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The emergence of synth-pop has been described as "perhaps the single most significant event in melodic music since Mersey-beat". By the 1980s synthesizers had become much cheaper and easier to use. After the definition of MIDI in 1982 and the development of digital audio, the creation of purely electronic sounds and their manipulation became much simpler. Synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s, particularly through their adoption by bands of the New Romantic movement.
The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and the Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Visage, and Spandau Ballet. They adopted an elaborate visual style that combined elements of glam rock, science fiction and romanticism. Duran Duran have been credited with incorporating dance beats into synth-pop to produce a catchier and warmer sound, which provided them with a series of hit singles. They would soon be followed into the British charts by a large number of bands utilising synthesizers to create catchy three-minute pop songs. A new line-up for the Human League along with a new producer and a more commercial sound led to the album Dare (1981), which produced a series of hit singles. These included "Don't You Want Me", which reached number one in the UK at the end of 1981.
Synth-pop reached its commercial peak in the UK in the winter of 1981-2, with bands such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan, Ultravox, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and even Kraftwerk, enjoying top ten hits. In early 1982 synthesizers were so dominant that the Musicians' Union attempted to limit their use. By the end of 1982, these acts had been joined in the charts by synth-based singles from Thomas Dolby, Blancmange, and Tears for Fears. Dutch entertainer Taco, who has a background in musical theatre, released his own synth-driven re-imagining of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz"; resulting in a subsequent long-play, After Eight, a concept album that takes music of 1930s sensibilities as informed by the soundscape of 1980s technology. The proliferation of acts led to an anti-synth backlash, with groups including Spandau Ballet, Human League, Soft Cell and ABC incorporating more conventional influences and instruments into their sounds.
In the US, where synth-pop is considered a subgenre of new wave and was described as "technopop" or "electropop" by the press at the time, the genre became popular due to the cable music channel MTV, which reached the media capitals of New York City and Los Angeles in 1982. It made heavy use of style-conscious New Romantic synth-pop acts, with "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982) by A Flock of Seagulls generally considered the first hit by a British act to enter the Billboard Top Ten as a result of exposure through video. The switch to a "new music" format in US radio stations was also significant in the success of British bands. The success of synth-pop and other British acts would be seen as a Second British Invasion. Synth-pop was taken up across the world, with international hits for acts including Men Without Hats and Trans-X from Canada, Telex from Belgium, Peter Schilling, Sandra, Modern Talking, Propaganda and Alphaville from Germany, Yello from Switzerland and Azul y Negro from Spain.
In the mid-1980s, key artists included solo performer Howard Jones, who S.T. Erlewine has stated to have "merged the technology-intensive sound of new wave with the cheery optimism of hippies and late-'60s pop", (although with notable exceptions including the lyrics of "What Is Love?" - "Does anybody love anybody anyway?") and Nik Kershaw, whose "well-craft synth-pop" incorporated guitars and other more traditional pop influences that particularly appealed to a teen audience. Pursuing a more dance-orientated sound were Bronski Beat whose album The Age of Consent (1984), dealing with issues of homophobia and alienation, reached the top 20 in the UK and top 40 in the US. and Thompson Twins, whose popularity peaked in 1984 with the album Into The Gap, which reached No.1 in the UK and the US top ten and spawned several top ten singles.Initially dismissed in the music press as a "teeny bop sensation" were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synth-pop, which, along with an MTV friendly video, took their 1985 single "Take On Me" to number two in the UK and number one in the
The Pet Shop Boys performing in 2006.
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THANK YOU HEADMUSIC!!! I like / love all of these songs!! These tracks have always been in my life! Insanely great tracks all of these, you´ve given me back my youth!!!! THANK YOU!! It´s so good to know that I have a soul brother / sister!! Here´s Pekka from Finland
@gilbertopena9898
2 жыл бұрын
Fine...
A-ha,Pet shop boys,Depeche mode and New order⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
@flakomeg3960
2 жыл бұрын
The best !
@frogger1580
2 жыл бұрын
agreed. I'd add erasure and the cure.
