Hah, had a classmate in science class when this song was a hit, who would randomly blurt out "Science!" at the most unexpected and hilarious moments. Had to be there, I guess.
hah - OMG just realised I was one of those classmates - not this song - but that another song - oh I think it was Star Trekking - ua-cam.com/video/FCARADb9asE/v-deo.html - bored to tears in Social Studies - so many quotable bits from that - must have driven my classmates and teacher crazy, opps!
@chadergeist82 and awhat about Airwaves? It was a hit here in Brazil, as She blinded me with science was too. Not to mention, I think Dolby produced the great album Steve McQueen, by Prefab Sprout
Guilherme Silva Airwaves is a masterpiece. So is Windpower and Europa And The Pirate Twins. It pains me to see Thomas Dolby represented as a one hit wonder.
Thomas Dolby is a giant of electronic music. Was also super in demand as a session musician - played on Foreigner 4 “Urgent” & “Waiting for a Girl Like You”; Lena Lovich classic hit “New Toy” and many others. A once in a generation talent not to mention a real sweetheart. Respect.
Thomas Dolby is a very likable man. He is down to earth and hilarious especially when impersonating the scientist. I wish that he would have had more hits.
@@GreenTeaViewerHyperactive! was a song equally as good and catchy, with a video just as innovative. Windpower was another fantastic tune. Yes, he never had the chart success his talents deserved, but he operating in a business that was then incredibly corrupt. He’s more than a one hit wonder, with a loyal following a body of work to be proud of.
The story about the video makes total sense to me now, with all of the quirky ticks like the nose sniffing, the throat clearing -- great stuff. Honestly, this could be a hit today.
I'd just LOVE LOVE LOVE to get rid of the UNBEARABLY LAME computer drum tracks on EVERY stupid rap album...jmo. And I lept right on the early Simmons/ V-drum bandwagon being a drummer myself. Btw, wth happened to Simmons??? They make garbage amps and e-drums I wouldn't let my dog urinate on these days. Disgraceful. Meanwhile, I'm trying to foster a set of original Simmons hex drums from Sunglasses at Night, Mad Max, total eclipse of the heart hit era...
You should do a search for "modular synth music" on UA-cam. There are plenty of talented artists out there. Modular synthesis and real analog synths are making a HUGE comeback.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Rap isn't the only genre to use programmed drums. Unless you were asleep, Dolby programmed his drums for this hit song and at the time the options were pretty basic. Dolby was also one of the earliest adopters of the computer digital audio workstation using Opcode's Studio Vision software running over the top of Digidesign's Pro Tools hardware... where you could program in your "computer drums" using Sample Cell cards. It's a bit ironic that you're airing your opinion in this comment section.
Perhaps it's just classic British self-effacement, but it surprised me that Dolby said he felt he couldn't compete 'in the handsome boy stakes with Sting and Adam Ant'. He was then, and still Is, a good-looking guy, and it suits him to have shaved off what remained of his hair. As for this song, it's a novelty hit that I can take or leave, but a lot of his album tracks are thoughtful, moving, beautiful and very sophisticated musically. Dolby has also had a hand in a lot of very interesting projects. I find him fascinating.
couldn't agree more regarding his looks - was and is - a really good looking guy got to admit that don't really knew his work apart from this - intrigued now - thank you - will investigate further
That's just because Sting or Adam would inevitably appeal to a more younger female audience back then (they were already way popular)...but I agree...unlike Sting or even Adam he's aged better...
I remember where I actually *was* the first time I heard this song. I was in the living room where I lived when I was 12 years old, my best friend was over, we had not long met, and our parents let him come over, and he brought his “boom box” radio, something I only dreamed of owning, and we played this song over and over. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard. That had to have been 1983? I remember things looking exactly as they did on Stranger Things. My best friend was def a Stranger Things kind of kid...nerd, smart mouthed, picked on by bullies, and he LOVED all things science, D&D, Star Wars, etc...and I wasn’t really into all of that yet. I used to be called a nerd for hanging around him, and I resented it at the time.
I remember this song being on stations that I could barely receive in my dinky-ass hometown, trying to get the 'big city' stations from 100 miles away so I could hear Peter Gabriel and stuff like this. It was scratchy but I still listened.
