100%! This is the epitome of New Wave. I'll never forget the first time I heard "I Ran." Was at a record store buying Ozzy Osbourne lapel pins 🤣 when I suddenly heard that atmospheric riff. I turned around and just stared at the music video. It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard.
some years there is no nobel prize for literature as no one is deemed good enough. that being said having existed or even 1 or 2 hits doesnt get you into the hall fame. there should be some kind of rule. lets face it, its a popularity contest and thts not how you get into any hall of fame. is skill and musicianship. not bullshit
That Rock n' Roll 'Hall of Shame' charade DOES NOT even deserve born musical geniuses like A.F.O.S. gracing its halls. The institution is a silly cash-commerce driven joke and and has a downright embarrassing history of how it treats extremely talented Artists.
@@ChadtheHammer people can have opinions. They also are not bound over to explain them. Genius is a relative and unquantifiable term. To him, this could be the result of genius musicians. Just let him say it, it wont hurt you.
@A.C. B. ART You are aware that this isn't the only song AFOS has, right? Not to mention, you make it seem like keeping things simple is "wrong" or "bad" when just about every major musician strives to do just that - keeping it simple. Some of the most famous and popular songs of all time are simple with just a few notes throughout. There's a reason this band (the original lineup) still attracts tons of positive attention, even after nearly 3+ decades of not having played together... guy...
Great player yes. "Virtuoso" might be an overstatement. Look at the tab here - not that complicated. Set the delay and a beginner can play it. Now look at tabs at what 19 year old Jimmy Page or Jimmy Hendrix were playing. It would look like a Beethoven music sheet.
You know consistency when a band can play the same song 30+ yrs later and it sounds near perfectly identical to the original studio recording. That was excellent.
I've been saying this for days, couldn't agree more, what a way to learn the way they did it and gel with the band and jam together at the same time, what a concept!!!!
They would only do it near the end of their careers. When they are still making money they wouldn't want to give their secrets away. I've heard that Peter Hook of New Order used to scrape the markings off his bass pedals so that people couldn't see how the sound was made.
Mike, I know you've played/sung that song till you are blue in the face...BUT, that song is a masterpiece. You, Ali, Frank, and Paul helped DEFINE The 1980s and THE FUTURE (as We speak and hear)...everything officially blew in to view with this classic! Thank you, Gentlemen. I'm getting your new album as a Xmas present.
I wouldn't bother with the album. I'm a big fan but the album is a major disappointment. The best gift would be if the original four members reunited and toured, but of course Mike won't let that happen. He'll just keep plodding on with his second division FOS tribute band
Well said, Anthony! Just adding to what you wrote songs like "I Ran" was what made MTV what it was back in the 1980's. Unfortunately since about the early 1990's MTV has become a ghost of it's former self and I had to quit watching it. Now I come to RUclips when I want to see a music video of the past. To hell with MTV!
Phayzyre105 -- Someone, a few years ago online, very correctly commented that RUclips is the new MTV/VH1 in the 21st Century. It is truly twisted that a video here can rake up 5 million views, but the song/single will barely net repeated plays on the radio. To think that much of the original, great visual material made in the '70s, '80s, and '90s have been stowed away and relegated to MTV2 and Classic VH1 seems antithetical to what the original channels were committed to. Thank goodness for RUclips.
80s talent and energy, you just had to be there to understand. there will never be a time like the 80s again. we were in our prime then....Damn the time and gravity
I know, I really wish I could experience it. sometimes I just wanna restart my life in some perfect world that people seem to remember it as. I know realistically it wouldn't be all that great, but it'd really have its moments. the modern world just makes me sad. sometimes I just wanna escape most technology for a while, get some friends and just go out somewhere
One of the best songs from maybe the best musical decade. I was thinking as I clicked on the video, imagine being 17 when this was released and hearing it for the first time.
It was a glorious time and the music fitted it like a glove. I flew out to Perth W.A in August 1982 and this was rapidly climbing the charts Down Under. Couple that with Hot in the City (Billy Idol) Dexy's etc and you realise the coming summer (Down Under) was Just...So... Perfect Thanks for the Ch00ns AFOS. Your band was a major soundtrack of my youth.
I'm not gonna lie..... This is seriously the coolest thing I have ever seen on RUclips... This song has so much going on and it all blends in perfectly.... real musicians are extremely rare these days...
@Sono2 Why do you answer your own question with a question? Do you always dig up graves to find girls to go out with? Wait, did I just do that? Did I just do that again? Aagh!!!
@Sono2 All business is about money, the music industry are not bothered about talent in the respect they would rather focus their money on throwaway artists who they can control like puppets. Which in turn is detrimental to a diverse spectrum of talented people who create there own work.
