mostly I remember seeing the video for this on MTV around 1983-ish.
@billd66 I was addicted to KROQ and loved this song more than "I Ran". I got sick of "I Ran"-which is exactly what the lead singer of this band said in an interview! I don't blame him...though that video with the tin foil on the floor and his one key dance was quite amusing!
Ovo je lepa stvar iz vremena 80" tih . Tada je buducnost izgledala mnogo lepse nego
sada gde kvazi Demokrate ti kroje sudbinu i posle mnogo leta sta se desilo???
Japanci ,Englezi, Jevreji,Debilini Ameri i tako dalje......
Necudite se sto priroda ili jos gore Svevisnji ovako reaguje na Vas rezultat ophodjenja prema ljudskoj rasi. Bili ste krvoloci u svakom smislu i sta sad ocekujete????
all of you who say music is regressing are missing the big picture. its entertainment in general. movies and more. they all suck now. i think half of the 90's was trash too if your talking about hipop. 80's hipop brought us good stuff but half the beats were stolen. what we have to do is kill the majority of the population and make sure a company like holly wood will never spur up again in order for the good old 40,50,60,70, and 80,s creativity to return. might as well forget music existed.
I've thought about this alot and the only reasonable explanation is that it has something to do with the Baby Boomers.
In the 90's they took over power in the country (political, economic, cultural, social), and ever since then things have gotten worse. It may have to do with them being very self-indulgent and generally amoral.
To all the kids out there lamenting the fact that music in the 80s was much better: hogwash. I grew up in the 80s and there was loads of rubbish around (look for Christopher Cross, Luba, or Corey Hart on YouTube). Mind you, much like ,we were nostalgic for the 60s and 70s, especially the Doors, Sex Pistols, the Clash.
Every era has its good bands and those that are plain shite. Skip all the Grammy stuff , dig a bit deeper, go to a local club and you will find sounds that will blow your mind.
Anyway, you're right that every era has good and bad music. But I think the difference is that the 80's accepted variety in the mainstream as no decade before or since.
I loved the 80's so many great memories for me i love all kinds of music but when i hear songs like this it takes me back and sometimes makes me sad cause those times of childhood are gone now. i remember being at school dances wishing that one special guy would ask me to dance to songs like these. and yes back then MTV was the shit and did play real music!!!!!
@buttery1toast if only i was born 20 years earlier from my birth date, i bet my life would be 100x better then now... we're in the 10's of the 21st century and i feel depressed, the woman looked better back then, the muscle cars, the MUSIC!!! all of it was great, even the fucking economy was WAY better then our shitty economy now. i swear if a fucking time machine isn't invented in the upcoming years... i going 2 kill myself because i can't take it any more in this fucking decade!!! 80's FTW!!!
@tonyinthe602 I don't know if it'll cheer you up but one of my favorite current bands is The New Pornographers and lots of their songs cheer me up when I need a lift. Maybe their song The Bleeding Heart Show will cheer you up, Make sure to listen to the whole song though since the first few minutes are a build up to the end
@buttery1toast and I remember being the shy guy who was afraid to ask girls to dance. Fortunately broke out of that in college but those were still good days.
I was born in the wrong era. When I hear music like this, Im jealous of everyone who lived through such a time.
What will people in the future think when people listen back to the music of todays time [justin bieber, lady gaga, etc etc] ? I think they'll laugh at it, and us.
@319024 You wonder? Look at pop stars of years past to get an idea of what future generations will think of the pop stars of 2011. You might not see what you expect. Here are a few pop star/band names. Shania Twain, Madonna, Backstreet Boys. Also the Bee Gees who I like and I find it rather ridiculous that many people highly despised them in the late 70s.
love this song so much,music was so much better then,now anyone who LOOKS the part can be a singer with the help of studio magic,like that kardashein whore.
sin duda es uno de los grupos que verdaderamente transmiten el sentimiento del new wave akellas texturas espaciales y esa atmosfera que te lleva a cualquier lugar..
this was a B side from the 45's I used to listen to. This was the B side to I Ran. To me it's a better song than I Ran and the lead singer says he's so tired of playing I Ran so perhaps they should have played this one on the radio more often instead.
I wish we could go back to the eighties again,and not have to listen to Lady GaGa? Whats she all about???And Beyounce sounds like something you could put in the clothes dryer?? Mtv DID play GOOD stuff,now all they are full of is CRAP!!! LONG LIVE THE EIGHTIES.:)
Nathalie is such a great model! That one-hour photo much be a front company to pay a Victoria's Secret cover girl enough to get her in there! Yay, Birdemic!