A lot of the albums of my youth have gone by the wayside either through changes in taste or just sheer overplay. But Thomas Dolby's 'The Flat Earth' still makes it into the rotation every once in a while. 'Screen Kiss' is still one of my favorite songs.
No, there was already a lot of great synth stuff out there but he put it in 'pop' format and a lot of people prefer that over Vangelis or Wendy Carlos, who were truly ahead of their times.
I love that whole album and saw him perform it flawlessly in his tour some twenty years after the initial release. So glad to see him in such good shape. He is a GEM.
Thomas Dolby is one of those 80’s stars who gets a bit forgotten about but his songs were great and deserved more love than they probably get. My big brother got me into his stuff and I’m glad I had that chance to enjoy them.
Iconic tune and video from the infant days of MTV. Who wasn’t blurting out random “Science!” back then. Still do, except now people think I just have Tourette’s.
The 80's were great musically because creativity was allowed, record companies were willing to take chances on a "new sound", thousands of young bands abandoning formulaic, slick, overproduced of the late seventies and embracing a punk inspired do it yourself garage ethos. Almost every genre dabbled in experimentation, blending with other genres, looking back or abroad for influences. Therefore, in the top 10 chart of any week you could hear soulful r'n'b, reggae/ska, punk, new wave/synthpop, heavy metal, rap/hiphop, Calypso rythmns, African beats, irish or scottish rythmns (bagpipes even), blues, country, funk, rockabilly, disco or any blend of these. Never before or since was there such variety or raw explosion of new or unconventional sounds to music. Unfortunately, today's music seems to be very formulaic mostly, less variety, less rawness or creativity. Likewise, in tv and movies in almost all genres there were templates set that are still being copied by Hollywood today, but not with the same vitality.
TheGuerillapatriot Magnus Pike was actually a human biologist specialising in diey and nutrition. I suppose he came to be demonstrating physics on telly because he was a definitively Englisg eccentric. His cousin (also called Pike) was behind the war-time plan to build aircraft carriers from icebergs. I believe that's been 'tested' on Mythbusters. It's rather a shame that Magnus is better remembered for Thom's video than his scientific work.
Yes, Magnus was what I would consider a true English eccentric. Met him as a child back in either the late 70s or early 80s. For another good example look up Patrick Moore who used to present astronomy programmes for like 50 years on the BBC. Or for a more comic version - Stanley Unwin.
The late Magnus Pyke had the ability to explain quite complicated things in layman's terms, which endeared him to TV viewers. I would have to disagree with Dolby ... particularly in his younger years, Thomas Dolby was a very handsome guy!
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm but I was a little irritated at the moment where he was using the Moog and the song was still looping the main riff over and over while the live Moog sound was barely there.
We had a great alternative radio station in Annapolis Maryland 99.1 WHFS and they played all sorts of great music. They were my introduction to The likes of Thomas Dolby, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Dead Milkmen. Clash and on an on. The early eighties were a blast.
I LOVE to hear these stories behind the music of the 80s from the artists themselves that were the radio and Mtv fodder in the Glory days of my life and these songs are still in the soundtrack of my mind..so cool to know the details so many years later.
This song didn't hit the airwaves in the US until early '83 but it's a favorite of mine. Always takes me back to spring of that year. Best year of music!
@Time Bandit Budspest!!.... the song that got me crazy about the Dolby!.. Its a nice long meaty song...with alot of sensitivity. All of Aliens--- play it front to back.....its a Masterpiece.
Hah, had a classmate in science class when this song was a hit, who would randomly blurt out "Science!" at the most unexpected and hilarious moments. Had to be there, I guess.
hah - OMG just realised I was one of those classmates - not this song - but that another song - oh I think it was Star Trekking - ua-cam.com/video/FCARADb9asE/v-deo.html - bored to tears in Social Studies - so many quotable bits from that - must have driven my classmates and teacher crazy, opps!
I get the picture. But just imagine that happening in Germany "Wissenschaft" it just wont work ;-)
@@MrNickelbrille LOL
@@juliaconnell ua-cam.com/video/3Fn36l_z3WY/v-deo.html
Eye for an eye;-) After watching your link I felt like Napoleon the 14th.
The 80s were great.
Time has been a very good friend to Mr. Dolby!