Check out bass player Frank Maudsley in this fun clip. He’s a gentleman you would want to find in a pub and chat over a pint. ruclips.net/video/d8Cw2jpeLXs/видео.html
@@Ed_Okin I met him about 11 years ago in his house in Norris Green Liverpool. Don’t know if he still lives there but I never recognised him and asked about all his musical equipment in the front room . He said he’d been in a band that had been quite big in the 80s in America
Sadly I don't think another reunion of the original lineup is going to happen. Mike prefers his touring band, plus recent health issues with Frank (has a rare heart condition) & Paul (recovering from a stroke he suffered in early 2020, though I have heard he's doing better).
Maybe I'm biased as a fellow guitar player, but I completely agree; Paul's guitar bits transformed a catchy synth pop song into an instant classic. He plays with great restraint.
Xul Nag , I was probably 4th grade or so. I wasn’t too big of a fan at the time , but the girl in my class who I had a crush on, was ... so I pretended to like em . But today , some 37 years later , I like and respect the band - if for no other reason than sparking memories of growing up in the 80s - a blessing.
I was a teenager in the 80s. It sucked. Some of the music was good. That's about it. High unemployment, terrorism, run down council estates and schools. It was aweful.
I know perhaps every generation feels this way about the music that was popular at the time but still there was something special, inventive and exciting about the 80's with the introduction of MTV. It was a special time with a huge deluge of good bands worth listening to. Today it is a struggle to find anything good.
This video is music history. They had such a big fallout because of the stress and fame and it never seemed like in a million years they would ever collaborate again. This video is just amazing... PS I know they got together in that one show awhile ago but this video is still grand!
This is the pioneering sound that seismically changed the landscape of modern and electronic rock music, forever. You are the heartbeat of the eighties, and you're still going strong! Thank you for still being here for us.
All the other content creators are like "Dang, now my video is worth crap. They can learn directly and with total authenticity from the masters". It would be awesome if every group out there could make videos as awesome as this one.
Nobody can play "I Ran" as well as Paul Reynolds himself. Amazing to see him teach how to play it. Paul, Frank, Ali and Mike are all amazing musicians. The original Flock. Thanks for making this video. Loved it!
I can't help but recall a funny scene from the movie "The Commitments" when they were looking for a name for their bad. One person suggested "Flock Of Budgies" LOL.
Headphones on, record spinning, after class, in dorm room, laying on top bunk, room dark, eyes closed, songs taking my imagination light years away from where I was, feeling at peace from the troubles of college in the 1980’s. Thank you so much for your music.
Saw them open for the Fixx in a Connecticut jai-alai fronton, early 80s. Fixx rocked and were good, a but sterile if remember, but the Flock kicked seriously major a**. Seeing them bang the hell once again, out of this anthemic beautiful song, some 40ish years later, is mind-blowing. Cheers.
First heard I ran in a club in mount isa Queensland Australia in 1982, when this song came on the whole place went into hysterics, absolute meltdown, there was no one sitting everyone was up and dancing to this masterpiece of drum beat, synth, guitars and that unique voice of score.. and in 2021 it's better than ever..!!!
Watching that old bass player bounce gives me more joy than i know how to express . What a grand old diamond he is . If you ever see this thanks for the wonderful feelings .
285 dislikers got no sense for this genious work. It is a pure pleasure to look, listen and feel these guys playing this masterpiece. I remember when this song comes out i was a young man and i loved it from the first time i have heard it. Now, 40 years later, i am still flashed from this song. And the idea to make this video is absolutely fantastic! Thank you guys so much! You made my day!
thats good! i see them next month. I went to a concert last year with AFOS playing but we had to leave early to catch a jet airliner {Miller the guitarist} . So hopefully, i see them next month for the 1st time unless we have an unforseen roadblock
@@hueyxz1121 Thankyou for asking, IT WAS AWESOME!!!! Also performing last saturdaynight, aug 17 were: Wang CHung, Missing persons, the Motels, Real Life, Annabella from Bowowow, the Vapors {i think im turning japanese}, Josie Cotton, Musical Youth {pass the dutchie}, The guys that do "Promises", Trans X, and a couple other 1 hit wonders! The show was Fantastic...Lost 80s live, baby! All these musicians still performing strongly in 2019! I have pledged to go to 80s concerts till i die or they die, well see who goes 1st. Its so fun to rock out with a bunch of middle aged and senior citizens that were young in 1983. I will be 60 next month but i feel 25 mentally a lot!
Paul Reynolds must be one of my favorite guitarists of all time. To me, a brilliant guitarist is not playing something difficult, it is about a unique contribution to a song that can only come from your mind. The idea for a vibe and a tone that sets a unique sonic characteristic that sets you apart of other players is what is brilliant about Paul Reynolds.
I ran❤... first hit my heart in the 80s ..l waz 17 or 18teen. Today in dec 2024, l listen to it again at AGE 59😊❤❤❤❤ With my two grandchildren.😊 love from Malaysia🇲🇾🤘
ya watch people play And I wonder how to play the space age love song the right way many just use tons and tons of delay but there's a trick that Paul used I believe just a great song too
Wonderful !!! A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran , a great song from the 80s that has trascended ! Bye bye 2024 , let´s go back to the 80s ! 80's music is UNBEATABLE !
personally i would love a lesson from Paul for EVERY song. which i mean as no insult to the rest of the band i would to see a lesson like this for ALL the songs, its just that the guitar is what i play and Paul had an absolutely amazing sound.
