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“I Love You Goodbye” by Thomas Dolby
From the album Astronauts & Heretics (1992)
“I Love You Goodbye” by Thomas Dolby appears on 8 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1992 on the album Astronauts & Heretics. Its best result is #632 on the WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,079 alternative song of all time.
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Thomas Dolby took his synthesizers down to Louisiana for "I Love You Goodbye", the second single from Astronauts & Heretics, his fourth album, in 1992, and came back with what he called "Cajun Techno". He wrote and produced it himself, and Michael Doucet's fiddle, Wayne Toups's accordion and Al Tharp's banjo swirl around his keyboards and piano, with Larry Treadwell on guitar, Terry Jackson on bass and a crowd of backing singers, Doucet and Toups among them.
The story is half true. A run-in with a patrolman while Dolby and friends were out driving during the Louisiana sessions grew into a shaggy tale of a stolen Datsun, a crash in the rain on the way to the Everglades, and a county sheriff happy to look the other way for cash, provided the car ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. Jonathan Teplitzky filmed the clip out among the bayous near New Orleans.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 734 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 785 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 788 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 788 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 788 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 788 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 788 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2024 | 632 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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