True!
Yeah no shit the guy's 61 and looks 41.
@@Draeka It's easy: Avoid smoking, smiling and especially the sun. People think I'm 12 to 14 years younger than I am. Studio rats don't age I guess
No kidding... for being around 60 in this video, except for the hair follicles... but who needs that, easier to get up and go. ;D
@@Draeka SCIENCE !
Golden age of wireless is a masterpiece still !
@chadergeist82 and awhat about Airwaves? It was a hit here in Brazil, as She blinded me with science was too. Not to mention, I think Dolby produced the great album Steve McQueen, by Prefab Sprout
TD had a good run and a great deal of his output holds up very well..... excellent tunes with story and a bit of spirit behind them
We loved "Cloudburst".
Guilherme Silva Airwaves is a masterpiece. So is Windpower and Europa And The Pirate Twins. It pains me to see Thomas Dolby represented as a one hit wonder.
neuronmind... fantastic album. I used to listen to the whole thing, repeatedly. Lots of gems there. :-)
I sure miss the 80s. not just best music of any decade but best decade for everything. life in general. so much positive energy.
I remember Bowie’s set at Live Aid when he introduced him as the very brilliant Thomas Dolby👏👏praise indeed from a God.
No pressure on Dolby to live up to expectations then, is there? Mind you David Bowie certainly explored many areas of pop music.
There is no god, away with you and your silly fairytales!
@@petersmith4914 well said
WickedTornado Lmao. Don’t bring your religious mumbo jumbo here
It doesn’t get any more 80’s than this!
This song was such the shyte back in the day! Everybody was rocking it. Love hearing the story behind it. Thank you.
I wish I could go back to 1982.
Yes me too. But knowing what we know now.
@@BrianStocking THAT´s my dream.
Me too. I'd buy dozens of brand new Commodore 64s and brings them back to the present and make a fortune on ebay.
Join the club.
Ford Prefect give me a discount.
A great song that was really pushing the envelope back in the day. It is really like an anthem of the 80s.
I never thought this song was that great tbh, wouldn't call it a hit
@@leob4403 : It came and went like a fart in a wind storm...sucked in my opinion.
This song sucked huge ballz when it came out, and time hasn't improved it.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH dont hold back ha ha
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH it may have suckered but it sure brings back memories for me
Thomas Dolby is a giant of electronic music. Was also super in demand as a session musician - played on Foreigner 4 “Urgent” & “Waiting for a Girl Like You”; Lena Lovich classic hit “New Toy” and many others. A once in a generation talent not to mention a real sweetheart. Respect.
She Blinded Me With Science is among my five favorite 1980s pop music. BRAVO!
Sheer genius! That song was no accident. Still plays well...
Nothing short of genius, loved this song then and now.
Aah Thomas.....back in the days when we were all young men and the world seemed so bright......
Ah so very true Ron
So bright, we had to wear shades! There's a song I hadn't heard in years that just popped in my head... ua-cam.com/video/8qrriKcwvlY/v-deo.html
But it all went so wrong.
Thomas Dolby is a very likable man. He is down to earth and hilarious especially when impersonating the scientist. I wish that he would have had more hits.
Wait, what?...I thought he has done rather well myself. Perhaps you meant he would garner more accolades for what he has accomplished?
@@geraldhenrickson7472 let's face it he did not become a major pop star in the way that seemed possible after this song was released
@@GreenTeaViewerHyperactive! was a song equally as good and catchy, with a video just as innovative. Windpower was another fantastic tune. Yes, he never had the chart success his talents deserved, but he operating in a business that was then incredibly corrupt. He’s more than a one hit wonder, with a loyal following a body of work to be proud of.
Doctor Magnus Pyke was such an inspirational 'science superhero' to me. This song was iconic to me as was the album that followed. Thumbs up
The story about the video makes total sense to me now, with all of the quirky ticks like the nose sniffing, the throat clearing -- great stuff. Honestly, this could be a hit today.
I used to dance my ass off as a teenager to this in Detroit popping & waving shout out to Mr.Dolby for this dope street classic.
This man really is a musical and tech genius. I wish he was still making music today. We need his innovation.