Saw them in 82 in Boston in a club across the street from the Green Monster at Fenway Park. I forgot the name of it then! I do remember it was Drum Tobacco night, or at least they sponsored the show! The good ole’ days with lots of military jumpsuits, a big Sting influence at the time. I was 20 then and will be 60 in a few months. But when I hear The Police, The Clash, New Musik ( Tony Mansfield), XTC, and all the others, it just takes me back, and I’m 20 again! Music is powerful!
I am not a musician but it was such a joy to see the musical notes used. It made me more feel deeply connected to the song. I didn't wait till the end before I saved it and pressed replay!
This was the first song I ever heard on a compact disc. My brother and I came home from school and mum got a small Phillips CD player, the kind with a push-to-open door on the top, out of the airing cupboard and popped this on. We stood there and listened in silence, it seemed such an alien sound to us, having grown up on a diet of copied and stretched Led Zeppelin and Beatles tapes. I can remember it like it was yesterday. It would have been around '99. R.I.P Mum.
I love a Flock of Seagulls. Paul Reynolds is amazing. The guitar sound in this masterpiece is just perfection. I can listen to this song every day. Thank you guys.🤩
This song IDENTIFIES and DEFINES the beginning of so many things 1980's. For instance: MTV, Turner's Night Tracks, Syntho-Pop, Hair Styles, Plastic Clothes, Great Original music! This song was one of the three opening salvos of the 1880's genre: I Ran, Video Killed the Radio Star, and Whip-It! Dudes are OLD now!
I'm not quite sure that someone from the group will read this, but guys, you have created a true masterpiece. It's a damn shame that I found it 25 + years later. God bless you all! You all are true legends!
Simply, WOW! I’m now 62 and retired but remember this band rocking out in my Walkman in the early ‘80s. This is awesome! New fodder for my Stratocaster!
One of the 1980's most underrated English new wave and synth-pop Bands from Liverpool. They should have had more radio play and use of their songs in Movies, TV, and advertising. Songs like Telecommunication, European (I Wish I Was), The Story of a Young Heart, Never Again (The Dancer), The More You Live, the More You Love, Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You), Space Age Love Song, Transfer Affection, Nightmares, (It's Not Me) Talking, Electrics, The Traveller, Over the Border, and The Fall. They are all great songs in my opinion.
Just saw this by accident when trying to show my daughter Mike’s hair... this is so awesome! Having the band show (with musical notation, tab, and chord diagrams, no less!) is just incredible. I LOVED this album when I was a teenager, and I love seeing the guys showing how to play this! Such a class act!!
IT was an awesome memory. Took my 11 year-old son to see Alice Cooper and Motley Crue They got delayed and Flock of Seagulls was playing another theater. And all us Alice and Crue fans were absolutely having a blast grooving to this band. It was an awesome time.
you call what that guitarist is doing "pop" ?? lol Hell no son!! :) That's talent and skill. He was like 19-19 playing those riffs....unforgettable talent. I'd love to see some normal guitar pro even try to come close to replicating how he works all those amazing arpechgios and riffs into the tune so seamlessly.
Thats a hell of a bass line. The guitar is hypnotic. Love it and the concept of the video is so cool. Helps you realize what a great timeless song this.
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The bassist is grooving like he never left the 80's. Love it
That is because he hasn't !!! And why should he?
Bass REALLY drives the song.
His rythm has been shaking hips from the 80s till now
He really does play effortlessly
None of us that lived through the 80's ever truly left it.
i think this is the only tutorial for any song where they actually tell you the speed of the delay/effects.
Nathaniel Johnson that was so cool of them. And ALL of their original gear and rigging used on the original recording
I definitely got too excited for that.. 308ms :D
Gonna try it on my Zoom effects processor later..thanks guys...love AFOS!!
very helpful,
Just a question, without that value it is difficult to find the right effect?
Paul Reynolds is a guitar genius who has been criminally underrated.
Agreed.
Akárcsak Andy Scott.
True
Yeha
There's another one of those stupid underrated comments he is not underrated he is widely known as a great guitarist
Eligible for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since 2007. Who will agree with me it’s time these guys were recognized.
This whole album is great, new wave should’ve been the future, but fizzled out.
New Wave Hall of Fame.
100%! This is the epitome of New Wave. I'll never forget the first time I heard "I Ran." Was at a record store buying Ozzy Osbourne lapel pins 🤣 when I suddenly heard that atmospheric riff. I turned around and just stared at the music video. It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard.
some years there is no nobel prize for literature as no one is deemed good enough. that being said having existed or even 1 or 2 hits doesnt get you into the hall fame. there should be some kind of rule. lets face it, its a popularity contest and thts not how you get into any hall of fame. is skill and musicianship. not bullshit
That Rock n' Roll 'Hall of Shame' charade DOES NOT even deserve born musical geniuses like A.F.O.S. gracing its halls. The institution is a silly cash-commerce driven joke and and has a downright embarrassing history of how it treats extremely talented Artists.
