Thomas Dolby - Airwaves
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2009
- Official video of Thomas Dolby performing Airwaves from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless.
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seriously, one of the prettiest songs ever written.
Lauren Johnston
Absolutely LJ. Absolutely.
I wholeheartedly agree!
Oh so true!!!
It is so beautiful indeed
thank you
Airwaves is by far my favorite Thomas Dolby song. Didn't get nearly the attention it deserved.
Same.
As said below - don't let Thomas Dolby get lost in the ether. His music, talent, and contributions to technology are far more important than many would recognize.
Everyone should know Thomas Dolby's name.
Thomas Dolby's given name is Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson. Dolby Labs
was unable to prevent him from using the name "Dolby" because you can't
prevent someone from using their given name on stage.
I make mixtapes as a hobby, and distribute them among my friends and relations. Everyone's inaugural mixtape from me includes "Airwaves". As the last track, if I can manage it.
@@inspectre27 You're doing great work for humanity!
A lot of 80s synth-based music doesn't age well. But The Golden Age of Wireless still sounds as fresh today as it did when it first came out.
Seriously? Ton of 80s synth bands are absolute classics. I would say that most major synth bands aged very well.
@@handznet - My favorite is when people use ‘underrated’ to describe hugely famous musicians - like “Thomas Dolby is so underrated.” No - no he’s not. He’s rated quite well.
I also love 'Flat Earth'. Screen Kiss is one of my favorite TD tracks.
Abso-fuckin-lutely bang on with that statement 👌 👏 💯. Having recently invested in a turntable, I got a mint copy on vinyl. Man, it sounds both incredible and timeless 🙌 😍.
You are right. A forgotten gem.
I'm 65 years old. I turned my 25-year-old great nephew on to this entire album and, he won`t stop play`n it.
I was working in a record store when this album was released and we played the hell out of it. It’s a classic.
No only does this track (and the entire album, The Golden Age of Wireless) sound as fresh and original as first did, its allusion to a dystopian, authoritarian future has become a reality. Chilling.
That’s a fascinating comment and very true. I am writing this now. Two years later than you did. Have things gotten better? Hell no we are in the end times.
Whether anyone agrees or not I don’t give a damn. I grew up playing ice hockey. I liken it to a hockey game… Three periods…. we are right in the thick of the first. The next two are going to get extremely ugly. I’m following Christ. I know how it ends. Good luck if you’re following anything else …. You’re gonna need all that luck that you rely on. If you’re not interested in actual blessings ….like I said, good luck with your luck whatever irrational dice game mentality that is.
My big brother had this cassette tape (playing this song) in his car back in Oct. 1989 in Utah. I was 17. The crisp autumn morning weather had arrived and the leaves were turning fall colors in the sunlight as we drove through the leaves. This song has been forever since then connected to the light and chilly air of that autumn. I listen to this song these days to transport back to those feelings.
Your experience sounds similar to mine . I was 14 when this record came out, I would listen to this album over and over trying to connect it somehow to the fall skies in the Midwest. The leaves, the wind, and grey cold damp skies all seemed woven into this song. Every fall I walked to high school listening to my Walkman and the Golden age of wireless. T Dolbys music was some of the most atmospheric music of the 80s. The song ‘weightless’ on the same album seemed like the part ll of Airwaves.
Very poetic
Golden age of wireless is an life changing album for me mr Dolby was one of the most intelligent and brilliant artists who opened my eyes to intelligent and mind blowing music Thank you Thomas you are brilliant
My thoughts EXACTLY!!!!
@@snakeyengel hey thanks for your reply amazing album right
ABSOLUTELY
I am discovering Thomas Dolby's music tonight.
Your life has improved a bit then…
Just discovered this genious last week man!
Lol loser! I’ve been listening to him since 1982. Gawd I’d like to smack you
@@BritneyLaZongaafter realizing Taylor Swift sucks?
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written ❤
This changed my Life as a child and seeing this now, nothing has changed. The song is one thing of pure magic though this video is another beast onto itself. Thank you for sharing.
It so is! Thanks
I have always adored this song. Even now, many years later for both of us. Thank you for this special song! 🌹
love that his English accent ( and it's a good one ) comes through so clearly in his vocals
🤔 By Jove…. Krikey… perhaps he’s English, Blimey‼️
An underrated masterpiece. Thomas Dolby gave us in 1982 what many modern producers still struggle to emulate. Passion
But,,, but… but… they have Auto-Tune….🙉
Golden Age Of Wireless has to be one of the most incredible albums ever made, musically and lyrically, and Airwaves a standout track amongst several superb songs. Thomas Dolby's writing and production genius at such a young age cannot be underestimated, and this production still stands up in 2024. If this had been his third album instead of his first as an 'unknown', an certain it would have won a Grammy - it certainly deserved to.