He is still doing music his Album Oceania is brilliant
I'd just LOVE LOVE LOVE to get rid of the UNBEARABLY LAME computer drum tracks on EVERY stupid rap album...jmo. And I lept right on the early Simmons/ V-drum bandwagon being a drummer myself.
Btw, wth happened to Simmons??? They make garbage amps and e-drums I wouldn't let my dog urinate on these days. Disgraceful.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to foster a set of original Simmons hex drums from Sunglasses at Night, Mad Max, total eclipse of the heart hit era...
He is!
You should do a search for "modular synth music" on UA-cam. There are plenty of talented artists out there. Modular synthesis and real analog synths are making a HUGE comeback.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Rap isn't the only genre to use programmed drums. Unless you were asleep, Dolby programmed his drums for this hit song and at the time the options were pretty basic.
Dolby was also one of the earliest adopters of the computer digital audio workstation using Opcode's Studio Vision software running over the top of Digidesign's Pro Tools hardware... where you could program in your "computer drums" using Sample Cell cards. It's a bit ironic that you're airing your opinion in this comment section.
Perhaps it's just classic British self-effacement, but it surprised me that Dolby said he felt he couldn't compete 'in the handsome boy stakes with Sting and Adam Ant'. He was then, and still Is, a good-looking guy, and it suits him to have shaved off what remained of his hair.
As for this song, it's a novelty hit that I can take or leave, but a lot of his album tracks are thoughtful, moving, beautiful and very sophisticated musically.
Dolby has also had a hand in a lot of very interesting projects. I find him fascinating.
couldn't agree more regarding his looks - was and is - a really good looking guy
got to admit that don't really knew his work apart from this - intrigued now - thank you - will investigate further
Plus, he actually looks better than Sting does these days. Funny how the more "average Joes" often age better than the Robert Redfords of the world
That's just because Sting or Adam would inevitably appeal to a more younger female audience back then (they were already way popular)...but I agree...unlike Sting or even Adam he's aged better...
Very handsome man
@@bOmBAsTiK This is so true!
What a delightful trip back to a fantastic decade. Thanks!
Thomas Dolby has become one of my favorite speakers and music historians. I want more!
This song sounds really great cranked. Love the groove and the low end. Of course the video is hilarious!
This is one of the few 80s hits that still holds up.
Brilliant. Huge fan of Thomas Dolby here.
I remember where I actually *was* the first time I heard this song. I was in the living room where I lived when I was 12 years old, my best friend was over, we had not long met, and our parents let him come over, and he brought his “boom box” radio, something I only dreamed of owning, and we played this song over and over. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard. That had to have been 1983? I remember things looking exactly as they did on Stranger Things. My best friend was def a Stranger Things kind of kid...nerd, smart mouthed, picked on by bullies, and he LOVED all things science, D&D, Star Wars, etc...and I wasn’t really into all of that yet. I used to be called a nerd for hanging around him, and I resented it at the time.
Loved your special story... Thanks
I remember this song being on stations that I could barely receive in my dinky-ass hometown, trying to get the 'big city' stations from 100 miles away so I could hear Peter Gabriel and stuff like this. It was scratchy but I still listened.
Mr Dolby if you ever get bored and read this comment I just wanted to say thank you. The song was great but I think the video was exceptional.
these stories are FANTASTIC! thank you!
As a metal / hard rock guitarist I've still always loved this song. My favorite new wave tune.
The song was like Funky Town. You loved it and couldn't stop singing it. Summer camp memories and an old cassette recorder. "SCIENCE!"
This song is still stuck in my head.
I'm glad this song was a breakthrough for him but "Airwaves" is one of the best songs ever! Mr. Dolby looking good 😘
This was a great time to be in college radio.
This took me right back to the 10th grade. That was New Wave heaven.
Thomas was and is underrated
I love that he has a philosophy about how he feels music videos relate to silent movies. That's a deep thinker right there.. good on you Mr. Dolby
A lot of the albums of my youth have gone by the wayside either through changes in taste or just sheer overplay. But Thomas Dolby's 'The Flat Earth' still makes it into the rotation every once in a while. 'Screen Kiss' is still one of my favorite songs.
That was so cool, loved the song and love hearing the back story!
This really stood out for me in 1982. It was so new sounding
I adored this song and still do. Wore out the 12 inch single along with the the flip side of "One of Our Submarines Is Missing."