Truly awesome to see all original members from a 38 year old band together making a vid like this. Thanks guys! Keep em coming
I love this band
And please stay healthy we need you guys for the future yessssss
This is one of the coolest things on RUclips
he'll ya
Indeed!
This is why there will never be a decade of music like the 80's!!! Pure awesome genius!!
@Dr. Bombay so is your entire existence on this earth
I like the song, but how is it genius?
@@ChadtheHammer people can have opinions.
They also are not bound over to explain them.
Genius is a relative and unquantifiable term. To him, this could be the result of genius musicians.
Just let him say it, it wont hurt you.
@@LFOVCF Ummm, I'm just asking a question, guy.
bassplay12 ... Indeed ... what decade lots of memories
Paul Reynolds, one of the 80's most underrated guitarists! Brilliant!
Square Creative and he used a damn penny for a pick. WTH!!
@A.C. B. ART what ever you say dude
@A.C. B. ART You are aware that this isn't the only song AFOS has, right? Not to mention, you make it seem like keeping things simple is "wrong" or "bad" when just about every major musician strives to do just that - keeping it simple. Some of the most famous and popular songs of all time are simple with just a few notes throughout. There's a reason this band (the original lineup) still attracts tons of positive attention, even after nearly 3+ decades of not having played together... guy...
@@RiverOfBlacklights .hell for playing simple concise riffs, and producing a multi-platinum tune....props to him!
@A.C. B. ART it was Paul's feel that made the guitar parts sound so cool
Paul is one of the most underrated guitarist ever. This guy was 19 when he was pulling off these licks....amazing!
Thats why they hired him barely 17 y/o. He was pulling talent years earlier and they watched him, then needed him, without him there was a problem.
@@janebraun4482 A true virtuoso, not many of them these days outside of classical music
Yup, the Edge of U2 fame has credited Paul as a real influence!
If you think Paul is "underrated", you are just ignorant of the fact he has long been considered a great guitarist.
Great player yes.
"Virtuoso" might be an overstatement. Look at the tab here - not that complicated. Set the delay and a beginner can play it.
Now look at tabs at what 19 year old Jimmy Page or Jimmy Hendrix were playing. It would look like a Beethoven music sheet.
You know consistency when a band can play the same song 30+ yrs later and it sounds near perfectly identical to the original studio recording. That was excellent.
I agree on the perfectly identical on the spot it blew me away as well
40 +yrs.!!!😁😉🤭❤👍
they played this song probably over a thousand times throughout the 80s, it comes second nature to them
It was the studio recording.
There's a certain magic when the original 4 play together.
Holy shit, if only more artists and bands did this!!!
I've been saying this for days, couldn't agree more, what a way to learn the way they did it and gel with the band and jam together at the same time, what a concept!!!!
Probably easier for them seeing it was their only hit. Great song
@@pickzkickz Wishing and Space Age Love Song, too. But this one was a monster hit.
I hear ya
They would only do it near the end of their careers. When they are still making money they wouldn't want to give their secrets away. I've heard that Peter Hook of New Order used to scrape the markings off his bass pedals so that people couldn't see how the sound was made.
Mike, I know you've played/sung that song till you are blue in the face...BUT, that song is a masterpiece. You, Ali, Frank, and Paul helped DEFINE The 1980s and THE FUTURE (as We speak and hear)...everything officially blew in to view with this classic! Thank you, Gentlemen. I'm getting your new album as a Xmas present.
Amen!
well said. Foxborough Mass. 82ish the open up for the police... awesome tune!!!
I wouldn't bother with the album. I'm a big fan but the album is a major disappointment. The best gift would be if the original four members reunited and toured, but of course Mike won't let that happen. He'll just keep plodding on with his second division FOS tribute band
Well said, Anthony! Just adding to what you wrote songs like "I Ran" was what made MTV what it was back in the 1980's. Unfortunately since about the early 1990's MTV has become a ghost of it's former self and I had to quit watching it. Now I come to RUclips when I want to see a music video of the past. To hell with MTV!
Phayzyre105 -- Someone, a few years ago online, very correctly commented that RUclips is the new MTV/VH1 in the 21st Century. It is truly twisted that a video here can rake up 5 million views, but the song/single will barely net repeated plays on the radio. To think that much of the original, great visual material made in the '70s, '80s, and '90s have been stowed away and relegated to MTV2 and Classic VH1 seems antithetical to what the original channels were committed to. Thank goodness for RUclips.
This song is simply “Perfection “ at its best. And coming from the original members is even better. Awesome. 80’s. BEST decade EVER!!!!!
80s talent and energy, you just had to be there to understand. there will never be a time like the 80s again. we were in our prime then....Damn the time and gravity
I know, I really wish I could experience it. sometimes I just wanna restart my life in some perfect world that people seem to remember it as. I know realistically it wouldn't be all that great, but it'd really have its moments. the modern world just makes me sad. sometimes I just wanna escape most technology for a while, get some friends and just go out somewhere
One of the best songs from maybe the best musical decade.