:sigh: Thomas is s o underrated! Much of his output are indeed classics.
Thomas Dobly!And ADAM ANT 🐜 Are Both Underrated!
@@jeanbaumgartner4052 Hmmmm..mébé...(Quebec, back then, was still listening to my parents' music tastes from their own youth [:cringing:]) However, what's that other guy's name, Fad Gadget...(oh dear) Frank Tovey?...? Anyhow, it hadn't been easy listening to bounties of music happening back overseas (this country has long been excessively corporateered, as you might've noticed of late....).
Anyhow, Thomas was cool from letting me watch his concert for free (bad budgeting on my part; learnt about his gig only that very afternoon). I'd plead with one of the doorman at the venue. Thomas arrived on his own via the front door. Doorman introduced us to one another. Pleasantries; momentary shyness on my part ensued; Thomas entered shortly thereafter. Doorman then came up to me and beckoned me in, waiving admission fee. I'd had at least enough to buy myself a few drinks. Thomas _is_ naturally human, easy-going and a wonderful sport. I'm still! touched a l l these years later. 🍸
By all accounts, he was raised properly, has a great disposition and impeccable manners… You experienced it firsthand. Not sure if I understand from your story if Thomas let you in directly, but more than likely, he said something to those in charge. For the record, I would’ve done the same in his position.
I had the ticket guy at Whalen‘s in Dublin let me in to see “Something Happens” on a sold out New Year’s show in 2014. Told him I had just flown 3000 miles from New York and they were one of my favorite bands and nobody outside would part with a ticket.
He said “Get on your bike Mike”, I thought he meant get lost and then he waved me in ….spectacular night and I got to hang out with the band afterwards and some amazing fans
@@warrenbutterfield4208 wow - now that's a recollection I'd have never suspected as ever happening..!
I believe all you've written about Thomas too. He must've had reserved the right about who could enter that venue to watch his performance --- unlike Stereolab whose band member had been both threatened & menaced by a snarly bouncer; my friend was mad about them, and so we hovered by the band's zuped-up & extended RV, and embarassingly I ended up explaining to the exasperated fella of a musician that unfortunately UPTIGHT state of Ton o' rot nightlife (now thankfully far away) upstream there :brrrRrr:
I'd also got to sit in Thomas's steam punk motorcycle trailer that he'd parked at the kerb out front, and just last month I happened to watch his upload where he was presenting it for auction to be raised for a charity. And his disposition was instantaneously recognisable, even though my blubbering spell with the fellow had lasted about only 15 seconds' time 14 years ago. He has a sense of humour, and is genuinely cool with of his easy goingness, and is just plain disarming --- not often you encounter somebody who bears no evil bone whatsoever --- Thomas's sympatico is unmistakable 🍸
I would love to have heard David Bowie sing this.
I am 60 and I used to hear this song on the radio once every two or three years, generally around 2am. Every time I managed to hear it I would be transported to another place, a place I enjoyed very much, but it was a total mystery to me as I had no idea what it was called or who did it. This went on for around twenty years until I found it on Napster (remember Napster?) after downloading every song with the word airwaves in the title. To this day I only listen to it infrequently and only at night, because I never want to to lose the mystery of it. Some songs take you places. Airwaves is one of them. Thanks Thomas Dolby.
This is my FAVORITE Thomas Dolby song...I love the soft techno beats and old school radio noises. Just a cool sounding song...👍🏻
I really miss this era of music. I totally forgot this song.
🤔You somehow forgot an unforgettable song? Maybe all those stories about alien abductions are actually true…🛸
this man is a genius which expresses itself through music !
My favorite song in Thomas Dolby’s play list.
Close but no cigar is one of his best songs
I'm Hiroyuki Sudo from Japan, from Miyagi Prefecture.When I was 14 years old, I listened to your AIRWAVE, and I was so shocked that I became a big fan.I'm still a big fan.Please do your best this year.
I was 15 . Such an unusual age. Perhaps that was why I was drawn to his lure.
Here’s to you Mr. Dolby. 🥃
The exchange at about the 1:52 mark - just facial expressions. Perfection!
Not only a gorgeous song,but the story in the video aged well. Very relevant for today.
