The eccentric old gentleman bellowing "she blinded me with science!" is a fellow called Magnus Pyke, who was a real scientist, and a popular figure on British TV in the 1970s and 1980s. Here's his Wikipedia entry: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke
I've always loved this one. It's so much fun to watch, & I remember it from the early Mtv days, like so many of us 80s kids. If you ever get a chance to watch an old movie Thomas Dolby was in called Rockula-also starring Toni Basil, with Bo Diddley in a brief role-it's a real trip.
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Around the same time Thomas Dolby released this song he also composed and produced one of the first rap hits, Whodini "Magic's Wand", the style and sounds are quite similar : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3WGNVeLeO78.html BTW, David Bowie himself called Thomas Dolby "very brilliant" when he introduced him and Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and Howard Jones in a live performance at the 1985 Live Aid. And in terms of music production and composition, Thomas Dolby is nothing short of a genius who influenced a huge number of artists. In other words he's a "musician's musician".
One of the funnest videos of the 80's. It was all over MTV for the better part of a year. Mr. Dplby never had another chart topper that I heard, but there may be one out there. I can't remember his name, but the older scientist was a famous British TV star from back in the day.
Ahh, one of my 80's faves!! You picked up on the heavy bass and funky synthes. A time gone by, when videos were fun and MTV actually played music. I'm so grateful to have grown up in that decade!!! Great reaction!
"Science!" This song hit the charts when I was in high school and in my clique we would sometimes mimic the "Science!" line whenever somebody asked us what we were studying when we were studying chemistry. David Bowie was singing about "Modern Love" around that same time. Thomas Dolby's debut album also featured "One of Our Submarines" and "Europa and the Pirate Twins". I had a copy of it on cassette tape. It holds up well.
Love this guy....A little trivia...Thomas Dolby's father Ray, invented the electronic filter known as the Dolby noise reduction sound system....and Thomas invented the polyphonic ringtone software used in more than half a billion cell phones....
Ray Dolby was the founder of Dolby Laboratories, invented Dolby noise reduction, and had a son named Tom, but Martin Robinson is father of Thomas Robinson, aka Thomas Dolby.
@@Bluedreamflying Well I be dang.....thank you for correcting me....now I have to contact my lifetime friend that told me this back in like 1980, and all these years I have been spreading this...lol. I'm pretty darn sure Thomas did invent the polyphonic ringtone software. user, I was very fortunate and was able to see him preform in 2018....hasn't missed a step, actually better....Peace, and thank you.
Thomas Dolby did this song live, years later, with none other than Buzz Aldrin. You can find it here on RU-vid. PS - Hell of a studio you got back there!
I've always dug this song! If you want to know more about it, here's T. Dolby getting an award and telling how he came to write the song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MHbciVrgcGA.html
BOWIE influenced a lot of the late 70's/ early 80s New Wave Artists. His Music was highly influential during that Era. Dolby wrote all of his own Songs too.
Excellent computer animation presentation video features the music of Thomas Dolby. (I first viewed this video in 1995.) "Mind's Eye" home video One of the songs in the video. "Valley of the Mind's Eye" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZxuRBo1HorE.html The video also shows various computer animated clips put together with the music.
Yes, a clear reaction it was a fun super corkie 80's video for the time. But surprisingly I remember teachers saying that this video caused girls to increase enrollment in Science classes at that time.
Well, I'm not the one freaking out at a comparison between Mssrs. Dolby and Bowie, just merely revulsed at it. Both have "weird" music, but Bowie would never do a song anything remotely like this one. Neither would Dolby, to be honest-- most of his songs are more esoteric, and a sudden dance hit is so out of his character that it just goes to show how people cannot be pigeonholed. Ergo, they cannot be compared in this instance. That said, comparisons for similarities are not to be dismissed entirely-- they have their uses and are sometimes justifiable. But a little more evidence than "I think A sounds like B" is needed. There is no violin performance in this song, it's a keyboard sound with pitch bending while a violin seems to be playing in the video.
