The great 80's brit synthpop thread

[labrat]

I love covers that aren't just a slightly different/watered down version of the original - I guess that should be another thread.

tis here http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2074&highlight=cover+versions

oh and Scarlet Fantastic's No Memory

 

[IdleRich]

"tis here http://www.dissensus.com/showthread...=cover+versions"

Ah yes, and both Tainted Love and You were always... are already mentioned.

 

[the undisputed truth]

seems i missed dollar first time round but yeah, that give me back my heart tune is not bad...

...these last tunes will probably finish of my 80's escape

joBoxers - just got lucky
orchestral manouvers in the dark - enola gay
boomtown rats - I don't like mondays
china crisis - black man ray
living in a box - living in a box
killing joke - love like blood
flash and the pan - waiting on a train
altered images - i could be happy

and lastly the tune that changed my life, kicked my ass into the 90's and one I'd love to hear a dubstep version of

voodoo ray - a guy called Gerald

might even do that ourselves if it hasn't already been done...

 

[michael]

I think you managed to get through this whole thread with no mention of Talk Talk. Probably most suitable for what you're planning is their one and only hit (at least in NZ!) 'Life's What You Make It'.

I love OMD's 'Enola Gay', but isn't something like 'If You Leave' more fitting with your general approach? Aren't you looking for the BIG tunes from these artists?

When In Rome's 'The Promise' is pretty amazing... has the added benefit that if anyone youngish is at the party they might know it from some recent movie.. can't remember which.

 

[Edward]

re-flex - politics of dancing
the passions - i'm in love with a german film star
fad gadget - ricky's hand
bill sharpe & gary numan - change your mind
eurhythmics - sweet dreams
blondie - heart of glass
blancmange - don't tell me
japan - quiet life
nik kershaw - wouldn't it be good
yazoo -situation
heaven 17 - crushed by the wheels of industry
night moves - trans dance (were they british? i think so)
grace jones - slave to the rhythm (english label at least!)

sorry of some of these are already mentioned

a lot of "non-synth" pop records in your list!
and a lot of non-uk records mentioned by others.......

 

[pokinatcha]

When In Rome's 'The Promise' is pretty amazing... has the added benefit that if anyone youngish is at the party they might know it from some recent movie.. can't remember which.

Napoleon Dynamite. "The Promise" plays in the credits.

 

[soundtexture]

.......

Interesting list.... not all are my favourites by any means... i guess 80's synthpop has always been as subjective a title as it remains today... Were is Yellow Magic Orchestra on the list...??? [edit: opps sorry no brit!]

But to get back to the point[?] it's nice to know most of the best of the 80's synth bands carried on well after the eighties... Duran Duran , Sylvian, Pet Shop Boys, Numan, The Cure, Ultravox .

What was the point again???

 

[the undisputed truth]

that list is just supposed to be the most accessible of their tunes and a jumping off point for further exploration...

I'll take

re-flex
blancmange
japan
eurythmics

cheers Ed

and enola gay cos it fits quite nicely going into love missile both being about bombs an all that...

I'm sure if you listen and dig around you'll find most brit pop bands of the 80's at some stage used synths, yes even the cure, clash, siouxsie...et al

 

[Omaar]

I think you managed to get through this whole thread with no mention of Talk Talk. Probably most suitable for what you're planning is their one and only hit (at least in NZ!) 'Life's What You Make It'.

It's my life was a hit for no doubt though

I love OMD's 'Enola Gay', but isn't something like 'If You Leave' more fitting with your general approach? Aren't you looking for the BIG tunes from these artists?

and just cos it was in pretty in pink.

Have been listening to dazzle ships recently - super good.

They're reforming apparently. Or getting their original line up back together or something.

When In Rome's 'The Promise' is pretty amazing... has the added benefit that if anyone youngish is at the party they might know it from some recent movie.. can't remember which.

That was one of the only good bits in that movie, which is the most blandy baroque expression of post modern irony I've ever seen. Seguing from some Zapp song to Alphaville's Forever Young was nice though. And I liked how he called chicken feet talons.

 

[Violator]

So moved by the goings on here that had to add my pennyworth:

Furniture Brilliant Mind

Black Wonderful Life

Prefab Sprout Faron Young

and I would go for It's My Life by Talk Talk

May your hair be ever full of spray

 

[the undisputed truth]

So moved by the goings on here that had to add my pennyworth:

Furniture Brilliant Mind

Black Wonderful Life

Prefab Sprout Faron Young

and I would go for It's My Life by Talk Talk

May your hair be ever full of spray

...your eyes lined and your shoulders padded

can't say as i've heard of furniture, black rings a bell, definitely prefab sprout and talk talk. will check em out though

cheers

 

[Buick6]

SAMANTHA FOX - TOUCH ME
SINITTA - BOYS BOYS BOYS

Something about those syncopted cowbells.

 

[the undisputed truth]

now you're talking...

...could just about do a whole stock aitken waterman thing

time bandits - shooting love (dutch though I think, but c'mon we're talking, TIME BANDITS SHOOTING LOVE )...

 

[shudder]

surprised no mention of Gary Numan/Tubeway Army yet. He/they count(s), no? I reckon Replicas is his best...

 

[Buick6]

SAMANTHA FOX - TOUCH ME
SINITTA - BOYS BOYS BOYS

Something about those syncopted cowbells.

or that wet fart/wet Euro-arse slapping basslines...I mean what sort of minds could invent such a sound???

 

[Ness Rowlah]

SAMANTHA FOX - TOUCH ME
SINITTA - BOYS BOYS BOYS

Something about those syncopted cowbells.

Buick - oranges and apples and all that. "Boys" is Sabrina Salerno, not Sinitta Malone.
For the record - I looked up those surnames; I didn't know them.

Kings of Convenience known to be Sabrina fans, visiting her (TV Show?) when
they were in Italy.

 

[Ness Rowlah]

or that wet fart/wet Euro-arse slapping basslines...I mean what sort of minds could invent such a sound???

Ahh - what about Fashiøn (as they named themselves) and their "Fabrique" album
with the single "Love Shadow". Stonking bass on that one.

 

[the undisputed truth]

^^^were'nt they danish or something ???

...respect teh wet arse fart bass slap...level 42 anyone???

 

[Ness Rowlah]

^^^were'nt they danish or something ???

...respect teh wet arse fart bass slap...level 42 anyone???

I'll admit to buying their first album. My excuse is that
I got in on sale with loads of other stuff,
the cover was sort of different and I might have thought
it was related to 23 Skidoo (ok that's a thin one) - but we have to stop right
here and just say
NO - LEVEL 42 - THAT REALLY IS THE LIMIT

 

[the undisputed truth]

^^^innit though ???

their only saving grace was wally badarou, grace jones producer who had some good shit out as a solo artist as well...