THOMAS DOLBY! I was a punk kid buying new age stuff in strange 2nd hand shops on Melrose Blvd in LA ~ I recall walking into the Golden Apple Comic Book Store and hearing his music for the first time - and just standing there entranced... an instant fan. Wish he had kept going and making more music.
I think he did more than that, he merged science themes and electronics in an organic way, in contrasts to the also wonderful Kraftwerks machine music. One thing I will say is we were blessed to be born into that generation. I overheard a youngster the other day say 'why didn't they just google it?' in reference to 1995. they will never know what we had back then.
@@gordocarbo Not even bud. I grew up in this era. Nobody I knew thought that Thomas Dolby and Gary Newman were one in the same. Graduated high school in 1984 and junior college in 1986. So I know quite a bit about it, having lived through that time.
yeah...me too...i remember renee...fourth grade love...yeah i know...kids....but ive never forgotten her...my family moved away...i saw her years ago when we returned to the area...dating a dumb jock...i was just a new kid and nerd....
TD is/was a genius 40 years ahead of his time. The Flat Earth and Golden Age of Wireless are true masterpieces. I've never been a synth fan but TD takes it to a whole other dimension and level of art...like Prince...a musical GENIUS
Lyrics: Ok I was fourteen, she was twelve Father travelled, her's as well, Europa... Down the beaches, hand in hand Twelfth of never on the sand Then war took her away We swore a vow that day We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa Oh my country, Europa I'll stand beside you in the rain, Europa Ta république... Europa Nine years after, who'd I see On the cover of a magazine? Europa... Buy her singles and see all her films Paste her pictures on my windowsill But that's not quite the same. It isn't, is it? Europa my old friend We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa Oh my country, oh my country, Europa I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa Ta république... Europa Blew in from the hoverport She was back in London Pushed past the papermen Calling her name She smiled for the cameras As the bodyguard grabbed me Her eyes were gone forever As they drove her away We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa Oh my country, Europa I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa Ta république... Europa We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa Oh my country, look at my country now! I'll stand beside you in the rain, Europa Ta république... Europa Down in some bar along the Strand, Europa Oh my country, Europa I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa Ta république... Europa
This song reminds me of my first love actually, we were so young and innocent, no thought of the future in our heads, just each other. Things got confusing but I still miss her
How strange and fun that I was a teenager liking Thomas Dolby and this song and now that I’m 53 I m seeing his son who really resembles him do a parody of this same song. How bizarre life is!
I made mix tapes of songs recorded off of the radio since I could not afford to buy any. I also would fall asleep with the headphones at full blast. Only the click of the tape stopping would wake me up long enough to take the headphones off of my head. Eventually I joined the Columbia House tape club so listening to a new album for the first time when drowsy worked well. Because if I nodded off then the music went into my subconscious. This meant when awake the deep cuts felt familiar and got me hooked instead of just the "hit" singles. More bang for my buck that way.
Thomas Dolby, his music is so important and considered Classic by modern times by me. I'm the son of a musician and band director, my Father played with Glenn Miller while serving with the U.S. Army Air Corp Jazz Band playing USO's in Europe during WWII. Grew up in the 60's listening to everything from Vivaldi to Pete Fountain. I absorbed all the 60's music from the Beatles to Hendrix. Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Santana, you name it in the 70's then the 80's and Dolby arrives. What a Master he is and his music will always be in the Mix.
My Favourite track from the moment I first heard it. Brilliant tune paired with wonderful lyrics: childhood friendship, unrequited love, fame, despair. Fantastic!
This was the very first music video I saw. It blew my mind, never saw anything like it, never heard anything like it before. It completely opened me to a genre and pov that changed my life.
In 1982 I was 16 living in Miami, Florida and loving this and all the other cool music of this era. Way better than all the trash the kids are listening to today.
Why is Mr. Dolby so particularly fetching here? Im quite distracted. 😊☺️ Ive been a fan since I taped the part of this song, that I managed to catch off of the radio back in '83. 🤓😄
I'm listening to these tracks I grooved to on my knockoff walkman. These were in the infancy of MTV. Iconic and OMG how much of this album has been sped up slowed down and sampled over and over again.
