I Ran: Very Best of [Extra tracks]

Flock Of Seagulls | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B0000E6XIG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,776 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The quintessential 80s hair band, A Flock Of Seagulls, presents this collection of their best compositions and some of the most memorable singles of the new wave era!

Newly recorded, identical sounding versions of I Ran (So Far Away), Telecommunication, Space Age Love Song, The More You Live, The More You Love and more!

Special bonus mixes, exclusive to this compilation, plus 2 stellar remixes by industrial legends Die Krupps and Guenter Schultz (KMFDM/Slick Idiot)!

A Flock Of Seagulls is still a very popular band amongst 80s music enthusiasts!

Okay, so everyone remembers the hair, teased high and tossed like an ocean wave. Those outrageous bleach blonde locks have become a singular expression of 80s excess and one of the most iconic pictures of American music history, even parodied (hilariously) by Mike Myers in the film View From The Top. But A Flock Of Seagulls were also responsible for great swaths of the music that made the 80s so great. Unlike the hairstyles, the soaring melodies and unshakeable choruses of I Ran (So Far Away), Telecommunication, Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You), Space Age Love Song and many other AFOS songs are timeless, unfettered pieces of pop music majesty. This hits collection, featuring singer Mike Score s newly recorded, true-to-the-orignal versions of the Seagulls best loved songs, is guaranteed to have you banging on your air-synth while it transports you back to that indelible era when the artists were heroes and melody was their superpower. Enjoy! --Cleopatra Records

Product Description

1. I Ran (So Far Away)
2. Space Age Love Song
3. Telecommunication
4. The More You Live, The More You Love
5. Nightmares
6. Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
7. Rainfall
8. Messages
9. I Ran (So Far Away) (Die Krupps Remix)
10. Space Age Love Song (Guenter Schulz Remix)

Exclusive Remixes
11. Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (Shutter Speed Remix)
12. I Ran (So Far Away) (Shah Of The Dance Remix)
13. Space Age Love Song (Major Tom Remix)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Name of the album should be called "You-and your $$- Run", May 9, 2004

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Paul (RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Ran: Very Best of (Audio CD)

According to Mike 'the ego has landed' Score former lead singer of the band Flock of Seagulls, this album is yet another attempt by a record company to cash in on past hits.

Anyone who saw bands re-united will know that Score's voice is now shot and the other 3 members of the band, brother Ali Score on drums who hasn't spoken to Mike in 12 yrs, Frank on bass and Paul on guitar could re-form as a Flock of C-gulls or something like that and still actually perform.

Mike attempts on the bands official website to distance himself from this cd because the main bulk of music was recorded for a re-mix album 2 years ago and the record company took the music and his (poor) voiceovers and did a new compilation album with them.

Give this cd a wide berth and spend your money on another good compilation CD. To hear one member of the band re-record and re-sing songs 20 years later and then grumble about the quality does this band dis-justice. If amazon would have let me post O stars I would have.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled..., March 17, 2004

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gil (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Ran: Very Best of (Audio CD)

What you're not being told here is that these are all re-recordings of a great collection of music that lose quite a bit in the update. If you're interested in the bonus remixes, they aren't all that hot.
So please do yourself a favor, if you're temped to get this, pay the extra couple of bucks for the original 1991 "The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls" release. You'll get the great original recordings of some great music...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This CD Is A Fraud, December 29, 2008

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Murph "Murph" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Ran: Very Best of (Audio CD)

This CD is a complete fraud. These are not the original recordings. It sounds like Mr. Score went into his garage and re-recorded the songs with his vocal range failing. If I could have issued Zero stars, I would have. Don't waste your dough.