Dang Mr. Dolby is looking great, that album was decades ahead of it’s time, I still listen in amazement.
No, there was already a lot of great synth stuff out there but he put it in 'pop' format and a lot of people prefer that over Vangelis or Wendy Carlos, who were truly ahead of their times.
I love this tune. It's actually funky as hell and the mad scientist vibe is fun too. The rest of the album is just as good.
I love that whole album and saw him perform it flawlessly in his tour some twenty years after the initial release. So glad to see him in such good shape. He is a GEM.
Amazing this still a masterpiece today. Pure science
These stories on these 80s videos are so so fun and interesting to watch. I was a kid , a teenager in the 80s
The video is as incredible as the song. Sort of a mystery tour of iconry and symbolism from the ages. Spot on Tommy boy!
Such sparkling eyes. Filled with passion.
Thomas Dolby is one of those 80’s stars who gets a bit forgotten about but his songs were great and deserved more love than they probably get. My big brother got me into his stuff and I’m glad I had that chance to enjoy them.
35 years later and Mr. Dolby you are looking so GOOD!
I didnt have a terrible childhood really, but this is old enough and brings back memories...gawd im old...depressing.
Brilliant song that's as modern and entertaining today as it was back then.
That's one heck of a video!!! It's a classic example of pure genius! Dolby style!!!
I loved this song@ I still sing it sometimes! The 80's music was great!
Love this song! Mr. Dolby still has it!
Without a doubt one of my favorite songs from the 80's. A true classic.
Iconic tune and video from the infant days of MTV. Who wasn’t blurting out random “Science!” back then. Still do, except now people think I just have Tourette’s.
The 80's were great musically because creativity was allowed, record companies were willing to take chances on a "new sound", thousands of young bands abandoning formulaic, slick, overproduced of the late seventies and embracing a punk inspired do it yourself garage ethos. Almost every genre dabbled in experimentation, blending with other genres, looking back or abroad for influences. Therefore, in the top 10 chart of any week you could hear soulful r'n'b, reggae/ska, punk, new wave/synthpop, heavy metal, rap/hiphop, Calypso rythmns, African beats, irish or scottish rythmns (bagpipes even), blues, country, funk, rockabilly, disco or any blend of these. Never before or since was there such variety or raw explosion of new or unconventional sounds to music.
Unfortunately, today's music seems to be very formulaic mostly, less variety, less rawness or creativity.
Likewise, in tv and movies in almost all genres there were templates set that are still being copied by Hollywood today, but not with the same vitality.
if you want fresh new music that doesn't have rules, check out my label weatnu records
Another one of those great tunes of the 80's.
Always been among my favorites.
Thomas Dolby, pioneer of electronic music 🎶. One of our submarines is missing.. pure gold!
A beautiful song for sure !
He's right, the unique sound, along with the entertaining video on MTV, definitely made this a hit at the time.
That was awesome, the science guy! OMFG, he was real!
TheGuerillapatriot Magnus Pike was actually a human biologist specialising in diey and nutrition. I suppose he came to be demonstrating physics on telly because he was a definitively Englisg eccentric. His cousin (also called Pike) was behind the war-time plan to build aircraft carriers from icebergs. I believe that's been 'tested' on Mythbusters. It's rather a shame that Magnus is better remembered for Thom's video than his scientific work.
Yes, Magnus was what I would consider a true English eccentric. Met him as a child back in either the late 70s or early 80s. For another good example look up Patrick Moore who used to present astronomy programmes for like 50 years on the BBC. Or for a more comic version - Stanley Unwin.
One more guy to read more on.
The late Magnus Pyke had the ability to explain quite complicated things in layman's terms, which endeared him to TV viewers. I would have to disagree with Dolby ... particularly in his younger years, Thomas Dolby was a very handsome guy!
Ok now I am thinking about the pool scene on 'The Betsy'
Love this song, love the video! Magnus Pyke was a character. Loved Europa and Radio Silence too.
The '80s sure were a lot of fun!
I really enjoy how the song is playing in the background as Mr Dolby is twiddling the knobs. Not intrusive at all.
I agree, nice editing on the video. Just enough that you could enjoy the song and yet still hear what he was saying. Not too common on YT.
