Hyperactive!

Hyperactive! Artist: Thomas Dolby
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724349942028
EAN: 0724349942028
ASIN: B00001QGT7


Release Date: 1999-03-18

Hyperactive!


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Tracks:

  1. Hyperactive!
  2. She Blinded Me With Science
  3. I Scare Myself
  4. Key To Her Ferrari
  5. The Flat Earth
  6. Mulu The Rain Forest
  7. Europa And The Pirate Twins
  8. The Ability To Swing
  9. Radio Silence
  10. Cloud Burst At Shingle Street
  11. Windpower
  12. Screen Kiss
  13. White City
  14. Airhead
  15. Hot Sauce
  16. May The Cube Be With You

Similar Items:

  1. 12 X 12
  2. Aliens Ate My Buick
  3. The Flat Earth
  4. The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle
  5. The Golden Age of Wireless

Album Description

Budget-priced collection with 14 of the best from the '80s by the beloved English new waver. Includes 'Hyperactive!', 'She Blinded Me With Science', 'Radio Silence', 'Airwaves', 'Windpower', 'One Of Our Submarines', 'Screen Kiss', 'The Flat Earth', 'Dissidents' and much more. 1999 release.

Album Details

Great Best of with Dissidents, She Blinded Me with Science, Airwaves, the Flat Earth, Get Out of My Mix and More.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best Dolby Collection.......2003-06-04

Of the various Dolby collections out there, this one's the best mix of his popular and experimental works. It has the quirky hits "She Blinded Me With Science" and "Hyperactive" but also the hooky melodies of "Radio Silence" and "White City." " Dissidents" is a nice surprise in lyric and tune. And my favorite Dobly oddity, "One Of Our Submarines (is Missing)," explores a naval disaster. He is more hummable than you ever imagined.

4 out of 5 stars Even-handed collection.......2000-11-07

EMI's bank balance must have dipped again; by my reckoning, this is the fifth Thomas Dolby compilation in the last five years - the others being Retrospectacle: The Best of Thomas Dolby, Premium Gold Collection, Hyperactive, 12 x 12. And, no, that isn't a typo - this is the second Thomas Dolby compilation to be titled Hyperactive (the first one was released by Disky, also distributed by EMI), although this one retains the exclamation point.

In spirit, Hyperactive! most closely resembles Retrospectacle. However, where Retrospectacle included the singles from Astronauts & Heretics (released on Virgin in the UK), plus "Urges" and "Leipzig" from the first edition of The Golden Age of Wireless, Hyperactive! sticks to material from Dolby's three EMI recordings.

That doesn't necessarily mean that it sticks only with the tried and true. Included in the track listing are "Cloud burst on Shingle Street" (from The Golden Age of Wireless), "The key to her Ferrari", and "The ability to swing" (both from Aliens Ate My Buick).

Of course, the key singles are represented as well - "Europa and the pirate twins", "She blinded me with science", "Hyperactive!", "Airhead", and the second Dolby's Cube single (before settlement of a suit brought by Dolby Laboratories restricted Thomas Dolby from using "Dolby" in anything other than his own name), "May the cube be with you".

So, overall, Hyperactive! is a well-balanced sampler of the Thomas Dolby catalog. As a budget-priced collection, this is a good place to start for the person who is curious about Dolby, but isn't sure which of the three original albums to get first.

4 out of 5 stars Thomas Dolby got right back in the day.......2000-08-21

I always Respected the different sounds&Grooves that Thomas Dolby always came up with.She Blinded me with Science alone was a Jam that rocked non-stop.he was always about trying something different.I feel he is very Underrated.he was into different styles&vibes.worth a Listen.

4 out of 5 stars

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