Thanks Thomas for the gem that led me to you in 1984. WHFS in D.C played your brilliant music. I was like, what the!!! Bought tapes (haha) of your albums and am ever thankful. Ya Ya Ya!! Look at our world now? God save our world 🌎!!!
Im here, LA-Venice Local chick. This is my classic...heard Europa on K-ROQ during the 80's British invasion/New Wave. K-ROQ (a SoCali-OC station) was the gateway to all of that music and interviews with talents like Thomas Dolby, U2, Fishbone, Missing Persons, Social Distortion, The Police, DEVO, Adam Ant, Simple Minds, Thompson Twins, Bronski Beat, Depeche Mode, Adam Ant...the list continues into eternity. If you haven't already, listen to Thomas Dolby -HYPERACTIVE.
I stumbled across this song and was suddenly flooded with memories of hearing it on KROQ 106.7 FM Los Angeles back when I was in junior high school. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
That's kinda sweet and sad at the same time. Teenage lost love and broken promises to reunite some day and resume childhood fantasies of being pirates.
who here besides me prefers the parts where he yells and screams periodically and speaks a couple of words in between? you know what parts i am talking about. it really adds different nuances to this great song. thomas, you are brilliant.
Nice post. A favorite of mine from 1982's amazingly-talented debut. Thomas Dolby at his "mad" finest. As good as anything REM would do state-side afterwards . Nov 2020.
Always loved everything from this guy. She blinded me with science was great but je had so much more, a new wave synthesizer genius i thought, definitely overlooked & underrated
I recorded a Friday night show called. Twin City Beat here in Minneapolis on cassette tape when this song came out. It was followed by Peter Godwin‘s Images of Heaven, then Radio Free Europe. I think there is a song by Madness and, for a local feature, the Replacements, among others. I played that cassette until the tape broke.
I first heard this song in 1983 as a high school sophomore on the south side of Chicago. I had it on an old cassette. It was being played by a Univ. of Chicago late night radio show. It was years before I finally found out the artist.
I love this song and one of my all time favourite albums golden age of wireless. A few years ago I saw Thomas in concert and couldn’t believe how much he changed and sounded , thought I was watching a tribute band. Spouse you remember them in the 80’s and expect them to look the same 30 years later. Was still a great gig
Yet another of the many videos I managed to not see back in the day when I was listening to, and loving, this song (really love the wacka-wacka-wacka-wacka sound). MTV was playing SBMWS in heavy rotation so saw that, but not this one. Thanks for posting! ❤☮🌎
my 18 yr old self on guard duty in the US Army rented a VHS tape of his live performance from the PX on hilltop track. it was the last year of the 80's&sleep deprived on my all nite watch duty i secretly thought that one day soon he would marry me....
Thomas Dolby both a highly accomplished musician and a master of innovation. Part of the great tapestry of music that was the 80s. A really catchy beat too.
Like many in SoCal, I heard this on KROQ the first time, and still own the original vinyl album, which had a different running order than the later version when Blinded Me With Science was a huge hit. At the time I was obsessed by XTC, and waited until nearly the end when Andy Partridge played harmonica.
Thomas Dolby mastered the ability to look cool and incredibly nerdy at the same time.
Lol
Frrrr
We call that preppy fashion
and when mtv was hitting it's stride...
Where have you fogies been? Thomas Dolby practically invented steampunk. Tell your kids that, and make them watch this.
There's not a bad song on "The Golden Age of Wireless". A perfect album.
Actually there is…maybe not a bad song, but She Blinded Me With Science always sounded out of step with the rest of the album.
Agreed,
I was gonna say the same thing. I like every song on that album.
Yes!
Oh i agree.
Who’s here in 2024? His music is still unique and awesome.
Just saw him live in Cincinnati, still amazing! Screamed myself hoarse on this song😅
Just saw him in Newcastle, UK - amazing show :)
this was brilliant at the time and his 1st LP
My brother introduced me to his eccentrics, loving every fissure remaining 😎👌👍
I don't like his music as much as I did forty years ago. The production sounds very *very* 1980s.
