Do I? Do I blind you with science?! Vocal ANALYSIS of Thomas Dolby and NOW I know what the quote is! 

Pure New Wave of the early 80s. So miss that period in time.

I love your reaction and analysis of this. Your enthusiasm and joy over the songs you analyze can make my day. Anybody here want to see an analysis of Alan Parsons?

The brilliance of Thomas Dolby on full display. Howard Jones was another brilliant artist from the same time period. I think you'd like his music.

Ever since this song came out in the 80s it has made me deeply happy every time I have heard it. No idea why, but deeply happy!

Thomas's first LP was mind blowing when it came out. You have to imagine that most of those sounds weren't being replicated by synths at that time. His whole production style was so innovative and fresh. Today it so"by the way ", not back then. Thx Elizabeth for bringing me back to the day, ha. Side note: I once sang on a bill with throat singers and asked where in the throat they made those sounds. He took my hand and put it on his neck to show where it came from and then he sang to show where it didn't come from. The neat thing is as they vibrate the skin flaps for the droning they harmonizing with whistles and resonant mouth harmonics. Producing triads. Amazing!

You wonderful, beautiful nerd. This song will never leave your head now.

What your hearing is a Fairlight Sampler (back then a house was cheaper to buy than Fairlight!) as Roger was one if not the first to really use samples and paved the the way for bands like The Art Of Noise etc. Roger was and is a pioneer of electronic music and he's still performing. Most of that if not all wasn't actually done in post it was done by the sampler and Roger playing it through its keyboard (with assigned keys) and with other synths like the Jupiter 8. For its time it really was a very special piece of kit.

Thomas Dolby also sang the part of "The Schoolmaster" at "The Wall" concert in Berlin.

The 80's were totally rad!! I'm so excited you got to finally hear this song and see the original video! My GenX/MTV heart is bursting! ❤😊🤘🏻

I always felt the song was more about the science behind attraction, not just literally science.

This is...very possibly my favorite music video of all time. I'm nearly giddy watching you enjoy it as much now I did 40 years ago. :)

Fantastic album--"One of our Submarines" and "Windpower" are real standouts. Atmospheric and beautiful.

Thanx for such a great reaction/analysis of She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby. Such a fun time. I still love to here this great track today. I got to see Thomas Dolby live a few years back and it was a very cool and incredible show.

Thomas Dolby became a big steampunk artist. His office is awesome.

Dolby has created so many amazing songs over the years. While Blinded Me With Science is his best known, and obviously somewhat goofy, there are a number of other songs that he's made that tell a story, are gorgeous, heart-felt, and unique.

I liked the part where the scientist was peering at the ground with a telescope. Great metaphor - this thing is sooooo clever.

Magnus Pyke presented various children's science programmes back in the 70s/80s. Absolute legend to Brits of a certain age!

I was obsessed with Thomas Dolby my whole childhood. I would have my hand hovering over the record button on my boom box waiting for the radio to play this.

Thomas Dolby... What a genius...

So many good songs from Mr Dolby - ranging from the haunting ("One Of Our Submarines", "Budapest By Blimp"), to the nostalgic ("Europa and the Pirate Twins"), to the frenetic ("Hyperactive" - a fun duet), to social commentary ("Airhead", "Pulp Culture"), and even a cover of funkmeister George Clinton's "Hot Sauce"! ... And that's not even getting to the deep cuts!

Delightful you say? Loo k at Dee Lite. GROOVE IS IN THE HEART

Thomas Dolby is one of those guys who had several quirky mainstream hits that everyone remembers followed by a whole serious career that largely flew under the media radar

I remember hearing this song on MTV back when it 1st came out! My brother's nickname is Dolby because of this artist. There was no better keyboardist in the early 80s than Thomas.

Somewhere out in RU-vid Land there's a video of Thomas Dolby discussing how he put the track together, piece by piece. I think it was a Grammy special, where he's up on a pedestal with his keyboards, surrounded by people, and he breaks it down into the different sounds (instrument and vocal) before presenting the entire track. For the life of me I can't seem to find it again, but when I DID get to see it, it was very insightful.

His catalog is deep and worth a listen. I remember when this came out out: it was inescapable.

Another great Dolby song is "Europa and the Pirate Twins" - that & "One of our submarines" are worth a listen.

Thomas Dolby is best known as a music producer, and he worked around this time with one of my favourite bands, Prefab Sprout, featuring the singing of the wonderful Paddy Macaloon, supported by the clarity and purity of Wendy Smith's voice. You'd probably know "King of Rock and Roll" in the US, but "When Love Breaks Down" and "Johnny Johnny (Goodbye Lucille #1)" are among my favourite pieces, all produced by Dolby.