Excellent song.. always liked this song, but the video, all the nostalgia in the world cannot make this a good video. Even when I first saw it back in the eighties I thought WTF? What is this supposed to be? Iron workers in the future traveling through a mirrored cloud? Mike had an awesome voice for this music.
Im 18 years old guy, i LOVE "A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS" since i was8 or 9 years when my dad showed me this band, he teach me music and I LOVE 60´S, 70´S and 80´S MUSIC!"
Yep,MrWishIWas...those were the days.Times were good and easy for most kids in suburban /rural America.My sis took her little, 11yr old brother to college for Little Bro Weekend.I had a bunch of drunken /stoned 18yr old girls, in their underwear, get me ripped!...Middle class American sex and drugs were -relatively- safe.(No herpes, AIDS, meth or crack yet!)
Yeah!MTV was just music.
Spent my fair share of time working 'my looks' in the mirror as well...Those efforts payed off big-time too!
and to think I was fed up that I missed the beatles! Born in 1962 I had the good fortune to see The Fantastic Freddie live numerous times, Great times XX
Ah, the days when we actually did something with our clothes and hair. Time and preparation went into the cool look of these bands. All Bieber has to do is comb his stupid Zac Efron lookalike hair and wear his jeans around his ass-cheeks. I guess most people these days are easier to amuse.
And I hate his stupid magazine interviews "Justin just loves GIRLS!"
WHAT DO YOU WANT???? A MEDAL???!!!
Such a Goddamn tool. Can't believe someone hasn't shot him yet. 80S FOREVER!
@veritras And these are the people who call this music "gay" yet their entire look practically invites easy access for opportunistic homosexuals. Next they'll be wearing shoes 10 sizes too big!
The last decade of joy, fun, true creativity and opulence and diversity of music. Today's music is like some lifeless, cold asteroid full of poisounous gasses compared to Earth.
@TheFallToRise the 90s were the last decade of fun actually.. i'd argue 90s were a tad more creative and experimental than the 80s. but i absolutely love and miss both. i hate the 00s on..
The 90's in many ways represented a conservative reaction against the experimental varied 80's, with music going back to the same old same old trio: rock, r&b, and country, with rap joining in.
And we've been stuck like this for two decades now.
Yes, but that's just it, that "indie" rock was still rock, a going-back to the pre-New Wave rock music of the 70's.
That's my point, the 80's saw the British bring something other than rock into music, something that many Americans coulnd't accept, so when groups like Nirvana and REM came out (or became hits in the case of the latter) they were lapped up as bringing "rock" back after a decade of synth-pop and so on.
Many Americans just can't seem to accept anything without guitars
I think we're being hard on ourselves. This was slated at the time for being synthasized, while bands like FoS, Visage OMD, were for being synthetic. Don't forget what total shite was around when this was out; Dollar, Brotherhood of Man, The Nolans, Men at Work & COUNTLESS others, not to mention the bizzare Jilted John & Captain Sensible. The music industry has changed. Now you have Wrtters-performers/singers-producers.No longer are bands expected to be the complete package
@kevintheshedend1976 Hey now. Men at Work was fronted by one of the most talented musicians around: Colin Hay. "Going Somewhere" is one of my favorite albums of this decade.
@MysteryoftheGods ---What happened is we lost out innocence, and went politically correct. We lived in an age and time in which free ideas and thought were encouraged. Musically, we were in uncharted waters. AFOS were so way ahead of their time. The music was simple with simple arrangements. there was no need or demand for music to be so complex as it is now. We were still optomistic with ourselves, the world, and each other.
@MysteryoftheGods Why don't you haters just fuck off about Justin B. I don't listen to him and he doesn't effect me. We all have to live on earth together so let Justin be and let him have his fans. Don't be so hateful. It's about spreading the love. What other predudices you carry keep them to yourself!
The reason the 80's was great for me,is that I was younger and could do things like run up the stairs instead of drag myself up them and rub my knees at the top Hee Hee. I was superman back then. My saying now is "These are the good years". They aren't going to get any better health wise and my knees will ache more and more as more time goes by. That being said, remember when MTV played music and there was real music.
@MrWishiwas18again They were certainly the golden years. I never realised at the time that life was never going to be as good as it was at that time. It was the only time in my life i was truly happy and healthy. I guess it`s a good job you cannot see your own future because if i had known mine i would have checked out when i was at my most happiest.
