Thomas Dolby has been many things throughout his career, including producer, session player and tech entrepreneur, but he's probably best known for his 1980's "mad scientist" synth-pop persona that was enhanced by airplay on the fledgling MTV.Dolby has re-released his first two albums, The Golden Age of Wireless and The Flat Earth, today in the U.K. with bonus material and, in the case of the f...
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Invisible Hands Music releases Thomas Dolby's The Sole Inhabitant. A specially packaged UK Edition CD and DVD, featuring two full live concert performances recorded in Chicago and Boston. It includes the hits 'She Blinded Me With Science', 'Hyperactive' and 'Windpower' along with cult classics 'Europa And The Pirate Twins', 'Leipzig Is Calling', 'I Live In A Suitcase' and 'Airhead'. DVD bonus m...
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Invisible Hands Music releases Thomas Dolby's The Sole Inhabitant. A specially packaged UK Edition CD and DVD, featuring two full live concert performances recorded in Chicago and Boston. It includes the hits 'She Blinded Me With Science', 'Hyperactive' and 'Windpower' along with cult classics 'Europa And The Pirate Twins', 'Leipzig Is Calling', 'I Live In A Suitcase' and 'Airhead'. DVD bonus m...
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1975-1985 - much of my very favorite pop (rock/pop, one might even say, though not all) music was made in this decade, and I'm feeling that more than ever right now.I was just listening to Brian Eno's Another Green World in the car this weekend - I played it four times. It's exceptional like few other recorded albums are. It's a lifestyle; if you like everything on that album, you're open to al...
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Thomas Dolby is about SO much more than "She Blinded Me With Science", which was probably the worst song of his early career. His 1982 debut, "The Golden Age Of Wireless", was pretty amazing, with innovative electonic sounds wrapped around great songs. Dolby later went on to produce Prefab Sprout and Joni Mitchell (!), and made several more good records (The Flat Earth and Aliens Ate My Buick a...
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I did a phone interview last week with Thomas Dolby for my Stuck in the 80s podcast. Dolby is touring the country right now, doing a one-man show of his music from the 80s and early 90s. He's also promoting a live DVD and CD. Great stuff.Bottom line: The guy is a vastly underappreciated musician.Here's a link to my CD review:http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2006/12/the_soul_of_tho.htmlAnd a link t...
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I predicted I'd like even 80s-years and yeah, I LOVED 1982.Why, you ask?Some of my "pet" albums were originally released in 1982. I'm so emotionally attached to these albums I couldn't choose a top album of '82.Here are the albums I loved in '82 (and do still to this day):*Yaz(oo) - Upstairs at Eric's**Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless* (minus "She Blinded Me With Science")*Blancmange ...
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Musing about the fluxed-up entertainment industry in the wake of the digital revolution and excited about the advances here at MOG, I remembered an extremely loaded question asked by Cody B in a recent thread: "Do you think the internets are good for the art of music?"A couple of afternoons ago, I was lunching at an Indian restautant in Brentwood with a talented Los Angeles rock singer-songwrit...
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Although it took many years to finally talk my mom into buying me a Commodore 64, I think I was always a computer geek. Until my sophomore year of high school, I think I even sported the look. I'm just wired that way. I love technology, and feel a great sense of pride in being able to control it, to the degree I can.Perhaps it is that love of technology that drew me into synth-pop in the early ...
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1975-1985 - much of my very favorite pop (rock/pop, one might even say, though not all) music was made in this decade, and I'm feeling that more than ever right now.I was just listening to Brian Eno's Another Green World in the car this weekend - I played it four times. It's exceptional like few other recorded albums are. It's a lifestyle; if you like everything on that album, you're open to al...
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Thomas Dolby is about SO much more than "She Blinded Me With Science", which was probably the worst song of his early career. His 1982 debut, "The Golden Age Of Wireless", was pretty amazing, with innovative electonic sounds wrapped around great songs. Dolby later went on to produce Prefab Sprout and Joni Mitchell (!), and made several more good records (The Flat Earth and Aliens Ate My Buick a...
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| 1 She Blinded Me With Science |
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| 2 Europa and the Pirate Twins |
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| 3 I Love You Goodbye |
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| 4 Airwaves |
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| 5 One of Our Submarines |
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