@rmccp
Жыл бұрын
Can’t wait to see Pet Shop Boys and New Order in September!
@Gr-og1vf
Жыл бұрын
@@rmccp will they Collab?
@ekbe5531
6 ай бұрын
Ich will sofort zurück in diese Zeit😮
Vince Clarke founding member in Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. What a synth wizard what a legend!
@larrychatfield
Жыл бұрын
agreed so few know he was part of founding of depeche mode and felt he was "getting lost in the mix"
@ukcroupier
Жыл бұрын
Also The Assembly, a short lived collabaration project that resulted in a UK no.4 hit.
@nemodabuda4817
Жыл бұрын
He's GOAT (in music).
@josephkissel6062
Жыл бұрын
Vince Clarke He’s such a singular figure and even though he was only on the first Depeche Mode album he wrote nearly all the songs, and let’s face it if he hadn’t there wouldn’t have been a Depeche Mode first album or at least that one
@zam6877
Жыл бұрын
REALLY?! I did not know that 😳 I loved all those bands Thanks 😊
The 80s had the best music!
@AmericaTheEnslaved
2 жыл бұрын
this is moreso new wave, and some variations of new wave, with like four synth pop bands thrown in.
@richarevans
2 жыл бұрын
Well it had a lot of good music and a lot of choice. I was born in the 60s and therefore I might argue 70s music was better but I'd be splitting hairs.
@garibaldi54
2 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt.
@xenian4623
2 ай бұрын
Human League my Favorite
depeche mode forever im in love with One Night in Bankok and Yazoo bc of Vince Falco tho
RIP Depeche Modes' Andy Fletcher.
Depeche mode 🖤 Erasure ❤️ Yazoo 💕 New order 💙 Pet shop boys 💛 Tears for fears 💚 Human league 🧡 Amazing top 💕
@sejautie
2 жыл бұрын
Don't for get ultravox kings of electronics
@karlisbestgg1140
2 жыл бұрын
literally best of the best
@andreaboys
2 жыл бұрын
Dead or Alive..Sandra..Frankie goes to Hollywood..Real Alive .Alphaville..Tears for Fears. .Falco..Thompson Twins. ..
@martynevans7585
2 жыл бұрын
And don’t forget Gary Numan, never forget Gary Numan‼️
@sejautie
2 жыл бұрын
@@martynevans7585 yes billy Currie from Ultravox played keyboard for him he was the Ultravox fan when John foxx was in the band I prefer midge ure
Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Alphaville, Depeche Mode, A-ha, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, and The Human League are my favorites here 🥰
@airwulf7123
6 ай бұрын
So glad I was a teenager in the 80s...great music unlike today’s s*&t
@kyachdistent1301
6 ай бұрын
Many good choices, especially Alphaville, but Kim Wilde, Duran Duran, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Sandra, A-ha and China Crisis should also be here. Sparks and ABBA touch on synth too.
WHY does everybody sleep when it comes to EBN OZN and their hit "AEIOU, Sometimes Y"? It hit the airways in 1983, and was a fantastic song!!
@AutPen38
Жыл бұрын
It's almost entirely unknown outside of America, and even there it's one of those one-hit-wonders that passed many people by. In Europe if you mention AEIOU, people think of I.O.U. by Freeez, which really should be in everyone's top 100 synth pop hits.
I love Alphaville (so underrated), Pet Shop, Falco, Camouflage, Sandra, Spandau Ballet, A-ha, Thompson Twins,
@deborahpaley21
2 жыл бұрын
I love Alphaville too.
@ALEloves80s
2 жыл бұрын
I love A-ha 🇳🇴 & Pet Shop Boys 🇬🇧 since 1985 🎹🎸🎵👌👌❤️
@royroblox
Жыл бұрын
Alphaville was the first group that I could say, THIS is a band I like. Some really good memories of walking home on some summer nights listening to Lassie Come Home.
@tammyboykin5285
Жыл бұрын
Yes love Alphaville only really found them in March 2021 but Forever Young was my prom song/theme yet they never played it during my prom
In 1988 I saw Depeche Mode and OMD. Best concert ever. Saw New Order that year too.