I was thinking as I clicked on the video, imagine being 17 when this was released and hearing it for the first time.
Great song,but crap entry level video. When spinning around with the mirrors and you see the cameraman and lots of fog.
Well said
It was a glorious time and the music fitted it like a glove.
I flew out to Perth W.A in August 1982 and this was rapidly climbing the charts Down Under. Couple that with Hot in the City (Billy Idol) Dexy's etc and you realise the coming summer (Down Under) was Just...So... Perfect
Thanks for the Ch00ns AFOS. Your band was a major soundtrack of my youth.
What an amazing time we live in, with original artists teaching us how to play their hits!
Yes. Glad you shared that thought. I also get more 80s now than I did then!
Sage, I just left a similar comment on another of FOS videos. I didn't see how colourful & vibing the 80s were till I peeked through the rearview.
I think that's pretty amazing, and they seem really nice!
Mike Score seems like the most chill rockstar on earth
I'm not gonna lie.....
This is seriously the coolest thing I have ever seen on RUclips...
This song has so much going on and it all blends in perfectly.... real musicians are extremely rare these days...
@Sono2 Why do you answer your own question with a question? Do you always dig up graves to find girls to go out with? Wait, did I just do that? Did I just do that again? Aagh!!!
Its not about talent anymore just money.
@Sono2 All business is about money, the music industry are not bothered about talent in the respect they would rather focus their money on throwaway artists who they can control like puppets. Which in turn is detrimental to a diverse spectrum of talented people who create there own work.
So fucking bad ass!
Check out "One Man Genesis" as another contender
Paul. That guitar sound. Those freakin soul slicing notes. Always. Forever. My hero
“Soul slicing” lol
Yup, spawned a genre and inspired The Edge, among others.
@@DavidSchilter hear hear!
I love how into the song the bass player is. Like he never left 1985
He never did. Your body ages but your mind doesn't have to.
"Easy, when you know how"
Check out bass player Frank Maudsley in this fun clip. He’s a gentleman you would want to find in a pub and chat over a pint.
ruclips.net/video/d8Cw2jpeLXs/видео.html
Yeah and he didn't need the bass player to cover his mistakes.Not that he made any!!
@@Ed_Okin I met him about 11 years ago in his house in Norris Green Liverpool. Don’t know if he still lives there but I never recognised him and asked about all his musical equipment in the front room . He said he’d been in a band that had been quite big in the 80s in America
This was absolutely a treat to watch.
Woahhh I'm a big fan of your channel! It's crazy to see you here
What was?
@@NosticGames 😠😠😠
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@@lucianofigueiredo4877 ?
Masterpiece, this is one of those rare songs that you can never have enough of it.
Fact
Paul Reynolds still got it, love the band coming together and still have it, would love to see them live today.
You can see Mike scores flock of seagulls in UK later this year
Sadly I don't think another reunion of the original lineup is going to happen. Mike prefers his touring band, plus recent health issues with Frank (has a rare heart condition) & Paul (recovering from a stroke he suffered in early 2020, though I have heard he's doing better).
FYI, Los Angeles July 8th, 2023 free show at Pershing Square.
Paul's guitar playing is what made this song great.
Yep, it's fascinating how it dances around the basic groove.
@@bryede yes how genius but so simple is that counter melody of the lead in the chorus!! the best songs are so simple
Maybe I'm biased as a fellow guitar player, but I completely agree; Paul's guitar bits transformed a catchy synth pop song into an instant classic. He plays with great restraint.
@@arsbadmojo He should be ranked in the top 5 best guitar players in rock music
@@Isotec1 I've been saying that for years, thank you!!
“Easy when you know how!” LOVE IT!
> 5:17
I didnt understand him yet you told it.
Wow amazing i want to play a guitar.
Wow amazing i want to play a guitar.
Frank's a character... 🤣
“I ran” released 1982 and still an epic song. Thank you for this amazing tutorial.
Little did my 14 year old self at that time know that 37 years later they'd be doing something like this.
Xul Nag , I was probably 4th grade or so. I wasn’t too big of a fan at the time , but the girl in my class who I had a crush on, was ... so I pretended to like em . But today , some 37 years later , I like and respect the band - if for no other reason than sparking memories of growing up in the 80s - a blessing.
Epic hair styles and aerosol hair spray.... ha ha.
You can't get more 1980's than this iconic song. It's takes me back to some wonderful memories of my 20's.
It's crazy when a "how-to" video can give me, a 51 year old man goose bumps. :) An awesome band.
one of the best guitar riffs of the 80's
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Agreed ! Specially the ending . My favorite part of the song
Because of songs like this, I wanted to stay in the 80's for ever......
I was a teenager in the 80s. It sucked. Some of the music was good. That's about it. High unemployment, terrorism, run down council estates and schools. It was aweful.
