THOMAS DOLBY RADIO SILENCE FULL

Flying North (High Altitude Extended Play).The Wreck of the Fairchild (7″ Version).Europa and the Pirate Twins (Extended Edition).If you’re a completionist (like me), you also need the following album-era tracks: and that still wouldn’t complete this era for you, that’s *just* the songs that were featured on the main album in one re-release or another. She Blinded Me with Science (Extended Version).So to recap, if you want all of the songs/versions that were ever on The Golden Age of Wireless album, you’d need the following: She Blinded Me with Science (7″ Single Version)Īnd that forth release seems to be where they were happy with it, as that forth track/version list is what was used when the album was finally issued on cassette and CD.So the forth release had the following track list:

THOMAS DOLBY RADIO SILENCE FULL

And they used the full length versions of “Airwaves” and “Windpower”. They reverted “Radio Silence” back to its original synth version.

They used the shorter 7″ single version of “She Blinded Me with Science” rather than the 12″ extended version the US used. The UK then reworked and re-released the album in a slightly different variation.

She Blinded Me with Science (12″ Extended Version).

The third release had the following track list: This time “Urges” and “Leipzig” were dropped, “Windpower” was replaced with its shorter 7″ single version, and “She Blinded Me with Science” and its b-side “One of Our Submarines” were added. So the album was reworked and re-released again in the US. Seven months after the initial album release, “She Blinded Me with Science” was released as a non-album single and it hit big. The bold tracks are the added/changed tracks from the previous release. The US vinyl track list looked like this: The running order was also completely reworked. For the US release, the song “The Wreck of the Fairchild” was dropped completely, the songs “Urges” and “Leipzig” (two earlier non-album singles) were added to the album, the full-length “Airwaves” was cut and the shorter 7″ single version was used instead, and the song “Radio Silence” was re-recorded with guitars instead of synths. Sales were decent so the album got a US release. The first thing you’ll notice is that “She Blinded Me with Science” is missing. The first release (which happened in the UK on vinyl) had the following nine tracks:

This album has got to be the most confusing to collect, aside from *maybe* Duran Duran’s Rio, if you want all of the songs recorded during this era. Let’s explore his debut album, The Golden Age of Wireless. I could go on and on, but this is already going to be long enough. He basically invented the modern ringtone for all cell phones.

But he’s had a decent music career before and after that song, along with a long career in the tech field creating software. “Science!” Most know Dolby as the one-hit wonder behind “She Blinded Me with Science”. When you hear Thomas Dolby’s name, if you’ve even heard it before, you probably think of one thing and one thing only. This is the first of what will probably be a few posts like this. I spend a lot of time researching various titles in my music collection, so I thought it might be fun to share some of that from time to time. but for ease of use, I'll paste it in its entirety below as well: You can read the original post here: Super Deep Dive: Thomas Dolby’s The Golden Age of Wireless There were four tracklist changes made between 19 with some releases dropping entire songs while adding completely new songs, swapping out 7' single versions for full-length album versions, and one song was rearranged and rerecorded. I just wrote up a blog post about this album and its many, many variations.

Thomas dolby radio silence