I bought this, new, in 1982. Thirty eight years later I see the video for the first time. It is a lovely song.
I will love these song forever!
A masterpiece. Timeless.
i love this bass line
Yes, it does something to me. The bass line in 'Aliens ate my Buick' album is extraordinary.
You can thank Matthew Seligman for that beautiful bass line. Actually, you can't. He left this place April 17, 2020. His bass lines are weaved through the soundtrack of my early life. He was magical.
@@lilmissanthropy thank you for the information.
Love this *atmospheric* track. Should have been a hit!
I always like to see Dolby's videos, they're great. Seems like a movie to me
@@miketonon7946 I saw the blood on his passport. Always loved this video and song too-especially the songs longer version. First saw the video on Dolby's Golden Age Of Video VHS.Looking at it today? The story I see is...a grown man living in a divided city with a strict border. Maybe representative of Germany or Ireland of that era. He sees law enforcement trying to stop people from crossing this border of division. And he's sending HAM radio messages to the other side of this division. He obtains a passport with a blood print to get to the other side of the border he's originally from. As he approaches he keeps seeing a young boy in his mind eye. And a figure in an ARC miners helmet approaches, and when he lifts off his helmet its the same boy Dolby was seeing. Thinking the boy we're seeing is supposed to be Dolby's son in the video, whom he left on the other side of the border. The way the videos framed, supposed one could view it in one of several ways.
@@Andregrindle try t
Such an incredible masterpiece of an album, Mr. Dolby has a keen sense of melody, arrangement and composition that most of his 80s peers lacked. This is why The Golden Age of Wireless has aged so well in comparison. I've listened to this song and the album so many hundreds of times, yet it just keep getting better each time.
There were scores of other quite decent talents in the 80s. At that point you did have some very impressive producers as well.
If you want something else to hang your hat on of this extraordinary nature, then you should try Prefab Sprout and Paddy McAloon… Perhaps the best writer of that whole generation. Thomas Dolby did a lot of production for them. I remain extremely grateful to this day that they were introduced to one another.
@@warrenbutterfield4208 I read Thomas Dolby's memoir after posting the original post above 9 months ago and after his praise of working with Paddy and his brother, picked up half a dozen of Prefab Sprout's albums. Genius at work there, they have since become one of my favorites, Prefab is so varied in their style and Paddy's songwriting. Mega talents! It's a shame they are virtually unknown here in the States. I had at least heard of them from the XTC groups I am in but reading Dolby's memoir made me want to buy the albums. I definitely never heard about them in the 80s or 90s before the Internet.
Kudos to Americans for making She Blinded Me With Science a big hit when it wasn't in Thomas Dolby's native UK.
I usually skip "Blinded" when listening to the album, the rest is so much better.
@@jrkorman Couldn't agree more.
You're welcome! We did it with science
The original single edit (this is minus the bridge section and fades out). Featuring Bruce Woolley on backng vocals. The whole of "The Golden Age Of Wireless" album (and all of the Thomas Dolby and linked Low Noise / Fall-Out Club / Lene Lovich material from that era) is outstanding. A massive influence on my music and writing. Fantastic. Listened to Thomas regularly through the years ever since. Thank you Thomas.
This was my fave track on the demo tape. I'm still lucky to have the original demos for TGAIW, hot off the press all those years ago. Courtesy of Mark Heyward-Chaplin who played bass superbly on the album.
Thanks Mark! ☆
I still play them regularly to this day, 'Weightless' being my fave #1 track.
⬆️ 2 very well considered comments here. Then again, these are the type of things and people you should expect to find when you’re discussing Thomas Dolby. Everyone who bothered to write anything on here, has been touched by him in one good fashion or another, for the better.
He is a genuinely respected artist and he deserves the accolades. Meanwhile, try to find the video on CZcams of his son spoofing ‘Europa and the pirate twins’. It’s charming as hell, well worth your time and one of the few things that will make you crack a smile in this golden age of backwardness
🎶🎹Cheers .
Love this most classic style dolby song. Always be my favorite musician. His songs are always bound by some historical reference and i love that style 😍.
Not too many like Dolby, tune is classic!