I would certainly agree. I'm 49 the 80's were king! I'd trade in the current political bullshit and division for the cold war any day.
I know perhaps every generation feels this way about the music that was popular at the time but still there was something special, inventive and exciting about the 80's with the introduction of MTV. It was a special time with a huge deluge of good bands worth listening to. Today it is a struggle to find anything good.
@@zackworrellAbsofuckinglutley brother!!
I was born 89, i didn't even get to enjoy it let alone remember any of it
I miss the 80s...who wanna go back
And Stay! I want my old car back!
Ready to build a Delorean ….. Who’s Game ?
The lad on the bass guitar was feelin' the song!
FocusFanatic, geezer? WOW, show a little respect to this talented musician!!
I saw them live on this tour and he gave it his all then too
FocusFanatic He has more talent than today’s bratty millennials with no talent whatsoever! 🤫
Frank was great to watch live, Danced all through the set and never stopped smiling, best bass player on the planet, legend
I'm only 24 years old and this has been one of my favourite songs since I was 13, fair to say I was raised right! Well done boys, love from Scotland x
I have their records was music of my teen years 😊
Ha! Saw this band in concert when I was your age in the early 80's.
Music is not indicative of how you were raised. Get off your high horse and just enjoy the music
@@willmelikyan5689 : Who the fcuk are you?
@@chazbunko6093 be quiet, chaz
This actually makes me emotional; thank you for being a part of what was the best era of my life.
Spot on Daniel...
@@cpluther the best : )
Me and you both. It's all different now.
Born in 67.. Amen to that
Please take me back to the 80's. So much simpler back then. Everything about growing up in that era was utterly amazing!
This video is music history. They had such a big fallout because of the stress and fame and it never seemed like in a million years they would ever collaborate again. This video is just amazing... PS I know they got together in that one show awhile ago but this video is still grand!
To never part
They did a few reunion shows in 2004, but it fell apart when they started fighting again.
I love A Flock Of Seagulls
Since junior high - 1982 - long live new wave!!!
Same here.
Who Doesn’t?
A dream come true!!!! the Masters playing and teaching !!! :-) Regards from Chile!!
Wena compadre!! lml
Weeeena perrito papurri papá 😅
Wena compa.
¡Wena, washo!
AMAZING TUNE, ENTERO DE BKN... JAJAJA
The electric guitar man... Mesmerizing... The quintessential 80's sound.
Pay attention, folks. THIS is how you use RUclips.
grxengine Just had the same thought! I’d watch more than kittens if there was more content like this. Tho I do love kittens.
Yep. Not this "un-boxing" and "reaction" video rubbish. What kind of mindless NPC finds that a worthwhile use of their time to watch.
Tony Rule I’m not sure I have the answer to that one but I get it!
@@TonyRule hahahahaha
Winner.
This is the pioneering sound that seismically changed the landscape of modern and electronic rock music, forever. You are the heartbeat of the eighties, and you're still going strong! Thank you for still being here for us.
"I Ran" is one of my favourite songs of my lifetime. 💕 The sound is still as fresh and tight today as it was all those years ago. A gem indeed!
Amen sister ❤
We saw them play last night and they were still as great as ever!!❤❤
All the other content creators are like "Dang, now my video is worth crap. They can learn directly and with total authenticity from the masters". It would be awesome if every group out there could make videos as awesome as this one.
The guitar of Reynolds is pure Magic
Sounds weird but watching his fingers on the solo is mesmerizing.
Nobody can play "I Ran" as well as Paul Reynolds himself. Amazing to see him teach how to play it. Paul, Frank, Ali and Mike are all amazing musicians. The original Flock. Thanks for making this video. Loved it!
One band who contributed to such 80's greatness. They're the real deal
I can't help but recall a funny scene from the movie "The Commitments" when they were looking for a name for their bad. One person suggested "Flock Of Budgies" LOL.
Headphones on, record spinning, after class, in dorm room, laying on top bunk, room dark, eyes closed, songs taking my imagination light years away from where I was, feeling at peace from the troubles of college in the 1980’s. Thank you so much for your music.
the first time I saw these guys live was in the mid 80s, they opened for New Order. Paul Reynolds is an awesome guitar player.
MrDmfan More like New order should've opened for them.🎶🎵🎼🎸
Saw the Flock Live in a small bar in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1986. One of my fondest memories of the 80's... THANK-YOU!!
Saw them open for the Fixx in a Connecticut jai-alai fronton, early 80s. Fixx rocked and were good, a but sterile if remember, but the Flock kicked seriously major a**. Seeing them bang the hell once again, out of this anthemic beautiful song, some 40ish years later, is mind-blowing. Cheers.
saw them once. during the break my brother and i were chatting with them, and they bought us a few refreshments. helluva nice guys.
I saw them in a small bar....tonite!
First heard I ran in a club in mount isa Queensland Australia in 1982, when this song came on the whole place went into hysterics, absolute meltdown, there was no one sitting everyone was up and dancing to this masterpiece of drum beat, synth, guitars and that unique voice of score.. and in 2021 it's better than ever..!!!