THOMAS DOLBY!
I was a punk kid buying new age stuff in strange 2nd hand shops on Melrose Blvd in LA ~ I recall walking into the Golden Apple Comic Book Store and hearing his music for the first time - and just standing there entranced... an instant fan.
Wish he had kept going and making more music.
He still does copious soundtrack work.
@@JoelBryant1960 but that's not quite the same - it isn't, is it?
40 years old, and still as fresh as ever.
The greatest song of the 80’s IMHO.
@@ShellyManne1 Was a metal head then but loved this jam. What a great period in time
@@gordocarbo wow that’s surprising. I had a lot of metal head friends. I moved from 80’s new wave to harder rock. My friends were a bit surprised.
I can't believe there are only two of us here. This is a magical little song - and brilliantly produced.
Lauren Johnston thats cool were triplets now...
@@user-gm2tb8df9d I'm honoured;)
Lauren Johnston 👍" poetry in motion"
seems she ran aground on manoeuvres... one of our magyar blimps.
Came into my head at 2am 7th June 21 from where I don't know.
ALWAYS thought it was an absolute gem.
Still as fresh and heartfelt as ever.
This man was years ahead of his time he was a bloody visionary
This is one of those songs that you want to listen to at least 10,000 times and fall in love with before you watch the video.
Yes, the audio/visual/mental collaboration is much better then the video content.
I have
2023 still one of my favorite songs
This guy turned Synth in to main stream music......one word ......Genius
I think he did more than that, he merged science themes and electronics in an organic way, in contrasts to the also wonderful Kraftwerks machine music. One thing I will say is we were blessed to be born into that generation. I overheard a youngster the other day say 'why didn't they just google it?' in reference to 1995. they will never know what we had back then.
Well him and Gary Numan.
@@ralphreinhardt6020 Those 2 guys were one & the same in many peeps opinions back then.
@@gordocarbo Not even bud. I grew up in this era. Nobody I knew thought that Thomas Dolby and Gary Newman were one in the same. Graduated high school in 1984 and junior college in 1986. So I know quite a bit about it, having lived through that time.
This song chokes me up every time 😢
yeah...me too...i remember renee...fourth grade love...yeah i know...kids....but ive never forgotten her...my family moved away...i saw her years ago when we returned to the area...dating a dumb jock...i was just a new kid and nerd....
This song still holds up great today! Love it still! And I DON'T CARE that it's a drum machine! There, I said it! He used it better than anyone else.
drum machines show up on time
Certainly being from the 80s is automatic drum machine license. Sort of like mullet hairstyles.
Agreed!
80s New Wave music required drum machines to sound correct.
Yes, of all 80s albums & artists to use syndrums, Thomas Dolby made syndrums fit the music, rather than sounding like tinny AM radio noise.
TD is/was a genius 40 years ahead of his time. The Flat Earth and Golden Age of Wireless are true masterpieces. I've never been a synth fan but TD takes it to a whole other dimension and level of art...like Prince...a musical GENIUS
Did someone say Prince? I saw him several times, incredible!!
My all time favorite Thomas Dolby song..... brilliant!
cant fathom as a child of the 80s that this is my first time hearing this brilliant song...
Lyrics:
Ok
I was fourteen, she was twelve
Father travelled, her's as well, Europa...
Down the beaches, hand in hand
Twelfth of never on the sand
Then war took her away
We swore a vow that day
We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa
Oh my country, Europa
I'll stand beside you in the rain, Europa
Ta république... Europa
Nine years after, who'd I see
On the cover of a magazine? Europa...
Buy her singles and see all her films
Paste her pictures on my windowsill
But that's not quite the same. It isn't, is it?
Europa my old friend
We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa
Oh my country, oh my country, Europa
I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa
Ta république... Europa
Blew in from the hoverport
She was back in London
Pushed past the papermen
Calling her name
She smiled for the cameras
As the bodyguard grabbed me
Her eyes were gone forever
As they drove her away
We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa
Oh my country, Europa
I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa
Ta république... Europa
We'll be the Pirate Twins again, Europa
Oh my country, look at my country now!
