Artist	Song
Thomas Dolby	She Blinded Me With Science
Thomas Dolby	One Of Our Submarines
Thomas Dolby	Europa and the Pirate Twins
Thomas Dolby	Flying North
Thomas Dolby	Weightless
Thomas Dolby	Leipzig
Thomas Dolby	Windpower
Thomas Dolby	Commercial Breakup
Thomas Dolby	Urges
Thomas Dolby	Airwaves
Thomas Dolby	Radio Silence
Thomas Dolby	Cloudburst on Shingle Street
Thomas Dolby	Dissidents
Thomas Dolby	The Flat Earth
Thomas Dolby	The Beauty of a Dream

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Here's the history: Thomas Dolby originally released his LP, The Golden Age of Wireless, in the USA in 1982. It's a mesmerizing collection of haunting pop songs the prove that "technopop" can have both heart and soul; however it doesn't get much attention upon it's initial release, and flies completely below my high school-age pop music radar at the time. Early in 1983, Dolby releases a loud, sort of obnoxious song called "She Blinded Me With Science" that is not on the orignal "Golden Age..." LP. I fall in love with "She Blinded Me..." and buy a five song EP that includes it, "One of Submarines," and extended versions of three songs from the "Golden Age" album. I love all the songs. Then "Golden Age" then gets re-released with two songs yanked from it, in favor of "Science" and "Submarines." Eventually, I track down the original "Golden Age" LP and love it all, including the two songs that were deleted ("Leipzig" and "Urges") to make room for the hit. In 1984, Dolby releases The Flat Earth, another beguiling album that I love. Anyway, this CD is a reconstruction of The Golden Age of Wireless the way I want it: with "She Blinded Me With Science" and "One of Our Submarines", followed by the rest of the album, with the extended versions of the three songs from the Blinded By Science EP replacing the shorter album versions. I wrap it up with the first two tracks from The Flat Earth and "The Beauty of a Dream," a nice ballad that features a Jerry Garcia (!) guitar solo, from Dolby's 1992 album, Astronauts and Heretics. Although "She Blinded Me..." has been somewhat tainted by the curse of being a bit of '80s nostalgia, I included it because I wouldn't have heard Dolby's other songs without it (and, besides, I still enjoy it). I guess my point in posting this is that it seems like the kind of story other AOTM folks can appreciate and to point out that Mr. Dolby, though not terribly prolific, has written and recorded some pretty cool tunes and shouldn't necessarily be relegated to the VH1 Where Are They Now? file. The "Fruit Juice Everywhere" title comes from a line in the song, "Weightless."

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