For those who like old fashioned synth pop
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Topic: For those who like old fashioned synth pop
Posted By: Windhawk
Subject: For those who like old fashioned synth pop
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 17:33
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Doris Brendel, which some may remember as the vocalist in The Violet Hour, is still active. And I think she hopes to reach some dancefloors with her latest single. Catchy tune not lightyears away from good old Eurythmics but with a tad more punch and working class sensibility. Might even say there's a touch of Chumbawumba in there. Funny vid too, and well made one at that. ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 17:57
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You wouldn't happen to be familiar with Rupert Hine?
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 18:01
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Windhawk wrote:Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 18:04
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Ah, Blondie. I knew that there was something else this reminded me of. Great, now that one was off my mind. And slightly familiar with Hine. He's partially responsible for the best ever song made about my childhood western hero The Lone Ranger if I remember correctly ;-) ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 18:14
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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. Ah Blondie, ate a lot of beans and I got some gas, it made a big fart, blew it out my ass.  I seem to recall Debbie doing some vocal jazz. And Fripp was either a guest on a Blondie album or came really close to being on one. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 18:49
(Apparently he recorded guitar for two tracks but only one survived the final mix)
And live in London (Harry announce Fripp at the end just to dispell any doubts):
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 19:17
Wow, Blondie came out when I was in high school but I hadn't heard the Fripp track before.  I was a zombie prog pod freak at the time and didn't pay much attention to the pop at the time. Of course it was the era of radio so it was hard not to. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 01:42
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 01:46
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I like the tune, but the video is basically like all the iMovie stuff we recorded in high school film class, but with a vaguely decent camera. Cringe. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 02:20
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Oh well. I found the story part of it rather funny. The facial expressions and body language in general - the sheepish smile of the dude that drunkenly falls of the chair and the morning after routine with the gal in particular.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 02:30
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 03:02
| Fade Away is one of those strange little pre-80s moments where we see a glimmer of interesting music before the suits got their grimy hands on things and ruined the whole decade... BTW which one's Pink? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 04:26
'Fade Away and Radiate' is the highlight of the album for me - I loved that track when I first heard it as the flip-side to 'Picture This', that the album didn't contain more music in that direction was a disapointment.
That whole sequence of events is a fascinating glimpse of the music business vs. the artists at that time, starting with Fripp joining Bowie and Eno in Berlin for the "Heroes" sessions to him moving to New York and finding the GBGB new wave scene that resulted in the Exposure project, which was subsequently stymied by "the suits" at every turn, starting with Gabriel's second album being described by the US record label as musical suicide, Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs being shelved for three years by RCA because it "wasn't commercial" and the difficulties in recording the final part of the trilogy. I've just read that he wanted Debbie Harry to do a cover of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', a song that Eno described during the Berlin sessions as " the sound of the future". In talking about Exposure Fripp said: "What I was trying to do in the original trilogy was to investigate the 'pop song' as a means of expression ... I think it's a supreme discipline to know that you have three to four minutes to get together all your lost emotions and find words of one syllable or less to put forward all your ideas. It's a discipline of form that I don't think is cheap or shoddy." ------------- What? |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 17:00
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Zappa alumnis ! ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 17:43
Immunity is a fun album. Waving Not Drowning is even better. Been meaning to get his other album too. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 03:35
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 03:40
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I like "Everything but the Girl" & "Massive Attack" & "Depeche Mode" but i have no idear if that would fit this genre.
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 03:43
I think its a Masterpiece
Fripps production sounds a bit dated, but the music is wonderfull. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:08
For me it is a matter of chronology rather than categories, with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthpop" rel="nofollow - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica" rel="nofollow - 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). ------------- What? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:11
I'm old enough to remember there was no such thing as 'old fashioned' synth pop
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:34
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 04:46
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^ 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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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:07
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^ Goldfrapp comes closest I think ------------- What? |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:10
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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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:29
^ 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  ) - 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).------------- What? |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 05:54
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 ) ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:03
Yup.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:10
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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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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 06:22
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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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 12:42
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^Wildest Wish to Fly is the one I'm still missing.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 15:02
Second Decay could qualify as well... ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 12:55
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Hot Chip
La Roux
are synth pop in my tiny mind ------------- Help me I'm falling! |