I'll stand beside you in the rain, Europa
Ta république... Europa
Down in some bar along the Strand, Europa
Oh my country, Europa
I'll walk beside you in the rain, Europa
Ta république... Europa
ty
Thanks!
Down in some bar along the seine, from another wight I saw, and it makes sense kind of.but hell we could both be wrong!!!!!!
What was "the war" that took her away?
@@LybertyZ WW2
Still thrilling to hear this song 30+ years later
Sure is!!! Almost 40 years. Dang...
YEA never gets old!
i'm almost 60 but I feel like I'm 30 ! 80's musicians seem to put something into their music that would blast us gen Xer's into eternity ! :)
100%
Bought my first synth in 1982 because of this song.
You still have it?
Been listening to him since 1980's and HE NEVER TIRES ME! ❤ ❤ ❤
This is my favourite song from “The Age of Wireless” and my all-time favourite Thomas Dolby song!
That's "The Golden Age Of Wireless" by Thomas Dolby via Capitol Records.
At one point almost every song on that album was my "favorite song".
This was my junior high lost love album. Playing this entire album still brings me back to simpler times. It never gets old.
Takes me back to senior year! This never gets old, I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's!
This song evokes a feeling i haven’t felt for years, makes me miss my childhood friend. i know things will never be the same
This song reminds me of my first love actually, we were so young and innocent, no thought of the future in our heads, just each other. Things got confusing but I still miss her
One of the best songs ever. I was in 6th grade. Brings me right back. What a wonderful time that was.
How strange and fun that I was a teenager liking Thomas Dolby and this song and now that I’m 53 I m seeing his son who really resembles him do a parody of this same song. How bizarre life is!
This is by far my favorite T. Dolby song. I used to play the cassette singing along with him in the dark before nodding off into 14 year old dreams
I made mix tapes of songs recorded off of the radio since I could not afford to buy any. I also would fall asleep with the headphones at full blast. Only the click of the tape stopping would wake me up long enough to take the headphones off of my head.
Eventually I joined the Columbia House tape club so listening to a new album for the first time when drowsy worked well. Because if I nodded off then the music went into my subconscious. This meant when awake the deep cuts felt familiar and got me hooked instead of just the "hit" singles. More bang for my buck that way.
can we take a moment to mark the 40th anniversary of Europa as of last month, 40 years on and still such an amazing single
Sweet!
Saw him in london a few weeks ago...hes still awesome!
:O im mad jealous!!
Thomas Dolby, his music is so important and considered Classic by modern times by me. I'm the son of a musician and band director, my Father played with Glenn Miller while serving with the U.S. Army Air Corp Jazz Band playing USO's in Europe during WWII. Grew up in the 60's listening to everything from Vivaldi to Pete Fountain. I absorbed all the 60's music from the Beatles to Hendrix. Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Santana, you name it in the 70's then the 80's and Dolby arrives. What a Master he is and his music will always be in the Mix.
this song should have gotten more airplay. still brilliant in 2024!
My Favourite track from the moment I first heard it. Brilliant tune paired with wonderful lyrics: childhood friendship, unrequited love, fame, despair. Fantastic!
I love this song so much. Dolby captured feelings that everyone can relate to. There's a wistfulness that is almost unbearable. ❤
Unbearable!
Back in the 80s when I was 15, I really connected with this track. After all these years, I still do.
My favorite Thomas Dolby song!!!
Mine too...and "Airwaves" as well!
This was the very first music video I saw. It blew my mind, never saw anything like it, never heard anything like it before. It completely opened me to a genre and pov that changed my life.
"Blinded me with science" was good, but this was the first song i heard from TD." Windpower" is awesome and "one of our submarines".
Flying North is awesome too
Yup, Europa and OoOS are his best, IMO. So evocative and full of life.
Wind power is amazing ❤❤❤
I had my bangin' 80's stereo system (that I bought with money from my newspaper route) pushing this song in our attic every day during 198?