@TimeTeam71 wise words mate! I would agree 100% that the 80's were the best years of my life, I didn't always realise it then. I can't say that I would have checked out then, I just live in hope that the happiness I had then will come around again. Still, we have our memories and some poor buggers don't even have that!
now now, who sez that i ran is their only song? honestly, i prefer this one.
MissCureCrazy 4 months ago
I'm so jealous of people who grew up with music like this. They can hear this and remember all of the good times they had, but people in my generation will get to look back on Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa. FUCK.
mkailov13 4 months ago
@mkailov13 agreed. just be grateful they invented youtube and brilliant people post the 80s. no need to get so mad:D.
MissCureCrazy 4 months ago
severely underrated tune.. the 80s were the best!
starsweet4 4 months ago
I agree with ironwoodadq. I was a teen in the 80's. That was magic music. My life's coming of age soundtrack.
hdtybhik 4 months ago
I was lucky enough to see these guys back in 2006. I love this music. A lot of memories. Better than the crap they put out today.
billc307 5 months ago
This has been one of my favorite songs for a while now. It just oozes that 80s sound.
thelonelyslayer 5 months ago
The 80's was a nice time when famous artists created songs this is probably one of my favorites
omanoma99 5 months ago
92 people suck a**
omanoma99 5 months ago
this song makes everything better <3
iiloveponyboycurtis 5 months ago
who the heck is jimmy carlin?!
JohnnyLovely2 5 months ago
@JohnnyLovely2 pro skater and this is his song in one of his best skate video parts
asianshadowcandy 5 months ago
i though this came out in 1998
MrFlame103 5 months ago
JIMMY CARLIN!!!!??
Birdhouse29 5 months ago
See they even had bluetooth back then (@2:34).
KennethGraham2010 5 months ago
@KennethGraham2010 ........That's not a blue tooth, I'ts a microphone wrapped around the back of his head....You can see the mic.
david08060 5 months ago
@david08060 Thanks for pointing that out. I should have known that the tech back then had a cord that attaches to the back of your head. We've certainly come along way.
KennethGraham2010 5 months ago
He waited three hours for that Dot Matrix printer to print that picture ONLY to tear it up??? WHY Wolverine? Why????
bns1968 5 months ago 3
jimmy carlin
603Sk8er 6 months ago 2
Man this is a classic..... this tune will never get old..... period
tmoodyband 6 months ago
great song.
luvthemullet 6 months ago
I love this song sooo much
darlingmimmzyyy 6 months ago
me&my boyfriend's song <3
iiloveponyboycurtis 6 months ago
to my girl
9Inch9Nails9 6 months ago
JIMMY CARLIN
geanfb 6 months ago 23
The Wedding Singer
jimbofergus 6 months ago
Yes!!!
William0zero0 6 months ago
Badass band. badass sound. Thank you 1980's. Thanx for the upload. People seem some what happy now. But I felt people were more happy during the 70's, and even more during the 80's opening up envelopes of rock creativity, and sustaining it, and more great bands came about thru the 90's and people seem to be even more sports active. Thanks 4 this great era of music. Great music also came from the 60's and 70's. Everyone has something in common.....Music.
aaa567ify 6 months ago
The Flock hit #26 in Billboard, 7-9-83. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
DaveWollenberg 6 months ago
Im 14 and all I listen to is 70's and 80's music. I hate everything from today.
15gnrfan 6 months ago 5
Evidently I need to go hunting for 91 assholes.
sadisticon 6 months ago
@sadisticon can i join ya?
thevoid99 6 months ago
@sadisticon Justin Bieber hit the dislike button 91 times. You only have to hunt for one asshole.
Room0468 6 months ago 3
What kind of "Resentful of Not Being Around During the 80's" Nimrod hit "Dislike"?
RudeCustoms 6 months ago
the weird orange things towards the beginning looks like ceramic capacitors.
qazxsw21000 6 months ago
This song and 80's Music reminds me of a punk hair salon I worked in back then. The guy who owned it was from London and he wanted to dress and act the part; plus you HAD to have the hair to go with it When I went for the interview I dressed professionally, he said "You're hired, but don't ever dress like that again...from then on my whole wardrobe changed, It was a blast working there. Oh this music relives some great memories!!!
gikkigaru 6 months ago
This video always has the best comments!!
cluegirlnow 6 months ago
Flock of bad hair cuts...
8wirral8 6 months ago 2
I still have this album!!!!!
balsaboy55 7 months ago
COLOR THEORY!
