(It's Not Me) Talking

"(It's Not Me) Talking"

Re-release cover
Single by A Flock of Seagulls
from the album Listen (re-release)
B-side "Factory Music" (1981)
"Tanglimara" (1983)
Released 1981 (original release)
1983 (re-release)
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1981
Genre Darkwave
Length 5:00 (album version)
3:34 (single version)
Label Jive
Writer(s) A Flock of Seagulls
Producer Bill Nelson
A Flock of Seagulls singles chronology
Modern Love Is Automatic EP
(1981)		 "(It's Not Me) Talking"
(1981)		 "Telecommunication"
(1981)
"Transfer Affection"
(1983)
"(It's Not Me) Talking"
(re-release)
(1983)
"The More You Live, the More You Love"
(1984)
Alternative cover
Original release cover

"(It's Not Me) Talking" is the first single by New Wave band A Flock of Seagulls recorded in 1981 from their second album Listen. The song describes about a man who keeps hearing voices in his head and that he is being contacted from outer space and he cannot run away from his emotions, wherever he goes it is there.

Contents

Track listing

Original release

  1. "(It's Not Me) Talking" (Remix)
  2. "(It's Not Me) Talking" (Instrumental)
  3. "Factory Music"

Re-release

  1. "(It's Not Me) Talking" - 3:34
  2. "Tanglimara" - 4:30

Music video

This music video was based on an old science fiction classic film called The Day the Earth Stood Still. [1] 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. [2] 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. [3]

First credits in a music video on MTV

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...

Chart positions

Re-release

Charts Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 78 [4]

Reception

References

  1. ^ Flattery, Paul (February 1984). "A Flock of Seagulls - (It's not me) Talking". Optic Music. http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=372. 
  2. ^ "Solarium Gallery". Knox School. 22 October 2010. http://www.knoxschool.org/page.cfm?p=473. 
  3. ^ "Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers". motherboard.tv. 17 August 2010. http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/8/17/doctor-laser-inside-the-wondrous-lab-of-one-of-the-world-s-last-holographers. 
  4. ^ "(It's Not Me) Talking". Chart Stats. http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=10766. 
  5. ^ Lewis, Barbara (11 June 1983). "Pop Scene: A Flock of Seagulls started in Liverpool". The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia): pp. 14. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZgJOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4654,2802585&dq=it%27s-not-me-talking+flock-of-seagulls&hl=en. 
  6. ^ Everingham, Henry (8 August 1983). "Seagulls try to get off the ground again". The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia): pp. 6. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uoZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ruYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5670,2408105&dq=it%27s-not-me-talking+flock-of-seagulls&hl=en. 

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