I remember "So" first hitting the radio waves and thinking it was such a breath of fresh air...compared to what else was going on in the mid 1980's...that cd was in a class all it's own
Ozzy O agreed just in case his opinion matters
That cd, So, was and still is, a masterpiece!
Don't sell his earlier, in the 1980s, album short....Security is a fine little disc..."Shock the Monkey", baby.
But "So," does have Kate Bush on it.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
A-Ha - Take On Me
Alphaville - Forever Young
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Around
The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar, The Killing Moon
The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (A Whisper To A Scream)
Joe Jackson - Stepping Out
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill, Cloudbursting, Wuthering Heights
Love and Rockets - Ball Of Confusion
Madness - Our House
Ministry - (Every Day Is) Halloween
Modern English - I Melt With You
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
OMD - If You Leave
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up, In Your Eyes
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Tears For Fears - Shout, Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
.....didnt include the Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, the Smiths, the Police and the Talking Heads because I actually like these bands (most of the bands from my above list I enjoy in a cheesy-80's-guilty pleasure kinda way)
Now that's a killer list of good old fashioned 80's pop.
Not to sound snooty, but I think a lot of people don't really know what synth pop is.
Here's a short little song list from a cd I made several years ago now. I still listen to it from time to time.
A Little Respect - Erasure
I Touch Roses - Book of Love
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Melt With You - Modern English
The Promise - When In Rome
If You Leave - OMD
Living in Oblivion - Anything Box
Regret - New Order
Close to Me - The Cure
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Oh L'amour - Erasure
Boy - Book of Love
When We Lie - Anything Box
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
More Than This - Roxy Music
One of the more overlooked bands from this genre is Anything Box. Their cd "Peace" holds a special place for me.
okay okay okay ... i can't even do this anymore.
Actualy, i just noticed this guy has a TON of stuff, and EVERYTHING he has (and its a LOT) is super "queer" 80s synthpop\nrg\nu-disco crap.
You tell 'em....it's your fookin' thread, and you make the rules.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
80's songs that i like? does black flag, minutemen, husker du etc count?
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haha i would definitely consider these all guilty pleasures.
i'm a little young for the 80s stuff but i know my music and these are fun to rock out to...
roxy music - more than this
gary numan - cars
tears for fears - head over heels
simple minds - dont you forget about me
edie brickell & the new bohemians - what i am
blondie - rapture
Robert Plant, "Walking towards paradise" which is the bonus track on the Now and Zen album. If you got the CD, it was the last track, and if you got the vinyl, there wasn't room for it, and it didn't exist. I love that song!
Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
Jump by Van Halen is synthy, and 80's. And I love it as much now as I did when I first heard it in 1984
I hate the pop synth stuff, except New Order, they were pretty cool, then the Happy Mondays (90's I guess though)
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
I was in the studio yesterday, and my producer/engineer was talking about why this fad for tinny production took on, in the eighties. I thought it'd be some really technical reason to do with fads and developments in compression and EQ. He said it was because everyone was doing so much coke that the top range of their hearing was fucked, and they kept saying, "I can't hear the top, man, put more top on".
"Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"
When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"
I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
.....didnt include the Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, the Smiths, the Police and the Talking Heads because I actually like these bands (most of the bands from my above list I enjoy in a cheesy-80's-guilty pleasure kinda way)
Exactly. Such a great, shitty song.
Duran Duran- New Moon On Monday....There, I admitted it.
Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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This may be THE ULTIMATE GUILTY PLEASURE, but i'm not too homophobic to share it:
Lose Control - Eric Carmen
If I opened it now would you not understand?
And then there is this, just plain bad "Jump" era Van Halen wanna be doucherocket-"metal" repleat with tits, ass, and bad synthesizer.
Summer Time Girls by Y&T
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Simple Minds
But "So," does have Kate Bush on it.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Now that's a killer list of good old fashioned 80's pop.
Here's a short little song list from a cd I made several years ago now. I still listen to it from time to time.
A Little Respect - Erasure
I Touch Roses - Book of Love
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Melt With You - Modern English
The Promise - When In Rome
If You Leave - OMD
Living in Oblivion - Anything Box
Regret - New Order
Close to Me - The Cure
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Oh L'amour - Erasure
Boy - Book of Love
When We Lie - Anything Box
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
More Than This - Roxy Music
One of the more overlooked bands from this genre is Anything Box. Their cd "Peace" holds a special place for me.
I totally respect you for hanging your balls out on that one. Wow!
Oh i think they know.
Me personaly, i couldn't actualy think of any synth pop i actualy liked, so i just posted some cheezy 80's songs.
But you want synth-pop?
Really?
Really you do?
Eeeeewwwwww ... okaaaay ...
Hottest Of The Hot - Man 2 Man
bwhahahahahah a..ahahaha ..a hah a
okay okay okay ... i can't even do this anymore.
Actualy, i just noticed this guy has a TON of stuff, and EVERYTHING he has (and its a LOT) is super "queer" 80s synthpop\nrg\nu-disco crap.
Check it out.
Ewwwwwww.
How about some Dead or Alive?
Turn Around And Count To Ten
Please remember, i HATE all of this shite!
ahahhabwaaahahahaha
how bout The Twins?
Ballet Dancer.
Mmm hmm.
I was made to dance for who?
Uggh.
Okay one more total piece of 80s true synth pop shit!
Laban - Love in Siberia.
Hey you asked for the queerest of the queer, you got it.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
again, not exactly synth pop:
I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses
If I opened it now would you not understand?
is the best
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom, Save it for later
Madness - Our House
Hell yea.
TARZAN BOY!
Now THAT is something i can get behind!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Any pop with a horrible fookin' synth on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA
Taco - "Puttin' on the Ritz"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBzWeU8B8I
Don Henley "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4hd_1SjnuI
Robert Plant "Little by Little"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpJxoKmXqY
Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
New Order "True Faith"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
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10/16/08 - Sao Paulo, BR
10/17/08 - Sao Paulo, BR
10/19/08 - Buenos Aires
i'm a little young for the 80s stuff but i know my music and these are fun to rock out to...
roxy music - more than this
gary numan - cars
tears for fears - head over heels
simple minds - dont you forget about me
edie brickell & the new bohemians - what i am
blondie - rapture
and last but not least...
blondie - heart of glass
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE
edit: oh my god i cant stop rocking to heart of glass!
not unless they did some synth stuff that you're into.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
I hate the pop synth stuff, except New Order, they were pretty cool, then the Happy Mondays (90's I guess though)
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Human League - Together in Electric Dreams
When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"
I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
Is it just me or does Baltimora (is that the dude's name?!) look a lot like the evil god bitch at the end of Ghostbusters?
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how I got her
I'll say "I saved my money"
They'll say isnt she pretty
that ship
called
dignity"
Set it up set it up set up
Set it up set it up set up
Set it up set it up set up
yeah set it up again set it up again.
Ahh the memorys, hangs head in guilty pleasures shame.:o
Exactly. Such a great, shitty song.
Duran Duran- New Moon On Monday....There, I admitted it.