r/synthpop • u/toughtiggy101 • 6h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon
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r/synthpop • u/synthandswagger • 13d ago
Vintage Happy Birthday Mr Dolby
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Happy birthday to Mr Thomas Dolby! Besides five delightful albums, he has produced and collaborated with a variety of artists. He offered a demo to Whodini to make their hit Magic Wand, wrote and laid down synths and "HA"s to New Toy, had Eddie Van Halen join him for Close But No Cigar, etc etc
What's your favorite Dolby song or collab?
r/synthpop • u/harrywarden81 • 12d ago
Discussion Would Soft Cell have achieved much greater recognition—in America and beyond—had they continued to produce commercial music, as their record label desired, and accepted the opportunity to tour with David Bowie?
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Following the commercial success of *Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret*, their record label wanted Soft Cell to produce more hits along the lines of "Tainted Love." Dave Ball and Marc Almond refused, choosing instead to continue creating the unconventional music that defined their personal style. I have read that, at the height of their popularity, the band was offered the chance to tour with David Bowie; however, they turned it down, feeling they were not yet worthy of such acclaim and fearing they might falter on stage. A few years later, the duo disbanded and did not make music together again until the 2000s, having released 3 albums in 6 years. Could the band have attained significantly greater recognition—both in general and specifically in America—had things unfolded differently?
r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 12h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Animotion – Obsession (1986)
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r/synthpop • u/behridingle • 14h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Blancmange – Don’t Tell Me
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r/synthpop • u/bigdealaz • 2h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio OMD - Talking Loud and Clear
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r/synthpop • u/behridingle • 14h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
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r/synthpop • u/PCMidiTowerR5 • 7m left
Music Video (MV) or Audio Yello - Of Course I'm Lying
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r/synthpop • u/dinarnaud • 5h ago
Article John Foxx Interview in Smash Hits Magazine Dated April 1980.
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I discovered his electronic music in 2026.
Previously he was in Ultravox!
His debut album was released in 1980 and pathed the way for other electronic artists/bands like Gary Numan, OMD etc.
r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Radio Edit)
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 12h ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation SPK - Metal Dance (7" Version)
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r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 1d ago
Pictures Happy Birthday to Simon John Charles Le Bon of Duran Duran who just turned 68 years old…
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r/synthpop • u/Optimal-Spare1305 • 20h ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Flock of Seagulls - Never Again the Dancer (never mix)
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the official remix didn't mix the vocals, here's another:
r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 12h ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Kirlian Camera - Edges (Dance Version)
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r/synthpop • u/behridingle • 1d ago
Live Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 1983 live
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r/synthpop • u/Tragedy_for_you • 16h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio CHROM - Regret & Testify
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Deine Lakaien - Return (Karl Bartos Remix)
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Linea Aspera - Synapse
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r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 2d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio ABC – The Look of Love (1983)
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r/synthpop • u/behridingle • 1d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio 4-3-1 - The Jetzons
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r/synthpop • u/farfaxfr • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Dirty Postcards
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B-side to the massive hit "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime"
r/synthpop • u/dinarnaud • 2d ago
Article Human League - I Need Your Loving (1986) [The Follow-Up to the Massive ‘Human’ Single]
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Both songs from Crash album.
This follow-up didn’t do as well as Human.
Opinions ?
r/synthpop • u/behridingle • 2d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Martin Dupont - Inside Out
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This sounds like a contemporary song, but actually came out in 1987...
r/synthpop • u/MomsGonnaHaveAFit • 2d ago
Offering or Asking Music Recs Want to get riled up at my choices for "5 synth-pop songs to represent each decade from the 70s through the 2020s"?
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I just put this together for a fundraiser show for WAYO 104.3 FM, a community radio station in Rochester, NY. You are sure to have issues with this list but you might enjoy reading it and/or listening to the archived show. Oh yeah - and I mixed in sound bites from sci-fi movies from each era just because... https://www.mixcloud.com/wayoradio/are-friends-electric-oct-25-2026/
[1970s]
Wendy Carlos - Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, 4th Movement (1971)
Tangerine Dream - Madrigal Meridian (1978)
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric? (1979)
Oxygene (part IV) (1977)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
[1980s]
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (1981)
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (1984)
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (1985)
Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me (1984)
Swans Way - Soul Train (1984)
[1990s]
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (1990)
Opus 3 - It’s a Fine Day (1992)
Stereo MCs - Connected (1992)
Propellerheads & Shirley Bassey - History Repeating (1997)
Air - La Femme D’Argent (1998)
[2000s]
Holland - neoprene so tight (2000)
Ladytron - Ghosts (2008)
Robyn - Be Mine (2005)
Phoenix - Lisztomania (2009)
Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song (2007)
[2010s]
Austra - Lose It (2011)
Future islands - Balance (2011)
M83 - Midnight City (2011)
Four Tet - Lush (2017)
Underworld - Ova Nova (2016)
[2020s]
Nation of Language - This Fractured Mind (2021)
Melenas - Primer Tiempo (2001)
Fever Ray - Shiver (2023)
Stereolab - Aerial Troubles (2025)
Haute & Freddy - Anti-superstar (2026)