Love how the lead is shadowing the bass line, almost sounding like a separate bass line.
Watching that old bass player bounce gives me more joy than i know how to express . What a grand old diamond he is . If you ever see this thanks for the wonderful feelings .
Putting his heart and soul into it, a joy to watch.
285 dislikers got no sense for this genious work. It is a pure pleasure to look, listen and feel these guys playing this masterpiece. I remember when this song comes out i was a young man and i loved it from the first time i have heard it. Now, 40 years later, i am still flashed from this song.
And the idea to make this video is absolutely fantastic! Thank you guys so much! You made my day!
You know what's better than seeing AFOS perform on stage in 1983?
Seeing them perform together in 2019!
thats good! i see them next month. I went to a concert last year with AFOS playing but we had to leave early to catch a jet airliner {Miller the guitarist} . So hopefully, i see them next month for the 1st time unless we have an unforseen roadblock
James Lambert how was the concert?
@@hueyxz1121 Thankyou for asking, IT WAS AWESOME!!!! Also performing last saturdaynight, aug 17 were: Wang CHung, Missing persons, the Motels, Real Life, Annabella from Bowowow, the Vapors {i think im turning japanese}, Josie Cotton, Musical Youth {pass the dutchie}, The guys that do "Promises", Trans X, and a couple other 1 hit wonders! The show was Fantastic...Lost 80s live, baby! All these musicians still performing strongly in 2019! I have pledged to go to 80s concerts till i die or they die, well see who goes 1st. Its so fun to rock out with a bunch of middle aged and senior citizens that were young in 1983. I will be 60 next month but i feel 25 mentally a lot!
Saw them in Mississauga over the summer (opening for HMS at a charity event). Was cool to see them.
40yrs later, STILL a great song ! A forever classic.
64 yrs young, and that song still sends shivers up & down my spine.
Awesome!
Paul is my favorite guitarist. I wish the whole band would tour the states for a full set. Chicago please!
Greg Parker me too love to see them in chicago too😎👍
Yes, please! And Florida, too!
Yeah California please
I saw them 6 months ago in a del Ray disco 90 miles north of Miami...only him was the original...some videos on my you tube channel
Please come to Houston, Texas you absolute rock music legends !!
Paul Reynolds must be one of my favorite guitarists of all time. To me, a brilliant guitarist is not playing something difficult, it is about a unique contribution to a song that can only come from your mind. The idea for a vibe and a tone that sets a unique sonic characteristic that sets you apart of other players is what is brilliant about Paul Reynolds.
I ran❤... first hit my heart in the 80s ..l waz 17 or 18teen. Today in dec 2024, l listen to it again at AGE 59😊❤❤❤❤ With my two grandchildren.😊 love from Malaysia🇲🇾🤘
All I can say is, is that this amazing song will never grow old!
i really liked the keyboard and camera being locked together in teh video and spinning about.
Space Age Love Song next please!!!!!!!
What he said and make that a double! What a pop song!
ya watch people play And I wonder how to play the space age love song the right way many just use tons and tons of delay but there's a trick that Paul used I believe just a great song too
Sí, esa está muy verga... Xd
Hell yes! That was my favorite! Used to blast that and 'Love Plus One' by Haircut 100!
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Mike used to cut my hair in Liverpool in the late 70's early 80's. I Remember that crappy salon you had in Whitechapel Mike. Best wishes from the UK.
Wonderful !!! A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran , a great song from the 80s that has trascended ! Bye bye 2024 , let´s go back to the 80s ! 80's music is UNBEATABLE !
personally i would love a lesson from Paul for EVERY song. which i mean as no insult to the rest of the band i would to see a lesson like this for ALL the songs, its just that the guitar is what i play and Paul had an absolutely amazing sound.
Paul Reynolds makes the guitar 🎸 sing 🎶 absolutely class 😎🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Pay Attention Young Musicians, This is REAL MUSIC!! & STANDS THE TEST OF TIME! & IN OUR DAYS WAS AHEAD OF OUR TIME!!💯... FLOCK FOREVER!!!!🎸
How can you argue with a fan?
Love FOS. Paul especially. He doesn't over play on his guitar parts. Always perfectly in the pocket with his sound and dynamics. He is a genius.
Saw them in 82 in Boston in a club across the street from the Green Monster at Fenway Park. I forgot the name of it then! I do remember it was Drum Tobacco night, or at least they sponsored the show! The good ole’ days with lots of military jumpsuits, a big Sting influence at the time. I was 20 then and will be 60 in a few months. But when I hear The Police, The Clash, New Musik ( Tony Mansfield), XTC, and all the others, it just takes me back, and I’m 20 again! Music is powerful!
I am not a musician but it was such a joy to see the musical notes used. It made me more feel deeply connected to the song. I didn't wait till the end before I saved it and pressed replay!
Their music still sounds great to this day.
