Talking (A Flock of Seagulls song)
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| Single by A Flock of Seagulls | ||||
| B-side | "Factory Music" (First Issue 1981) "Tanglimara" (Second Issue 1983) "The Traveller" (Live) (Second Issue 1983) "(It's Not Me) Talking" (Instrumental) (Re-Release 1983) |
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| Released | May 1981 (First Issue) August 1983 (Second Issue) March 1983 (Re-Release) |
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| Recorded | 1981 | |||
| Genre | New wave, Darkwave | |||
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4:33 (single version 1981) 3:34 (single version 1983) 5:00 (album version 1983) |
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Cocteau Records Jive |
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| Songwriter(s) | Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds. | |||
| Producer(s) | Bill Nelson | |||
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| "(It's Not Me) Talking" (1983) | ||||
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| "(It's Not Me) Talking" on YouTube | ||||
"(It's Not Me) Talking" was the debut single by British new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, recorded in 1981 and taken from their second album Listen. The song is about a man who hears voices in his head, who believes that he is being contacted by aliens from outer space, and who cannot run away from his emotions; wherever he goes, the voice is there.
This music video was based on an old science fiction classic film called The Day the Earth Stood Still. The producers wanted to use special effects that would be current, yet recall the look of 1950's cinema. The music video was filmed at Dawn's Animal Farm in New Jersey. With hundreds of acres of land and many exotic animals used in television commercials and film, it made for an interesting shoot. They hired Talking Dog Productions to build the spaceship. Talking Dog built the props used by Pink Floyd. For the lasers, they retained the services of holographic pioneer, Jason Sapan, of Holographic Studios in New York City. At that time, Sapan was also doing laser light effects. As they negotiated the laser effects, they realized that Sapan himself had the right look to act in the music video and hired him right there. Jason Sapan built the red laser ray gun that Mike Score used. If you look very carefully, you can also see his blue and green argon laser beams shooting from the spaceship.
This was the first music video shown on MTV to use on screen credits for the actors. The credits were shown next to the images of the actors at the end of the video. The credits listed were ...
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