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Thomas Dolby — She Blinded Me With Science
Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
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Released: 1983
Length: 3:40
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Ha!

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
But she blinded me with science
(''She blinded me with science!'')
Failed me in geometry, hey-ey, huh, huh

Now
Huh, huh

When I'm dancing close to her
(''Blinding me with science, science'')
(''Science!'')
I can smell the chemicals
(''Blinding me with science, science'')
(''Science!'')
(''Science!'')

Now, but, it's poetry in motion
When she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
Sweet as any harmony
She blinded me with science
(''She blinded me with science!'')
Failed me in geometry
(Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh)

When she's dancing next to me
(''Blinding me with science, science'')
(''Science!'')
(Hmm hmm, hmm hmm, hmm)
I can hear machinery
(''Blinding me with science, science'')
(''Science!'')

Ha! It's poetry in motion
Now she's making love to me
The spheres are in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
(''She blinded me with science!'')
And hit me with technology

(''Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!'')

I -
I don't believe it!
There she goes again!
She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
But it's poetry in motion
When she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Huh, she blinded me with science
(''She blinded me with - with science!'')
She blinded me with
(Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh)
Comments (274)add comment
It's old, it's cheesy, it was on MTV no less than 10 million times ... but I still love it.
 drewd wrote:
Science Thomas Dolby GIF - Science Thomas Dolby Blinded ...


Magnus Pike - now I KNOW I'm old 
Science Thomas Dolby GIF - Science Thomas Dolby Blinded ...
 fudgeland wrote:

Kinda sad this is the only track in the system from this great album... "Airwaves" should certainly be here.



Both "Wind Power" and "One of Our Submarines" are excellent tracks that should be here.
Another song that got overplayed to death PASS
Funny hearing this. My wife used to babysit his kids during the British summer school holidays!
Takes me back to the early Eighties, sitting in the Tate Center of the University of Georgia between courses, enjoying AC and MTV on the large projection TV in the mid-level TV lounge.
so much good stuff TD has done, can we have some Flat Earth,  Astronauts and Heritics? Produced the best Prefab Sprout too!!
 ziggytrix wrote:

Is he really though? I mean, that was just the name of an album. I don't suppose you believe he thinks his Buick was eaten by aliens, too?

I mean, sure, when some nutso relaunched The Flat Earth Society, he accepted membership #00001, but don't you suppose that could have been because he found it hilarious rather than accurate?
 

"Shenton was inspired by Thomas Dolby's album, The Flat Earth, even though Dolby is not actually a Flat Earther himself."   https://screenrant.com/celebri...
To me, this has a "sick" factor that automatically rates an Eight. Oh Yeah!
2020 in a Nutshell.

Whatever you do....Don't drink the Kool-Ade!
Featuring Dr Magnus Pike - the human windmill!
 unclehud wrote:
Always a favorite when the marching band blasts this out at Georgia Tech football games!

(Only 6 weeks to a new season!)

<edit, five mins later>  This song is older than any of our undergrad students.  Jeez.
 

This song is old enough to be a parent to any your undergrads...  
 RussNelson wrote:


Well, to be fair to the IPCC, they were established to measure the effect of Carbon Dioxide on the climate. Does anybody think they're going to shrug their shoulders and say "well, almost none as far as we can tell." Of course not. Nobody wants to admit that they wasted several billion dollars spend on them, and several trillion dollars world-wide reducing CO2 with no effect on warming.
 

they also want those billions and trillions to keep flowing their way

Today they can use their "accurate models" to predict WuFlu deaths!
oh, wait
Lucky for us all they are just as wrong . . . unluckily the gov'ts all went with their model and have likely killed more (leaving aside Cuomo and Whitless sending sick patients into assisted living homes to kill off the most vulnerable) by the response than if we'd done absolutely nothing.
Protect the elderly, take vitamin D, get sun (especially if you have a dark complexion) and live further north) keep your zinc levels acceptably high, and get some NAC (N-Acetyl L-Cysteine), and WASH YOUR HANDS! Like you need to remove a contact and been chopping Ghost Peppers for a killer salsa.
You might still get it, but you will be far better off if you do that , than cower in fear in the AC . . . especially if you live in an apartment/flat/multifamily housing
Last note is by far my favorite one.
A defining song of the 80's. So good.
Would  like to hear his deeper tracks like "One of my submarines" or "White City" here one day
Anyone else spot this tune in breaking bad?
 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 https://www.weatheraction.com/ .  Please read and educate yourself.  Another good reference is Christopher Monkton at https://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.  https://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/eugenics.


