I fell in love with Thomas Dolby the first time I heard “She Blinded Me With Science.”’ Then I caught the live film he did featuring most of the songs from that album and a cameo from Lene Lovitch. It was cyberpunk before there was such a word, and I loved his vision, and his exceptional musical sensibilities-and those lyrics! This was a really different album. I really loved the lush, wistful, dreamy, otherworldly quality and texture of Golden Age. Sometimes this album is so frenetic that it’s not quite as versatile listening for me, and in some ways it hasn’t held up quite as well. I suspect that the late 80s and the usual chemical trappings might have been involved, at least around the edges, because I know what they do to studio mixes-the treble gets very high, super crisp almost to the point of pain, and the tempos of the songs on the album are jacked up considerably. That said, I love this track, and Screen Kiss is as beautiful as anything he ever wrote/arranged/recorded. I wish he’d had more success, but at least we have this.
Frickin AWESOME, I had no idea this video existed. I was turned on to Dolby a good deal of time after his mainstream popularity, so I missed some of harder to find MTV exhibitions. Great stuff; always liked Dolby's Cold War influence. He's amazing,
Dissidents. Man, I remember this video. Hearing this song for the first time inspired me to really start paying attention to production and arrangment. Just one of those rare albums where everything comes together. Dolby is the man, and Flat Earth was his best, IMO. Thanks for posting this...good memories.
This one man is a machine. He has the intellect to create a monstrocity of music that duplicates a complete orchestra and more. He has the rhythm and uniqueness to not even really belong to a certain genre, he is a genre. The Flat Earth is a prime example of his genius at work. People thought "Science" was all he could do, "I scare myself, Mulu, etc...a compilation of Dolby funk.
In 1988 I crossed the West Berlin-DDR border in a train at Friedrichstrasse, with this song playing on my Walkman... no better environment and timing possible..
Deborah Armstrong must have been nice to vicariously "immerse" yourselves in the state sponsored terrorism of the Soviets...folks who experienced it aren't so nostalgic or quixotic.
Europa and the Pirate Twins. Kept me going during a crappy school camping trip on a beach too cold for swimming. I was 12, same age as Europa, and imagined I was in the video.
Ciao Luca, ( I guess u r italian like me ) What i love the most in Screen Kiss is the way the bass is played.. the 10th interval becoming a 9th and then a fake 8th..moving around the 1st grade... lovely !
I've not heard this song in years, and it does not seem to exist on Itunes, much to my disappointment. It is my favorite Thomas Dolby song of all time. So thanks for posting it!
Saw him in concert August of 84 in Virginia Beach, he had been bumped from the Chrysler hall and landed in a club, Peabody's on the Beach. It was about 300 of us and a dance floor. Best show ever.
Ah, finally the lyrics! just as i thought... i'll just forget i read them. the song and singing is more than enough to get my stamp of perennial approval. Thomas can do just about anything musical and i'd like it - and i'm not easy to please. If you haven't seen the live updated performance someone (i think Stevie2112Rush) has upped here, you should! Brilliant!!!
I had a dream in which I heard this song. This was about two years before the song had been released. If I have the power to see the future, it doesn't seem to work for lotto numbers. I'll never make a TV psychic if that's all I can do.
Excelent HQ audio. Thanks to whomever posted it. I remember first seeing this vid when it first came out (1984?) on a new UHF TV channel that had just appeared in Chicago. My parents didn't have cable or sat. This channel's claim to fame was 24x7 music vids. I first saw it here. If it wasn;t for youtube and this poster I'd never see it again. Thanks
It's because, like Danny Elfman, Thomas Dolby majored in music comp. Both were "zany, academia guys" who loved to piss off the instructors, especially when they started being "authoritative" :-) The comparisons to the other people you mentioned, are also based on music composition/arrangement ideas u learn in academia. Nile Rogers is a jazz musician (he actually started out playing with Omar Hakim and Marcus Miller), which is how Duran Duran got those "interesting" B-sections, in their hits :-)
According to TDMR in a 1984 Musician interview, this video was shot before Duran Duran's New Moon On Monday video by the same production company. He was angry about the similarities. I concur, although maybe hair gel and light sabers are enough to distance the two projects.
