![]() an EP is not a single with three b-sides, it is four equal songs which are supposed to be listened to and contemplated equally, as equals. According to the internet an EP is a pop music single that is like a normal pop music single but it has four tracks instead of two, and most importantly each of the tracks is given equal "weight", i.e. The young people of today are blissfully unaware of the concept of the EP I am unaware of the concept of the EP, and I was until recently a young person of today as well. ![]() "I Ran" was the group's second single release, in fact it was technically the group's first pop single, because their first release had been an EP. Curiously, the cover of Boston's debut album is reflected in her eyeglasses. The lyrics and the video are explicitly about fear of the female, the single's cover is a day-glo photograph of an alien woman's face, the Other. The cover of the group's debut EP featured a blow-up woman, and indeed "I Ran" itself drips with a twisted fear of female-kind. Following this trend, the group's other hit was called " Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)", so clearly A Flock of Seagulls enjoyed enclosing part of their titles in parentheses, whether in an attempt to create an air of poetic aloofness, or because the bandmembers - all men - saw parentheses as I see them, as female objects. Two is red.Įxcept that it wasn't really called "I Ran", it was actually called " I Ran (So Far Away)". They loved A Flock of Seagulls more than we loved A Flock of Seagulls, and "I Ran" was popular in America in 1982. In 1982, however, Britain's pop music was a popular export, and America in particular needed our pop music, America craved our pop music, the Americans loved our pop music. "I Ran" is the name of a song by a British pop music group called A Flock of Seagulls, I have written about them already they were from Liverpool, but had their greatest success in America, which is understandable because Liverpool is a port, albeit that it is more common for things to enter Britain via Liverpool than for things to leave Liverpool for other parts of the world, because Britain has very few natural resources and the rest of the world does not need much of what Britain has to offer.
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