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- Aliens Ate My Buick
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Thomas Dolby
Released 1988

Pulp Culture
05:32
773 plays

Budapest By Blimp
08:37
742 plays

May The Cube Be With You
06:50
599 plays

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- 1
- Key To Her Ferrari
- 04:35
- 1,235 plays

- 2
- Airhead
- 05:05
- 1,769 plays

- 3
- Hot Sauce
- 05:00
- 1,051 plays

- 4
- Pulp Culture
- 05:32
- 773 plays

- 5
- My Brain Is Like A Sieve
- 04:48
- 1,080 plays

- 6
- The Ability To Swing
- 04:25
- 1,221 plays

- 7
- Budapest By Blimp
- 08:37
- 742 plays

- 8
- May The Cube Be With You
- 06:50
- 599 plays

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album review

Thomas Dolby didn't do his career much good by waiting four years between album releases. Pop music trends shifted away from the quirky synth-pop Dolby had pioneered in 1983-1984, and though he employed a heavy funk beat aimed at the discos and even covered a George Clinton song, Dolby seemed less a true dancefloor king than a commentator on the same, especially in such songs as the (non-charting) single "Airhead," "Pulp Culture," and "The Ability to Swing." Dolby's flirtation with film had also added an eclecticism to his style that embraced '40s jazz vocalese ("The Key to Her Ferrari") and European balladeering ("Budapest By Blimp"). As ever, Dolby was a man of many ideas, but on Aliens Ate My Buick they failed to add up to a coherent statement. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide