What music are you listening to now?

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:47 pm

Speaking of 80's beautiful...

The Korgis - Everybody's got to learn sometime [&o]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wkLnpJkL8

wings7 · Post by **wings7** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:57 am

For all you Oldies fans, "Oldies Alternative" is a Internet radio station that plays tunes you don't hear much (with chart position and year) but are great...from the 50's,60's & 70's. Available here and on iTunes!

http://oldiesalternative.com/previous.php

Patrick

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:51 pm

Still got an 80's groove thang going at the moment

Here is the wonderfully dark Underpants!

John Foxx - Underpass [&o]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA-aFWOZOw

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:45 pm

Wazappinin dudes!

Tool - Forty-six and Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aT9oRp95A

Best wishes,
Steve

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:17 pm

Continuing with the 80's electronic music

Gary Numan and Dramatis - Love Needs No Disguise [&o]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IvrfBP874

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:32 pm

Wazappinin Dudes?

Dido - Thank You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZ34J01FG8

Best wishes,
Steve

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:02 am

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4jeeu90Rk

Best wishes,
Steve

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:34 am

So what were the definitive songs that made up the early New Romantic/Synth Pop era? Not sure sometimes which bands were classed in the New Romantic genre as opposed to just being known for using synths and such like - but will include any songs that feature synths and drum machines in the main.

So what I am looking for is that harder edged, relatively raw early synth sound say 1980-82. Here are my ten (not in any real order) but really keen to get others input on this:

1. See You – Depeche Mode
2. Enola Gay - OMD
3. Love Action (I Believe in Love) – Human League
4. Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan
5. Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You) – Flock of Seagulls
6. Underpass – John Foxx
7. Planet Earth – Duran Duran
8. Fade to Grey - Visage
9. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
10. Vienna - Ultravox

rhondabrwn · Post by **rhondabrwn** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:09 am

I'm listening to the darkest Gothic Metal I can find on Spotify.

Just buried my 22 year old Rat Terrier who died yesterday

Chewbacca's litter-mate Boba Fett, died last year and Chewie was never the same after that.

Farewell to these wonderful dogs who stood by me faithfully through some of the roughest years of my life.

rhondabrwn · Post by **rhondabrwn** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 4:07 am

While drowning my sorrows, I stumbled upon this live performance by Arthur Lee of his one chart busting single... "7 & 7 Is" one of my favorites from the '60's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CqDLURZrQ

I didn't realize he had died; or that his album "Forever Changes" is considered one of the greatest rock albums in history. There was a lot more to his career than I ever knew...

Cataphract88 · Post by **Cataphract88** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:42 am

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

While drowning my sorrows, I stumbled upon this live performance by Arthur Lee of his one chart busting single... "7 & 7 Is" one of my favorites from the '60's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CqDLURZrQ

I didn't realize he had died; or that his album "Forever Changes" is considered one of the greatest rock albums in history. There was a lot more to his career than I ever knew...

Yes, 'Forever Changes' is a masterpiece. [:)]

wings7 · Post by **wings7** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:22 am

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

While drowning my sorrows, I stumbled upon this live performance by Arthur Lee of his one chart busting single... "7 & 7 Is" one of my favorites from the '60's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CqDLURZrQ

I didn't realize he had died; or that his album "Forever Changes" is considered one of the greatest rock albums in history. There was a lot more to his career than I ever knew...

Rhonda, Arthur Lee & Love where so underrated! [&o] "7 and 7 is" is fantastic, the explosion and the slow blues riff at the end is classic! I got to see them live at the Whisky in Hollywood in 1968, never forget it! [:)] Here is a good compilation for Arthur Lee & Love:
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Story/dp/B00 ... arthur+lee

Patrick

AndyG1 · Post by **AndyG1** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:26 am

ORIGINAL: warspite1

So what were the definitive songs that made up the early New Romantic/Synth Pop era? Not sure sometimes which bands were classed in the New Romantic genre as opposed to just being known for using synths and such like - but will include any songs that feature synths and drum machines in the main.

So what I am looking for is that harder edged, relatively raw early synth sound say 1980-82. Here are my ten (not in any real order) but really keen to get others input on this:

1. See You – Depeche Mode
2. Enola Gay - OMD
3. Love Action (I Believe in Love) – Human League
4. Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan
5. Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You) – Flock of Seagulls
6. Underpass – John Foxx
7. Planet Earth – Duran Duran
8. Fade to Grey - Visage
9. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
10. Vienna - Ultravox

Well, this is well and truly my time! Being a Gary Numan fan since 1979 and still going strong (indeed, got to meet the great man himself only last year at his concert in Brisbane touring his latest album) I'm surprised that 'Cars' or 'Down In The Park' aren't on that list.