MrBlackJesus101 7 months ago
hell yeah to MTV in the 80s... Back when Pauly Shore did it.......
steadyasshegoes66 7 months ago
@steadyasshegoes66 hah, before Pauly, Martha Quinn, Nena Blackwood ( yow), Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and J.J. Jackson (RIP)
tmlafrance 7 months ago
i love a flock of seagulls decided to listen to a string of songs by this amazing band.
chiefdancingostriche 7 months ago
USA NIGHT FLIGHT!!!!!
MuayThaiHawaii96720 7 months ago 2
@MuayThaiHawaii96720 Hell yeah! They played all the edgy stuff MTV wouldn't, and Rhonda Shear, oh yeah....
tmlafrance 7 months ago
i love the way song this starts idk what makes that sound like .. well like a bug light cooking bugs ha ha! this is a good 80's song always loved it.
youraverageuser 7 months ago
why on earth would you disable embedding on this video.?
ambroseaz 7 months ago 2
One of my all time favorite videos XOXO
Augustus7669 7 months ago 3
This is such a beautiful song; put me in the time machine and send me back!
RegulaPrime 7 months ago
Jimmy Carlin
iTzViiZiONzHD 7 months ago 4
Why disable embedding?
antdude 7 months ago
Hearing this song tonight-well this morning-brought me back to a day walking in the mall in '84 shopping and hanging out and the world did seem almost perfect. I remember hearing the other song by this band that was the big hit and somehow listening to wishing it hit me that I am really wishing to go back to that world filled with all things possible.
japinvt 8 months ago 2
@japinvt depressing comment....
grayghostxiii 7 months ago
@grayghostxiii My comment certainly does reflect my rather gloomy outlook on the world. It just seems so broken and empty of hope whereas I did not feel that way many years ago. It seemed bright and full of life. It may just be the passage of time and age alone that has brought on such thoughts and feelings. It may be that the world is better in many ways. Just not for me and hearing this song triggered those thoughts.
japinvt 7 months ago
@japinvt It's your life, make your decisions. Everyday is a new day and a chance to start over or begin something new. Don't despair...get back up, you're alive...so live. :)
12burtonboy 7 months ago
I almost feel like an old woman.... but this does make me feel like it is a bright sunny day in 1984 when nothing ever seemed out of reach......
LadyGoonerinTexas 8 months ago 4
I just had this song dedicated to me.
virtualflesh 8 months ago
Thumbs up if you have a flock of seagulls hairdo right now....
vta1985 8 months ago
@vta1985 I can't say I do
shmeebree 8 months ago
if only i was born 20 years earlier from my birth date, i bet my life would be 100x better then now... we're in the 10's of the 21st century and i feel depressed, the woman looked better back then, the muscle cars, the MUSIC!!! all of it was great, even the fucking economy was WAY better then our shitty economy now. i swear if a fucking time machine isn't invented in the upcoming years... i going 2 kill myself because i can't take it any more in this fucking decade!!!
tonyinthe602 8 months ago
egads i remember my college daze er days and going to see them here in philly at the mann with another aussie group The Fixx. Great times then and this tune leaves an inpact as i am a cameraholic/collector of vintage cams and avid shooter
leicafool 8 months ago 2
good music...THATS GREAT!!
francesdb1 8 months ago 2
this is a trance og 1980 's . Best of trance!!!! Long live serbia , Belgrade pioneris of electro music.
helena2001ful 9 months ago
There was something about the 80's. One could laugh at the hair, the clothes. But I grew up up in the decade and it was a coming of age for many of us. Salute to the class of 1984.
ironwoodadq 9 months ago 20
@ironwoodadq I love their hair! Unfortunately, the silly clothes are somewhat back in style where I live. Kids who were born in 1996 are dressing like 1984 and it's so weird! Yesterday I saw a girl who looked 14 years old dressed like she was straight out of the "Pour Some Sugar On Me" video!
jrquist404 9 months ago
@ironwoodadq .........Amen to that. CLASS OF 1984
david08060 6 months ago
@ironwoodadq ; Class of 1983 here : )
brneyedsuz 5 months ago
This was Donald Trump in his early years. Bet you didn't know he could sing.
moochercat 9 months ago
0:59 I WANT THAT TOY! TEE HEE!! :-)
flickwatcher5181 9 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs I've heard.
