A Flock of Seagulls

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. (Grade: A-)