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I Love You Goodbye

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"I Love You Goodbye"
Single by Thomas Dolby
from the album Astronauts & Heretics
Released1992 (1992)
GenreCajun Techno, New wave
Length4:32 (7" edit)
LabelGiant
Songwriter(s)Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby singles chronology
"Close But No Cigar"
(1992)
"I Love You Goodbye"
(1992)
"Silk Pyjamas"
(1992)

"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 number 36 in the UK singles chart in July 1992.[1]

Content

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Done in the style of a "Cajun Techno",[2] the song was explained by Dolby on his live album Forty: Live Limited Edition to be a semi-autobiographical narrative based on his experience of a road trip near New Orleans.[3] In the song, the narrator decides to go bowling on a Friday morning, he and a friend drive toward the Everglades[4] in a stolen Datsun ; they are arrested after crashing the car in a rainstorm, but the county sheriff offers to let them go in exchange for a bribe as long as they get rid of the car in the Gulf of Mexico.

Track listings

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  • 7" (VS 1417)
  1. I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
  2. Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)
  • CD 1 (VSCDG 1417)
  1. I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
  2. Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)
  3. I Love You Goodbye (Version)
  4. Eastern Bloc (Version)
  • CD 2 (VSCDT 1417)
  1. I Love You Goodbye
  2. Windpower
  3. Europa and the Pirate Twins
  4. Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)

References

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  1. ^ "i love you goodbye | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  2. ^ "Editing I Love You Goodbye (section) - Wikipedia". en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  3. ^ "Voodoo: Thomas Dolby and Life after Science". My Spilt Milk. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  4. ^ "Interview: Thomas Dolby : Illinois Entertainer". illinoisentertainer.com. Retrieved 2024-10-11.