Thomas Dolby - Screen Kiss

[tubellarbells]

this one, Budapest by Blimp, Airwaves, Submarines, Suitcase, I Love you Goodbye, The Flat Earth, Neon Sisters, all pure gems by one of the greatest song-writers and synth masters of al times. So much good music besides the hits. TOP100 with The Fixx, Eight Seconds, Prefab Sprout (no wonder) and many others.

[gormarx]

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[SuperSteelydanfan]

I love this song

[SuperSteelydanfan]

divine.....

[looseSpark]

Best outro to a song ever!

[finders080]

a thing of rare beauty, can never decide between this and the flat earth; both inspired work! By chance today happened to come across this link and can see TD is playing at a venue 3 miles away in Nov 11.......such a beautiful melody...thanks TD X

[Maxiclaudi]

Oh yes, my favourite Dolby song too, together with I scare myself.

[SnakemanisJeff]

Ultimate Fave :) "Miller time at the bar where all the English meet.....

[JBSouthsea]

Reminds me of all the nights I spent talking to my ex (then best friend) before we moved away somewhere entirely new together. *sniff*

Such a lovely song, and one of the few uses of the Fairlight CMI synthesiser/sampler that doesn't sound unnatural.

[Alexandreamm]

Simplesmente fantástica esta canção!!!

Ela sempre esteve entre minhas canções favoritas. Pena que as pessoas, de modo geral não tem capacidade pra entender o tamanho da obra desse cara. Enfim, é mesmo pra poucos.

[b1lahb1ah]

Fantastic fretless bass work here from Matthew Seligman

[nigahigavidwatcher]

hi



[Brainwave36]

I never knew my Dad until I was grown man. Before I graduated from high school my artist father moved to Hollywood California. He did well. When I was a man I jumped on my first plane ride out of Texas and spent 6 weeks with him on the Hollywood streets. I even had a part time job. That summer I heard this song and said to myself. This Hollywood. He's captured it. A depressing melancholy place of disappointment for a lot of star struck delusional people.

[Topkatt88]

As for this song, it reminds me of a girl I dated briefly in 1992 when she lived in New England but then moved away to southern California. But even more importantly, Dolby and many other artists remind me of my brother, who I lost in 1997, not to suicide but to a terrible illness. I use music, which was his greatest love, as a way to stay connected to him. Regardless of memories and past pain, this song will always be one of my all time favorites.

[Brainwave36]

@Topkatt88 I believe that Mr. Dolby has a couple of songs about a girl that he knew briefly. Both of their fathers moved frequently because of their jobs. He fell in love with her one summer on a beach and wrote the song 'Pirate twins - Europa' about her. She became a famous person in LA and he a pop star in England. He talks about seeing her after a gig where the crowd is thronging around her. He tries to get close and shout her name but her body guards shove him away. That summer on the beach

[Topkatt88]

It's a shame that US radio needed "She Blinded Me With Science" to put this guy on the map here back in the early 1980s. Sure, it's a great pop song, quirky, funny, and all of that, but it's probably Dolby's "worst" tune (and I use that term in quotes very loosely and only in a comparative sense when taking his other music into account). His best songs have never been heard on radio, but by lucky listeners of his albums. Dolby is one of the most underrated songwriters of the last half century.

[Brainwave36]

@Topkatt88 I totally agree.

[scientifico]

Playing this in the brightness of a spring sunday afternoon and it still chokes me up (literally.) He painted a picture that has followed (haunted me) all these 30 years. God bless you Mr. Dolby.

[sahuet]

Thanks for posting!! I used to have this album.. awesome!

[650monza]

It's a sad and beautiful world.

Dolby = genius.

[fastcsl33]

I read the first comment posted and the tears just started running down my face. I am roughly the same age and I too was a young teenager listening to this song thinking the same things, but when I got to the part where your brother committed suicide it devastated me. I am so sorry.

[panthervoodoo]

I love this bitter-sweet beautiful song.

[rainoregonrain]

This song became a replay on my turntable in High School back then and can't tell you how after 10 years found myself in the hills above old Hollywood, and was lucky enough to see a deer at 3am. Thomas Dolby made an album that I am sure my children will enjoy 30 years later.

[Brainwave36]

@rainoregonrain Isn't it strange? I had the same experience. Life imitates art.

[lordphi]

i dunno really why this is one of my favorite songs of all time - but somehow when I was in California back in the 80's this song seemed to put everything into perspective. I once did see dear in the hills above Hollywood at 3AM, and realized only someone who really had been there and looked closely would ever see such a thing. Suicide will never change the world; anymore than the invention of the 6 gun.

