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Thomas Dolby — She Blinded Me With Science
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Thin_Air
Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 02:47
 
 I think it's unfair to say that his scientific skills are lacking.  Dig a bit deeper and I think you'll find that he's quite a clever Trevor, especially in the world of audioelectronics - his music is in the great majority excellent too.


gamerunknown wrote:

He's a flat earther, so it's fair to say that his scientific skills are lacking... I'm as egalitarian as they come, but I think it's worth considering the extensive empirical data on earth's curvature, at least.

 



lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 00:41
 
Thomas Dolby is a masterful musician and songwriter. Would love to hear some of his lesser known tracks like, "I Love You Goodbye".

gamerunknown
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 00:37
 
 impediguy wrote:
<snip>He's a great musician; yet I can't comment on his scientific skills: maybe those are lacking and thus the basis of this song? Ignorance (a.k.a. blindness) is bliss. Seems like I understand the gist of this song now.
 
He's a flat earther, so it's fair to say that his scientific skills are lacking... I'm as egalitarian as they come, but I think it's worth considering the extensive empirical data on earth's curvature, at least.

baythtayth
(On the road)
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 00:37
 
Simply dreadful, on so many levels. My first ever '1' !

paultron
(Reno NV)
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 13:49
 
 bev wrote:


...and then some Oingo Boingo...
 
absolutely! leave it to us quirky renozoids {#Bounce}

Krispian
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 13:47
 
I LOVE this song!!!

catnip
(mostly wearing lard)
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 13:47
 
Magnus Pyke? Hell, yeah.

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 06:34
 
 FuryQuaker wrote:
Wow! I actually had to turn the volume all the way down on this one. Hasn't happened before on RP! {#Stop}
 
No, that's what the PSD (Play Something Different) button is for! I just had to employ it with Rodrigo Y Gabriela. Can't stand their Hanuman.

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 06:31
 
This one is overplayed on commercial radio but if you back away from that and listen, it is a great song. Dolby had some good ones, One of Our Submarines and I Scare Myself are two of his best.

stunix
(Narrowboat nr Caen Locks)
Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 05:57
 
Not his best effort IMHO.

smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina)
Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 05:44
 
Dolby's playing here in Asheville at MoogFest this weekend.

FuryQuaker
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 05:47
 
Wow! I actually had to turn the volume all the way down on this one. Hasn't happened before on RP! {#Stop}

jt1
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 05:46
 
 clickfaster wrote:
A super fun song plus it reminds me of Kelly LeBrock.  It has to go 8
Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science
 

Thankyou for that reminder!

Troutnskibum
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 07:33
 
Thompson Twins, please BiIl??

ziakut
(Albeit In The Meantime)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 07:32
 
Nostalgic, but not great.

casey1024
(Here and Now)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 07:31
 
LOVE it!

beeblebrocks40
(Jonas Ridge, NC)
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 12:35
 

Thomas Dolby- my first concert, my brother took me. Good Times!



Seahunt
(Parent's Basement)
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 12:33
 
Cover band in Annapolis named Music Room does an awesome version of this.  {#Dancingbanana}

And actually Thomas Dolby himself just played at the Rams Head in Annapolis so double {#Dancingbanana}

bev
(Reno, NV)
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 12:32
 
 scrubbrush wrote:

this should be followed up by:
- Gary Newman - Cars
- The Vapors - turning Japanese

 

...and then some Oingo Boingo...

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 12:31
 
Overplayed? Perhaps but Dolby was really good. Still like this song a lot.

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 18:56
 
Deafened me with noise-ance. 

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 18:55
 
Yes. Always a reminder of Kelly LeBrock.

Wasn't Dolby a classically trained musician?

clickfaster
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:31
 
A super fun song plus it reminds me of Kelly LeBrock.  It has to go 8
Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:29
 
I missed this kind of 80's music on purpose. Doesn't do it for me. 

bronorb
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:29
 
 Proclivities wrote:

Yes, it's great to see climate change, the Illuminati and eugenics all stitched together in the same paragraph.  Wonderful song.

No kidding.
Talk about Blinding with Science!
BAM! Back on topic.

bronorb
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:29
 
 Proclivities wrote:

Yes, it's great to see climate change, the Illuminati and eugenics all stitched together in the same paragraph.  Wonderful song.

No kidding.
Talk about Blinding with Science!
BAM! Back on topic.

Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:28
 
all these tubes and wires!! "7"

drewd
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:28
 
I can relate now that I'm married.
She's tidied up, now I can't find anything.....

alezz_ua
(Ukraine, Kyiv and Den Haag)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 08:28
 
Time to mute it up a little bit {#Taped-shut}

impediguy
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 14:20
 
I was in college studying engineering when this came out, and the humor in this song provide me with the 'superiority' I needed to everything that was befalling me at the time.

It's rather ironic that Thomas Dolby is most identified by this song when he was credited later on as the person who "tamed the synthesizer". Maybe RP should look into some of his later material.

He's a great musician; yet I can't comment on his scientific skills: maybe those are lacking and thus the basis of this song? Ignorance (a.k.a. blindness) is bliss. Seems like I understand the gist of this song now.

Jon_Lucas
(SoCal)
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 14:07
 
way to mix it, rp!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 14:06
 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

midigitguy
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 14:05
 
He's heading out on tour... Always an interesting show.

DJ03DJJ
(Manchester U.K.)
Posted: Dec 11, 2011 - 18:54
 
Brilliant,,,,will always remember Magnus Pyke, the mad Scientist featured on this track....Brilliant,{#Notworthy}

Xstar
(Florence, Kentucky)
Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 01:57
 
I was on the floor in 1983; I can still see the lights!  Ya just had to be there {#Jump}  SCIENCE!


