THOMAS DOLBY "THE FLAT EARTH" POLL

Screen Kiss vs. Flat Earth FITE...

I've never really been able to decide between those.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 7 June 2008 07:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Flat Earth."

The album version of "Hyperactive" loses because of the fade out--if any song demands to come to a screeching halt (like it does in the video/remix), it's this one.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 June 2008 22:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

"i scare myself"

― drone/a/sore, Monday, 9 June 2008 05:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

"I Scare Myself". This album is by no means as good as the debut.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 June 2008 08:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

too many genuine shiver up the spine moments on this album.
i'm having to really think as to where i place my vote.

― mark e, Monday, 9 June 2008 10:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

when i was finishing my dissertation last summer, i put this album on after being awake for god knows how long and just started straight BAWLING when "the flat earth" began. everything about that song is perfect.

― r1o natsume, Monday, 9 June 2008 12:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

great recent footage of td performing "the flat earth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIQrIXlrNw

― r1o natsume, Monday, 9 June 2008 12:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

thats from the new(ish) DVD/CD which was recorded at the Martyrs/chicago gig i went to.
t'was a great night.

― mark e, Monday, 9 June 2008 13:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

"The Flat Earth" gets my vote, even though there are a few underdogs I'm tempted to boost (Mulu, Dissidents). Not fond of I Scare Myself -- for me, it seems like the beginning of TD's dabbling in genres to which he doesn't have much new to bring (see also "The Ability to Swing.")

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 9 June 2008 17:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

i saw this at a record fair for 1 euro yesterday and am now kicking myself for not picking it up...

― Jack Battery-Pack, Monday, 9 June 2008 19:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

i'll bloody kick you as well if you do that again.
good grief.
if i ever see if one euro, i'll buy it and send it to you.
this album, like the debut, so needs a proper reissue treatment.
(as we've discussed elsewhere it looks like this will never happen)

― mark e, Monday, 9 June 2008 19:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

mulu is sick. somebody vote mulu. this album is balearic as hell.

― r1o natsume, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

"The Flat Earth", but might just as easily have gone with "Screen Kiss". Positively Hockneyesque, that one.

― whalemusic, Saturday, 14 June 2008 11:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Saturday, 14 June 2008 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

I dig these results! Flat Earth just barely edges out Screen Kiss...and that's how I voted, too.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 15 June 2008 05:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

I got this album for a couple of bucks thinking I would just take a punt...and it's great! What else is like this?

― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Or...what else is like "The Flat Earth" and "Screen Kiss". I guess it is kind of an "Avalon"/David Sylvian vibe

― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

he's kind of a babe in the 'dissidents' video

― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

as to your qn: try it's immaterial's 'song' lp

― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 7 September 2012 00:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

he's kind of a babe in the 'dissidents' video

for real

― ms fotheringham (Crabbits), Friday, 7 September 2012 04:09 (8 months ago) Permalink