@bristuhan1966
2 жыл бұрын
My 80's & 90's Concerts Cyndi Lauper b/w Glassings David - April 1984 Billy Idol b/w Dez Dickerson - June 1984 Depeche Mode b/w Book of Love - March 1985 Madness b/w Fine Young Cannibals - August 1985 Berlin - September 1986 Husker Du b/w The db's - October 1986 Suzanne Vega - April 1987 Depeche Mode b/w Gene Loves Jezebel, OMD, New Order - July 1988 Drivin n Cryin - August 1988 Edie Brickell & New Bohemians b/w Poi Dog Pondering - August 1989 Jane's Addiction - October 1989 The Go-Gos b/w Redd Kross - May 1991 Alex Chilton - May 1992 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - April 1993 Elvis Costello b/w Crash Test Dummies - June 1993 They Might Be Giants - September 1994 Jewel - March 1995 The Connells - June 1996
@davepedersen2115
Жыл бұрын
@@bristuhan1966 cool! I also saw INXS, The Cure, and U2 that year 😀
@kyachdistent1301
6 ай бұрын
Only cos of OMD.
I was big fan of euro synthpop bands: Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, A-ha, Depeche Mode, New Order , Tears For Fears, Duran Duran
Smalltown Boy true Number One, definitely!
Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazoo, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, New Order were the kings of the 80s. Followed by OMD, Stranglers, Simple Minds
For me Visage fade to grey, is the best synt song of the 80ies. I'm a big Depeche mode fan, so that's great. Just mis Human League Being Boiled ❤
@annesmith2259
2 жыл бұрын
A classic , was it 80s though ?
@2old2pogo
Жыл бұрын
@@annesmith2259 it was originally released in 1978, but re released in 1981 or 82, making the top thirty
Depeche mode
Золотые времена... Минули безвозвратно. Только в памяти, к сожалению со временем стирающейся, - юность, друзья, музыка..
80s forever
INCREDIBLE TOP 10 THERE! Singing the whole way through. Loving the Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order...
@mattbelinski7760
4 ай бұрын
Lol, I was too!
I love the 80s I actually have 60 of the top 100 songs here on 12" vinyl still in my collection. I love synth pop it's all so catchy and infectious. The 80s had real style now in 2022 we have dreadfull rap with zero style and bad music.
A few songs that were not on the list but deserves honorable mention: Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill O.M.D. - Secrets Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey Propaganda - P-Machinery Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger Yello - Oh Yeah
@hiptrip99
Жыл бұрын
YMO - Solid State Survivor
@gotsteem
Жыл бұрын
There are a few more.. Tears for Fears ~ The Hurting Talk Talk ~ Life's What You Make It Book of Love ~ Book of Love The Payolas ~ Eyes Of A Stranger Naked Eyes ~ No Flowers Please Trans-X - Eyes of Desire Alphaville ~ Red Rose Camouflage ~ That Smiling Face
@gonzaloreyes8782
Жыл бұрын
What about Thompson Twins? I dont see any☹
@sotchalk1867
Жыл бұрын
I totally agree on Kate Bush and Propaganda songs you mention.
@GeneralArmorus
Жыл бұрын
@@gotsteem Life's What You Make It especially!
The most W list I have ever witnessed.
Many 2000s teens absolutely love 80's music. Courtesy our mom-dad & Internet.
Rio by Duran Duran should have been a lot higher on the list. It was such an underrated song. The band is still going strong and is a 2022 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Great decade of music.
I really enjoyed this video serious blast from the past , many I've never heard and some I just plain forgot I think OMD souvenir would be my number one thanks
Когда речь заходит о синти поп, Depeche Mode мало не бывает)))))
Gary Numan's Cars released in and got to No.1 in UK in 1979... small bit pick to this great track.