Paul is such a unique guitarist
I'm just going to count this as a live performance. And if you didn't sing along then you are troubled my friend
Who could help but do? LOL This is on my top 10 list ever
Ok
Or at least tap your foot
Paul is so amazing. One of my favorite guitarists.
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It's like Paul never touches the strings of the guitar when he plays! Awesome!!! Genius!!! Love you Paul!
This was the first song I ever heard on a compact disc. My brother and I came home from school and mum got a small Phillips CD player, the kind with a push-to-open door on the top, out of the airing cupboard and popped this on. We stood there and listened in silence, it seemed such an alien sound to us, having grown up on a diet of copied and stretched Led Zeppelin and Beatles tapes. I can remember it like it was yesterday. It would have been around '99. R.I.P Mum.
I love a Flock of Seagulls. Paul Reynolds is amazing. The guitar sound in this masterpiece is just perfection. I can listen to this song every day. Thank you guys.🤩
The level of transparency with the band playing, sheet music and factoids were very intriguing! A lot of bands should adopt this approach.
Why give away trade secrets? Learn how the hard way like they did.
I've watch this over a hundred times and can't stop.
Oh you should try the video with that has Jackie Chan dancing along to Brimful Of Asha.
This song IDENTIFIES and DEFINES the beginning of so many things 1980's. For instance: MTV, Turner's Night Tracks, Syntho-Pop, Hair Styles, Plastic Clothes, Great Original music! This song was one of the three opening salvos of the 1880's genre: I Ran, Video Killed the Radio Star, and Whip-It! Dudes are OLD now!
I'm not quite sure that someone from the group will read this, but guys, you have created a true masterpiece. It's a damn shame that I found it 25 + years later. God bless you all! You all are true legends!
this is a chance for the youth of today to see and listen how great music was created.
lmao relax..
Can only say one word.
brilliant.👍
Simply, WOW! I’m now 62 and retired but remember this band rocking out in my Walkman in the early ‘80s. This is awesome! New fodder for my Stratocaster!
One of the 1980's most underrated English new wave and synth-pop Bands from Liverpool. They should have had more radio play and use of their songs in Movies, TV, and advertising. Songs like Telecommunication, European (I Wish I Was), The Story of a Young Heart, Never Again (The Dancer), The More You Live, the More You Love, Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You), Space Age Love Song, Transfer Affection, Nightmares, (It's Not Me) Talking, Electrics, The Traveller, Over the Border, and The Fall. They are all great songs in my opinion.
Not a gimmick band. Those who dug deeper were richly rewarded.
I miss the 80's. Saw them in concert in Seattle when they toured in 1982/1983
Always amazed me how Frank bounced around the stage and still managed to play bass
Had to love his energy. He was always fun to watch.
This is clearly one of the best songs of the glorious 80s 🇮🇳🇵🇹
Just saw this by accident when trying to show my daughter Mike’s hair... this is so awesome! Having the band show (with musical notation, tab, and chord diagrams, no less!) is just incredible. I LOVED this album when I was a teenager, and I love seeing the guys showing how to play this!
Such a class act!!
Wow!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen,
A Flock Of Seagulls!
I ran (so far away) the best song ever!!!
IT was an awesome memory. Took my 11 year-old son to see Alice Cooper and Motley Crue They got delayed and Flock of Seagulls was playing another theater. And all us Alice and Crue fans were absolutely having a blast grooving to this band. It was an awesome time.
I still have the original cassette, I will never let go of the 80’s, long live AFOS!!!!!!!!!
Mike's brother Ali Score on drums. Great band !!
What a great ‘80s classic MTV song! Watched it a hundred times. So original and a great tune to drive with on.
MTV😂
“Easy when you know how!!!!” That says it all, truly classic truly one of the greatest songs of the 80’s!!!!🎸🪗🥁🎼🎧
I’m 57 and loved many tunes throughout my life, this is in my top 5
Paul Reynolds is one of the greatest guitarist of all time! Total Beast!
Love the sign-off - "Easy, when you know how." Super song and delivery.
Well done... re-capturing ownership of a classic
I wish we had the chance to learn more songs straight from the horse's mouth this way. Thank you so much for doing this.
Love this band more now than ever. The entire band showed us how to play their song! Thats epic!
Amazing! Got a knot in my throat just watching these masters playing!
samesies. How I'd love to rewind life.
you call what that guitarist is doing "pop" ?? lol Hell no son!! :) That's talent and skill. He was like 19-19 playing those riffs....unforgettable talent. I'd love to see some normal guitar pro even try to come close to replicating how he works all those amazing arpechgios and riffs into the tune so seamlessly.
@Haeuptling Aberja (thus denying real musicians airtime)? What are you talking about?!?! Care to explain why these guys aren't real musicians?
Honestly there's only 2 great and real musicians
@@weej1967 I think I put my words right but like I said I only know of 2 real life musicians at the best of all time
Thats a hell of a bass line. The guitar is hypnotic. Love it and the concept of the video is so cool. Helps you realize what a great timeless song this.
So cool of these guys to do this. Makes me respect them even more.
Thank you Flock of Seagulls!!!