Remorselesslymine 9 months ago
This song reminds me of my german girlfriend. She played this record the first time we did it, whil making love to her, every time the cymbal hit was a stroke. Every record she played after that day became a beat marking time for us to do it to. lol. PSHHHHT! PSHHHT! PSHHHT! lol,
carloss1960 9 months ago
WOW... I AM GLAD MY BOYFRIEND DEDICATED THIS SONG TO ME... THE LYRICS GO PERFECTLY WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP... I LOVE YOU ********* FOREVER!
thesmiths122995 9 months ago
Gen X er's had the best music during their day !!!!!! Rock, Punk, Ska, Mod, NuWave, Reggae - all mixed together on mainstream radio at the same time!! WooHoo! Now, it's all pre-programmed junk. Thank God for satellite radio...
gojirasan 9 months ago 3
@gojirasan love it! jeez the 80s were great!
mrjohnnyboy65 9 months ago
@gojirasan This sort of thing really didn't get played on the radio much back then either, unless you were lucky enough to live within earshot of one of the handful of "Rock of the 80s" format stations like LA's KROQ or Long Island's WLIR. Mostly I remember seeing the video for this on MTV around 1983-ish.
billd66 9 months ago
@billd66 I was addicted to KROQ and loved this song more than "I Ran". I got sick of "I Ran"-which is exactly what the lead singer of this band said in an interview! I don't blame him...though that video with the tin foil on the floor and his one key dance was quite amusing!
hiracktoman9 9 months ago
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Enjoy the music!
rekkof 9 months ago
Ovo je lepa stvar iz vremena 80" tih . Tada je buducnost izgledala mnogo lepse nego
sada gde kvazi Demokrate ti kroje sudbinu i posle mnogo leta sta se desilo???
Japanci ,Englezi, Jevreji,Debilini Ameri i tako dalje......
Necudite se sto priroda ili jos gore Svevisnji ovako reaguje na Vas rezultat ophodjenja prema ljudskoj rasi. Bili ste krvoloci u svakom smislu i sta sad ocekujete????
helena2001ful 10 months ago
2:42
first bluetooth!!! go mike score!
iruyle 10 months ago 2
@iruyle Score! Point for you!
flickwatcher5181 9 months ago
The Song is Kick ass
topfuel29 10 months ago
43 year old happily reporting that there are still good bands out there -- You just gotta look for them! :)
clayguy33 10 months ago 4
all of you who say music is regressing are missing the big picture. its entertainment in general. movies and more. they all suck now. i think half of the 90's was trash too if your talking about hipop. 80's hipop brought us good stuff but half the beats were stolen. what we have to do is kill the majority of the population and make sure a company like holly wood will never spur up again in order for the good old 40,50,60,70, and 80,s creativity to return. might as well forget music existed.
skiddidydat 10 months ago
@skiddidydat
Good point.
I've thought about this alot and the only reasonable explanation is that it has something to do with the Baby Boomers.
In the 90's they took over power in the country (political, economic, cultural, social), and ever since then things have gotten worse. It may have to do with them being very self-indulgent and generally amoral.
But what do I know.
Vebinz 9 months ago
I love the use of the scenes from the tv show Space 1999
ldefranzo 10 months ago
The music was awesome until 1982, after that it went to hell in a hand basket
MrGer64 10 months ago
Man, some of the younger viewers must be dumb by being confused
of the name of the band and name of the song. SHEESH
No wonder the music business is going down the tubes.
They can't read!! YO YO YO what up fool.... whatever.....
DallasLuvster 10 months ago
Man, some of younger ones are dumb.
The song is called "WISHING" which has nothing to do
with the name of their band "THE FLOCK OF SEAGULLS"
SHEESH..........
DallasLuvster 10 months ago
When he is talking about hair, i though he was talking about his own... lol
FREDSDEADBABE 10 months ago
Sigh, they just don't make hair like that anymore...
TheCamerlengo7 10 months ago 3
To all the kids out there lamenting the fact that music in the 80s was much better: hogwash. I grew up in the 80s and there was loads of rubbish around (look for Christopher Cross, Luba, or Corey Hart on YouTube). Mind you, much like ,we were nostalgic for the 60s and 70s, especially the Doors, Sex Pistols, the Clash.
Every era has its good bands and those that are plain shite. Skip all the Grammy stuff , dig a bit deeper, go to a local club and you will find sounds that will blow your mind.
FrankStreicher 10 months ago
@FrankStreicher Sunglasses At Night is awesome.
MattDeathStroke 10 months ago
@FrankStreicher
Christopher Cross?? You're kidding right?
Anyway, you're right that every era has good and bad music. But I think the difference is that the 80's accepted variety in the mainstream as no decade before or since.