@double_lightsaber
2 жыл бұрын
It was a surprise to see Gary Numan at the 1st spot, but a welcome one
@Ursabomb
Жыл бұрын
true August 1979, but stayed in the charts for a long time and was No.1 in Canada in 1980... and was still in the charts in other countries in 1980 as well... so a crossover if you will
@ZacTexC
Жыл бұрын
Just can’t get enough should be #1
This is one of the greatest new wave 80's top chart compilations I have ever stumbled across!! Thanks for posting🎉
was fürn eine schöne zeit in der man jung war und die miterleben durfte beste zeit im letzten Jahrhundert die 80 er und 90 iger
VERY SAD NEWS YESTERDAY REGARDING THE PASSING OF ANDY "FLETCH " FLETCHER THE LEGENDARY KEYBOARD PLAYER WITH DEPECHE MODE. ANDY WAS JUST SHORT OF HIS 61ST BIRTHDAY. FROM ALL REPORTS ANDY WAS A GREAT PERSON. RIP MATE.
White Door “The Extra”, The Expression “Nothing Changes”, The Trees “Delta Sleep”, Clio “Faces”, P.Lion “Happy Children”, Savage "Don't Cry Tonight", Raf “Self Control”, Jo Lemaire & Flouze “Je Suis Venue te Dire Que je M'en Vais”, Indochine “L'aventurier”, Righeira “No Tengo Dinero”, Martin L. Gore "Compulsion".
A-ha 🇳🇴 - Pet Shop Boys - OMD - Information Society - Alphaville - Talk Talk - New Order - Tear For Fears -Depeche Mode - Camouflage - The Human League -
I lived and partied through the 80's . Some of these songs didn't even made it on the top 100. Others, were in the top 40. Either way, I still miss the 1980's. It was a different time and there was a lot of change and music choices.
Depeche mode , Duran Duran, A ha and more the best. But where is The Cure?
Virtually all of these are British. We really did love our synthpop, eh lol.
Шикарная подборка моей юности. Под многие хиты я гасился на дискотеках. Спасибо!
@denbril5130
2 жыл бұрын
Дерьмо
Vienna is my number 1!!! I never got tired of that perfect song.
Depeche mode then and now,RIP FLETCH.X
Thank you for allowing us to be young again. For bringing back my favorite kind of music. May God bless all of you.
Wonder soundtrack. Miss the 80s.
Hands down, one of the best video representations of new wave/synth pop music that we’ve seen on KZread. Thank you so much for sharing!
@davidkeane4281
Жыл бұрын
Electronic 80s
I still isten to some of these bands being a young teenager in the 80s they are stuck in my heart🥰
Blue Monday should be no.1.
The ranking was a little peculiar to me but it was interesting and fun to watch.
Ministry: With Sympathy. .. very underated.....
There are a hell of a lot of excellent tracks on this video wow , what else can one really say, except definately excellent Music. ROB.
These songs of Duran Duran should be in the top 10: The Reflex, Girls on film, Hungry like the wolf, New moon on Monday, Union of the snakes...
Loved the 80S...I was a teen and the music was so exciting...going to see different gigs and new styles coming out all the time.. unfortunately the likes of S.A.W and Simon Cowell put an end to experimental music. The record companies are not willing to invest in bands anymore, they want hits straight away or drop you..Most commercial acts don't write their own songs or even play instruments anymore....thanks for putting up the 80s synth songs...I loved the punk and hair metal songs from the 80s as well. Great memories 🙂
Yay ! Sparks included !
The police,Smiths,Cure, Depeche mode,Erasure,PSB gosto de todas..mas o New order é a minha banda favorita
@martinXY
Жыл бұрын
The Police are 80s, but not synth pop.
Andy Fletcher in memory
Hay muchos grupos que nunca los escuché en los 80, no tuvieron difusión.
Geezuz that was a trip back in time! So many of those songs are so good to this day! And videos were the You Tube of the day.
Ultravox/Ultravox! both lineups were great, but the Midge Ure years really had some great tunes. Nice to see them recognized in your montage.
📢📢DEPECHE MODE 💪🎸🎤
I actually think if MTV brought back these videos they would be back in the game🙏💯
Cannot believe that there is no Japan on this list. Their albums Gentlemen takes Polaroids and Tin Drum are full of brilliant tracks that should be included.
