# ID this song.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 8, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914 "2003-07-08T02:15:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/1 "2003-07-08T02:15:16Z")

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Well…

The song gets used in the grand theft auto:Vice city(I think.) commercial.  
The music video, I believe, had shown the camera  
There’s a synthesizer and guitar in there  
And all the lyrics of the song that I can remember go something along the lines of  
_And I ran, I ran so far away…_

Can someone help?

😕 😕 😕

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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/2 "2003-07-08T02:18:06Z")

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A Flock of Seagulls, I ran.

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/3 "2003-07-08T02:21:50Z")

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That was fast.

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/4 "2003-07-08T02:22:16Z")

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Fergot to say thanks, too.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/5 "2003-07-08T07:08:40Z")

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My god…I must be a geezer already.

I’m actually sitting here saying to myself, “How can anyone not recognize the one-hit wonder of the lamest band of the 80s?”

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**Author:** ![Necromancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@Necromancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necromancer)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song/186914/6 "2003-07-08T09:45:22Z")

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When I found out two of the band members were hairdressers, I started calling them A Flock Of Hairdressers. I still remember the cheesy video for that song…and the singer’s hair kind of scares me.