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm but I was a little irritated at the moment where he was using the Moog and the song was still looping the main riff over and over while the live Moog sound was barely there.
We had a great alternative radio station in Annapolis Maryland 99.1 WHFS and they played all sorts of great music. They were my introduction to The likes of Thomas Dolby, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Dead Milkmen. Clash and on an on. The early eighties were a blast.
One of the top 5 music videos!
One of my all time favorite artists from the 1980s.
One of the best songs of the 80s!
I LOVE to hear these stories behind the music of the 80s from the artists themselves that were the radio and Mtv fodder in the Glory days of my life and these songs are still in the soundtrack of my mind..so cool to know the details so many years later.
Ultimate groundhog day
Relive the 80s decade over and over...
Fucking love this Song
Super creative !!! I grew up with him in my ears !!
No doubt, my favorite 80s song ..still gives me a giddy feeling when I hear it ♥️
One of my all time favorite songs
I think Thomas Dolby's aliens ate my Buick is a shockingly underrated album
I wish SCIENCE would hurry up and invent a time machine so I could go back to the 80's. 🤓
What do we want?
Time travel!
When do we want it?
It’s irrelevant!
Uh, what do you think UA-cam is???
@Jeff Webb Japan is going to dump radioactive coolant water into the Ocean. Tell me about the science deniers.
@@johnlockesghost5592 Not to mention the millions of tons of CO2 that volcanos generate each year.
@@johnlockesghost5592 I don't give a shit what that little whiny brat is crying about.
Glad to see you looking well, Thomas Dolby! Thanks for all the great tunes!
This song didn't hit the airwaves in the US until early '83 but it's a favorite of mine. Always takes me back to spring of that year. Best year of music!
That's very cool! I met him at an Electronic Music Seminar at Salem State College back in 1988. He was very nice.
WANNA THANK YOU THIS SONG HELPED ME IN MY EARLY RELATIONSHIPS WITH MY GIRLFRIENDS CIRCA 70S 80S
A classic song 🎹 made the 80's Great this One 🎼
Absolutely brilliant man and musician.
Thomas Dolby! Genius! Aliens Ate My Buick....Budapest By Blimp and the rest! Great!
Hyperactive and those too!
Great funk and fun:)
I love his song "Hyperactive"! 😀
@Time Bandit Budspest!!.... the song that got me crazy about the Dolby!..
Its a nice long meaty song...with alot of sensitivity.
All of Aliens--- play it front to back.....its a Masterpiece.
I saw him live in San Francisco at The Red Devil Lounge!.....im a fan for life!!. . A consumate professional musician...Top Shelf!
When I was young I played with George Clinton, and he and Thomas Dolby were fast friends
Always brings back great high school memories !
Still listening to Thomas
This is so perfect!!!
This song rocked my world back when I was 9.
What a classic song.
The key riff has been my ringtone about as long as my phones could handle it.
Clicked on this because I thought the thumbnail was Bruce Willis.
Glad I did. This was awesome! And Bruce Willis wasn't in it!
PhantomFilmAustralia - Hooray for people who don't like Bruce Willis!
I remember this being the hugest hit when MTV first came out. I cannot hear the song and not think how it epitomized the early '80s.
He was on the 2019 Star Trek cruise and talked a great deal about the background of the song and his methods. Really nice guy.
Wonderful commentary. Blinded me with Science was a cultural event!
my favorite 80s song
Thomas Dolby , the best creation of the Dolby laboratories ....
Beto Abarca ironically, he was sued by Dolby Laboratories over his name
Really awesome video. Thank you.
Ah the good old 80s.
The young Thomas Dolby bears a striking resemblance to Alton Brown.
He currently resembles Bruce Willis.
who's that?
@@lamper2
omG... ☺
Only one of the most interesting & intelligent nutritionist/gastronomical/science minds out there...
More like the other way around. Mr. Dolby was around a good 10 years before Mr. Brown.
@Brad K - True. TD was being blinded by science a decade before we were getting Good Eats.
Amazing musician. Aliens ate my Buick is one of my favourite albums of all time.
Greetings Thomas Dolby from Boston
All these tubes & wires, and I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING! One of my favorite songs of all time, seriously.