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Flock Of Seagulls

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 2004)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Superfecta
• ASIN: B0002ZDW80
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #171,698 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The Grammy-Award winning band's 1983 album finally makes its compact disc debut in the United States. A Billboard Top 20 album, Listen features four hit singles: "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)", "Nightmares", "Transfer Affection", and "(It's Not Me) Talking". Three bonus tracks have been added, including the 80s alternative radio classic, "Committed". All songs are newly digitally remastered and the booklet contains complete lyrics for the first time. Furthermore, journalist Stephen "Spaz" Schnee has compiled new liner notes based on a 2004 interview with Mike and Ali Score.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, incomplete... although blissful this was re-released!, November 13, 2004

By	<Anvil.Chorus> "Socio-Techno-Observo" (the Konza Plains) - See all my reviews

I am in agreement about the missing tracks "Last Flight of..." and "Rosemantag". Those were two hellaciously alternative songs, given the time of its original release. I will miss them.

I have waited many years to hear this CD again. I originally had the cassette when first released, but after taking that damn cassette everywhere I went for many years, it faded with the scenery. I have looked for the CD version on ebay and every so often one can find one going for $80 out of some remote village half way around the globe. Now that it is rereleased and two very important tracks were omitted I will still wait for that day I can get the original CD on ebay for $50.

The song Committed was a treat for me since I only had a sound snippet memorized in my head from the one time I had heard the song back in 83. Thanks for the memories.

Anyway, get this CD. It, in my humble opinion, is a work of art. The songs are strong and good. THe Production is very much unique for the time, the reverb fills up your speakers and gives an unmistakeable sense of place while you 'listen'. I wish they would have graced the bottom end of the sound spectrum a bit on the remaster, but then it wouldn't true to how Mike Howlett produced it. I guess I can just use my stereo's EQ.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete......, November 10, 2004

By	joycircuit - See all my reviews

I grew up listening to the cassette version, the songs here are in a different sequence and they omitted 2 outstanding tracks from the original, "Rosenmontag" and "The Last Flight of Yuri Gargarin" which could have easily fit on the CD. Somehow this difference takes away from the impact of the album (as I remember it), which is a bit disappointing. After all, do we really need another version of "I Ran"? Overall though, it still remains a timeless piece of new wave nostalgia, still sounding as fresh today as it did 20 years ago.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the brooding synth-pop, October 25, 2004

By	SRFireside "ZOOM!" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is by far the best AFOS album ever. It hits the epitome of the band's talent and puts them inside a genre of music that at the time had no name. This was a dark and brooding album that oozes angst and that ominous gothic sound while at the same time being very new wave. It's not until years later this kind of sound gets more exposed when industrial music hits the airwaves. A Flock of Seagulls were one of the first.

WISHING and TRANSFER AFFECTION are obvously the reasons why most of you would get this album since they are the two most notable hits.

OVER THE BORDER is my favorite in this album and those of you who like electronic music would probably get into it if you got into Gary Numan's Cars. Granted these are two totally different songs, but they both give me the same goose bumps.

THE FALL and NIGHTMARES are definitely for the post modern crowd. Very brooding. Very well done.

The rest of the songs are an interesting mix of new wave style music pushing a little more on the fringes than pop. Still a lot of good tracks here. If you're a fan of 80's industrial or post modern techno-synth music then this one's for you.