[conradragzoff]

Not a huge fan of Budapest By Blimp... Cruel is pretty awesome though, and I've had Flat Earth on cassette and CD since the early days...

[Beadbud5000]

@conradragzoff Are you talking about, Aliens Ate My Buick?

Not the best but not the worst album of Dolby's. Flat Earth is a masterpiece.

[cybermaru]

whoever made this video was seriously inspired....gorgeous visuals! Thanks for uploading!

[gormarx]

This and Budapest by Blimp are the two pinnacles of TD's work. Some of the new stuff isn't bad, but even the best moments sound uninspired and mechanical. Fortunately, there's always this stuff to go back to.

[blisterfree]

This is impressively done. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if T Dolby himself has seen it and smiled.

[SPFXsynthesisers]

I have developed a software synthesiser which I think Thomas Dolby would really love to use-How could I get a copy of my software to him?Any Ideas anyone?

[MobiusBandwidth]

@SPFXsynthesisers he's pretty fan friendly, join his site, post on his message board, send a note on facebook...

[SPFXsynthesisers]

Can someone explain to me what this song is about-I love this song I remember listening to it on tape all those years ago on a walkman traveling on a train to a girl I was totally in love with,but ultimately it did not last and this song always reminds me of her,even though I am happily married now this song still makes me think of her,that one 'perfec't girl.

[mina7560]

One of the best songs ever...

[MrChevyrock]

Dolby was allways in a superior level. To much for the media. An I think this song and Mulu the rainforest are his best songs.

[Dengee]

I love this song and Mulu too! Yeah I had it on cassette ...gosh does that word (cassette) sound like a relic or what?!?!?

[frankburrows]

PortSustGroup...I'm so sorry,,,,buy I'm glad you have this beautiful song.

[funfan10011]

I love to hear it again when Im drunk next to my boo.

[timby15]

Pop culture killed real music, im 20 and im so bitter i wish i was born back in the 80s

[ferragus00]

Para mí gusto, una de las mejores canciones realizadas por dolby; sin dejar de mencionar 'Budapest by Blimp'

[drazil91]

I could really use some help with the chords to this.

[mina7560]

@drazil91 Who doesn't? Figuring out Dolby-songs... Love his key-changes! Keep it up!

[drazil91]

@mina7560 I could use a bit of help with it. I have googled no luck.

[Ominousification]

@drazil91

I'd be happy to share what I know. I have played it since it came out.. but am mostly a bassist/guitarist. It's mostly partial chords is how I think of it. More implied than ... normal chords lol

[drazil91]

@Ominousification That would be great. Here or message me. Thanks, you are so right about the implied chords-great way to explain it.

[sextus]

This record is perfect.Get a copy today.

[takehimtocourt]

Thomas Dolby is a musical genius. Period. Too bad there is very little room for talented artists nowadays.

[AdamsApple1963]

@takehimtocourt Oh, there are some talented artists out there...you just gotta look for them.

[takehimtocourt]

@AdamsApple1963 Yes, but individuals like Thomas Dolby should have received more exposure. His musical talent is just extraordinary. Nowadays what we see/hear out there is Lady Gaga and other senseless singers.

[exiledupnorth]

A Beautiful song.

[paulchiuk]

Exquisite on so many levels. He, more than any other artist I know of, expresses how the human heart feels in an artificial, digital, machine based world.

[240ups]

the man makes LA spiritual!!!!!! What amazing story telling!!! Transendent confusion based in Los angeles that makes perfect sence. Sublime sence at that......and the skies are warm and sunny... warm and sunny.....

[scientifico]

This song struck me so hard in my teenage years. I wish I could've saved her. I wish I could've taken her away from him but alas, that was the world she had chosen, that was the script she lived in.

[doozerace]

The Flat Earth is truly an amzing work and this is Dolby's best single.

[Xaqtly]

Beautiful song.

[drazil91]

Anyone have the chords to this?

[PortSustGroup]

My brother and I used to listen to this song as bright young teenagers ready to take on the world.

I took a long time for us to figure out what the song was actually about - at first we thought it was abstract lines and loved it for that, but the real meaning is all the more powerful, especially for me 25 years later with my brother already 7 years in his grave after his own suicide.

To listen to it now is sad, depressing, comforting, and ultimately beautiful.

