A Flock Of Seagulls is an album that I struggle with in that I don’t know which era to assign it to. I acquired it in the Academy Days. I was one of the last factory cassettes that I bought as I closed down my Columbia House membership in preparation for graduation. So it can easily fit in the Academy Days. The problem is that it was on Mount Equinox that we really played the crap out of it and that makes me want to classify it in the Space Mountain era.
Even though I am still firmly undecide, it looks as if I’m plodding ahead and putting in the Academy Days I just don’t feel convinced. Maybe I’ll think of something along the way. I see this as problem that I will be facing again in the future. As you know, I’ll be buying my first Compact Disc player in late 1985 or early 1986. One of my missions will be to go back and upgrade all of my factory cassettes and vinyl albums to Compact Disc. As a result, many of the songs an albums we have talked about up to now will enjoy a ressurection that sort of muddies the waters or blurs the lines between the eras.
So what I’ve decided to do about A Flock Of Seagulls is leave this post here in a sort of unifinished format and pick it up again in the Space Mountain era. Inelegant and less than ideal but also experimental or at least mental.