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RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:47 pm
by warspite1
Speaking of 80's beautiful...
The Korgis - Everybody's got to learn sometime [&o]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wkLnpJkL8
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:57 am
by wings7
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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:51 pm
by warspite1
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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:45 pm
by shunwick
Wazappinin dudes!
Tool - Forty-six and Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aT9oRp95A
Best wishes,
Steve
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:17 pm
by warspite1
Continuing with the 80's electronic music
Gary Numan and Dramatis - Love Needs No Disguise [&o]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IvrfBP874
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:32 pm
by shunwick
Wazappinin Dudes?
Dido - Thank You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZ34J01FG8
Best wishes,
Steve
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:02 am
by shunwick
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4jeeu90Rk
Best wishes,
Steve
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:34 am
by 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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:09 am
by rhondabrwn
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.
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 4:07 am
by 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...
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:42 am
by Cataphract88
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. [:)]
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:22 am
by wings7
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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:26 am
by AndyG1
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:-
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:24 pm
by warspite1
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.
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:38 pm
by warspite1
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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:00 pm
by shunwick
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:17 pm
by 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.
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:21 pm
by 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
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:23 pm
by 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?
RE: What music are you listening to now?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:25 pm
by shunwick
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