Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
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Artist: Thomas DolbyBrand: DOLBY,THOMAS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- She Blinded Me With Science
- Radio Silence
- Airwaves
- Flying North
- Weightless
- Europa And The Pirate Twins
- Windpower
- Commercial Breakup
- One Of Our Submarines
- Cloudburst At Shingle Street
Free Music Notes for Golden Age of Wireless
Free Music Review: Don't Let This Musical Gem Be Overshadowed by the "Bicker, Bicker, Squabble, Squabble!"
Hit: 5 Stars
Thomas Dolby was at the forefront of 80's techno-pop, pioneering electronic music wizardry that was later copied / adapted by countless other musicians. I remember a music award show that acknowledged this, and had him in a jam session with Howard Jones, and two others (Stevie Wonder was one, I believe), using all kinds of electronic gadgetry to make some very cutting edge music.
Though all of Dolby's studio albums are excellent, his debut album, The Golden Age of Wireless is still his crowning achievement, with the later albums becoming progressively more uneven. Wireless is a brilliant, cohesive concept album throughout. Unfortunately, those of Dolby's songs which tended most toward the "novelty" category (like She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive) were the ones pushed by his record company, and he became pigeon-holed as a novelty act by many people. The rest of the songs on Wireless show that he is SO much more, with their haunting, ethereal quality, and clever lyrics. His popularity spurred on by several great and offbeat videos during MTV's golden age, Dolby gained a core audience, in addition to the millions who thought of him as a novelty "one hit wonder" (albeit a big hit that is still used in commercials and media regularly).
That being said, there sure is a lot of bickering about this album in the reviews. One of my biggest pet peeves is being "corrected" by people who don't have a clue of what they're talking about, or base their corrections on incomplete information. While this CD contains the same music as the final, and most popular, vinyl version of this album, Dolby's music has been repackaged countless times. I own two previous versions of the vinyl album, both with Leipzig, Urges, and the alternate version of Radio Silence, but both with different cover art from each other. I also have an import 45 of The Wreck of the Fairchild (b-side to Science, I believe), so it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that it had been on a previous incarnation of Wireless, whether domestic or import - I think the 7-27-00 reviewer referred to Fairchild as being on a British release, so are the "correcting" reviewers claiming they know everything about all the worldwide Dolby releases of this album?? Just because they've never encountered it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Someone once tried to tell me (very patronizingly, I might add) that there wasn't really a place named Kalamazoo, but having been there, I knew better! At least if you're going to "correct" someone, be humble about it unless you're absolutely positive about the facts, and even then, humility would still be a good thing.
Along with the "hit" version of Wireless, Dolby also came out with an extended remix EP of five of the songs from Wireless, Blinded by Science, right around the same time. This was probably what one of the earlier reviewers fondly referred to, and I believe these are all available on the 12 x 12 Original Remixes CD, along with 7 other songs.
Regarding Bjork (earlier reviews), she owes a huge debt of gratitude to Thomas Dolby - without Dolby, there would likely have been no Bjork as we know her. Just like someone once accused Fats Domino of ripping off Paul McCartney and the Beatles with his remake of Lady Madonna, when in fact Paul McCartney had written the song in Fats Domino style to pay tribute to one of his greatest influences - Domino ended up also recording it.
Though Leipzig, Urges, and other formerly obscure tracks have finally become available on other CD compilations in recent years, it would truly be nice to see bonus tracks added to an enhanced version of Wireless, including those two, Wreck of the Fairchild (not available anywhere on CD to my knowledge), and possibly others. I'd like to see pretty much everything of Dolby's available on CD at some point - I'm sure there's enough out there to fill at least another CD or two.
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No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-OCT-1998
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