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 number 36 in the UK singles chart in July 1992.

Content
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)
 * 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)