Ahhhhh! A 40 year musical mystery has been solved at last! 🥳
When I was a kid I remember seeing a music video on TV in the UK that definitely left an impact (of sorts). I remember it had a spinning 3D face and someone talking (not singing) over it... definitely something different!
The next time I went down to the local record shop I bought what I thought was the 7" of that song... but I bought the wrong single because of course I didn't actually remember the title! Instead I picked up Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive!", but despite that not being the song I wanted, that turned out to be a great song and I loved that and the B-Side "White City" so it all worked out. :)
But still... Hyperactive (and Thomas Dolby) were now associated in my head with this mysterious song and video, and it's bugged me ever since.
Cut to now, watching the 1982 synth pop episode of The Album Years podcast and Wilson and Bowness are talking about Thomas Dolby's "Golden Age of Wireless" album (the one before "The Flat Earth" which had Hyperactive and White City on it) and now I'
... Show more...Ahhhhh! A 40 year musical mystery has been solved at last! 🥳
When I was a kid I remember seeing a music video on TV in the UK that definitely left an impact (of sorts). I remember it had a spinning 3D face and someone talking (not singing) over it... definitely something different!
The next time I went down to the local record shop I bought what I thought was the 7" of that song... but I bought the wrong single because of course I didn't actually remember the title! Instead I picked up Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive!", but despite that not being the song I wanted, that turned out to be a great song and I loved that and the B-Side "White City" so it all worked out. :)
But still... Hyperactive (and Thomas Dolby) were now associated in my head with this mysterious song and video, and it's bugged me ever since.
Cut to now, watching the 1982 synth pop episode of The Album Years podcast and Wilson and Bowness are talking about Thomas Dolby's "Golden Age of Wireless" album (the one before "The Flat Earth" which had Hyperactive and White City on it) and now I'm thinking about that song and video again... and then it occurs to me to actually try to find it online, and I did!
It turns out the mystery song was actually Will Powers' "Adventures in Success"! It has the spinning 3D face (I somehow had remembered it to be wireframe but it isn't!) and the talking-not-singing too! And it was around at a similar time to Hyperactive too. It's gotta be that one! (the story behind Will Powers is weird too - it's actually music photographer Lynn Goldsmith. Plus I'm sure MC900ft Jesus must have been influenced by that a bit).
So yay! Mystery solved at last! 😁
#music #1980s #pop
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