Dolby invented the Diesel Punk aesthetic with that album in 1982...
Thanks Mr. Dolby.
Your are right! Diesel punk!
Europa rocks I was 14 when I heard this gem on MTV. Loved it the song ever since. T Dolby was a genius and talented. Miss the 80s 😊
In 1982 I was 16 living in Miami, Florida and loving this and all the other cool music of this era. Way better than all the trash the kids are listening to today.
Also from Miami here and do you remember the New Wave station K-102?
yes indeed. I, even as a 6 year old knew the current modern mainstream was something very special (eye in the sky)
@@xoxxobob61 is the station that played vinyl only ??
I was 16 in 1982, too…but listening in central New Jersey.
Why is Mr. Dolby so particularly fetching here? Im quite distracted. 😊☺️
Ive been a fan since I taped the part of this song, that I managed to catch off of the radio back in '83. 🤓😄
I'm listening to these tracks I grooved to on my knockoff walkman. These were in the infancy of MTV. Iconic and OMG how much of this album has been sped up slowed down and sampled over and over again.
Thanks Thomas for the gem that led me to you in 1984. WHFS in D.C played your brilliant music. I was like, what the!!! Bought tapes (haha) of your albums and am ever thankful. Ya Ya Ya!!
Look at our world now?
God save our world 🌎!!!
This is still one of my Favorite songs ever .... once listend to it strait for five days in 1984 .... 🙂 Sad Hey 😞
Im here, LA-Venice Local chick. This is my classic...heard Europa on K-ROQ during the 80's British invasion/New Wave. K-ROQ (a SoCali-OC station) was the gateway to all of that music and interviews with talents like Thomas Dolby, U2, Fishbone, Missing Persons, Social Distortion, The Police, DEVO, Adam Ant, Simple Minds, Thompson Twins, Bronski Beat, Depeche Mode, Adam Ant...the list continues into eternity. If you haven't already, listen to Thomas Dolby -HYPERACTIVE.
I stumbled across this song and was suddenly flooded with memories of hearing it on KROQ 106.7 FM Los Angeles back when I was in junior high school. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
MrWhipple42 so funny, I nearly wrote the same thing. Cheers 🥂 to KROQ
Always loved this song. Always been a huge fan. Thank you Thomas Dolby for giving us such unique and original sounds.
This is one of the best albums ever produced. He was way ahead of his time.
That's kinda sweet and sad at the same time.
Teenage lost love and broken promises to reunite some day and resume childhood fantasies of being pirates.
Classic. This song and video are still as fresh as they day they were made. Thomas Dolby is a keeper. #art
Great song and good memories. Way underrated
I love this song . Thomas Dolby is a genius musician and very intelligent and English ❤❤
Peaked only as high as No. 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1983, but it’s a classic in my heart. I love it!
who here besides me prefers the parts where he yells and screams periodically and speaks a couple of words in between? you know what parts i am talking about. it really adds different nuances to this great song. thomas, you are brilliant.
Thomas Dolby is and should be a source of inspiration for all.
Thomas Dolby. Two words PURE GENIUS
So that’s what this song is called. Been stuck in my head for 30 years 👍🏼
Nice post. A favorite of mine from 1982's amazingly-talented debut. Thomas Dolby at his "mad" finest. As good as anything REM would do state-side afterwards . Nov 2020.
Always loved everything from this guy. She blinded me with science was great but je had so much more, a new wave synthesizer genius i thought, definitely overlooked & underrated
Thomas Dolby is so incredibly talented.
I remember hearing this on KROQ in SoCal when I was a kid. Still love this song a lot.
Yes, KROQ on the radio on the beach in southern California. The best of times.
I'm just I was wondering I grew up in moorpark and listened to it there where did you grow up.
@@photo80sjeff84 mmm yes KROQ. Richard Blade... And MV3 on channel 9 after school. I grew up in Sherman Oaks. The 80s was great to be a teen.