The song is called Poetry in Motion. The record label started printing with a more recognizable lyric to boost sales, effectively changing its name.

I'm an absolute metal head, but I've loved Thomas Dolby ever since hearing The Golden Age of Wireless. One of my favorite songs of his is the cover he did of I Scare Myself on The Flat Earth. Absolutely intimate vocal performance, and for me, the trombone solo pushes over the edge.

Thomas Dolby also created many of the first ring tones.

It's poetry in motion she turned her tender eyes to me

Wonderful episode, love the analysis as well as the pure enjoyment you have for music. Great video to start the week on!

Golden age of wireless, such a good album. So many great tracks. Still a regular on my playlist.

Great reaction Elizabeth! I'm confident that you'll love another Thomas Dolby's song - "Europa and the Pirate Twins." Please give it a listen.

I was raised by my grandparents after my parents split up when I was 2. My grandfather was a lecturer in food science at Strathclyde University in Glasgow and often brought home students and even teachers from other countries for me to meet and talk to. Due to their shared interest in nutrition he met Magnus Pyke and brought him home for dinner once. I had seen him on TV and along with people like Patrick Moore he was one of my early heroes who made science fun and interesting. To actually meet and have dinner with Magnus in our home as a starstruck 5 year old is something I have never forgotten, and I am 60 now.

Terrific analysis!!! I love Thomas Dolby and he is rightly given lots of credit for his technical innovations and all the Fairlight stuff, but he is also a powerful and soulful singer. The humanity he brings with his voice rounds out the synthpop sound and for me makes it timeless, despite being also so specifically important to the new wave era. I saw a concert which was himself, his laptop, and three horn players, which was a peak musical experience! He is currently on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, teaching new media stuff, which I find impressive because I doubt he needs the money.

I Love You Goodbye from the Astronauts and Heretics album is one of the best equalized, produced, and mixed recordings I have ever heard. I love the song.

I would recommend One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

Mr Dolby was one of the true pioneers of synthesizers and electronic sounds in pop music. Along with continuing to make great music, he was an innovator during the Silicon Valley boom and was also a Professor, I forget which college (maybe UC Berkeley). Anyway, he is currently on a US Tour with the Thompson Twins. I bet he would love to go on your channel. You should try to make it happen. Not only would the interview be amazingly interesting, I bet you too would love each other!

Omg looking at Elizabeth is like looking at a kid who just opened a mountain of presents that were all on her Christmas wish list xD

What a wonderful look at a great and quirky song! Thomas Dolby is touring for the first time I can remember since the late 90's. I so wish I was going to see him.

My brother and I like science as well. We have been saying "SCIENCE" as a running joke for 40 plus years now. This song is fantastic!!! SCIENCE

Loved Thomas Dolby and the varied ways he presented stories

I knew this was gonna be a fun reaction video. I still remember the first time hearing this song. Salud 🍻 🤘

The next logical step would be Prefab Sprout and the wonderful voice and songwriting of Paddy McAloon - don't miss that opportunity!

The mid-80's of MTV had legendary videos!

Awesome! This was the first 45 that I ever bought as a kid. Tells you how old I am.

The scene with the viola/cello painted on the woman's back is a reference to surrealist photographer Man Ray's piece "Le Violon D'Ingres".

How wonderful to see Dr Pyke bringing joy so many years after he went off to the next great mystery.

I was just thinking the other day that *Puttin' on the Ritz* by Falco would be fun. This hits about the same chord.

Love how in this video Elizabeth is so enthusiastic her level of personal animation approaches that of Magnus Pyke... 😆

I was approximately 13 years old when this video came out, And it’s because of music videos like this that made it the golden age of music videos. It was a time when music videos mattered if a song made heavy rotations on the radio or not. If I had to put a time frame on it, it would’ve been from the beginning of 1982, until the end of 1985.

I’m just catching up after a busy time at work. Thank you Elizabeth for taking me back to my childhood. Great stuff.

"She Blinded Me With Science" is very pop. If you find you like him listen to "Budapest by Blimp" from "Aliens Ate My Buick". And another vote for the "Flat Earth" album

This is one of my favorite songs as all time. 😆

"One Night in Bangkok", from the movie "CHESS", by Murray Head

This may be my favorite reaction you've done. I love it! I know you've got plenty of intellectual analysis to give us, but the instant reactions are so fun.

A pioneer of synth, got to see him live several years ago and it was one of the most fun shows I have ever been to.

Growing up I loved this song... and the video... still love this song... it's so much fun. Science!!!!

