Post #223917 by donhonyc on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 11:12 PM

I guess I was a pretty big Thomas Dolby fan back in the day. For whatever reason alot of the songs from 'The Golden Age of Wireless' got alot of airplay on South Florida radio back then. Not only would you hear 'Blinded Me With Science' getting played, you would also hear 'Europa and the Pirate Twins', 'Radio Silence', and 'One of Our Submarines' pretty regularly. Pretty cool to think about that now. Dolby was a bit of an enigma but he had enough of an audience that radio programmers thought he was worth the exposure. I saw him perform live in either '83 or '84, can't remember. Not the best show I have ever seen, but still cool nonetheless. I would play his 'The Flat Earth' LP pretty often at home back then. 'Dissidents' and 'White City' were big songs for me. I also very recently got reaquainted with 'The Golden Age of Wireless' which I bought on CD a few months back. Just sorta felt compelled to do it one day. That's a pretty great album. 'Airwaves' and 'Weightless' ...great songs! Overall one of the more interesting albums of the early 80s/early MTV days. The cover is cool too. That comic book style artwork over that photograph that looks like a dark backyard at a nursing home or something. You can see the nurse with (what looks like ) Dolby in a wheelchair on the lower left. Pretty wierd. I love that kinda freaky ambiguous shit. Good to know he is touring and will be in New York in May. Maybe I'll check that out.