The Well Wishers - Dunwoody ep (2013) - A brief ov.Times Beach - Love and Politics tape (1986, Beach.A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song" - An app.VA - Listen and Learn With Vibro-phonic (1999, Vib.Re-up: Versus - Let's Electrify ep (1993).
The band's '80s catalog has recently been reissued by Cherry Red. To top it off is a re-recording of "Space Age." by the originators themselves.Īs for Mike Score's "waterfall" hairdo that unintentionally immortalized A Flock of Seagulls (not to mention the very connotation of "new wave" itself) our man's scalp no longer contains the adequate number of follicles to replicate it, sad to say.though I do think he's still touring. For good measure, I'm tossing in a KMFDM remix, and a live rendering of the song in question by a notable Oklahoma based combo. This amalgam is nothing short of heady, and words hardly do justice in describing it, so with that, I'm presenting fifteen separate readings of "Space Age." served up by the likes of such fairly unknown quantities as Brief Candles, Tennis System, Teeel, Dark Distant Spaces, The Bomb, Lazlo Bane, Electric Blankets, No Motiv, and The Molly Ringwalds. As underwritten as the piece is, it isn't particularly noticeable thanks to a sublime and alluring instrumental feast of swarming synths and even more prominent echo-laden guitar. In fact, between it's merged verse/chorus, "SALS" only offers about six different lines total - but therein lies the beauty. Technically that's not applicable here, as the phrase "space age love song" or any variation thereof, isn't once uttered by the cleverly coiffed Michael Score. (It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs.It's been noted that the lyrical content of many AFoS compositions don't elaborate much further than the sum total of the song title. That we’ll never know just adds to the mystery of the song.Ī filterable, searchable & sortable database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. Of course, I realize that “Space Age Love Song” describes the sound of the song, and not the lyrical content, but to paraphrase Eric Clapton & Bobby Whitfield, why does love in the space age got to be so sad? Sadness that whatever Mike Score is describing is long long over, which meant that it was sung from a perspective long after the Space Age. The other neat trick was taking lyrics as seemingly upbeat as:īecause that’s what I get from “Space Age Love Song”: sadness. With guitarist Paul Reynolds playing the same licks over and over and Mike Score singing call-and-response with himeself, “Space Age Love Song” started out grand and and ended up as massive as a wall of clouds in the distance that was probably going to rain on you. “Telecommunication was the weird one, “I Ran” the massive one and “Space Age Love Song” the wistful one. That was the formula that A Flock of Seagulls rode for three successive killer singles from their eponymous debut album. Looking back, it seemed so simple: take one part soaring synthesizers, one part mechanical drumbeats and one part echoing guitar parts, and voila! futuristic-sounding pop music that was completely of the moment.
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