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Oct 09, 2011 - 13:12
 
I hate this

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 09, 2011 - 13:11
 

Everybody in my hotel room be dancing...  love it...


 

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 17:44
 
Limp in the 80's
Old limp today

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 09:06
 
 bknv wrote:

Global warming is well established??  Well, the globe hasn't been warming much lately.  The 'science' behind the IPCC's global warming theory is a propaganda machine.  The IPCC would have you believe the sun doesn't influence climate.  What they don't want you to think about are variables such as solar cycles, lunar cycles, solar winds, ocean current cycles, shifts in the earth's axis, etc.  The IPCC would have you believe these are all static, and the addition of CO2 to our atmosphere is going to bake us all.  Rubbish. 

Frozen vegetable plants in Mexico this winter?  Record cold and snowfall in the UK?  This was predicted by Piers Corbyn, and is available on his website http://www.weatheraction.com/ .  Please read and educate yourself.  Another good reference is Christopher Monkton at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

Next, learn about eugenics, and why the Illuminati of the world would have you convinced that you impose a 'carbon footprint' on the world and should be eliminated.  http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/eugenics.
 
 
fredriley wrote:

(shrug) Akshly, it has, but wtf, you'd diss the evidence whatever. Love the "illuminati" mention, btw - big conspiracy theorist kudos there, right enough. Can we please keep this kind of green ink bollox off this board, else it'll just take over the whole forum. On the song, which after all is what the board is primarily for, listeners might be interested to know that the 'mad scientist' on this track is the much-missed and highly idiosyncratic, and fun, Magnus Pyke, who played up his 'mad scientist' image wonderfully:

 
Yes, it's great to see climate change, the Illuminati, and eugenics all stitched together in the same commentary.  Wonderful song.


Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 08:55
 
Dolby = Ghod!


jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 08:54
 
 scrubbrush wrote:

this should be followed up by:
- Gary Newman - Cars
- The Vapors - turning Japanese

 
No - Are friends electric is much better!

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 08:53
 
Thought it was him!  Still sounds contemporary rather than 80s IMHO

thewaxtadpole
(Toronto, ON)
Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 17:35
 
I am angry.  ANGRY ABOUT SCIENCE.

michaelgmitchell
(Canada)
Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 17:33
 
 scrubbrush wrote:

this should be followed up by:
- Gary Newman - Cars
- The Vapors - turning Japanese

 
SO dead-on.
Oh, one thing ... "SCIENCE!" 

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 05, 2011 - 03:46
 
 bknv wrote:

Global warming is well established??  Well, the globe hasn't been warming much lately. 

 
(shrug) Akshly, it has, but wtf, you'd diss the evidence whatever. Love the "illuminati" mention, btw - big conspiracy theorist kudos there, right enough. Can we please keep this kind of green ink bollox off this board, else it'll just take over the whole forum. On the song, which after all is what the board is primarily for, listeners might be interested to know that the 'mad scientist' on this track is the much-missed and highly idiosyncratic, and fun, Magnus Pyke, who played up his 'mad scientist' image wonderfully:




bknv
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Apr 03, 2011 - 12:20
 
 ziggytrix wrote:

Ad hominem much?

While alarmists like Gore do profit off of their propaganda, global warming is well established. I've yet to see anything contradicting global warming that wasn't pure psuedoscience, and before you accuse anyone else of dogmatism, perhaps you should understand the "dogma" of science.  Quite unlike the dogma of religion, the only holiness is the most current evidence.  And the only heresy is ignorance.

 
Global warming is well established??  Well, the globe hasn't been warming much lately.  The 'science' behind the IPCC's global warming theory is a propaganda machine.  The IPCC would have you believe the sun doesn't influence climate.  What they don't want you to think about are variables such as solar cycles, lunar cycles, solar winds, ocean current cycles, shifts in the earth's axis, etc.  The IPCC would have you believe these are all static, and the addition of CO2 to our atmosphere is going to bake us all.  Rubbish. 

Frozen vegetable plants in Mexico this winter?  Record cold and snowfall in the UK?  This was predicted by Piers Corbyn, and is available on his website http://www.weatheraction.com/ .  Please read and educate yourself.  Another good reference is Christopher Monkton at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

Next, learn about eugenics, and why the Illuminati of the world would have you convinced that you impose a 'carbon footprint' on the world and should be eliminated.  http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/eugenics.



spaceman
(Vienna, Austria)
Posted: Apr 03, 2011 - 11:58
 
xkcd science


ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 09:45
 
 Hannio wrote:


Like a true believer of the most dogmatic religion, your bigoted argument is one sided and laced with the shrill and self-righteous accusations of heresy towards those who dare to doubt.  No one benefits from global warming alarmism?  Facts aren't cherry picked by the AGW crowd to reinforce a predetermined conclusion?  Al Gore hasn't made millions from his global warming propaganda (which he has been forced to amend and correct several times)?  Please.
 
Ad hominem much?

While alarmists like Gore do profit off of their propaganda, global warming is well established. I've yet to see anything contradicting global warming that wasn't pure psuedoscience, and before you accuse anyone else of dogmatism, perhaps you should understand the "dogma" of science.  Quite unlike the dogma of religion, the only holiness is the most current evidence.  And the only heresy is ignorance.


scrubbrush
Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 09:34
 

this should be followed up by:
- Gary Newman - Cars
- The Vapors - turning Japanese



fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 09:33
 
Then came Beakman's World. Science is a scream. {#Cool}