Thomas Dolby - Dissidents (Official HD Video)
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- Official HD video of Thomas Dolby performing Dissidents
Taken from the 40th Anniversary Edition of the album The Flat Earth.
Listen here: thomasdolby.ln...
Lyrics:
One more young writer slid away in the night
Over the border he will drown in light
Hold it, wait a minute
I can't read my writing, my own writing!
Like tiny insects in the palm of history
A domino effect in a cloud of mystery
My writing is an iron fist
In a glove full of Vaseline
Dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident
Courting disaster we ran in the night
Wings of an angel torn in flight
Check it, verify it
It's all here in writing, down in writing!
At the hands of the press
And in the eyes of the government
I fell from grace
I too became a dissident
Like tiny insects in the palm of history
A domino effect and an early end to this story
My writing is an iron fist in a glove full of vaseline
But dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident
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I can't believe that there are only 63 comments, 64 now.
For this album!! This is a brilliant brilliant album, I couldn't stop listening to it for years. One of the best albums from the 80's.
I could not agree more, Flat Earth is pure PURE genious. There's not a bad track, they're all creative, different, exciting, stunning in every aspect of music creation. And so entertaining. Love, LOVE this album till the day I die.
@@todedo Well, Mulu The Rain Forest is pretty bad. I always skip that one.
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@@wadexyz Nooo that has some of the best Seligman slide bass!
I've been a Thomas Dolby fan since the very beginning and I always grimace when people comment "oh, the Blinded Me With Science guy!" Ugh. The man is so much more. Third world adventurer explorer ambience mixed with jazz, funk and sci fi kitsch and a dash of rocket science. Very difficult to explain his genius - you either get it or you don't. Was lucky enough to see him in concert back in 1984 in Dallas TX during the Flat Earth Tour - one of the great live concerts I've ever seen. Love me some Thomas Dolby. NEVER get tired of listening to his work.
@Rusty, FUCK ME HE ACTUALLY CALLED THE TOUR THE FLAT EARTH TOUR!!! NICE...MAN
@@patriciakelly3612 uh, yeah, it was the name of his album at the time
I wonder do some artists hate having one major single? To be a "one hit wonder" as a true artist is actually an incredible feat.
It reminds me of DEVO. Most people think they're a novelty band that just made "Whip It!" despite the fact they were one of the most intelligent, sophisticated bands ever
I don't think he grimaces though, because that paid his bills : )
@@wadexyz Thomas Dolby is a very interesting person!
Side one of this album is one of those perfect "sides" from the LP era.
Yea it's hauntingly beautiful. Sounds like a fairy tale.
Been listening to this album since I was 15. It's a beautiful piece of work.
also love mulu and hyperactive on side B.
@@liamhemmings9039 for me I’ve been listening to it since it came out when I was 19. I never tire of this album. FFS where did all that time go…
Are you kidding? The entire both sides is flawless. Not one ho hum track on this whole disc!
Thomas Dolby The Dissidents string message even in 2024!!
Dolby is always telling us some good stories in his videos
And in his songs.
Thomas is an artist. There is nothing like that, today.
@@sweiland75 true, too much waving money at the camera and shouting bitches. Disgusting attitudes and I dont think it was natural in how it came about. Social engineering via the youth.
According to my Russian girlfriend the Russian is "when a human is born, he is weak and flexible; when he dies- he is strong and callous. when a tree grows, it is tender and flexible, and when it is dry, it dies, it dies."
Thomas has said he didn't know what the text meant, just that it was an interesting recording of shortwave radio he caught in 1982. It did end up fitting the song's lyrics quite well, though.
@@Dan-TechAndMusic actually that's a monologue from Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" 1979. Here's the clip: czcams.com/video/VCmpG0IJfLQ/video.html
Lao Tzu from Tarkosky's film📽️ Stalker
@@Dan-TechAndMusic it's impossible, this cut in Russian is absolutely intentional
Did anyone Here Listen to Juri Besmenov - Subversion?
I got to see Thomas on this tour against the stage in Atlanta with the incredible Matthew Seligman on bass (RIP).
Thomas had a typewriter onstage with paper in it, and tapped on it at the appropriate moments in the song. The piece of paper ended up onstage and l yoinked it.
It is a setlist, with Mr. Dolby's random gibberish typing on the back. A neat memento. I could never get any of my friends to get that it had an extra dimension of cool because if he had looked at it, he couldn't read his own writing.....!
Fantastic!
The sad thing about this excellent song is that 40 years later the scenario in this video needs little or no explaining!
Saw Thomas at Shepherds Bush Empire last week, it was the first time and I can say it was a very good gig.
Just love this album. Screen kiss and flat earth are beautiful
And hyperactive. :)
Thomas Dolby made synthpop an art. It is not an accident I keep going back to this brilliant music. A genius!
Never heard this one before but just saw him for the first time at CZcams theater
Fun fact maybe; When touring for this album in 1984, TD brought an actual typewriter and used it for the typewriter noises on this track only. It stood on top of the Fairlight, which in its turn resided on a piano, if I recall correctly.
epic!
