I Love You Goodbye
"I Love You Goodbye" is the first track on the fourth Thomas Dolby album Astronauts & Heretics. It was the second of three singles to be released from the album and reached #36 in the UK singles chart in July 1992.
| "I Love You Goodbye" | ||||
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| Single by Thomas Dolby | ||||
| from the album Astronauts & Heretics | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Cajun Techno, New wave | |||
| Length | 4:32 (7" edit) | |||
| Label | Giant | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Thomas Dolby | |||
| Thomas Dolby singles chronology | ||||
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Done in the style of a "Cajun Techno," the song was explained by Dolby on his live album Forty: Live Limited Edition to be a semi-autobiographical narrative of an adventure in New Orleans. The narrator decides to go bowling on a Friday morning, recalling an incident in which he and an acquaintance stole a car (a Datsun) and drove toward the Everglades. They were arrested after crashing the car in a rainstorm, but the county sheriff offered to let them go in exchange for a bribe as long as they got rid of the car in the Gulf of Mexico.
Track listings
- 7" (VS 1417)
- I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
- Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)
- CD 1 (VSCDG 1417)
- I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
- Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)
- I Love You Goodbye (Version)
- Eastern Bloc (Version)
- CD 2 (VSCDT 1417)
- I Love You Goodbye
- Windpower
- Europa and the Pirate Twins
- Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)