Vebinz 9 months ago
Is the band called the seagulls? I thought I was going to see the birds in this vid ! LOL
luxeden 10 months ago
@luxeden Yes, the band is called Flock of Seagulls and the song is called Wishing.
VoarTok 10 months ago
@luxeden your comment made me lol
tallyhoman911 10 months ago
what does the seagulls have to do with this song? LOL
luxeden 10 months ago
I loved the 80's so many great memories for me i love all kinds of music but when i hear songs like this it takes me back and sometimes makes me sad cause those times of childhood are gone now. i remember being at school dances wishing that one special guy would ask me to dance to songs like these. and yes back then MTV was the shit and did play real music!!!!!
buttery1toast 10 months ago 33
@buttery1toast if only i was born 20 years earlier from my birth date, i bet my life would be 100x better then now... we're in the 10's of the 21st century and i feel depressed, the woman looked better back then, the muscle cars, the MUSIC!!! all of it was great, even the fucking economy was WAY better then our shitty economy now. i swear if a fucking time machine isn't invented in the upcoming years... i going 2 kill myself because i can't take it any more in this fucking decade!!! 80's FTW!!!
tonyinthe602 8 months ago
@tonyinthe602 I don't know if it'll cheer you up but one of my favorite current bands is The New Pornographers and lots of their songs cheer me up when I need a lift. Maybe their song The Bleeding Heart Show will cheer you up, Make sure to listen to the whole song though since the first few minutes are a build up to the end
101Volts 8 months ago
@101Volts look, no other song will ever cheer me up like the 80's songs would, if only i could go back in time ;(
tonyinthe602 8 months ago
@buttery1toast and I remember being the shy guy who was afraid to ask girls to dance. Fortunately broke out of that in college but those were still good days.
tmlafrance 7 months ago
Jimmy C
Shawya45 10 months ago
I was born in the wrong era. When I hear music like this, Im jealous of everyone who lived through such a time.
What will people in the future think when people listen back to the music of todays time [justin bieber, lady gaga, etc etc] ? I think they'll laugh at it, and us.
319024 10 months ago 4
@319024 You wonder? Look at pop stars of years past to get an idea of what future generations will think of the pop stars of 2011. You might not see what you expect. Here are a few pop star/band names. Shania Twain, Madonna, Backstreet Boys. Also the Bee Gees who I like and I find it rather ridiculous that many people highly despised them in the late 70s.
101Volts 8 months ago
love this song so much,music was so much better then,now anyone who LOOKS the part can be a singer with the help of studio magic,like that kardashein whore.
lovethe80sguy 10 months ago
sin duda es uno de los grupos que verdaderamente transmiten el sentimiento del new wave akellas texturas espaciales y esa atmosfera que te lleva a cualquier lugar..
cesarvilcapoma 10 months ago
i just fucking LOVE this song!!
cluegirlnow 11 months ago
@cluegirlnow- i feel the exact same fucking way! it overwhelms me when i hear it, STILL.......
starbucksslave 10 months ago
fucking love this song
killenward 11 months ago
this was a B side from the 45's I used to listen to. This was the B side to I Ran. To me it's a better song than I Ran and the lead singer says he's so tired of playing I Ran so perhaps they should have played this one on the radio more often instead.
malifacent1974 11 months ago
I wish we could go back to the eighties again,and not have to listen to Lady GaGa? Whats she all about???And Beyounce sounds like something you could put in the clothes dryer?? Mtv DID play GOOD stuff,now all they are full of is CRAP!!! LONG LIVE THE EIGHTIES.:)
402interphase 11 months ago
Jimmy Carlin!!!! :D Color Theory.
GirlSkateboardSkater 11 months ago 71
@GirlSkateboardSkater hell yeah
FegazieeSkater 7 months ago
Nathalie is such a great model! That one-hour photo much be a front company to pay a Victoria's Secret cover girl enough to get her in there! Yay, Birdemic!
sxFreelancerxs 11 months ago
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TotalGamer1 11 months ago
Excellent song.. always liked this song, but the video, all the nostalgia in the world cannot make this a good video. Even when I first saw it back in the eighties I thought WTF? What is this supposed to be? Iron workers in the future traveling through a mirrored cloud? Mike had an awesome voice for this music.
assemblyguy 11 months ago
One of the greatest songs ever made! Timeless.
peplumz 11 months ago
Jimmy Carlin. nuff said.
McSprutte 11 months ago 4
The space background was taken from the TV Series Space:1999.