My all-time favorite Dolby track.👍
One of my favorite songs of all time! Gorgeous... he’s a mad genius with the specs and brilliant moments in the videos!
I never knew this one had a video 🥺
I recorded a Friday night show called. Twin City Beat here in Minneapolis on cassette tape when this song came out. It was followed by Peter Godwin‘s Images of Heaven, then Radio Free Europe. I think there is a song by Madness and, for a local feature, the Replacements, among others. I played that cassette until the tape broke.
This album is a 10/10. I can't believe these songs have videos for them 😭
One in a million Mr Dolby.
I first heard this song in 1983 as a high school sophomore on the south side of Chicago. I had it on an old cassette. It was being played by a Univ. of Chicago late night radio show. It was years before I finally found out the artist.
I heard this playing in a Berlin disco. Bought this album the next day.
Wondering if Matt Smiths Doctor Who costume was inspired by Thomas Dolby now.
Good point!
Matt Smith's maybe not, but 'the Doctor's' most definitely, after all, Dolby is a Timelord, Yes!
Ha! I never thought of it. Thanks for pointing that out.
Absolutely, costume and character.
Timeless.
An ache so splendidly expressed.
Bravo.
My favorite Thomas Dolby song. Reminds me at the time I met my first love but she moved 😓😓😓❤️❤️❤️
this is a very cool song. my thumbs up 👍🏻
Looovvvveee this ❤️💕💕💕. He was so handsome 😍
Three years later I reply to my comment he STILL is so handsome!
I remember my mate had this on tape played me it while we sat around chatting had to have it fantastic album.
I love this song and one of my all time favourite albums golden age of wireless. A few years ago I saw Thomas in concert and couldn’t believe how much he changed and sounded , thought I was watching a tribute band. Spouse you remember them in the 80’s and expect them to look the same 30 years later. Was still a great gig
Masterpiece. Incredible piece of writing. ❤️
Dolby's best song.
Most of the 80’s musicians were innovators!
EUROPA !! YEAH !!! This is my song. Fell in live with it on its release. ❤❤👸
Yet another of the many videos I managed to not see back in the day when I was listening to, and loving, this song (really love the wacka-wacka-wacka-wacka sound). MTV was playing SBMWS in heavy rotation so saw that, but not this one. Thanks for posting! ❤☮🌎
SBMWS ????
She Blinded Me With Science ❤☮🌎@@80ssynthfan48
my 18 yr old self on guard duty in the US Army rented a VHS tape of his live performance from the PX on hilltop track. it was the last year of the 80's&sleep deprived on my all nite watch duty i secretly thought that one day soon he would marry me....
god i love this song bring me back to a better time
Thomas Dolby both a highly accomplished musician and a master of innovation. Part of the great tapestry of music that was the 80s. A really catchy beat too.
What an absolute epic song and has been on my playlists for ummm 1983. ...... down in some bar along the Seine.... Love it. Thank You so much Thomas.
Absolutely brilliant. Tapping the Cosmos...Thank you. 🛰
Loved it then, love it still. Pirate twins for life
Soooo ahead of its time,I remember watching this on MTV when they actually showed videos,great song🤘
Classic 80’s
Excellent Album. This Track will never Fade
Andy Partridge on Harmonica!
Another one of mr dolby's great pieces of music,wonderful and they still hold up today,yeh!
My all -time favourite song, by my all- time favourite artist. Perfect ❤
He's such a character ❤
Love you Dolby
My favorite song of his.
That is, until I heard “I Love You Goodbye”.
Brings me to tears every time.
Like many in SoCal, I heard this on KROQ the first time, and still own the original vinyl album, which had a different running order than the later version when Blinded Me With Science was a huge hit. At the time I was obsessed by XTC, and waited until nearly the end when Andy Partridge played harmonica.
First time I heard this song, and I got fascinated with the rythm.
This is so Catchy
The Golden Age Of Wireless. Genius album...his best along with Aliens Ate mY Buick...my favorites from him
One very talemted man not just a music pioneer but in the tech field also
EUROPA !!!!!! I LOVE YOU !
Man I love this song so much
The video is pretty great too