Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Still got 2 Yazoo vinyl LPs
Upstairs At Erics, & the 2nd one
I forget the name, but it's got the blue/white cover
Also, 'Penthouse & Pavement' ?? (Heaven 17)
In praise of synth pop and early electro dance music
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Still got 2 Yazoo vinyl LPs
Upstairs At Erics, & the 2nd one
I forget the name, but it's got the blue/white cover
Also, 'Penthouse & Pavement' ?? (Heaven 17)
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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- Portsmouth
I've been an ardent Kraftwerk and JMJ fan since the 80s a few years after that NIN started me off on industrial. Eight years back I got a huge (300 or so discs, IIRC) number of EMI & associated electronic albums as a competition prize, star lot being a limited black box version of the Kraftwerk catalogue set (which I already had in the original white, natch). Flogged all the duplicates/stuff I didn't want, but kept some quality additions to the collection: a load of Devo, a load of Tangerine Dream, all the Eno ambient, plus Fad Gadget, Laibach, Client…just the other day I was listening to Edgar Froese's 'Aqua' and the masterpiece that is 'Alles is Gut'. Saw what proved to be the very last DAF show in London (RIP Gabi).
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
A very good friend, & damned fine MTB/CX racer, who died last year from Leukemia (he'd already suffered once, & survived about 13 years ago) had Brian Eno 'Music For Airports' played during his at Grenoside Crematorium
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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Badger_Boom
Veteran
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- York
Mine too. It’s regularly on shuffle here.
cookiemonster
Squire
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- Hong Kong
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
Switched on Bach is an absolute gem... but going back a little further
And lets not forget the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which wasn't all about Delia Derbyshire
VelvetUnderpants
Über Member
Talk Talk produced some of the best albums of the synth pop era and certainly may favourite band of that genre.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_c7hflLhY
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_c7hflLhY
raleighnut
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Pale Rider
Legendary Member
I expect Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer would disagree.
He was producing synthesised symphonic prog rock - or pretentious drivel, depending on your view - three years before Popcorn.
Having said that, he used dozens of pieces of equipment, so maybe each gadget box could only play one note.
OP
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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Japan were an excellent band. Love their cover of "I'll Second that Emotion"
Anyhoo, I've managed to sell a few shagged out old bike components for about £150 so I'm looking forward to son#2 investing that into quality synth pop vinyl. He decided that DAF was a bit too hardcore for him. Give him time
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The Polymoog was released in 1975, the first commercial synthesiser able to play more than one note.
(Although I'm sure someone will come along and say someone in a shed had one earlier)
A lot of Keith Emersons early stuff was played on a conventional church organ fed through various effects.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
hits... schmitsThere is a reason why they were not hits ......