When I was growing up in the 70s concerts were still cheap and I missed very few bands that I loved, even catching "Rising Stars" like Pat Benatar & The Red Rocker even cheaper! Got older and expanded to jazz & blues as well. All of this being a setup for the wide variety of music & varied acts I've seen; and Modern English opening for Thomas Dolby at the UW Hubb Ballroom is still in the top 5-6! MASSIVE energy, massive talent that night. They had to hose down the audience there was so much pogo dancing, they were dropping like flies LOL! And at the core of my Thomas Dolby admiration this is my all time fave-rave by Thomas, just a beautiful, moody song that's held up perfectly through decades...
no decade like the 80s and not just for music. pure energy life in general.to be in mid 20s and live in California in the 80s...you just had to be there...
You are so right, my friend. I was in Hollywood doing music throughout the 80's and I wish it had lasted forever. It was absolutely the most amazing time of my life.
@@dggydddy59 the best memories, the amazing 80s especially in beautiful high energy CA, carry us through life now.
Spend some time out there in the 80s. Have to say it was just as vibrant and pretty fascinating here on the East Coast in and around New York City… Which is now all about destroyed. The progressives have their heads up their ass. The music is taking a considerable turn for the worse as well.
bought the mini album in 83 , its the only reason i keep the turn table.
I can't help but admire this music video.
The way Thomas conducts himself at the end, plays it cool, gets to see what he came for despite the Authoritarianism.
Worth it.
Love the Bowie vibe on this one
Diamond Dogs
Thomas Dolby very underrated
Can't describe how much i like this video, looks like a movie to me like someone said here.
No one like dolby nowadays.
May 2020, it's still a serious track
This song made me fall in love with TD as a songwriter and performer. And it references Brooklyn, which is my hometown ❤
Video more relevant than ever. This is an amazing song though it's Screenkiss that makes me cry every time. :(
Hat's off to another Screen Kiss "cryer" LOL - I love finding other people who "get it". :D
When I was assigned to Armed Forces Radio in Naples back in 1987, someone called the station on my day off and dedicated this song to me. I later started dating the woman who made that request.
The genius of this, and other songs from the same era, if I recall correctly he wrote barely out of his teens. All these years later it still messes with my emotions. Brilliant.
🤔He is an extremely observant writer. He definitely paints pictures with notes/words and in doing so moves emotional mountains for you… As smart as he is, I don’t know if that’s a sign of genius, but it sure as hell is a sign of someone who can take his time and craft Fascinating pop music. 🎹
In the end, all pop music is said to really mean nothing… yet everything he did back then actually meant something …..
🎶Alchemy coming right over your airwaves back in the day courtesy of Thomas, a.k.a. Dolby
Tom did I forget to thank you for showing up for my birthday I didn't know what was going to happen when my friend looked at me and said your going to be so blown away not like that but said it close to that. You must of already knew from me the greatest musician of the day and probAbly ever. I love you thank you. Yes I'm the week one wow. That is crazy let your diamond shine!!!
yes I itch all over...to listen again
I get chills every time I hear this song
Beautiful Track indeed. I remember this Like Yesterday . It's full of Emotion
One of my TD's fave songs.
A kind of Orwellian theme of authoritarian Big Brother and a guy that can speak through the airwaves, the only possibility to communicate freely in such one dimensional society.
Meanwhile Before 1984
(comment sent via airwaves)
So underrated, my sister bought me the album on vinyl, it's such a pleasure to listen to this song in peculiar.
Masterpiece. The whole album as well.
A TRUE CLASSIC!!!!!!
Timeless tune from a classic album.
So remember listening to this album when I was about 14 on my Dads stereo. At first when I saw only 164k views, I was stunned. Especially with todays standards of morons getting million and this beautiful piece on the edge of the static noise and mainstream almost all alone. Hoping not to sound selfish, but I actually prefer it that way. Only a small group of us would understand ✌🏼
I agree. So much of my favorite music is the same, on the fringes. My other passion is XTC, same story, almost made is so big but never did and their body of work is huge and so diverse. I would have liked to have heard a Thomas Dolby/Andy Partridge collaboration.
I was 7 when I first listened to my dad's recording of his college room mates record of the Thomas dolby mini EP. I still listen to it with no skips at least once a month. The whole album is so good and I really appreciate that it never got big because it would be copied... badly. ...and that would ruin the whole aesthetic of it.
👍🏼 3 Good comments here ⬆️ a lot of pop music is like garbage… Most people would rather consume it than take it to the curb.
Thomas left a beautiful, fascinating…… And fun trail to follow. The better it is ….it’s often the road less taken… The chance you take on the less beaten path. Often works out in your favor when you take hikes as well.
