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

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😊👍️💕

Everyday 💯 24/7

Big time!

yes...oh yes

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

Thanks!👍

Thanks mate. Question is for how long...

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

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

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 💔 🥺

Os acompaño en el sentimiento ♥️

😢

❤❤❤❤

Sorry, bless you n kids too

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. 🙂👍

Thank you

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.

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

Your English is fine. Good comment.

What it's all bout. Poetry in motion

Nice tale

there already

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

What a beautiful post.....😊

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

I'm 59 time went by so fast .

@@albertalcozer7071you are not alone in those feelings.

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

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.

💋

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

It was the best decade by far

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

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

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!

@@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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

100%

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.

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

@@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?

JF - BLAH BLAH BLAH....

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

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.

And don't forget those video arcades! Asteroids was my favorite. 😀

Plus both of my parents were alive. I’m older now than they were back then.,

Bet you are like me and Didn't realize how good it was n we had at the time

I'm 74 and I've never heard it

I was13 ❤

I was 18 loved this song great times

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.

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

Wishing for those times and I am not even 50.

@@laartwork true.

Too right

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

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

Absolutely right you are Kerosene Cooker!!

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

Absolutely yes.

That growling synth at the bottom of this is key

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

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

That's the beauty of music my friend.

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

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 😊

OH OUI, J'ADORE!

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

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

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

@@crystalteardrop2605 OH OUI, SO TRUE!

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.

Me too. This is my favourite tune by them.

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

Indeed !😃🙂🙃❤💥💥💥

Well, I only like 2 of their songs lol

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

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

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

and the band. U2

How could you miss out Ultravox?! 😂

Yess we are!!

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

GTA a TARDIS

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

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.

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

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

true!

Underrated?

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.

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

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

I was 19 then I wanted go back

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

Sony Walkman such a classic TY 🙏

Oh I hear you my friend! 💋💋❤️

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

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

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

@@rpmacmurphy5133 Sláinte

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❤️

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

Those aren't the lyrics, are they?

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.

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

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

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

Good shout

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

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

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

The 80's were the best

True. Couldnt get a more 80's song.

What about human league

I gotta go with Depeche Mode.

Along with The Furs

Micha

Great stuff.

Awesome!🤩😊

📻🎶🎶🎶🎧

You never too old to rock and roll 😊😊

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

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

I was 22. Great times

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

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

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

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

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

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

Absolutely.

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

You did!

i cant believe people actually buy this, go watch the dock The New Romantics bbc kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8qbl9Vi2JyYeHU.html 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.

@@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! 🎶

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

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

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

Think you had to be there

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

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

😂yeah

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

Totally agree

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 ❤

amen

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.

Yes! Music was wonderful.

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

Born in 61 and pure gold 2 me as well

Born 1956, loved the 80s music. 👍

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

​@@neilsarath9812 me too.oct 67

mee too 67. Born for the 80's.

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

Nailed it, dude. 👍

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

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!!!

Agree with you.

Way to go Dad 👍

Whatever happens don't quit the 80ies

My youngest daughter loves everything '80's 😎

Exactly 👍👍

Apple 2, and Pascal.Great summer.

@@peggyfranzen6159 They even had keyboards back then.

No crappy Rap Songs

Yeah!!!!

that's right

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.

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!

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

What about Donald Trump !

@@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

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

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

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

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!

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.

Agree.

especially from Liverpool

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

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

Such a lush, atmospheric soundscape to be sure! The notes that the synth brings in at 3:25.... ethereal. ✌️

Evolution time travel

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

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Yes you felt you had to choose a tribe. Trouble was my music tastes crossed genres. Love heavy rock but also loved the Jam etc.

@@andyj639 The Gift: "Precious"

Mark Richardson good shout lol

I don't get it.

+Kian Woll that sounds fucking badass my friend!

CBDM777 this video should have 42 million views

Garrett Wynn

What a great time to be alive indeed

my favourite of theirs back then, and still is

Me too because everybody that loved were still alive.

I wish I could go back and never return

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

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!!

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.

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

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

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

70's

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

the 90s lol

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

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

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

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

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.

I second that emotion.

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

Damned straight!

born in 1966 too. I remember the "I want my MTV" commercial spots when not everyone had MTV. Martha Quinn and the other VJ's. sighhhh, those were great times!!!

Born in 62 myself. Parents let me listen to any kind of music I wanted. Those where good times.

Thank God that I was born in 1955! I would not like to be a teenager today.

was Born in 66 too…..had an absolut great teenagertime.....awsome

Oliver F ❤️❤️

Amazing, eh? I agree 100 percent!

ye what a fecked world we now live in

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

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

hailed 😊😊

studiomix is great...live they suck big time

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

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

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

im 14

its never to late for happiness . i got a throwback Pomeranian at 50, the next 11 years were the best of my life, my sweet boy died 2 weeks ago, i get another Pom tomorrow..if you can get a dog i highly recommend it.

Thats kindof how life is ain't it? You just have to step back and make the best of each moment you get - because you have a finite amount of moments.

Me as well Mike, it was great, it just flew by.

Im 58 & the Cure was my band!

v8 iroc z camaro well, it wasn’t my childhood exactly, but still listening in 2019

Me !!

Today😎

I am! I was 8-9 in '82 ! My older brother & sister were 15+14 so I heard some great music !!

yes

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

agreeeeeeed

Leon Andres ,,

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

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

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

same

I love the hair

I agree xx

@@parchy6464 very good x

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