Old AGE Top Ten: Space Age Love Song (#4)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86830)
United States
April 23, 2021 10:33am CST
So you’re here because you saw the words “country music” in the “old” song discussion and ran away screaming? Fear not, no country music here. Some people may be shocked to see just how different this is from today’s other song, but that’s my crazy world, and welcome to it. It’s today’s “age” song.
#4: Space Age Love Song - A Flock of Seagulls
Most people know the 80s band A Flock of Seagulls for “I Ran (So Far Away)” and lead singer Mike Score’s wild hairdo. Well, there was more to them than this song, and Score is bald now. 
This song was the follow-up hit to “I Ran (So Far Away),” and I loved it so much more than the “big hit.” That’s not unusual for me. I might have to do a top ten list of songs where I liked the lesser-known follow-up better than the “big hit.”
Meanwhile, enjoy a great 80s flashback.
Space Age Love Song
Written by Mike Score, Paul Reynolds, Frank Maudsley, and Ali Score
Recorded by A Flock of Seagulls
From A Flock of Seagulls, 1982
I was falling in love:
This song was the follow-up hit to “I Ran (So Far Away),” and I loved it so much more than the “big hit.” That’s not unusual for me. I might have to do a top ten list of songs where I liked the lesser-known follow-up better than the “big hit.”
Meanwhile, enjoy a great 80s flashback.
Space Age Love Song
Written by Mike Score, Paul Reynolds, Frank Maudsley, and Ali Score
Recorded by A Flock of Seagulls
From A Flock of Seagulls, 1982
I was falling in love:
Space Age Love Song · A Flock Of SeagullsA Flock Of Seagulls? 1982 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (UK) ...
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@porwest (112894)
• United States
28 Apr 21
It was great to hear this old song again. I had not forgotten about it, of course. But when it comes to Flock of Seagulls, for whatever reason the only song that ever slips easily and readily off the tongue is of course I Ran.
But as the lead singer famously yelled at his audience who wanted to hear I Ran in a set where they decided not to play it, because supposedly the lead singer hated that song, "We have other effing songs!"
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@FourWalls (86830)
• United States
28 Apr 21
I saw Los Lobos a few years ago and they didn’t even do their only #1 hit! Bully for them! I guess they figured most people were there to hear something other than their cover of “La Bamba.”
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@porwest (112894)
• United States
28 Apr 21
@FourWalls It is often interesting to me how differently some bands view the music we love. For a while even Radiohead refused to do Creep.
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@LindaOHio (222728)
• United States
24 Apr 21
Was I asleep during the 80s? I don't remember hearing this one.
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@FourWalls (86830)
• United States
24 Apr 21
No, you just weren’t at Police concerts with these guys opening! 
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Apr 21
Where is all this coming from? Outer Space? Furthering my musical education as always,
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
23 Apr 21
I was in high school back then. So, I remember this band and that album.
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@FourWalls (86830)
• United States
23 Apr 21
I saw them when they were the opening act for the Police in 1981. 
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
24 Apr 21
great song - i ran was in that genre where it got so much critical acclaim.
I know this is rare, 
but I agree with you. I ran, was overrated in my book!
but I agree with you. I ran, was overrated in my book!1 person likes this