 

Well, to be fair to the IPCC, they were established to measure the effect of Carbon Dioxide on the climate. Does anybody think they're going to shrug their shoulders and say "well, almost none as far as we can tell." Of course not. Nobody wants to admit that they wasted several billion dollars spend on them, and several trillion dollars world-wide reducing CO2 with no effect on warming.
 buckshot wrote:
File under 'annoying' (along with Talking Heads and their ilk). Not intended to offend anyone - just exercising my freedom of speech while we still have it ;-)
 

I'm gonna exercise my freedom of speech and tell you that you are wrong. 
This is one of the few 80s one hit wonders that doesn't seem to get old for me. It's just a great pop song. 
File under 'annoying' (along with Talking Heads and their ilk). Not intended to offend anyone - just exercising my freedom of speech while we still have it ;-)
Yeah, you guys can certainly dig them out..!
 mrtuba9 wrote:
Kelly Le Brock
 
Ok, Ok...you talked me into it...my 5 rating was a bit low....+2 for the video and MTV memories....Long Live RP!!
This song as well as One of Our Submarines from this album, were favourites.
Always a favorite when the marching band blasts this out at Georgia Tech football games!

(Only 6 weeks to a new season!)

<edit, five mins later>  This song is older than any of our undergrad students.  Jeez.
8 from me, mainly for the video and the brilliant Magnus Pyke (He was my Professor Proton! :))
"Science!"
 MJdub wrote:
Not familiar with any of his other tracks, but I'd like to hear some.  This seems like it must have been pretty cutting-edge in 1983 from a production standpoint.
 
Check out his best of album, Retrospectacle. He's got a bunch of good songs.
Not familiar with any of his other tracks, but I'd like to hear some.  This seems like it must have been pretty cutting-edge in 1983 from a production standpoint.
 fudgeland wrote:
Kinda sad this is the only track in the system from this great album... "Airwaves" should certainly be here.
 
I was just thinking there are so many other Dolby songs I'd rather hear. Airwaves is one of 'em. 
Wow!! Forgot about this one .  Fun!
Good heavens, Mr. Goldsmith- this track is beautiful! =3
Please silence me with deafness !
Kelly Le Brock
 On_The_Beach wrote:
SCIENCE!
 

SCIENCE!
Honestly, this is my least favorite song on an otherwise awesome playlist this afternoon. This one just flat lines for me, but I know others like it. I just don't think it is up to the usual RP flow. But I guess Bill likes it since he was working in the R&D lab at an electronics company at the time. :) Totally appropriate.
8 for the nostalgia.  {#Dancingbanana_2}
 gamerunknown wrote:

He's a flat earther

 
Is he really though? I mean, that was just the name of an album. I don't suppose you believe he thinks his Buick was eaten by aliens, too?

I mean, sure, when some nutso relaunched The Flat Earth Society, he accepted membership #00001, but don't you suppose that could have been because he found it hilarious rather than accurate?
Certain songs will always remind me of the early days of watching MTV.  This is one of them.

Everybody in my churches loves this song...
 
 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.

 


Thomas Dolby is a masterful musician and songwriter. Would love to hear some of his lesser known tracks like, "I Love You Goodbye".
 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.
Simply dreadful, on so many levels. My first ever '1' !
 bev wrote:


...and then some Oingo Boingo...
 
absolutely! leave it to us quirky renozoids {#Bounce}
I LOVE this song!!!
Magnus Pyke? Hell, yeah.
 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.
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.
Not his best effort IMHO.
Dolby's playing here in Asheville at MoogFest this weekend.
Wow! I actually had to turn the volume all the way down on this one. Hasn't happened before on RP! {#Stop}
 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!
Thompson Twins, please BiIl?
Nostalgic, but not great.
LOVE it!

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


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}
 scrubbrush wrote:

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

 

...and then some Oingo Boingo...
Overplayed? Perhaps but Dolby was really good. Still like this song a lot.
Deafened me with noise-ance. 
Yes. Always a reminder of Kelly LeBrock.

Wasn't Dolby a classically trained musician?
A super fun song plus it reminds me of Kelly LeBrock.  It has to go 8
Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science
I missed this kind of 80's music on purpose. Doesn't do it for me. 
 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.

all these tubes and wires!! "7"
I can relate now that I'm married.
She's tidied up, now I can't find anything.....
Time to mute it up a little bit {#Taped-shut}
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.
way to mix it, rp!
He's heading out on tour... Always an interesting show.
Brilliant,,,,will always remember Magnus Pyke, the mad Scientist featured on this track....Brilliant,{#Notworthy}
I was on the floor in 1983; I can still see the lights!  Ya just had to be there {#Jump}  SCIENCE!

I hate this
 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 https://www.weatheraction.com/ .  Please read and educate yourself.  Another good reference is Christopher Monkton at https://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.  https://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.

