She Blinded Me with Science

"She Blinded Me with Science"
UK cover art
Single by Thomas Dolby
from the album The Golden Age of Wireless
B-side
ReleasedOctober 1982
Genre
Length
  • 3:42
  • 5:09 (extended version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Thomas Dolby singles chronology
"Windpower"
(1982) 		"She Blinded Me with Science"
(1982) 		"One of Our Submarines"
(1982)
Music video
"Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science" on YouTube

"She Blinded Me with Science" is a song by the English musician Thomas Dolby, released in 1982. It was first released as a single in the United Kingdom in October 1982. It was subsequently included on the EP Blinded by Science[3] and the 1983 re-release of Dolby's debut album The Golden Age of Wireless.[4]

Although viewed as a success in both the United States and Canada, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2 weeks at No. 1 in Canada's RPM magazine, the song barely managed to score among the Top 50 in Dolby's native United Kingdom, peaking at No. 49 on the UK Singles Chart in 1982.

Dolby is often considered a one-hit wonder in the United States on the basis of the song's chart success there. In 2002, US cable television network VH1 named "She Blinded Me with Science" No. 20 on its list of the "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders".[5] While the song is Dolby's only Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100, he has had other songs that scored on the music charts. In 2006, VH1 placed it at No. 76 on their list of "Greatest Songs of the '80s".[6] Then, in 2009, it ranked No. 13 on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s" list.[7] The song was used as the theme song in the pilot episode of The Big Bang Theory before it was replaced with the "Big Bang Theory Theme" by rock band Barenaked Ladies.

  1. ^ "Discover the 10 Albums that changed Thomas Dolby's life". Goldmine. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. ^ Lanham, Tom (16 September 2011). "Thomas Dolby in town to lecture you on science". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Billboard's Top Album Picks > EPs". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 7. 19 February 1983. p. 61. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^ "Dolby Unveils New Wireless" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 11. 19 March 1983. p. 1. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ "Greatest One Hit Wonders List > Hour 5: #20 – 1". VH1. Archived from the original on 31 August 2004.
  6. ^ "VH1'S '100 Greatest Songs of the '80s' preaches to the choir with Bon Jovi's 'Livin' on a Prayer' taking the top spot". VH1. 24 October 2006. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010.
  7. ^ Ali, Rahsheeda. "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s". VH1. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.