I was falling in love

 https://open.spotify.com/album/30bWTGXXlc2APoa8Nzss0Z

An underrated, underappreciated when it was new, and sometimes forgotten gem of the 80s (in favor of their bigger hit I Ran), Space Age Love Song is really the best song A Flock of Seagulls ever did, and one of the better love songs of the 80s in general. The original is brilliant, but this much more recent collaborative affair with the Prague Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra is magical. Michael Score, the lead singer and main guy for A Flock said that while the band came together fairly quickly, they struggled to find a guitar player, and had at least a dozen guys come in. Most of them heard the synth heavy sound, which in the very early 80s was deemed sufficient, I guess, and asked them why they wanted a guitar player at all. But Score knew that their sound would need it (he was a big fan of more guitar-heavy traditional indie stuff; the name of the band comes from a line from a Stranglers song, for instance, that they'd just seen in concert together). Can you imagine this song without that insistent guitar riff? It really makes the song what it is, and replacing it with some analog synth voice would have been devastating to the sound.

Anyway, a bit random, I know, but there it is. To make up for my randomness, I'll point out that I'm making updates to more Ad Astra planetary data sheets, I'm just not posting them on my blog. Because I'm also unhappy with the format of Google Sites these days, I'll actually probably transfer them to some offline format (like an odf doc, probably), and if I share them again, it'll be en masse as a pdf.

Watch the original version of the song here with clips from a very early 90s (but still classic 80s style) rom-com movie with a young Jennifer Connelly. Again: magical. I don't necessarily buy into it myself, but there's a consistent theme among many on the internet that Jennifer Connelly in the middle to late 80s (and she still squeeks by in this video, although her buy-by date would be approaching fast) is the most beautiful woman of an entire generation. Again; while I don't necessarily agree with that, she is certainly a beautiful woman, or at least was back then. That can't be denied.