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Favourite Electropop/Synthpop Songs
just thought I'd start a synthpop thread. Would be interesting to hear what other people's favourite synthpop tracks are.
I'll start the ball rolling with some classics. Yazoo - Don't Go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHuzkyurC0 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNBObnj5QI OMD - Electricity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2vl99iIEc&feature=fvst Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuUuBt7nrE |
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some more recent synth based stuff
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0gRc2c2wQ Röyksopp - Remind me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws Add N to (X) - Metal Fingers In My Body http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdkoF...eature=related Ladytron - Evil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya0H8...eature=related |
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Ultravox - Vienna
Visage - Mind of a Toy John Foxx - Dancing Like a Gun Gary Numan / Tubeway Army - Down in the Park OMD - Of All the Things We Made Talk Talk - Candy Human League - Open Your Heart Associates - Party Fears Two Kraftwerk - Autobahn Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours |
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Kraftwerk - Das Modell
David Bowie - Speed of Life Mylene Farmer - Pourvu qu'elles soient douces Mylene Farmer - Agnus Dei Vanessa Paradis - Amour jamais Alizée - Gourmandises Visage - Fade to Grey Talk Talk - The Party's Over Talk Talk - Hate Madonna - Holiday Madonna - Borderline Madonna - Dress You Up Gary Numan - M.E. Prince - When You Were Mine Prince - Dirty Mind Prince - Cream [N.P.G Mix] The Pointer Sisters - Automatic Simple Minds - Film Theme Duran Duran - Careless Memories Aaliyah - Try Again t.A.T.u. - Show Me Love Peaches - **** the Pain Away |
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Human League-Love Action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OHPRtRWqWg Human League-Hard Times http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSn2K3eciSc Gary Numan-Cars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSn2K3eciSc Animotion-Obsession http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSn2K3eciSc-love the keyboards in this one ![]() The Associates-Party Fear Too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewiMdGXs3I0 -this track is perfection IMO. |
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some of my favourite songs have been mentioned here
![]() some that come to my mind that i havent seen are Kraftwerk - Neon lights Gary numan - Noise Noise Sparks - All you ever think about is sex Depeche mode - I sometimes wish i was dead Men without hats - I like Duran duran - The chauffeur The human league - so hurt Yello - Lost again then more recent ones like Goldfrapp - hunt a-ha - riding the crest Blaqk audio - semiotic love pet shop boys - integral miike snow - Billie holiday Royksopp - What else is there? the knife - listen now gorillaz - plastic beach Kelly osboune - one word ill stop now i think most of them would be classed as synthpop but im not that sure
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A few that I like ....
Venus Hum - Hummingbirds - If you're not familiar with them I recommend the album, Big Beautiful Sky. Annette Strean has a fantastic voice. Yello - Planet Dada Kraftwerk - Spacelab Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel Gary Numan - M.E Landscape - Computer Person Ultravox - Mr X Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of My favourite genre. Depeche Mode being my favourite band. It's thirty years ago this month since they released their debut single, Dreaming Of Me. |
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Much as I like the original, Grum's remix of Rocket by Goldfrapp amps the synth-pop up to 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTv9yEoMs9A
There's also his track Through the Night, which is a really nice synthy-poppy house record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUbtrTU-1U Then there's Kylie's All the Lovers as remixed by Fear of Tigers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnk55NUigQw More Fear of Tigers awesomeness: Rosanna - Waterfall (Fear of Tigers Remix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3rKIdOoM8 The Sound of Arrows - Into the Clouds (Fear of Tigers Remix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRaoXliSu1M Fear of Tigers - Cossus Snufsigalonica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpCQ8QKF74 A few more assorted tracks: Futurecop! - Starworshipper [vocal version]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfPZdDXZI78 Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang (U-Tern's Disco Dub) [there's a remix with a little bit more of a vocal but a full vocal version would've been even better]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sZRPuGPRM Monarchy - Love Get Out of My Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CfPlPHtaU |
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been playing early DM a lot recently.
Dreaming of Me Ice machine New Life Shout Just Can't Get Enough Any Second Now See You Now This Is Fun The Meaning of Love Oberkorn Leave in Silence Excerpt from:My Secret Garden Get The Balance Right The Great Outdoors B-sides equally as good (if not better) than the A-sides |
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A few old faves :-
Elektric Music - TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3tB_4nWRfM Karl Bartos - 15 Minutes of Fame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFLBQaY1go The Bartos track should have been an anti-Wannabee/Celebrity anthem. |
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Used to get the utter proverbial ripped out me for listening to this stuff, now all of a sudden it's cool! Not complaing mind you
![]() Some faves: Kraftwerk - Neon Lights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP1oNJLq8Y Soft Cell - Memorabilia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjU92uHeiM4 David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhZqsYkl1zI LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vz_01o6Nao Throbbing Gristle - United http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mKDKKySls Depeche Mode - Photographic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_E9zuwUU0 Human League - Sound of the Crowd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gzbz4dz9hk The Knife - Like A Pen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNSd-x1yEs Fever Ray - When I Grow Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M |
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love this early version of Technopop by Kraftwerk (nice video too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogP_9ftTqa0 |
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Not anything like a "my favourite electropop of all time" list but at the moment i'm listening to the following a lot at the moment electropop wise.
