ska invita
back on the other side
Thanks Fozzie!
So yeah, if you want to hear Simon Reynolds show (it was really good trust me) its here:
http://exoticpylon.com/pages/02-21-09.html
will check when i get home...
Best UK Synth Band.
- Thread starter audiotech
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Thanks Fozzie!
So yeah, if you want to hear Simon Reynolds show (it was really good trust me) its here:
http://exoticpylon.com/pages/02-21-09.html
will check when i get home...
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
No, he just looks like a normal bloke.
And looks younger than the 40 something he must be.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Tis Soft Cell. Great songs, sleezy, decadent, whiff of danger, great frontman.
Depeche mode were great when they were a pop band - but became very dull when they went all seri-arse.
Pet Shop Boys - boring boring boring boring droning gits. 'Detached', 'cool', 'ironic' , 'arch' = shit.
Art of Noise - responisble for some of the most horrible 80s synth sound - and thats saying something.
Howard Jones - utter shit. Like a bad dream involving hair gel and the most annoying kid at school.
New Order dont count as a synth band - although Blue Monday is genius.
Depeche mode were great when they were a pop band - but became very dull when they went all seri-arse.
Pet Shop Boys - boring boring boring boring droning gits. 'Detached', 'cool', 'ironic' , 'arch' = shit.
Art of Noise - responisble for some of the most horrible 80s synth sound - and thats saying something.
Howard Jones - utter shit. Like a bad dream involving hair gel and the most annoying kid at school.
New Order dont count as a synth band - although Blue Monday is genius.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
New Order, The Human league, The Thompson Twins and Yazoo all feature females.
As for the 'old school' nature of this thread, it's cos it was inspired by the superb Synth Britannia programme, and the poll is of bands who were featured in it. It concetrated on the synth pioneers, not the later ones who used synths when they had become ubiquitous.
I think everyone is just going on the choices given by the thread starter and what was on the Synth Britannia documentary, I don't think everyone on this thread is a misogynistic Luddite if that's what you were getting at?
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Yeah untitled is the poor cousin, but still has its moments...
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Human League were terrific at first - still one of the best and most original live acts I ever went to see - and then when they remade/remodelled and drafted the girls in (which personally I didn't like so much) they changed pop music forever. So I'm gonna have to give them the nod. Oh and Phil Oakey's a decent bloke too.
Also worth a mention - Depeche Mode, whose transition from drippy synthy pop boys next door to stadium filling electro doomsters was quite an achievement, even if they weren't that interesting.
Also worth a mention - Depeche Mode, whose transition from drippy synthy pop boys next door to stadium filling electro doomsters was quite an achievement, even if they weren't that interesting.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i don't know why pet shop boys have got so few votes. they are an incredible band.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I think everyone is just going on the choices given by the thread starter and what was on the Synth Britannia documentary, I don't think everyone on this thread is a misogynistic Luddite if that's what you were getting at?
Ahh ok thanks for the explanation - I wasnt meaning to suggest misogyny or trapped in a timewarp effects at work, I was just very confused about the relatively narrow scope of options & discussion on this thread. If it was based on a program that featured specific artists then that explains it, ta.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
incredibly bland?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
no, just great sounds, memorable melodies, great lyrics, great to sing along to
discokermit
Well-Known Member
yazoo were better and they haven't got any votes!
Don't Go is a corker.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
indeed!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
they were great but i only know 3 tunes of theirs. pet shop boys had loads more
The thing with depeche mode is that I love their 80s stuff like Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence, they're great pop songs, it's when they tried to reinvent themselves as sort of pop-industrial in the 90s that they were nowhere near as good.
I do quite like them - the Go West cover is particularly good...
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
that varg vykernes or whatever he's called who was in that norwegian death metal band and killed a member of some other band (mayhem?) recorded a 'death metal' album using only a stylophone whilst in prison.
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
Cabaret Voltaire
Spion
I hear ya
I'd go for Human League on that list. Was right into Travelogue when it came out. Also dug John Foxx at the time.
Watching that BBC prog the other night it was all bit obvious how few of them could really play their instruments - a total lack of fluency and swing in their playing. But it worked at the time
Watching that BBC prog the other night it was all bit obvious how few of them could really play their instruments - a total lack of fluency and swing in their playing. But it worked at the time
Yeah, i'm a big fan of that unquantized ham fisted vibe.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
but how many of them made you want to dance?
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
'seconds' by Human league is a phenomenal song. i must played that out a thousand times.
Early John Foxx era Ultravox ('Hiroshima' etc) is great too, but they also had guitars & drums.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
all of them
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Shit I voted wrong! I meant soft cell!!
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