I would love to see an image of that from the dolby archives, I have seen the hyperactive boxhead from the tour documented on image on the web somewhere
Yes, I saw that tour in Dallas TX in 1984 - he was one of the first touring musicians to use a Fairlight in concert. He also mentioned that the early Sony computer controller he used to synch the videos and light system was named Henry. And the keyboard player was a cross dressing transvestite. Fucking fabulous, out of this world concert experience!
A genius from an age where music had a story
this sounds so refreshing 2 me in 2024
One word - Funk. He had it and may well still have it.
Never more important than now, Dolby continues to blow my mind with his wisdom and great beats...
Well, this song aged extremely well.
"At the hands of the press
And in the eyes of the government
I fell from grace
I too became a dissident"
Welcome to 2021's 1984. Approved speech allowed only, thank you.
2021 brought me here. We can relate.
I liked this song in the 80’s. I never thought I’d see it beginning to happen in America.
Amen, good brother.
aw bless, are you being oppressed Brian?
Never saw this video before but always loved the song. TD at his best.
This is a brilliant brilliant album, I couldn't stop listening to it for years. One of the best albums from the 80's!!
Relevant today.
Frighteningly so.
Great bass playing.
this is still a cool song, it's got fabulous storyline in the video, this is my favorite of all his stuff, background sound to the front is pure,Andrew,
this album was on constant play in the early 90's for me......screen kiss still shatters me to this day.
Thomas Dolby, Matt Johnson. Can someone imagine these two in an electro form? We would have in our hands and in our ears, but mostly in our brain, so many great records, music and poetry. Tony, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Great taste Tony, love Thessaloniki too. Marea Sea Spirit is one of the best places to eat in Europe.
Damn
I absolutely forgot about this video.
30+ years later, here we are again.
To be fair, I can't read my writing, my own writing these days either. heh. Still love this song decades later. My writing was only marginally easier to read then, but at least it now gets published online and in magazines. ;)
Heavy rotation on my walkman, turntable & VHS player.
Absolutely love this record. Dolby brilliance. As someone else said, you either get it, or you don't.
This song always gives me goosebumps all over.
The vocals are so damn powerful!
And such a bloody unique instrumental.
0:28 shows something that is now actually being done by some governments, as in China. Makes me think of how this album came out in 1984 and I bought it on cassette, the same year I first read Orwell's 1984.
Now it's happening in Canada.
To some extent in the U.S., too.
Matthew Seligman, who was the bassist on Dolby's The Golden Age of Wireless, The Flat Earth, Astronauts and Heretics, and A Map of the Floating City, died Friday, April 17, 2020, as a result of COVID 19.
Oh man sorry to hear that , that awful china virus leaves so much distruction
Rest in peace, my brother! I'm a healthcare worker, and i pray daily for a cure, because i am on the frontline every single day. I see the fear, and uncertainty on their faces, and i assure them that i will do everything in my power to get us both home to our families🙏
So sorry
@@cnfuzz China virus?? Seriously?? No matter- RIP Matthew - great bass lines.
@@malthuswasright con fuzz is an Ahole like his racist buddy. NY got hit from Europe planes that all came back without masks or any screening because Merika had no leader. Conspiracy theories and disrespect, that’s how they learn hate and no empathy. He can’t spell either just like his illiterate hero.🙏🏽RIP MATTHEW.🦋
Great song and great video. Memories of the Cold War and active duty.
When this came out, I couldn't see the video part, this is great.
This song is badass.
Now more than ever.
I, too
oh huh last week the merdeka patent tender pulls us back in time again
Oh man, sorry to hear the sad news about Mathew...his bass lines make ya want to move & dance! I just wanted to say that yesterday I finally cleaned out a piled-up corner of my old office I really hadn't been in for over 12 years, and to my delight found a cache of albums going back to the 70s & my youth. This was one I found, plus Devo 'Shout', Supertramp 'Crime of the Century', Yes 'Fragile', and Led Zep 'Houses of the Holy' to name a few. Time to hook my turntable up...haven't used one since the 1980s. Can't wait!
I love music that has intrinsic value.
Though my favorite track on this album is screen kiss, I love that whole album called Flat Earth, which may be Thomas Dolby's masterpiece. Regarding that Russian dissident subject in this track released in 1984 (which has a very, very cool 12 inch remix I bought in 1985), I scare myself looking at the situation in Russia today, where even the word "war" is forbidden.
Album still holds up to this day! Never took any of your albums out of permanent rotation in my CD player! Can't wait to see you in Oakland and Riverside!
❤ Awesomeness Dude! 🎉😊 love backtracking. I never got to say everything I wanted to express.
Excellent song writing and beautiful bass lines, very powerful, by Matthew Seligman.
The Flat Earth.. A truly great album.. quality of the songs, songwriting arrangements and playing aside..
Anyone know where this was recorded?
The quality of the recording is superb..
RIP Matthew
was my 'vacation buy' when i was a kid, when it was first released... back when we were on a florida vacation; the first side stuck in my head as a soundtrack for travelling up and down the west coast of florida then...
