Anyone listening to this classic in 2024?

@kenm2709

3 ай бұрын

yes, it feels like 2009 all over again, (That's when this was uploaded) I swear I listen to so much 80s in the late 2000s, now I'm back at it.

@guerreroseventyfour1819

3 ай бұрын

At least one or twice a month and I wasn’t even alive during the 80s, haha

@bvdatech1

2 ай бұрын

always, just got the cd

@Lanceawright

Ай бұрын

I am. Trying to work out a trip to England to see him and Martin McAloon in August.

@patrickmccarthy5462

Ай бұрын

Yes. We are still here. Not missing

Dolby is to keyboards like Hendrix is to guitar.

@enzoaveroldi

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

@keithsamsky7796

4 жыл бұрын

Damn Straight

@ethanoreilly2002

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more with this statement!!

@stevengregory1671

3 жыл бұрын

Agree

@PatrickRosenbalm

3 жыл бұрын

@ReaktorLeak Or Keith Emerson.

Thomas Dolby embodied the best of the 80s: a blend of electronic synth pop with organic, real instruments and intelligent lyrics reflecting his personal outlook on the world, as seen through the eyes of a young man both at home in and yet not of this earth.

@kevinmcgiffin10

2 жыл бұрын

So many people used to respond " who is thomas dolby " when i told them i listened to him. Boy were they clueless.

@ecomarinebd

Жыл бұрын

a hyper hyperbole!

@Caracajou

Жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorite musicians. This song is my favorite of his.

@grinja73

10 ай бұрын

Not to mention a much needed dose of humour!

I remember reading about this song when it first came out. Thomas stated it was about his uncle that died during World War II. He was in the royal navy when their submarine ran around after striking a mine. He said it was very personal to him, and always tried to do his best on this one.

@EricGentile

10 жыл бұрын

thanks never knew that.......beautiful song to this day.

@falcosparverius100

4 жыл бұрын

Great story behind this. I was married to a "bleep man" sonar tech in the Navy. Even in the late 80s we were always so happy and relieved when our sailors came home

@paladinsix9285

4 жыл бұрын

@@falcosparverius100 I am glad he always came back from the Sea, to You!

@deadbydayinblack

3 жыл бұрын

The odd thing is....that is what he thought at the time. Time passed and the truth came out about P48. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Our_Submarines I wonder if they ever found her?

@cheeseheadfiddle

3 жыл бұрын

Roots of Steam Punk.

July 10, after decades, I finally get to witness the brilliance of Thomas Dolby live in houston! Counting down the days to 7/10/2024 and finally hearing this. I pray he still plays this, my fave song.

@richardlindquist5936

4 ай бұрын

Dude, I’m jelly! Have fun for those of us who can’t be there. And say hi to Europa.

@JSquidy

11 күн бұрын

Saw him perform last night, and yes he played this :^)

I’m surprised this song isn’t getting more streams right now

@TheVideogamemaster9

9 ай бұрын

I've found that people generally don't appreciate or enjoy true talent and skill, especially when it comes to music. If it doesn't sound awful and generic, there's no public interest.

@TurtleShellProductions

6 ай бұрын

Most people have smooth brains@@TheVideogamemaster9

This feels very relevant today

I remember when this song came out, I worked the graveyard shift in a waterbed factory in Moundhouse NV, every night like clock work on the way to work, the radio station that we listened to would play this at the same time every friggin night, listening to Thomas Dolby while driving through the Nevada desert after midnight was a very surreal experience, surreal and haunting. Beautiful, well crafted piece of music, pure genius.

@AlvaSudden

Жыл бұрын

Good story. 80's music was such an improvement over 70's music.

@alisonleaman333

4 ай бұрын

Ah - so that's why Lake Mead is running dry. It's all those water beds 🙂

A monumental song, and a personal piece of art. "Bye bye Empire, Empire, bye bye. Shallow water, channel tide..." You can feel the grief of those sailors and those left behind.

Hugely underrated artist of the 80s, really meaningful lyrics and amazing tunes!

@elizabethf8078

3 жыл бұрын

The 80's culture was largely too shallow and materialistic to appreciate meaningful lyrics.

@wendywilkins2575

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree very underrated

@ethanoreilly2002

3 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethf8078 Sadly that is true!

