Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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A Flock of Seagulls: The Best of a Flock of Seagulls [Jive, 1987]
If they were never as sublime as "Chewy Chewy," they were never as icky as "1, 2, 3, Red Light," and unlike the Ohio Express or the 1910 Fruitgum Co., they-wrote-all-the-songs-themselves. I might even claim that this was where the idiots took over the studio if I hadn't noticed that their weakest cut by far--1985's terminal "Who's That Girl (She's Got It)," designed to convince us that they're human beings--is the-one-they-produced-themselves. A-