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
And you had to be 18 or over to get in. That's a bummer for the younger fans. & When Nautilus was being set up, TD came over to do something having to do with the synthesized sounds coming from submarines.
What a great song .. never heard this played on the radio. for the kids a radio is this thing that played music in the stone ages.
I fell in love with Thomas Dolby the first time I heard “She Blinded Me With Science.”’ Then I caught the live film he did featuring most of the songs from that album and a cameo from Lene Lovitch. It was cyberpunk before there was such a word, and I loved his vision, and his exceptional musical sensibilities-and those lyrics!
This was a really different album. I really loved the lush, wistful, dreamy, otherworldly quality and texture of Golden Age. Sometimes this album is so frenetic that it’s not quite as versatile listening for me, and in some ways it hasn’t held up quite as well. I suspect that the late 80s and the usual chemical trappings might have been involved, at least around the edges, because I know what they do to studio mixes-the treble gets very high, super crisp almost to the point of pain, and the tempos of the songs on the album are jacked up considerably. That said, I love this track, and Screen Kiss is as beautiful as anything he ever wrote/arranged/recorded. I wish he’d had more success, but at least we have this.
Frickin AWESOME, I had no idea this video existed. I was turned on to Dolby a good deal of time after his mainstream popularity, so I missed some of harder to find MTV exhibitions.
Great stuff; always liked Dolby's Cold War influence. He's amazing,
Dissidents. Man, I remember this video. Hearing this song for the first time inspired me to really start paying attention to production and arrangment. Just one of those rare albums where everything comes together. Dolby is the man, and Flat Earth was his best, IMO. Thanks for posting this...good memories.
Thomas Dolby is pure genius!
This one man is a machine. He has the intellect to create a monstrocity of music that duplicates a complete orchestra and more. He has the rhythm and uniqueness to not even really belong to a certain genre, he is a genre. The Flat Earth is a prime example of his genius at work. People thought "Science" was all he could do, "I scare myself, Mulu, etc...a compilation of Dolby funk.
In 1988 I crossed the West Berlin-DDR border in a train at Friedrichstrasse, with this song playing on my Walkman... no better environment and timing possible..
One of my fave thomas dolby tracks
I love bass-heavy songs like this.
Ah... I have many fond memories of this song, as I played it while locked up in my room reading Solzhenitsyn. Love Thomas Dolby!
Deborah Armstrong must have been nice to vicariously "immerse" yourselves in the state sponsored terrorism of the Soviets...folks who experienced it aren't so nostalgic or quixotic.
Europa and the Pirate Twins. Kept me going during a crappy school camping trip on a beach too cold for swimming. I was 12, same age as Europa, and imagined I was in the video.
This song is mixed incredibly well. Kudos to the engineers. Delicious use of dynamic compression. The stereo imaging is superb!
This is my favourite Thomas Dolby song. I expected the video to be really bad - it was the 80s, after all. But it was actually pretty awesome.
His music always had substance and intelligence.
Great song off a great album.
Ciao Luca, ( I guess u r italian like me )
What i love the most in Screen Kiss is the way the bass is played..
the 10th interval becoming a 9th and then a fake 8th..moving around the 1st grade...
lovely !
I've never seen this video before now. I always suspected he made a video for this great opening to "The Flat Earth". Thanks for posting!
I've not heard this song in years, and it does not seem to exist on Itunes, much to my disappointment. It is my favorite Thomas Dolby song of all time. So thanks for posting it!
What an interesting song this is on many levels. Funky, intellectual, unusual song structure, great bass line. Very choppy, but it works well.
Saw him in concert August of 84 in Virginia Beach, he had been bumped from the Chrysler hall and landed in a club, Peabody's on the Beach. It was about 300 of us and a dance floor. Best show ever.