@ethanoreilly2002

3 жыл бұрын

@@wendywilkins2575 Very

@gogoyubari366

2 жыл бұрын

What makes you believe he's underrated?

This song popped into my head today. RIP all. Tragedy seems inevitable at this stage.

He was a keyboard ,sampler, techno genius...New Wave master.......Bravo sir...

So... anyone else listening to this song on or after June 22, 2023?

@davidklein4680

5 ай бұрын

Listening now 2024🤓

@1200sbandits

3 ай бұрын

Listened to it your years Still listening Mar 2024.

@bartomiejbudnik4047

3 ай бұрын

Always on the deck...

@auntiegravity7713

Ай бұрын

Here for it on June 4, 2024

Especially this song but the whole album "The Golden Age of Wireless" is absolutely meant to be listened to on good headphones. The 3D stereo sound of it all is just magnificent.

one of my favorite Dolby songs.

Still love this song and I'm 55 years old. I miss the 80's.

@detectiveh7399

7 күн бұрын

We all do

What a wonderful sound! Thomas Dolbys music is so inspirative.

I have listened to this song for over 40 years. And will always love the respect and remembrance and hommage this man gives to the fallen. Even at 16 years old. I always loved this song. Thank you Mr. Dolby for your remembrance and countless days of tribute. I also bought your albums when vinal was a thing in the early 80s. Thanks Mr Dolby!

No one can touch Dolby!! He to me is pure frigging genius.Listen to the lyrics....DAM. true story.!!

@chipfire

Жыл бұрын

His autobiography is excellent - The Speed of Sound

My favorite Dolby song!

@riproar11

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too! :)

@stevengregory1671

3 жыл бұрын

Today (well like five minutes ago) I heard this song for the first time that song was awesome now it’s my favorite by him actually one of my favorite songs ever now

@stevengregory1671

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah and you are awesome for liking this and you have great taste in music😊

@stevengregory1671

3 жыл бұрын

This one and if you haven’t heard it valley of the minds eye is a beautiful amazing song

@colonelangus3157

3 жыл бұрын

Same here!!! It gives me chills...since 1981!!!!

One of our fruit machines is missing! It took me 35 years to dig up why Nik Kershaw named his song so. Thomas Dolby is a genius. Especially the Obsidian soundtrack.

Happy 62th birthday Mr. Dolby! You inspired me so much to buy the many synthesizers I still own today. Thank you!!!

One, if not the best synth pop example to this day.

@eyeeye00

3 жыл бұрын

WindPower

@FrankNFurter1000

3 жыл бұрын

Airwaves

@stevengregory1671

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not one. it is the best I love this song I still think his coolest song is valley of the minds eye

@cut--

3 жыл бұрын

Depeche were good but they became very commercial

I'm born in 1966, and in the U.S. It took me decades to understand that, besides some minor Cold War nervousness, WWII didn't impact (scar) us over here. They placated us here statesside with TV dinners and any products containing space-age polymers. Scars make good art. How do you thank a fella like Mr. Dolby for his work? Folks, don't ask him about the Nokia ringtone synthesizer situation. It'd probably make him blush. Oops gotta hang up, there's gonna be a cloudburst here.

Bye bye Empire. Time's illusions drown in the tide. I never understood this song. But I still love it.

A lot of people are hearing this song in their head today.

Thomas Dolby, he's the man 👊👊

If the hair on your arms go up you know the sound your hear is gold...... I am grateful to have been alive when you were doing what you do back then.... Back when music had melody and talent. A canvas of sound filled by many in those two decades 80 -90. So good and powerful it was its rare to hear now on radio stations today. Banished for brilliance replaced with less than mediocre...

@theeltea

Жыл бұрын

You're too old and ignorant to appreciate modern talents... Says more about your own mediocrity...

@take942

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

73 years young still love it ❤️

Anyone revisiting after the Titan tragedy?

Absolutely love this song getting goosebumps watching this

@tripzville7569

3 жыл бұрын

Yes same here.

@ImpulseGenerator

2 жыл бұрын

His voice always gives me the chills. Pretty much any song.

@walmorcarvalho2512

2 жыл бұрын

The break and the first notes always get me

THIS was the first Thomas Dolby song I heard on the radio. On a rock station in between the Led Zeppelin and whatever else was played on AOR back in the early 80’s. It blew my little mind and changed my life. Thank you, Mr. Dolby.

