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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 07:42 PM
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We need more Flock Of Seagulls threads here


Starting with this one
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 07:48 PM
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1. I ran. I ran so far away. I love that song.
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KFC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 07:49 PM
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2. Those mofos are flashing some badass signs
Eastside gangstas!
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 07:52 PM
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3. Is bottom right advertising or requesting?
Some people might be interested either way.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 02:21 AM
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17. You wanna get this thread shut down?
Just keep asking questions like that.

But, yeah, he's advertising...


Khash.
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etch a sketch prez Donating Member (63 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 08:55 PM
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4. I saw them perform in 2003.
They were horrible. I never would have thought that a one hit blunder from the 80s could actually get worse, but somehow Flock of Seagulls managed it. They no longer play new wave music. Now they play heavy metal. I can think of nothing more musically painful (except maybe Rosanne Barr singing the national anthem) than 40-year-old 80s has-beens singing a heavy metal version of "I ran so far away".

Before anyone asks why I went if I didn't like them in the first place, it was pretty much just to be able to say that I went. And it was pretty funny. Although they no longer have the really bad hair, which was sort of disappointing.
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bluecrush Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 11:35 PM
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5. Always kinda liked
"Wishing."
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 11:39 PM
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6. I like them
I still have fond memories of "I Ran" and "Wishing". I also have hilarous memories of the time my best friend did a spontaneous parody of "I ran" called "It Ran" when a cat ran off from her girlfriend. And it ran, it ran so far away. It just ran, it knew that you were gay--it had to get away!.

What can I say, we have a weird sense of humor.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 11:39 PM
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7. A couple of these guys worked in a store with my buddy in the 80's.
Late 80's on South Street in Philly, a store called "Veem". They could barely speak English and smoked pot like it was legal, pretty cool actually.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:18 AM
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9. I thought these guys were English? Where are they from?? n/t
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:42 AM
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12. They are from England.
But I couldn't understand a word they said. I thought they were from Norway or something. :shrug:
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:41 AM
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11. "Could barely speak English"?
Uh...they ARE English! :)
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:43 AM
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13. Yes, I know.
But I couldn't understand a fucking thing they said.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:46 AM
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14. That reminds me...
Big Country was being interviewed on Entertainment Tonight back in the day, and Stuart Adamson's Scottish accent was so freaking thick, they needed subtitles.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 02:11 AM
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15. I was watching a movie on Sundance that took place in Glasgow--
it had subtitles as well. I could make out about every 10th word or so.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 02:13 AM
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16. A friend of my wife married a guy from England -- I don't know what
part he is from but we call him and his brothers the "Sheffield Hillbilllies." When these guys start drinking, it sounds like they are speaking a foreign language.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:16 AM
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8. How about a flock of
Jonathan Livingston Seagulls?
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 12:40 AM
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10. They won a Grammy for "DNA"
Best instrumental.

And if you listen to U2's A Day Without Me, you'll know why the Edge called them "A Flock of Stealers".

Ain't trivia grand?

Anyway, I liked their first album. They had their moments (I Ran, Space Age Love Song, Wishing), and did as well as they probably could.

Good for them.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 03:12 AM
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18. Here you go
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