Dolby = Ghod!

 scrubbrush wrote:

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

 
No - Are friends electric is much better!
Thought it was him!  Still sounds contemporary rather than 80s IMHO
I am angry.  ANGRY ABOUT SCIENCE.
 scrubbrush wrote:

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

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



 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 https://www.weatheraction.com/ .  Please read and educate yourself.  Another good reference is Christopher Monkton at https://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.  https://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/eugenics.


xkcd science

 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.

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


Then came Beakman's World. Science is a scream. {#Cool}


Aaah, the good Dr. Magnus Alfred Pyke.
May he teach in peace in the eternal classroom.
 suebee3 wrote:
This makes me realize how much I miss Europa the Pirate Twins!  Thanks for the blast!
 And the Thompson Twins.
 majdim7th wrote:
He was *outstanding* live (perhaps he is yet; I'm remembering back circa 1984). A genuine one-man band. Very handy with sampling/sequencing. And yet in spite of all the technology and gadgets, I remember some real stage presence and personality emanating from that Santa Barbara stage. A memorable show in spite of all the years and other acts since.
 

I saw him at that time in Birmingham AL. Not sure how he ended up there, but it was my first actual concert. I felt so cool because my older brother took me(I was only 14) The concert was very good and a lot of fun.
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Overplayed on "80s stations"? Yes. A great song nonetheless? Absolutely! Dolby did so really excellent songs.
 

{#Yes}
SCIENCE!! 
Overplayed on "80s stations"? Yes. A great song nonetheless? Absolutely! Dolby did so really excellent songs.
This makes me realize how much I miss Europa the Pirate Twins!  Thanks for the blast!
Pllllease....more Dolby
there are just so many better songs to choose from
great to hear him here tho{#Bananajam}
Science is soooo sexy. I've always liked walking around in one of those *blinding* white lab coats. Ever wonder what we wear under those...hmmmm?
 Wizzuvv_oz wrote:

"....she's tidied up and I can't _find_ anything...

you beat me LastChance.

You know, for what it is, it's kind of a 10

 

As a wee lad in the 80s, I was convinced that Dolby was being "naughty" with that line.  However, my pre-adolescent brain had trouble figuring out extactly how.  Cut to present day and I have no idea what it means.
Yay! Cuts right through all the emo moodiness. Which I don't mind sometimes, but it's nice to have a break.
This, but not "The Ability To Swing." Interesting.
Hyperactive.
He was *outstanding* live (perhaps he is yet; I'm remembering back circa 1984). A genuine one-man band. Very handy with sampling/sequencing. And yet in spite of all the technology and gadgets, I remember some real stage presence and personality emanating from that Santa Barbara stage. A memorable show in spite of all the years and other acts since.
ahhhh....
the days when I used to be able to have fun!!! 
Top!
Kinda sad this is the only track in the system from this great album... "Airwaves" should certainly be here.

OMG... I cannot believe you're playing this song. I LOVE THIS!!! GEEK ROCK RULEZ!!!!!! {#Dancingbanana_2}


Oh Yeah!!! I can so dig it. I'm in the groove baby.
Don't ever be guilty for liking a song——I like to sing the "Blinded me with Sci—ence, Science" part in the weird high voice and scare the dogs.
Guilty Pleasure.

Shhhh . . . . Don't tell anybody.
 Papernapkin wrote:
Nostalgia can blind people, or in this case make them deaf.
 I'm usually not the type to critique others' opinions, but in this case you've really got to lighten up a bit ... "SCIENCE"!!!!!!


The perils of earphones: I just shouted "science!" loud enough that a co-worker came down the hall to see what was up.

I never liked the song—never!—but I gotta give Magnus Pike credit, he sure had fun playing the mad scientist.
 andrewimft wrote:

What is propaganda is the creation of an alternative fake "science", by right wing businessmen, to promote their agendas. In that kind of alternative science, facts are cherry picked to reinforce a predetermined conclusion. And that is so with the global warming deniers, as well as the intelligent design designers. Who profits from nothing being done about global warming?

 

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.


{#Drunk}     <== Blinded by science here in NorCal win(o) country

I liked Dr. Peter Venckman's statement:  "Back off man, I'm a scientist".  I had a button on my lab coat that said "Trust me, I'm a scientist".  I guess that would quailify as a piece of "flair".  Along with my little badge for monitoring exposure to radioactivity.
Stand back, I'm going to try ... SCIENCE!!!

From a T-shirt in the webshop of the XKCD web comic.


Silly me, all I had to do was listen!
 
LastChance wrote:
I thought it was "Ms. Psychomotor"

 
robco1 wrote:
"Good heavens Miss Yakimoto, you're beautiful!"

{#Bounce}
 
 


I thought it was "Ms. Psychomotor"

 
robco1 wrote:
"Good heavens Miss Yakimoto, you're beautiful!"

{#Bounce}
 


Magnus! {#Notworthy}