from the 12” single, Jive Records, 1981I vividly remember the first time I saw A Flock of Seagulls on MTV in the ‘80s, as I was helplessly intrigued by the weird video and severe hairdos; I recall thinking that Mike Score (lead singer and actual former-hairdresser) looked as if an airplane had landed on his head, which I felt was a very cool thing indeed. As outlandish as their image was, they had a remarkably high percentage of good music across their first couple of albums, much more than just the one hit (“I Ran”) for which they became famous. This was their first single, a tightly wound little synth-led number with nonsensical modern-sounding lyrics, “…ultraviolet, radio light, to your solar system, on a beam of light… laser beam, coming through the night, to my T.V. screen, to my color eye…video screen, silver page, with a new calibration, for the nuclear age…telecommunication, telecommunication...”