Headlines for the past 3 days have been about a missing tourist submarine with 5 souls on board. I am surprised I'm the first person to equate that incident with this song. As of the time of this comment, they have not yet found the sub and hope of saving the passengers is almost completely gone.

@xiphocostal

Жыл бұрын

You aren't the first.

I remember first hearing him in high school in the early 80's! Awesome! Love that move he makes at 3:15 mark! Good ole Jupiter-8!

Us Gen X’ers got to experience some of the best music EVER produced!

@damnyankeefl

Жыл бұрын

and younger boomers🙂

@michaelc9776

2 ай бұрын

That is truest statement ever. Gen x here and so glad we got to live it.

Awesome! Poor uncle...........

Thank you for convincing me to look into more of his music, Todd in the Shadows

I feel like l'm floating and falling slowly ḍown to the deep end of the ocean...

This and "I love you goodbuy" are 2 of the greatest song ever written... The man is a legend

@OnDasherOnDancer

Жыл бұрын

Add “Oceania”. Another truly lovely song.

@peejaytaylor5897

8 ай бұрын

I’d like to add “Airwaves”

@TennisOnion

26 күн бұрын

Flat Earth also

Thomas Dolby...... GENIUS!!!!!!

My favourite Thomas Dolby song - so unusual, original and interesting. This live show inspired me to provide video backdrops for bands, loosely or closely related to the music being played, many years later!

Impressive, massive, wonderful song and so talented genius Thomas..!! One of our submarines is missing!!

The whole album, The Golden Age of Wireless, is a classic! One of my fav’s in the 1980’s that I still listen to today.

Close to the greatest song EVER.....no joke

His arrangements and compositions are brilliantly creative

Enjoyed this. This could even be a pub song. 👍

I grew up in the 80's and somehow missed this song. Amazing...as is all his music.

@randomhumanoidblob4506

10 ай бұрын

Originally it was only a b-side to "She blinded me with silence," on that EP or the album. So it's not at all surprising you missed it - I remember buying SBMWS and being blown away by this as a tiny, couldn't work out why it wasn't a single. Would have been the perfect follow-up to " Windpower" and they're probably still my fave two songs today 🤗

this recording/video of this track is an absolute gem. fabulous song.

I love how science and electronic music are ensambled with his music. I am female who wants to be a bacteriologist i feel happy to hear his music.

This song deserves to be a hit.

@harrisonbrownmusic

3 жыл бұрын

As I recall, it was.

One of those songs that takes you to the place and time ...music is awesome

Still one of my favorite songs! Love it. Thomas Dolby is an incredible talent! Underrated.

Another Favorite Tune of mine you did.

Golden Age of Wireless is one of the albums that got me through my last years of university. Listened to this with my weight lifting partner every time we lifted. Dolby is gold.

@TheFokker03

2 жыл бұрын

not on the original,so you must have a remaster.

So romantic and nostalgic

I'm back. I commented three years ago. Love this song ❤️ Beautiful composition.

This song still sounds as incredible as the first time I had the album and ep and forget which it was on. The lyrics were very different from all the other music that came before and the synth took you to a different world that ended up being the future. Very few followed these banks coming out of the UK when it was new. We who followed it from the beginning were called freaks until they mainstream America was exposed much later in the 80’s. Yeah, now many swear by the 80’s music and fashions, but many were also the haters before they were exposed to it and didn’t just wake up and started loving this music. Many were doing what everyone else was doing and didn’t want to be associated with this music bc they didn’t think it was cool and would wreck their image of cool. So it was just me and my friend Tina in our whole district and neighborhood that was into this music in 82. One reason was bc she had cable tv and always had MTV on like a radio in the living room. So we fell in love with this music and fashion and tried to find more music like this coming out of the UK. Back then when you went to a record store, they were mostly rock and soul and had bits of these newer UK groups, but had little knowledge on those groups. I remember seeing this interesting album cover and it was Spandal Ballet (sp) and since it was like $25. I ask how it was and the store clerk had no idea. Can you imagine these groups were so new, even the store clerks had no idea and just ordered one copy to see if anyone knew them and would buy. That album turned out to had 2 major hits that are now iconic songs from the 80’s. So back then you could have the only album of a particular artist in your while city or state, But I didn’t care and was on this mission to catch it from the beginning bc I knew this music was special.