[innocentearth]

@PortSustGroup Sorry to hear about your loss , my sister departed left in different circumstances but the pain is still the same,I have no words to make the pain any less, but music and sharing has given me the chance to share they were here jx

[SPFXsynthesisers]

@PortSustGroup Hi,Just read your comment and it really made me sad,sorry for your loss,I know how it feels to lose a brother.I don't know why these things happen but maybe one day we all meet again-I hope so,I really think we do,I think we have been here many times before and will keep coming back.

Peace to you.

[panthervoodoo]

@PortSustGroup

So true. SO sad looking back at a bright promising future and realizing how far from that ideal the "now" really is. Good cheer friend.

[brereton1113]

@PortSustGroup So sorry to hear about your brother. A death in the family is of course sad, but a suicide makes it doubly so.

So, what do YOU think Screen Kiss is all about then?

Tony.

[Posthuman2003]

@PortSustGroup sorry for your loss. Very beautiful song

[catton333]

@PortSustGroup Coincidentally, my half brother killed himself less than 2 weeks ago but I just think it's a really good song. Sorry for your loss.

[GoddessAstrola]

@PortSustGroup

You're not alone.

My brother was a massive fan of Dolby and I inherited his record and tape collection after his suicide. I can't listen to this or most any Queen song without both good memories and a lot of pain.

[Brainwave36]

@GoddessAstrola Sorry to hear of your loss. I can relate, my friend. My brother died in a similar fashion.

[tortp1]

@PortSustGroup Wow, thank you for sharing - I used to play this song in my bedroom, over and over and over - until I knew it by heart, and then some - that was 1985........25 years later, I think it's brilliant still. I'm so sorry about your brother........so many of the people I loved have died

[ncbeach22]

A sad, yet gorgeous song.

[RedPillLondon]

can't find words sometimes...

[malmswax]

"Miller Time...at the bar where all the English meet..." F*cking classic first line!

[antrivers46]

@malmswax totally agree mate



[nutsandboltsma]

we're buried in the screenplay of his feature

and I'm not coming out

[sexyboots211]

I have followed mr. Dolby since his debut and his is a talent that is superior to most others.

[jangofett41]

@sexyboots211 my fav thomas dolby song is and always will be Liepzig

[1963GeorgeD]

Beautiful. Genius arrangement.

[losghost]

Best Dolby Song in my opinion. For some reason I also enjoy Mulu but really hard to find these days...

[conradragzoff]

I agree... all of the Flat Earth CD was just solid gold.... I've listened to his work since 1983....

[conradragzoff]

@losghost I had "The Flat Earth" on tape a long time ago (those square plastic thingies for you youngsters).... still have it boxed away, I think... got it on CD as soon as I could... and yes, this is my fave Dolby song...

[yabbazabba1234]

@losghost My father introduced me to Dolby... ... ..And I agree... ...this is his best....

[newwavechic]

@losghost Speak to me MULUUU!!! Lol! -dolby fan :)

[SpectacularlyPaul]

I love his off-beat, whimsical, musical take on life. Wonderful low-key anthems for the outsider. Thanks for posting.

[cmslothouber]

Great video interpretation! One of my favourite songs.

[Cambodia69]

The fretless bass makes this tune, great playing and tone....

[fatmenu]

Thank you! One of my favorite songs, and a great video interpretation...

[conradragzoff]

I think I still have "The Flat Earth" on cassette in a box somewhere... this is my all-time favorite song by a true music genius.

[generationx1966]

I still have this on Vinyl.Bought it when it first came out in '83 (i think).It was a brilliant follow up to his prior album,yet it didn't hit big on the charts was it received high marks from reviewers.

I still enjoy it,on CD,though.Hyperactive was my least favorite song on the album.

[johnblumstein]

Nice video. Dolby is a genius!

[GermikaButtons]

Leviathan, I love this song.

[Posthuman2003]

i adore this song

[weirdcritter]

Great. Just bought the re-issued CD. Keep these nice videos coming.

[losghost]

Songs like that made Dolby truly respected as an artist, shame these never really saw the light of day way back when.

This is one of his best songs imo.

[Tralfaz2007]

Pure genius. The atmosphere is amazing. Especially the radio traffic at the end.

[RINLEW]

The album from where this comes from (THE FLAT EARTH) is a masterpiece along with Kate Bush's The Dreaming.

[bobbysevensevenseven]

I enjoyed this, on a lonely Saturday night, having spent the day watching some old movies, good and bad (including one where California does indeed "tip into the ocean"). I overlooked the song when this album came out, mostly just playing Hyperactive, but you've made me appreciate it much more with this video.