Crystal Castles (feat. Robert Smith) - Not in Love. Florrie - Come back to mine Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (cassette club remix) Postal Service - Such great Heights The Pragmatic - Circles Robots with Rayguns - Electro isn't dead. Unicorn Kid - Lion Hat We have Band - West End Girls Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Zero (RAC mix) That'll do for now. |
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Mr Flagio - Take A Chance
B.W.H - Stop Lime - Your My Magician Soft Cell - Bedsitter 12" Human League - Sound Of The Crowd 12" The Associates - Party Fears Two Yazoo - Situation (any mix!) Cerrone - Where are you now? Dollar - Videotheque Azoto - Exalt Exalt Erasure - Breath of life Pet SHop Boys - Love comes quickly 12" The Sparks - Beat the clock Ryan Paris - La dolce vita Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye 12" Thompson Twins - Love on your side Yazoo - Midnight Siouxsie & The Banshees - Red light Modern Talking - You can win if you want Depece Mode - Get the balance right |
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Being there at the start, I like the old and the new stuff. Here are a few that spring to mind
'The Mode' - too many to choose from over the decades but Enjoy The Silence, Waking in my Shoes, Shake The Disease, World in my eyes. that one about having your own Christ (can't rememember the title...). Neon Neon - I Told Her on Alderaan Yazoo - Nobody's Diary, Don't Go, Situation, Only You Erasure - A Little Respect, Plastic Operator - Home, Folder Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities, Love Comes Quickly, This Must Be The Place..., It's a Sin, and on and on Human League - Love Action and that Waitress song Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Monarchy - Gold in the fire (Diamond Cut mix) Kraftwerk - The Robots A-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV The Associates - Party Fears Two |
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Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang
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La Roux - In for the kill , Bulletproof
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Fad Gadget - Back to Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCwVeNjvjo&feature=fvsr PSB - Some Speculation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBmAw9eoRJU Air - Sexy Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6vZOgYduk Cassius - Feeling For You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reBn-tEuBes Goldfrapp - Twist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAhMo-wWTsk Erasure - Take Me Back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49hTR...eature=related |
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Open your Heart - Human League
Don't You Want Me - Human League (just about any song from Dare) Fade to Grey - Visage Are Friends Electric - Gary Numan Quiet Life - Japan Mad World - Tears For Fears Joan of Arc - OMD |
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This thread has reminded me about a £1 CD I once picked up in a second-hand shop by some group called The Faraway Tree, called 'Make Believe Land'. They are seemingly so obscure that all my internet searches have come to naught.
With a copyright of 1994, the album is pretty much electropop-based save for some guitars. It consists of 10 tracks, including two mixes of what was presumably the group's signature tune 'City Lights', which is certainly the most keyboardingly storming song on the album. Elsewhere, theres a mix of decent electro tunes in the same general up-tempo vein - including the best track, the bona fide epic 'Memories' - plus some rather more lacklustre slower tracks that do very little for me. Overall it's a very pleasing little curio which earns itself a decent place on the CD rack amongst my 'mainstream' albums of the genre; this particular copy also has an inlay signed by lead singer Becky (rather ironically dedicated 'to my number one fan' - who presumably wasn't any more at the point of flogging it to a second-hand shop). If by the remote chance anyone to do with the band happen to be reading this, I'd just like to say thanks for the effort and wonder whatever became of you, or if you released anything else... |
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Loving Sunday by Hurts at the moment.
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Of more recent electropop I'd like to nominate The Faint - Agenda Suicide
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loads to choose from here is some of my favs
Ultravox sleepwalk, Hymn, Vienna, Lament. John Foxx, Underpass Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, Are Friends Electric, Down In the Park, My Shadow In Vain, Cars, Jo The Waiter Japan, Quiet Life Visage, Mind Of A toy Depeche mode, See you, New Life, Everything Counts OMD, Promise, Enola Gay Kraftwerk, The Model, Autobahn |
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Guess I should pimp VNV Nation as Ronan Harris invented the term futurepop:
Legion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZzPc-MBFg Anyone listen to Code 64 or Syrian? Code 64 - Leaving Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAt3bbuxAlw Syrian - Supernova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkCqc3NApc4 Along with Colony 5, Frozen Plasma and Cybercide, some of the best current futurepop bands going. ![]() We might be staring a futurepop night later in the year. |
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i think most of them would be classed as synthpop but im not that sure 