I was so excited to see your reaction to this, Elizabeth, I was sure that you'd find it delightful after your B-52's reaction. Thomas Dolby has done many great tracks, and has written music for many other artists, he's performed like the likes of Bowie, no less. Tracks which I recommend by him are: "Europa and The Pirate Twins", "Weightless", "One of Our Submarines", "Windpower", "Dissidents", "Hyperactive!", "Airwaves". There are many more but these are good ones to continue with.

This is a great one, Red. This seems like an absolutely genuine reaction. Thomas Dolby is a very important musician. Thank you.

I've been a huge fan of Thomas Dolby for close to 30 years 💜 He's not only an amazing musician, he's also a true geek in every sense of the word, and he's been an innovator of technology since the late 70's/early 80's. He founded a company called Headspace back in the 90's (later renamed Beatnik), which developed the original technology for cell phone ring tones (first used in Nokia phones). He even got his stage name, Dolby, from a nickname people used to call him because he was always tinkering with musical electronics (usually trying to rig them to do things they weren't meant to do 😆). His dad was also a well-known professor of Greek archeology at Cambridge. You should definitely do a video on One of Our Submarines - I think it's Thomas's best song, and it was inspired by his uncle, who died in World War II. And another really good one would be I Love You Goodbye - which he says is "loosely" based on a true story (to quote him, he says, "I use the word 'loosely' with great emphasis, and I use the word 'true' in the 'journalistic' sense of the word." 😂)

Thomas Dolby played keyboards on Def Lepard's Pyromania album. Thomas also played keyboards on Foreigner's four album . The highlight sound from the album was the opening sound from Waiting For A Girl Like You. Thomas played that sound. With the money he got from doing session work he bought some synthesizers and recorded his first studio album. Thomas just recently put out a novel book

Hi Elizabeth I'm wondering if you could react to epic the musical by Jorge Rivera herrans, it's an amazing musical concept album based on the Odyssey and I truly believe that you would love it. If anyone else here loves this musical please up vote this comment so that she can see it. Thank you for another amazing analysis/reaction video and I hope everybody has a nice day.

Thomas Dolby-The Flat Earth, love it.

12:26 - Elizabeth representing Nerd World Problems.

Hey, you caught the sniffles and throat clearing but did you miss the hiccups at 12:15?

Ever heard of Madness? - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JmBA7e-G21Q.html

@TheCharismaticVoice I LIKE YOUR TAKE ON 80'S MUSIC ! ! !

Magnus Pyke was a serious British scientist and later scientific educator en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke

Love the sounds used through out this. It’s not traditional “music” as such but this audio journey. Love it.

I was more delighted with your reactions to the song than anything else. 😊. Thomas Dolby is a Genius.

Watching you having fun with this is truly so much fun!

The Golden Age of Wireless, in its original form is one of the great albums of the 80’s

Absolutely love this song. SO glad I grew up in the 80s! 😂 Thomas Dolby is pure genius.

I loved watching this video on MTV, and used to sing and dance with my oldest son (an infant)

You are now hearing THE synth player to the stars of the 80's... This one hit wonder, Thomas Dolby, has the most interesting catalog of modern pop music...

Dolby went on to do many things beyond his music career. Being the tech guy that he was he started a tech business that designed ring tones for early cell phones and music for video games. He even dabled some in Virtual Reality, before becomeing an Arts teacher for several universities.

This song is so good in so many different ways that it’s impossible to critique. You have to know about him. You have to know about his music. You have to know about his history and it just is so good. How can it be so mechanical has so many weird sounds and weird noises, and still be melodic and rhythmic and danceable? It’s just so good.

Science is not poetry in motion, she is. Its quite simple chemical reaction: Love. Get it , got it , good!

They do a top 40 countdown of ’80s hits on the SiriusXM ’80s channel every week. This week they did the second week of June, 1983, where this song hit its peak position at #5 on the Billboard _Hot 100_ .

Good heavens Miss Sakamoto! You're BEAUTIFUL!! I love that line.

That was a lot of fun! This was one of the most iconic videos of the MTV era. Such a wonderful match of video and song. Absolutely brilliant.

Wow! Your callback to Rock Lobster was spot on.

Love that you reviewed this song and enjoyed it so much, Thomas Dolby was a "little out there" even at the time but so innovative and a real rabbit hole to go down ... enjoy :)

I love how you can’t help yourself, have to pause and go back! 😂 every time you seem to pause right before a good part!! when this song came out, some kid at the baseball field had a boom box and was playing it over and over in the stands! I can still hear it!!

It's an awareness of how science changes everything and ultimately everyone.

Back in the day, this was my favorite video on MTV. I bought the CD and found out Thomas Dolby is a great musician/composer/song writer.

