Talk:A Flock of Seagulls

Need to add album release info in the "1980s-1990s" section
Need to put existing material into context with the album release dats, at least. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.107.205 (talk) 21:10, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Most of article was a copyvio
I just gutted the article because almost the entire history section was a copyvio from. I think I removed all the cut-and-pasted content. Tempshill 19:54, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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Trivia

 * The punk band Bowling for Soup covered I Ran, which was used for the opening theme for the anime Knights of the Zodiac (originally Saint Seiya).
 * In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin dismisses the 1970s and '80s as little more than "a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls".
 * I Ran (So Far Away) was the lead theme used in commercials for the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It was also featured in the game itself in 2002 as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103. Space Age Love Song was also featured in the prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The song was used in a 1983 advertisement for the Opel T-car based Daewoo Maepsy and for a Kia commercial in 2002. The song was used in the sitcom "That '70s Show" in a hypothetical flash forward to the 1980s, and it was covered by the Texas pop-punk band Bowling for Soup and by the band Hidden in Plain View.
 * "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" was covered by The Honeytraps, the girls-pretending-to-be-boys band formed as part of Channel 4's reality show Boys Will Be Girls in 2006.
 * The band were one of the first signees to the Jive label, which was founded just a year before the band's debut album was released. Interestingly enough, Jive's reputation is now that of an urban/teenpop label, neither of which are labels that one could use to accurately classify A Flock of Seagulls' music.
 * In a celebration of early electronic music, digital radio station BBC 6 Music compiled a chart of its listeners' favourite synthesiser riffs in November 2006. Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) came second in the list to the Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army single Are 'Friends' Electric?.
 * On an episode of Malcolm in The Middle, the family is having trouble with the garbage man, so when Hal is playing poker with his friends, they complain about the pile of garbage out in his lawn. Abe (Hal's best friend) says that they should stop, but then he says "I got a good one, look I can see my favorite band out there, A Flock of Seagulls".
 * I Ran (So Far Away) Music video was parodied on Comedy Central's Let's Bowl where Steve "Chopper" Sedahl mentions that he was in the band and says the band's name wrong, (The Flock of Seagulls) and shows Steve acting just like Mike in the parodied music video of the song.
 * On TV Land, "I Ran (So Far Away)" is sometimes used as the music for the "on tonight" schedule screen.
 * I Ran was featured in the show Everybody Hates Chris, the episode called: "Everybody hates the last day".
 * Their song "I Ran (So Far Away)" was confirmed to be a playable song in the Playstation 2 video game Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80s and SingStar 80's
 * "I Ran (So Far Away)" was briefly used in a commercial for XM Satellite Radio.

Source?
"The band's self-titled debut album is a concept album about alien abduction. Four UFOs are on the cover of the album, visible in the window to the left of the TV."

I'm curious about where this information came from. In any event it has no place here. If accurate, it belongs on the album page. Deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.136.139 (talk) 08:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Avoid fan-speak
I just wanted to give editors of AFOS-related articles a heads-up about using the abbreviation I just used ("AFOS"). Such abbreviations should be avoided in Wikipedia articles because they are not in line with the kind of encyclopedic tone we should be using here. I haven't gone through all the relevant articles, just this one, so could someone else please help to make these changes? Thanks. - dcljr (talk) 03:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Debut
Where is the information on their debut album? Bulbous (talk) 03:58, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Name Choice?
"The choice of their name was between 'The Seagulls' and what it is today. A friend chose 'A Flock of Seagulls' because it was a shorter name to write on first time gig posters."

This makes no sense to me...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.228.209.94 (talk) 15:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Can someone who knows the relevant facts rewrite that sentence to make it make sense? --Elysdir (talk) 08:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Gary Steadman
wasn't Gary Steadman in A Flock of Seagulls, it says in the Classix Nouveaux article he went to join them or something like that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.139.3 (talk) 21:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Grammy Award has been 1982 (not 1983)
Check here: http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx Search for "Flock of Seagulls" -- ingo1968 from German Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.22.98.85 (talk) 22:56, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Origins of name
Contrary to what is written here, I once read that the band got their name from being inspired by the novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Image
Shame there's no image of the band here. There was one, but it violated fair use. If anyone can find one it would add to the page. Jimsteele9999 (talk) 23:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Haircut
As the article has a section for the haircut sported by Mike Score, it would almost certainly be useful to have a picture demonstrating this haircut in that section. --92.39.200.91 (talk) 18:19, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

members
removed the name of Rob Koreman from members list, appears to be vandalismBawtyshouse (talk) 14:41, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

legacy
in pulp fiction, it was an insult to be called "flock of seagulls." that increased their 'coolness' factor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.49.6.225 (talk) 05:25, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Honeywell Bull
Alister "Ali" James Score worked for Honeywell Bull (?) in Cambridge, MA, (?) as seen in a computer magazine article.Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 01:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

new wave
How can they be new wave when they sound nothing like Devo? The Mo-Ja&#39;al (talk) 00:23, 21 February 2019 (UTC)