The Golden Age Of Wireless
Talk to anyone who was the right age in the early '80s for both pop radio a… Read Full Bio ↴Talk to anyone who was the right age in the early '80s for both pop radio and the dawn of MTV, and "She Blinded Me with Science" will inevitably come up. The most famous song from the reissued version of the album, it's a defiantly quirky, strange number that mixes its pop hooks with unusual keyboard melodies pitched very low and a recurrent spoken word interjection ("Science!") from guest vocalist/video star Magnus Pike. To Thomas Dolby's credit, the rest of the album isn't simply that song over and over again, making The Golden Age of Wireless an intriguing and often very entertaining curio from the glory days of synth pop. Part of the album's overall appeal is the range of participating musicians, no doubt thanks in part to Dolby's own considerable range of musical work elsewhere. "She Blinded Me with Science" itself features Kevin Armstrong on guitar, Matthew Seligman on bass, mega-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange on backing vocals, and co-production with Tim Friese-Greene. Elsewhere, Andy Partridge contributes harmonica, Mute Records founding genius Daniel Miller adds keyboards, and Lene Lovich adds some vocals of her own. The overall result is still first and foremost Dolby's, with echoes of David Bowie's and Bryan Ferry's elegantly wasted late-'70s personas setting the stage. If anything, The Golden Age of Wireless is the friendlier, peppier flip side of fellow Bowie obsessive Gary Numan's work, where the melancholy is gentle instead of harrowing. Dolby's melodies are sprightly without being annoyingly perky, his singing warm, and his overall performance a pleasant gem. Especially fine numbers include the amusing romp "Europa and the Pirate Twins" and the nostalgia-touched, just mysterious enough "One of Our Submarines." ~ Ned Raggett, Rovi
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The Golden Age Of Wireless
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Airwaves Strange how the scale forms In tiny patterns On my atenna An…
Cloudburst at Shingle Street We climb the cliffs and hang from trees wrap the rocks and…
Commercial Breakup Night so bright - transmission smooth I take my head and…
Europa and the Pirate Twins I was fourteen She was twelve Father traveled � her's as wel…
Flying North Metal bird dip wing of fire Whose airlanes comb dark Earth T…
One Of Our Submarines One of our submarines is missing tonight Seems she ran agrou…
Radio Silence Radio Radio silence Radio silence throughout Caroline …
She Blinded Me With Science It's poetry in motion She turned her tender eyes to me As…
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