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Points: 65599 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:34
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

I'm old enough to remember there was no such thing as 'old fashioned' synth popUnhappy
it is an oxymoron
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:46
^ Erm...I'm 50 and synth pop was circa 1980(ish) and I've never heard what purports to be new or contemporary synth pop (is there such a beastie oh firm and fruity youthful pear?)
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:07
^ Goldfrapp comes closest I think
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:10
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

I like "Everything but the Girl" & "Massive Attack" & "Depeche Mode" but i have no idear if that would fit this genre.
Im an ignorant when it comes to genre catagories (thanks GOD)
For me it is a matter of chronology rather than categories, with Synth Pop occupying a period from 1977 through to about 1985 - the style of music after that period diversified too much to be a single category or genre and is known broadly as Electronica. EbtG and Massive Attack do not fit into the time-line as "Synth Pop" ... even though EbtG were an early 80s bands, they did not move into electronica until the late 80s/early 90s (after working with Massive Attack as it happens).
Reading the article my favorite would be this (find it hard to use the term POP here)
I think of this kind of music as New Wave or POST PUNK
 


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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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^ Sure - both New Wave and Post Punk are umbrella terms that can cover practically anything from 1977 onwards (though New Wave as a name ceased to be appropriate once it became mainstream .... and old Wink) - bands did not need to use synthesisers to be called New Wave or Post Punk whereas Synth Pop generally (not a golden rule) did not use guitars... Tubeway Army were a New Wave band that went from Punk Rock to Post Punk over their short career but were not Synth Pop - Gary Numan's first release under his own name (The Pleasure Principle) was "their" first Synth Pop album (and is the only album where he doesn't play guitar).
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:54
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ Sure - both New Wave and Post Punk are umbrella terms that can cover practically anything from 1977 onwards (though New Wave as a name ceased to be appropriate once it became mainstream .... and old Wink) - bands did not need to use synthesisers to be called New Wave or Post Punk whereas Synth Pop generally (not a golden rule) did not use guitars... Tubeway Army were a New Wave band that went from Punk Rock to Post Punk over their short career but were not Synth Pop - Gary Numan's first release under his own name (The Pleasure Principle) was "their" first Synth Pop album (and is the only album where he doesn't play guitar).
 
After reading the article,I think I got it.
Its part of new wave, but with a strong focus on Syntz (no Talking Heads, Cure or U2 allowed, too guitar based Big smile)  
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:03
Yup. Approve
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:10
I actualy did listen to a lot of that, back then. Ultravox, Japan, Duran Duran, Yellow Magic O, ( Depeche Mode later)
 
But Japan and Depeche Mode are the only,  I came to like enough to get into my own collection, especial Japan.
 
After the disapointment with "Brilliant Trees" I still remember how trilled I was when Sylvian started working with Fripp on Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities and even more when i got Gone to Earth.
 
 
 
 


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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:22
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:



Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I was working at a used book store in high school when Immunity came in.  Phil Collins was a guest on it.  It was what I'd consider proggy synth pop.




Immunity is a fun album.  Waving Not Drowning is even better.  Been meaning to get his other album too. 


I didn't know there was another Hine album out there.  My second one is Wildest Wish To Fly.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2012 at 15:02
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ Goldfrapp comes closest I think
 
Second Decay could qualify as well...
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2012 at 12:55
Hot Chip
La Roux
are synth pop in my tiny mind
Help me I'm falling!
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