There is another clip where they used some parts of the TV Series.
It's from "Rah Band" - "Clouds across the moon"
GETTOBOMBER 11 months ago
Im 18 years old guy, i LOVE "A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS" since i was8 or 9 years when my dad showed me this band, he teach me music and I LOVE 60´S, 70´S and 80´S MUSIC!"
aormc1380 11 months ago
Must have take ages to get his hair that way. WTF did he look, like at the time everyone thought he was coo,l probably bald now.
10teviotstreet 11 months ago
can't believe the 80's is the oldies for us! used to be the 50's-60's for my parents! ong live the 80's!
sushiray00 11 months ago
@sushiray00 Yeah i feel the same way ....lol
melccxp 11 months ago
I LOVE JIMMY CARLIN
ticago1 11 months ago 2
@ticago1 best color theory part
monstermixx13 11 months ago
Yep,MrWishIWas...those were the days.Times were good and easy for most kids in suburban /rural America.My sis took her little, 11yr old brother to college for Little Bro Weekend.I had a bunch of drunken /stoned 18yr old girls, in their underwear, get me ripped!...Middle class American sex and drugs were -relatively- safe.(No herpes, AIDS, meth or crack yet!)
Yeah!MTV was just music.
Spent my fair share of time working 'my looks' in the mirror as well...Those efforts payed off big-time too!
chivalryalive 11 months ago
That's not a seagull, that's a WOLVERINE!
southport97 11 months ago
Even though they all look like NERDs, the song is great! Hell Yeah!
PELUXAUNO 11 months ago
@PELUXAUNO
Ha Ha! I now know how the Band got it's name,I was expecting a flock of seagull,s to fly out of that hairdo!
jonkheere1 11 months ago
and to think I was fed up that I missed the beatles! Born in 1962 I had the good fortune to see The Fantastic Freddie live numerous times, Great times XX
evertonkev 11 months ago
I was bornin 87?? so i miss pretty much everything
ArrivaLaFranja21 11 months ago
it must something else!!
Sims122luva 11 months ago
Ah, the days when we actually did something with our clothes and hair. Time and preparation went into the cool look of these bands. All Bieber has to do is comb his stupid Zac Efron lookalike hair and wear his jeans around his ass-cheeks. I guess most people these days are easier to amuse.
And I hate his stupid magazine interviews "Justin just loves GIRLS!"
WHAT DO YOU WANT???? A MEDAL???!!!
Such a Goddamn tool. Can't believe someone hasn't shot him yet. 80S FOREVER!
22ndWave 11 months ago
@22ndWave "Wears his jeans around his ass-cheeks." What is it with sick bastards wearing these days wearing their jeans around thier ass-cheeks.
veritras 11 months ago
@veritras And these are the people who call this music "gay" yet their entire look practically invites easy access for opportunistic homosexuals. Next they'll be wearing shoes 10 sizes too big!
22ndWave 11 months ago
Such an amazing song
Im wishing to be in the 80s :)!
deidaralove101 11 months ago
I sat outside yesterday listening to a good 5 hours of 80's music and could have easily listened to another 5 hours. Best music ever!
robojet01 1 year ago 15
@robojet01 cant listen to todays shite. absolute crapioca!
mrjohnnyboy65 9 months ago
@robojet01 I don't know why I never get tired of it!!
carloss1960 9 months ago
The best tecnopop
toncipri 1 year ago
88 people suck dick for crack-cocaine!
deathbyhighkick 1 year ago 2
Anyone else think Willow Smith's hair is starting to look like Mike Score's?
ladycplum 1 year ago
GREAT SONG..... I love it.... always have.... always will.
tmoodyband 1 year ago
nothing like the 80's; the best era for music...
FoXxiblondie 1 year ago
The last decade of joy, fun, true creativity and opulence and diversity of music. Today's music is like some lifeless, cold asteroid full of poisounous gasses compared to Earth.
TheFallToRise 1 year ago 5
@TheFallToRise the 90s were the last decade of fun actually.. i'd argue 90s were a tad more creative and experimental than the 80s. but i absolutely love and miss both. i hate the 00s on..
starsweet4 1 year ago
@starsweet4
Disagree.
The 90's in many ways represented a conservative reaction against the experimental varied 80's, with music going back to the same old same old trio: rock, r&b, and country, with rap joining in.
And we've been stuck like this for two decades now.
Vebinz 9 months ago
@Vebinz what about all the indie music in the 90s? how can you consider that the "same old" stuff?
starsweet4 9 months ago
@starsweet4
Yes, but that's just it, that "indie" rock was still rock, a going-back to the pre-New Wave rock music of the 70's.