Ah, finally the lyrics! just as i thought... i'll just forget i read them. the song and singing is more than enough to get my stamp of perennial approval. Thomas can do just about anything musical and i'd like it - and i'm not easy to please. If you haven't seen the live updated performance someone (i think Stevie2112Rush) has upped here, you should! Brilliant!!!
Love this and love TMDR's stuff, love the bass on this track.
I had a dream in which I heard this song. This was about two years before the song had been released.
If I have the power to see the future, it doesn't seem to work for lotto numbers. I'll never make a TV psychic if that's all I can do.
Excelent HQ audio. Thanks to whomever posted it. I remember first seeing this vid when it first came out (1984?) on a new UHF TV channel that had just appeared in Chicago. My parents didn't have cable or sat. This channel's claim to fame was 24x7 music vids. I first saw it here. If it wasn;t for youtube and this poster I'd never see it again. Thanks
80s and 90s are missed
The Flat Earth is an outstanding album.
It's because, like Danny Elfman, Thomas Dolby majored in music comp. Both were "zany, academia guys" who loved to piss off the instructors, especially when they started being "authoritative" :-) The comparisons to the other people you mentioned, are also based on music composition/arrangement ideas u learn in academia. Nile Rogers is a jazz musician (he actually started out playing with Omar Hakim and Marcus Miller), which is how Duran Duran got those "interesting" B-sections, in their hits :-)
like bohemian rhapsody, knights in white satin, american pie...long and lovely
Awesome song from one of his best albums!
Fellow dissident here!
Such a Talking Heads vibe on this one, could fit on any early TH album and no one would know it’s Thomas.
According to TDMR in a 1984 Musician interview, this video was shot before Duran Duran's New Moon On Monday video by the same production company. He was angry about the similarities. I concur, although maybe hair gel and light sabers are enough to distance the two projects.
TDMR???
This is the only version i found surfing on the net; better versions are always welcome :)
Elegant!!!!
My all time fav songs by Thomas is Screen Kiss.
what about yours?
You have to buy the remastered CD's, or the 12'inch collection on CD.
Mulu the Rain Forest!
"Talk To Me Mulu!"
Either that or Budapest by Blimp.
I bet that's why. Great songs should be long, damnit! lol
oh... i perfectly agree w/ u !!
Brilliant! Thanks so much for posting 👌👌👌
StovoKhor: And by now you no doubt are aware the Earth is indeed flat(ish). Cheers!
rip matthew seligman, 4/17/2020 of covid-19 complications, aka the guy playing the jawdropping bassline on this track.
this rocks
I Love You, Goodbye
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
@panthervoodoo Thomas Dolby just released first album in 19 years. CZcams "Oceanea" and hear the new stuff. It's beautiful.
that's the truth.
I was laughing about how Wish You Were Here has five tracks, yet pushes well into 42+ min...
Why does the setting president (chief government gangster) alway get upset when he hears this song?
David Ford - Because it reminds him of the tens of millions who died in the Gulag under communism?
glad u like it.
Stov
And, of course, Duran Duran copied this with NEW MOON ON MONDAY (yes, it was in that order).
True genious!!!!!
The "oldies" music at the beginning isn't necessary. This song describes the world today (only in reverse. USSR = USSA)
What happened to the video for Thomas Dolby's "Europa and the Pirate Twins?" It doesn't seem to be available anywhere anymore.
And you had to be 18 or over to get in. That's a bummer for the younger fans. & When Nautilus was being set up, TD came over to do something having to do with the synthesized sounds coming from submarines.
dope musica!
@jazzytds perfectly stated.....
isn't' that Nigel Planer ? ( Neil from the young ones)
i'll post it now
No longer is a journalist not a dissident.
Does anyone know what's being said around the 3:00 mark. It sounds like "...intipidatesepunta......doshubomating, doshubomating..."
Good..thanks...but..Ltrics..?