@jacknjill3000

6 ай бұрын

Didn’t realize how dapper Thomas Dolby was back when this video was made.

Thanks for your incredible music Thomas!

Great song. Amazing and innovative.

Back in tha Day! Okay, lots of days. The under-aquatic audio helped me get those U-Boats! PING!

@govetter

3 ай бұрын

Back in the Day? Is that a half Decade? a Full-Decade? Or Multi-Decades? I ask, because I care!

His music is beautiful and captivating... I almost feel like I'm in trance when I listen to it 💚

Brilliant mate... always loved your art and music!

This is positively AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

He’s an absolute beast. An actual genius.

Indeed. Roland Jupiter8! Thanks to someone who shared the background story behind this song - Thomas'uncle who died in a WW2 submaine.

Thanks! 🎻✌️🙂😎

Dolby always in my heart!

Dear god, that falsetto he hits @3:50 is GOLDEN. and he looks SO DAMN YOUNG! i can't imagine fronting a badass synth pop group at the age of 25 or whatever the hell he is here. what a weird and singular artist this guy is/was. he sounds like nobody else.

Just brilliant musical poetry. Have got all his albums. Absolute best of the 80s. Thank you,Thomas.

@skintrader100

Жыл бұрын

Well said that man. Thank you Thomas.

This song still sounds crispy, still....in 2024

Song has always reminded me of the Frank Herbert short story "Dragon Under the Sea", also titled "Under Pressure".

Sends chills.

Stellar 80s classic

Much love from Germany. After all, we invented this genre. :)

Only a quarter of a million views? There should be millions! Such an awesome song and the sounds he creates puts you under the waves in the submarine.....

Great great song

Got to Love the 80's

Remember playing this almost non-stop 20 yrs ago when the Kursk was lost. Even called up the radio station to dedicate this to those poor souls.

A truly solid tune

Every note, every drum fill... I feel like I have known this song intimately for my entire adult life... it is one of those special pieces that just has intense meaning for me... I saw him do it (at least in part) live a few years ago and it was just special... I love all of Thomas's music but if I was forced to pick a favourite I think I would have to say this.

Oh man,... this sounds so good ! and I don't even like live music ??!? lol and all those instruments and how good they merge. And the m a g i c: 2:20 > the guitar parts, the keys and then the modulation at the end > That's just fantastic. :-) A great joy to watch.

thomas dolby knew his band had smashed it with that joyful fist pump near the end.

Always loved this brilliant song since my first hearing. Seen him a few times. Outstanding artist.

Just loaded this on a couple of jukeboxes in the DFW area (along with Peter Schilling's Terra Titanic). The Titan never reached the Titanic. It imploded long before the search started (or they would have heard the implosion)

This song has alway been one of my favs!! Godspeed to you my friends !!

Flounder in the ocean. Poetic!!!

I remember I saw this on a TV show in the eighties, and even though I was into progressive rock mainly at the time, and played in a couple bands that didn't do pop songs. I instantly liked this song, and this live version is what I saw.

What a bad ass tune

Just brilliant

Still amazing.

I used to rock this song my first time stationed in Germany in the 80s

He's using a Jupiter-8 there but the sound comes from a PPG Wave. The Wave never sounded sweeter!

@derekbaker3279

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it sounds very PPG-like, Fairlight CMI-like, or Synclavier-like. The Jupiter-8 could make some good cross-mod/FM sounds, so he was probably able to get reasonably close to the PPG wavetable sounds that way.

Only 126k views of this video since 2009, when Thomas Dolby in this video is one of the the most attractive men on KZread?? So handsome!!

I grew up listening to you your one of my favorite odd balls !

Such a great tune. Theres that extended part and its very good

Really takes me back to the early 80's I remember me and my first real girlfriend jamming this and those times when just me and my sister and cousin frank were around we would play this among funky groove songs because this song while it has serious lyrics has a groove about it that is smooth and draws you into the song......

This is legendary.

Nice to see TD performing with a band--adds a lot of energy! But it's hard to dance to such a haunting, sad song.

@patrickmccarthy5462

Ай бұрын

Just nod along, and sway a bit

He played the keyboard on the Foreigner 4 album....Fun fact..One of the best in his field!!

Wow I never heard that song before that was amazing and kick ass I love it Thomas Dolby is a musical genius those 17 people who disliked it are super wack