I got this album for a couple of bucks thinking I would just take a punt...and it's great! What else is like this?
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Or...what else is like "The Flat Earth" and "Screen Kiss". I guess it is kind of an "Avalon"/David Sylvian vibe
he's kind of a babe in the 'dissidents' video
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
as to your qn: try it's immaterial's 'song' lp
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
for real
― ms fotheringham (Crabbits), Friday, 7 September 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
What a very lovely album...Perfect for a balmy summers night...hate the 80's music press for being so snide against him...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Born 1958, with The Flat Earth out in 1984, amazing to me that he wrote "Screen Kiss" at 25 or 26.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
Unreal. That song is a whole damn movie
― J. Sam, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
I've had this conversation a couple of times:
"This is great, what is it?"
"The Flat Earth by Thomas Dolby"
"wait...its not *that* Thomas Dolby is it?"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
i love this album
― building a hole (NickB), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
i'm glad i found it a few years back.
now when i think of t dolby, the first thing that pops into my head is:
LIKE AN IRON FIST!
that has replaced:
SCIENCE!
i feel like that's a good upgrade to the quality of my brain content
― building a hole (NickB), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
those two songs on Flat Earth are probably his best but Golden Age of Wireless is still my go-to. I remember hearing the ending part of "Windpower" for the first time and thinking "shit, another one-hit wonder whose entire catalogue I need to explore"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Appreciate how "She Blinded Me with Science" might have led to uninformed dismissal, yet he continued to mix in the oddball songs: Hyperactive!, Airhead, The Toad Lickers, etc. I wonder if his output would have been different with wider appreciation? He seems like he's happily marched to his own interests, and it wouldn't have mattered.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
"flying north" is my go-to dolby, the only one of his i've heard that reaches the swoonworthiness of his buddy paddy mcaloon's songs
i appreciate "swoon-worthy" isn't always or even usually what he's going for, but still
― voodoo chili, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
What do you think of "Budapest by Blimp"? That's definitely Sprout-tinged.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
oh btw anyone who loves "Screen Kiss" should at least check out "17 Hills" on his latest album
― frogbs, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, April 16, 2021 11:20 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh yeah, definitely has echoes but the vibe is slightly undermined by the slap bass lol
― voodoo chili, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
the crowd singalong section always sends shivers all over.absolutely love this song.
― mark e, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
Budapest By Blimp fucking rules including the slap bass
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
Thanks for this - Spotifying _Map of the Floating City_ now, and enjoying it after a few years of not playing it.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
xp i dig the slap bass, was specifically saying that those kinds of dancefloor-friendly touches are part of what distinguishes him from mcaloon
― voodoo chili, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
i am so used to the proper version of this so had a definite raised eyebrows moment when this remix was included on the recent(ish!) compilation.had never heard of this remix being available, but i love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VnGCkF7YPk
― mark e, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
Love this track, although it’s nearly 30 years later feels like it would fit right in to The Flat Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7STUTxwdC5A
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
Wrong album, I know, but man I had such a crush on Adele Bertei after seeing this go out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEiCA8dN_8
― Maresn3st, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
yeah, thats a really good track.did you get the 25+ minute megamix of the Oceana stuff with remixes etc, 'Return To Oceana' ?he announced it via the forum/website as part of a big online treasure hunt thing.its rather lovely.
xpost.
― mark e, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
No, will need to see if it’s on YouTube.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
"Hyperactive" always reminds me of this song, in retrospect the similarities were definitely intentional. it even uses some of the same sounds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LBUEYGfisQ
― frogbs, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
His book ‘Speed of Sound’ is a good read, not least his encounter with Michael Jackson. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-michael-jacksons-mansion-thomas-dolby-recalls-surreal-visit-192458/
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
And of course, Dolby specifically wrote 'Hyperactive' to order for Jackson, sent him a demo, and then never heard anything back. He presumably brought Adele Bertei in on his own version to provide the MJ vocal stylings that he had heard in his imagination.
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
I listened to this for the first time only a couple months ago. The first three tracks on this are so great that the second half can't help but pale. I also don't get the inclusion of "Hyperactive" at the end, it clashes with the vibe of the album imo
― Vinnie, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link