I don't want to be "that guy" who jumps in as a know-it-all, but I think there's a lot of context which elevates this video from fun to genius... I'm from the UK and lived through the Eighties (although I was only 3 years old in 1980, I picked up a lot of the ambient culture by osmosis) and there are some great things about this song and video which probably don't come across immediately if you weren't there. First of all, the guy delivering the spoken title line was a total legend named Magnus Pyke (they even put his real name on the door to his office - a mark of respect, when any other wacky '80s video would've made up a bad pun name instead). He held a similar place in British TV culture to Bill Nye for US viewers, someone who was often a guest on other shows to explain big science in an entertaining way. But unlike Bill Nye who started out as a comedian, Magnus Pyke was just a really enthusiastic academic... which is why he's hamming it up and chewing the scenery throughout the video. He is definitely _not_ an actor, and I think that makes his performance all the more endearing. The whole ambience of the video as well as the lyrics are basically a riff on the "mad scientist" trope from the early 20th century, so it's deliberately wacky and infeasible and steampunk-y. This is why Dolby is wearing an off-white suit and riding an antique motorcycle with goggles - he's the stereotype of some rich 1920's playboy trying some sort of new fad treatment. This is basically trying to do for science what the 1994 Anthony Hopkins movie _"The Road To Wellville"_ does for medicine, and when you've seen all these old tropes in the black-and-white movies we used to get on Sunday afternoons back then being portrayed as "real" scientific establishments (although obviously not _quite_ so out-there and crazy), it just makes the whole premise seem even more entertaining. The great thing about this is that Thomas Dolby was actually an extremely smart guy - all this wrong science isn't someone viewing mad science from the outside and poking fun so much as it is inside-baseball jokes... it's funny in the same way as those Facebook musician memes like Beethoven saying, "I used the '#' in front of everything before Twitter". With regards to the very '80s synths (especially that pitch-bend mimicking the violin), Thomas Dolby was a pioneer of that very stylised sound - this was back in the days when you couldn't buy synthesisers as ready-made instruments, so Dolby (like many others) built his equipment himself and was constantly experimenting - he didn't just go to the store and buy one, he had to construct it and solder it himself like some sort of crystal-radio project in his home as a very nerdy hobby. What Dolby did that many of his peers hadn't really done before was to not only put strange wibbly synth sounds in his music but actually make it _melodious_ - if you listen to other synth gods like Kraftwerk or Devo they were focusing on what strange noises they could make, while Dolby was incorporating them into actual musical arrangements which didn't sound like abrasive sound experiments. I think that's what the whole "mad scientist/inventor" schtick is knowlingly referencing - the fact that these seemingly crazy hobbyists were fiddling with circuit boards and switches in search of a new sound, like some crackpot Georgian inventor trying to make rocket skates a thing. What I'm trying to say is, this song isn't an '80s cliché, it's almost what _started_ the '80s synth-pop genre... people were making weird synth music before this, but it definitely wouldn't be thought of as "pop", while this definitely has the sensibilities and construction of a modern pop song which is something his peers weren't really doing this early on. Without this fusion of bleeps and musical creativity we'd still have Landscape's _"Einstein A-Go-Go"_ but we probably wouldn't have Big Audio Dynamite's _"E=mc²"._

I CANNOT BELIEVE you chose this song! My high school nerd-self rejoices that you chose this!! OMG, OMG, OMG

Part of me is *entirely* heartbroken coming on here and seeing all of these fantastic songs that...decades...down the road you're hearing for the first time. Regardless, cannot thank you enough for your fantastic reactions and insight!!! 💜

1978-1982 was a great transitional period in popular music with the infusion of punk, alternative, techno/electro, rockabilly, etc, bleeding in. Lots of fun, energetic music was created.

I love how excited you get! ❤

I really liked this song/video when it came out. It was different, lighthearted, and fun.

Nothing like squeezing every ounce of joy out of a video, until it's joyless.

Impulsively went to see him in concert in the early 90s and it ended up being one of my favorite concerts ever. And I’ve been to hundreds of concerts.

I saw Thomas Dolby open for the Eurythmics in 1984 for my 16th birthday. He was fun and had a large synth setup that he was a master of. But, of course, Annie Lennox was Queen that night. Thanks, Aunt, for the great sweet 16 birthday gift.

From someone who remembers when this came out, I can tell you I heard this song being played on three radio stations formats (rock, pop, and R&B), something I had NEVER heard for a given track prior to this song …. and only once since… with MJ’s “Beat It” (feat. EVH’s guitar solo).…and one of the first times I heard a Dominant 7 sharp 9 chord in a modern song since Jimi Hendrix. This song was a watershed moment when it was released… and remains one.

This song had me the first time I heard it an absolute GEM 💎

I appreciate the excitement you feel about science!