Be grateful you heard something from this man and you latched onto it… God gave you a brain, and you were using it not abusing it. There will always be fewer of us… When you find each other just wink, wink and nod,🎶🎹
That first album is a classic.
This should be the next Running Up That Hill.
My older brother was playing you on our record player when I was 13-14, and we loved your music so much we blew out the speakers. I still love your music today in my late forties. Your style was so cool too, I was always fascinated by old time clothes and equipment anything unique. Your sons video of Pirate Twins is awesome, it's great to see your kids follow dad.
You are absolutely correct with everything you’ve said here about Thomas. I caught his sons video and I’ve recommended it repeatedly on some of these threads… It’s charming and adorable… Just like you.💜
This song is brilliant.
Gorgeous song..one of his finest..his sense of harmony and melody is wonderful.
This chorus w/ Steve Lukather is AMAZING!
His memoir is a great read!!! Such a talented, intelligent artist
That chorus floats like butter!
I bought this album so I could bop to she blinded me with science, but this song came along and oh my god I cannot stop listening to it!
Magical memories of the early 1980’s. I remember hanging out with Thomas & Co at London’s Riverside Studios..where I got made up as a Phil Oakey look-a-like. I’ve no recollection of what for but I think he was making a video. I can’t remember too much about…I think I was drunk at the time.
For decades I have always wondered what the ending means when the kid takes the visor off. Over the years, I've asked so many people to watch the video, and then asked what they think it means and never got an answer. Does anyone here know what it means? I love the way it freezes the frame and is all fuzzy. I absolutely love this song and video. It really is a supreme work of utter genius.
Don't know. Some kind of escape
Timeless
Straight up, 40 years I've been hearing this song. I remember it from MTV, and I love it every time I listen to it. I still don't know the lyrics! That's great music
You’ve got my shoulder Thomas. Since time is plastic, see you in the before morning. You’re brilliant always. Thank you.
-Thomas
a large portion of my dream last night was about this song. I think I was looking for it and then listening to it. ahg. I love it so much, I'm dreaming about it 😂🥰
I discovered this today in a box of old vinyl my uncle dropped on my porch best random find ever
This along with every other Dolby Masterpiece was instrument in me getting my Amateur Radio License.
Now I teach Morse Code and radio theory to people wanting to get their license.
Long live Dolby!!
A convincing dystopia.
literly melts me everytime i hear it
Grew up in the 70s. Stuff repeats, unfortunately. This song/video continues to speak today.
This should have been a way bigger hit then it was. Such a beautiful song.
Brings back some amazing memories.
Soo good , soo well written, sung and preformed ! The best of the best .
A gorgeous song. Pulls at the heart.
This song reminds me of my dad. He had to pick me up one morning at a Cleveland pier when my car died. This cassette was playing.
Underrated gem. Dont let these songs get lost in the ether.
😍
This song is better than blinded me with science. It never got played on radios by my experience. the video is so sad because of the normative regulation. I like the idea of an underground supporting one another. So much is conveyed in this video. Its cool they help him escape, even his friend is an undercover and helps him get across. Very much a nod to 1984
Between 80's Thomas Dolby and 80's Peter Davison as Albert Campion - I certainly have an aesthetic I like.
What a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,song belongs to 80s, go British GO GO GO!!! Greetings from PERU!!!!
The only album I have two copies of on vinyl! That's how good it is!
Genius
Lonely but beautiful
This Song Touches My Soul
Saw him ar the marquee club in early 80s . This track was a real standout. Great, great songwriter
More relevant today in 2022 then in 1982.
A year ago or so, I got to experience someone singing in the Airwaves. Not only that, my thoughts of music were combined in "a recording" with this person singing. The next day for about a week, the recording was played to me. I knew it was airwaves because a radio was playing in someone's backyard and the recording mixed in with the radio sounds, through ... the... Air... Waves. I love this song. It reminds me of my brother Charles "Bo" Francis MARKELL who is a great guitar player and plays like Alan Holdsworth. He's picky about quality songs, and he loves this song. Well, Mr. Dolby, you heard it from me. I'm not lying, but I know nobody will believe me unless it happened to them, too. 😊
Love this song ...its beautiful...the airwaves...what a concept. Mr. Chris likes it to, its been exciting sharing the song with both our innocence and experience...❤
we are magical, we delight.
so in love of this song,greetings from chile !!
one of my favourites songs since the first time all the album is so special !
im studyin it,now come the next album !
CLASSIC. THANKS TOM ✌🏽
Its like a teleportatation to go back in time.its nostalgic 😊