That's my point, the 80's saw the British bring something other than rock into music, something that many Americans coulnd't accept, so when groups like Nirvana and REM came out (or became hits in the case of the latter) they were lapped up as bringing "rock" back after a decade of synth-pop and so on.
Many Americans just can't seem to accept anything without guitars
Vebinz 9 months ago
@TheFallToRise Amen to that.
MaceMn 1 year ago
love this tune
indianerin 1 year ago
My favourite by them. 80s #FTW
FIinter 1 year ago 4
punk and stoner to 80's space age stuff to justin bieber and lil wayne shit
dailysk8shp2 1 year ago
Co ja się tego cholerstwa naszukałam! Mam szczęście, że znam kogoś, kto jest Najlepszy w tych sprawach:)
Lodreipeina 1 year ago
Dude. First we had star wars, then music like this. How the fuck did we go from being so futuristic and space age to justin bieber?...WTF?
MysteryoftheGods 1 year ago 130
@MysteryoftheGods '
urban decay!
glynnhale 11 months ago
urban decay
glynnhale 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods to quote yogi bera, the future aint what it used to be.
Danowar1990 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods
I think we're being hard on ourselves. This was slated at the time for being synthasized, while bands like FoS, Visage OMD, were for being synthetic. Don't forget what total shite was around when this was out; Dollar, Brotherhood of Man, The Nolans, Men at Work & COUNTLESS others, not to mention the bizzare Jilted John & Captain Sensible. The music industry has changed. Now you have Wrtters-performers/singers-producers.No longer are bands expected to be the complete package
kevintheshedend1976 11 months ago
@kevintheshedend1976 Hey now. Men at Work was fronted by one of the most talented musicians around: Colin Hay. "Going Somewhere" is one of my favorite albums of this decade.
gajillion 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods Music will never be the same. The 70's, 80's and 90's music will live on in our memories.
luvindogadis411 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods we let the far east!
xesionprince 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods ---What happened is we lost out innocence, and went politically correct. We lived in an age and time in which free ideas and thought were encouraged. Musically, we were in uncharted waters. AFOS were so way ahead of their time. The music was simple with simple arrangements. there was no need or demand for music to be so complex as it is now. We were still optomistic with ourselves, the world, and each other.
whatever438 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods Because the fanatic crying girls...
GETTOBOMBER 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods Why don't you haters just fuck off about Justin B. I don't listen to him and he doesn't effect me. We all have to live on earth together so let Justin be and let him have his fans. Don't be so hateful. It's about spreading the love. What other predudices you carry keep them to yourself!
kertbert1 11 months ago
@kertbert1 ummm...have to say...well said mate.
greg313662 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods Civilization declining because History repeats itself.
Clamms 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods So fucking true mate. What the fuck happened? My best to you.
deathbydying 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods its true...we are regressing...just like in Idiocracy.
TRBNGR666 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods Now music is a money and "nothing else matter".
mekomanius 11 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods hahahahaha like baby baby ooo like baby baby nooooo thought you always be mine!!! good stuff eh ;-D
Ian2Die4 10 months ago
@MysteryoftheGods the same way as we went to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay
sst70 10 months ago
seen a picture of them lately? there nicname of "Flock of Hairdoo's" no longer applies
timbitz47 1 year ago
The reason the 80's was great for me,is that I was younger and could do things like run up the stairs instead of drag myself up them and rub my knees at the top Hee Hee. I was superman back then. My saying now is "These are the good years". They aren't going to get any better health wise and my knees will ache more and more as more time goes by. That being said, remember when MTV played music and there was real music.
MrWishiwas18again 1 year ago 62
@MrWishiwas18again: Yeah, we only realize later that our greatest asset was all that ENERGY.
cluegirlnow 1 year ago 2
@MrWishiwas18again They were certainly the golden years. I never realised at the time that life was never going to be as good as it was at that time. It was the only time in my life i was truly happy and healthy. I guess it`s a good job you cannot see your own future because if i had known mine i would have checked out when i was at my most happiest.
TimeTeam71 1 year ago 4
@TimeTeam71 wise words mate! I would agree 100% that the 80's were the best years of my life, I didn't always realise it then. I can't say that I would have checked out then, I just live in hope that the happiness I had then will come around again. Still, we have our memories and some poor buggers don't even have that!
MegaChris1963 1 year ago