Erasure ;-)
RIP Andy Fletcher.
The soundtrack to my teenage years....so old now ...sigh.....:)
"The sun always shines on TV!!!!!"
Howard Jones Is The Synthpop Genius. His First 2 Albums Is Packed With Hits.
@SMac-bq8sk
Жыл бұрын
Indeed! How did his "Things Can Only Get Better" fail to make this list!?
@abelmontalvo4052
Жыл бұрын
@@SMac-bq8skNo one is to Blame another song by Howard Jones
This is the music I grew up with…Jean jackets with band pins, writing on school book covers, parachute pants, etc I love all these songs that need to be placed on Spotify or XM channel..I ❤ed the 80s!!!!! It was such an awesome time that will never be repeated..so glad I was a teen back then!!
So. Many. Gems.
Great selection. I went to see a tribute band that performed electro pop a few weeks ago. They were amazing and so many underplayed songs ie all the debut hits of spandau ballet, duran duran, Depeche mode etc but no songs by erasure, pet shop boys, nick kershaw, new order, aha or the thompson twins. I feel kinda cheated now lol My personal faves from the synth era were omd and spandau although I would say neil Tennant had, and still has, the best vocals from that era.
Pet shop Boys,A-ha, Tears for fears, Human league, New Order, Alphaville , Depeche Mode , Modern Talking, Erasure.
There were so many good bands and songs in the 80's
@AutPen38
Жыл бұрын
There were at least a hundred.
What a great time and what a great music 😎👍
Keep making lists dude! You’re awesome
Rapaz que tempo bom saudades
I love Vince Clark
@giorgoskountourgiannis8230
Жыл бұрын
He is genius
#19. Blue Monday from New Order should be #1. You could play it in a club today and it's still a banger.
So glad I was a teenager of the 80's
*I M P R E S S I V E COMPILATION, the search, the right time stamp, the edition, the sound tests, synch and everything else... uff! how many hours or days it took to complete it? Wow!! great work!* 👍
Great work! So many fantastic songs there. You unearthed some real jewels.
@kyachdistent1301
6 ай бұрын
Yet not enough. Still too many top acts vacant.
Right bands for the most part. But there are a lot of bands left off.
Nice to see pseudo echo on the list. Such underrated band
@alonso1050
6 ай бұрын
One of the greatest bands in the world
Depeche Mode ...
@indie0031
2 жыл бұрын
sim
Love the choice of music here, a lot I hadn't heard (and I was 14 in 1981 so that's pretty amazing!)
@ScottKornfeld
2 жыл бұрын
Similar, I was 18 in 1981 and a big music fan and didn't know many of these.
@alanstrom2221
2 жыл бұрын
@@ScottKornfeld That's cool mate, it's not your fault. Most of the songs are from a specific region of the world. I'm in Sydney, Australia and we didn't get a lot of these songs on the radio or even late night music shows. There is a certain % of these songs that really aren't of a good enough quality to get airplay in Australia.
@AutPen38
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the uploader grew up in Germany or Italy or somewhere else in Europe, or even the US, because although many of the bands were British and synth pop was very popular here, some of the inclusions are almost unknown in the UK, and rightly so because they were rubbish.
Glorioso compendio musical de una década maravillosa de mi vida. Gracias🙂
Gold collection
Yazoo's Dont go is a glorious masterpiece 🌞🌞
FANTASTIC list! Great job!
Saw Human League, Culture Club and Howard Jones together in concert 😎
80's cool New Romantics
That's one hell of a music! Bravo!
awesome! could you also do one for 80s italo disco?
Love the count down. Just missing the late Pete Shelley.
Its my life is a New Wave + Synth-pop masterpiece
Golden Memories ! Thank you !!
Thank you for the throw back 80's classic love it
Some of those choices were the greatest records ever: not just of 80's synth-pop.
Anos 80 💖
excellent playlist 👍👏👏👏👏👏
Heart like a wheel Human league.... Best synth
Great list and a few I didn't know so a bonus there
GREAT TOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💯💯💯
Relax, amooo 🤩
Amazing congratulations top of tops!!!!