It's poetry in motion
I started getting some of Todd in the Shadows' videos after I watched his James Somerton thing, "I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube". His One-Hit Wonderland video on "She Blinded Me with Science" ended up in me going down a Thomas Dolby rabbit hole on YouTube until 7 a.m. Not because Todd enjoys New Wave or Thomas Dolby--in fact, he doesn't really enjoy or understand either--but because the commenters had also done a rabbit hole and gave recs as many of them said that thanks to this not very complimentary video they checked out Dolby and came to love his work.
I'd forgotten that I knew about Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick and his performance in the live 1990 Berlin performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Commenters mentioned The Wall, not Todd.
One commenter claimed that some consider Thomas Dolby to be one of the godfathers of steampunk, and I don't know the veracity of that though I can kind of see it.
The internet, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between.
(I didn't watch the Todd in the Shadows video until very late at night, so I only got through Thomas Dolby's "One of Our Submarines," "Hyperactive!," his cover of "Jungle Line," "Airwaves," and his cover of "I Scare Myself," and "Budapest by Blimp" before fatigue sent me crashing to bed.)
Now I only wish I'd seen this video and comment section earlier so I could've put the 2009 remastered The Golden Age of Wireless on my Christmas wishlist.
(Btw, Thomas Dolby has a long and varied career in music--and created hundreds of digital polyphonic mobile phone ringtones as well--so he's one of the many artists in that series who don't really fit the series appellation.)
I'd forgotten that I knew about Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick and his performance in the live 1990 Berlin performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Commenters mentioned The Wall, not Todd.
One commenter claimed that some consider Thomas Dolby to be one of the godfathers of steampunk, and I don't know the veracity of that though I can kind of see it.
The internet, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between.
(I didn't watch the Todd in the Shadows video until very late at night, so I only got through Thomas Dolby's "One of Our Submarines," "Hyperactive!," his cover of "Jungle Line," "Airwaves," and his cover of "I Scare Myself," and "Budapest by Blimp" before fatigue sent me crashing to bed.)
Now I only wish I'd seen this video and comment section earlier so I could've put the 2009 remastered The Golden Age of Wireless on my Christmas wishlist.
(Btw, Thomas Dolby has a long and varied career in music--and created hundreds of digital polyphonic mobile phone ringtones as well--so he's one of the many artists in that series who don't really fit the series appellation.)