1:53 that twirl 😍
That's the great irony of the video: the cool leader twirls and survive, the others died
I remember seeing TD at the Warfield theater in San Francisco in the early 80's. The set was mesmerizing.
Another genius Dolby creation.
Adele Bertei's soulful backing vocals do it for me.
It's exquisite...she's also a standout on the title cut. Just a sublime voice...clear, powerful, articulate, strong, and undeniably feminine.
As it usually is with females with big voices, I'm guessing that she's just a tiny thing...
This is really one of the most amazing albums ever produced and it is only now seeing it's true Relevance !!
Oh yes!! More relevant than ever before. They should seriously play this music video for the crowds in the street on a good high quality projector at the top of the hour all day long. Let's get the message across while we have ourselves a good old dance party.
Este es el momento más accesible del álbum de Thomas "The Flat Earth", pero hasta ahora sigue sonando como nuevo. Genial...
marca la primera mitad de los ochenta...¡¡¡¡
What a great song
Good... More than good with LYRICS..
I am with any and all who advcocate for how great Dolby has been. I loved his stuff. Have to catch up with the Map lp as I had no idea he had put anything out. Gets rave reviews. So many great lps, not just songs.
Great track ; from the master TD, I'm a huge fan.
Listening to this at .75x is easymode Vaporwave. Just try it ❤
Always my favorite TD song
I found this album in the electronic section of a record store (with like only 30 others lol)
I picked it out cause of the artwork and instantly fell in love with the music
One of the finest..nostalgia rules
A proper music video not just the artist singing and dancing. Always loved this track and the Search for Truth versions
When he arrived on the Mothership, we were all very excited at the prospect of his energy. We see many energies on the Mothership, amongst the galaxies we traverse and this being is a more-than-welcome passenger!📡📡
I love Dolby's first two albums And if you're reading this, Thomas, Paula hasn't forgotten you signing her cast at Aylesbury Friars.
Still funky fresh Dolby fans.
Músic beoutiful
kupio sam ploču 1984, objavljena je u ex-Yugoslaviji, Nick Beggs (KajaGooGoo) je izjavio da mu je to najbolji album, nimalo nisam požalio.
ne verujem! ista priča i kod mene :)
Legend...
love it
I’m sorry I slept on this cat! Too funky.
Is that what he says in Russian? I was always curious about that.
Great song - now it's all true, distopia!
There are two Hungarian sentences in this song.
At 2:59 it sounds like "Most hova megyünk? Most hova megyünk?", which means "Now where are we going?" twice.
A 2:54 I hear something like "Ki tetszett tüntetni.", but it's ambiguous because of the echo effect and distorting. This means "you awarded a medal for me/somebody", in especially a courtly form.
It's interesting, that the other meaning of "tetszett tüntetni" is "you were pleased to demonstrate (on the street)"... The good solution is still to wait for.
The twin brother video to airwaves.
So interesting.
Excellent!!
he was so ahead he had to become a dissident
"The Flat Earth" was decades ahead of itself. I feel my grandkids will be studying this album and wondering why it wasn't a bigger deal.
I think Duran Duran "borrowed" the idea for their New Moon on Monday video from this video.
While "New Moon On Monday" is such a wasted opportunity of a video (Duran Duran themselves hate it), have in mind it may be the other way around as "Dissidents" came out in 1984. "New Moon" was 1983. Although the "resistance" idea may also come by chance - Clock DVA, for example, were there in 1982 with their own video on the subject :)
0:27 Orwell was right....and so was Thomas Dolby.
Sadly applies in America today.
Respect is so important, for equality to work, we are all diss i dents. White city appears on this album, makes sense who built it like most product and cars.
Amazing song amazing álbum..."the flat Earth"❤
Who played the bass?
Matthew Seligman.
Here for this today, day 2 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This album remains transformative.
❤2024 I'm 50 BTW
is that NIgel Planer playing the main guy in this video ?
It is Anton Corbijn
Love il
Was it taken from "The Flat Earth" by Thomas Dolby in 1983?
Yes !
czcams.com/video/u7PPoxAhALI/video.html
Have a good time !
✌💕💕💕2020
So few likes, that's terrible. Loved those albums - esp The Flat Earth.
The man in black who speaks in russian is also mr. Dolby?
LUV 2 YOU WE ARE
#Ximaginarium 2024
Lemur Throne
1:05 is that Anton Corbijn?
You beat me to it. I was about to ask that same question. I think it is 👍
@@Russman1966 just checked the liner notes of the collectors edition, it's him
Does anybody know why is hungarian speak in the song 2:45 - 3:02 ?
This is a song on democratic dissent in East Europe at the time so it makes sense to use any language from there.
Ha te nálam jobban érted ezeket a részleteket, kiegészítheted, amit én írtam róluk.
The artist's musician - Let's do lunch......
Geek alert... Mattel Aquarius computer at 00:25?
Seminal album
Science
God, I feel bad for Ukraine right now
i here a stick
Back when we still realized the evil of communism/marxism/collectivism.
exactly....
It's amazing people need the evil of communism explained to them when there are still so many living witnesses to Communist and statist tyranny and rule by terror but here we are.