My top 10 (not in any particular order):-

1. Cars - Gary Numan
2. Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (Gary Numan)
3. Down In The Park - Tubeway Army (Gary Numan)
4. Fade to Grey - Visage
5. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
6. Vienna - Ultravox
7. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of - Human League
8. Don't You Want Me – Human League
9. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys (I think mid 80's but heavy on the synths etc)
10. The Model - Kraftwerk

By the way, here's me talking music and aeroplanes with Mr Numan in 2014:-

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:24 pm

Great post AndyG1! - not least because I was starting to think that there were no other fans of that great music period around - but also because of the passion you have for this music and the personal touch with Mr Numan.

As there are only 10 songs I have tried to keep the list to one song from any one artist, although there are songs that could have been included easily to break that. Perhaps I should make it a top 20? I just didn't want to dilute the effect.

If I had included a second Numan track it would have been Love needs no disguise or Stormtrooper in Drag.

I would never include Don't you want me? in a list like this because I specifically wanted that "raw" synth sound. I will expand this idea and create further lists from this period to include what I class as more "polished" tracks.

West End Girls is defo one of my favourites - but yes, I will include that in a later playlist - 1985 is too late for the "feel" I am trying to recreate.

The Model is a good call as Kraftwerk were such pioneers - but I want a playlist that a) takes me back to a specific time period AND b) I can play over and over and over simply because they are masterpieces. The Model just fails in the second category for me.

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:38 pm

Moving later on in the 80's here is a mini-classic. I still have it on vinyl - but no means to play it and its not available on itunes [:(]

Radio Earth - Distant Land [&o]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sei_naOwicI

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:00 pm

Hmm .. Pop ... 80 to 82 ... most of those already mentioned plus ...

1980 ...

Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xOeLcDK8U

Blondie - Call Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH3Q_CZy968

Air Supply - All Out of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWdZEumNRmI

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfzpqgBvl8

Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_BcaI0i0w

Captain & Tenille - Do That To Me One More Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry4ngf766N0

Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark - Enola Gay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMBp6iUJzk

Oh .. alright then ...

Visage - Fade to Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiJQL9OLqI

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY

Pat Benetar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5kisPBwZOM

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_wZQJYlo0

Talking Heads - Once in a Life Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

Dire Straights - Romeo and Juliet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfjSnMN88U

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWwM2wwMww

1981

Juice Newton - Angel of the Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itKaF6Y_81c

Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8

J Giles Band - Centrefold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU

Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

Duran Duran - Girls on Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjMZMxNr-0

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock n Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL5spALs-eA

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDE

Olivia Newton John - Physical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA

Hall and Oates - Private Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw

The Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnVOt2LK2Gg

Foreigner - Waiting For a Girl Like You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RdA0H93yM

1982

Toto - Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to The Bone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FyQNx8oyU

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q

Men at Work - Down Under

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

And for all the stalkers out there ...

The Police - Every Breath You Take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

Laura Branigan - Gloria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZE

Madness - House of Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME

Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9de6jeOevi8

Supertramp - It's Raining Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUE4_PtOk0

John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI

Abba - One of Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKAe8Wi0S0

Madness - Our House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIe_sjKeAY

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGoJFgI71I

Best wishes,
Steve

Thanks for the memories Warspite1...

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:17 pm

Ashes to Ashes was in my 10 initially, but on reflection I do not think it belongs here - despite the "New Romantic" video. It will be in a list of some sort though - such a stonkingly good track [&o]

Bette Davies Eyes is up for inclusion - but again in a different list - same goes for Girls on Film.

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:21 pm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Ashes to Ashes was in my 10 initially, but on reflection I do not think it belongs here - despite the "New Romantic" video. It will be in a list of some sort though - such a stonkingly good track [&o]

Bette Davies Eyes is up for inclusion - but again in a different list - same goes for Girls on Film.

There was a reason I opened with It's Still Rock and Roll to Me...

Best wishes,
Steve

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:23 pm

ORIGINAL: shunwick

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Ashes to Ashes was in my 10 initially, but on reflection I do not think it belongs here - despite the "New Romantic" video. It will be in a list of some sort though - such a stonkingly good track [&o]

Bette Davies Eyes is up for inclusion - but again in a different list - same goes for Girls on Film.

There was a reason I opened with It's Still Rock and Roll to Me...

Best wishes,
Steve

warspite1

What was that?

shunwick · Post by **shunwick** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:25 pm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: shunwick

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Ashes to Ashes was in my 10 initially, but on reflection I do not think it belongs here - despite the "New Romantic" video. It will be in a list of some sort though - such a stonkingly good track [&o]

Bette Davies Eyes is up for inclusion - but again in a different list - same goes for Girls on Film.

There was a reason I opened with It's Still Rock and Roll to Me...

Best wishes,
Steve
warspite1

What was that?

That would be telling...

Best wishes,
Steve

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