Let's do a Friday thing!
After the roaring success of the [i]Now That's What I Call The Best STW 80s Driving Album EVER[/i] last year, we'll go for a different genre.
So... name a favourite 80's electronic track. If you're very good I'll attempt to get them all together in a Spotify playlist.
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I'll start:
Yazoo - Only You
Oh cock.
Mods, can you move to Chat please, sorryyyyy...
Trio - Da Da Da
Rhythim Is Rhythim ?– Strings Of Life
Cybotron - Clear
Inner City - Big Fun
Not only top quality 80's tunage, but also the most 80's video in the world EVER. Freeze IOU
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Oh, well done sir.
Sorry Binbins, it ain't on Spotify 🙁
New Order - Blue Monday
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Stakker Humanoid
MARRS Pump Up the Volume
Theme from S Xpress
All good choices, bit skewed towards the dancey-dancey end of things though...
Got any Josh Wink?
Not in the 80's, no.
All good choices, bit skewed towards the dancey-dancey end of things though...
Wha?
Electronic 80s music that isn't 'dancey' - hmmm
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines
(Nope. Still dancing. Gah. (Jerky movements)
the Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
M - Pop Musik
[quote=IHN ]All good choices, bit skewed towards the dancey-dancey end of things though...
name a favourite 80's [b]electronic[/b] track
Don't think there was a lot of electronic country and western music back in the eighties
We're counting electro then?
Hashim - Al Naafiysh (the soul)
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Stakker Humanoid
I wasn't familiar with this ditty. Listening to it for the first time now, I'm sensing that experiencing it at a desk in a wealth management firm, whilst drinking a cup of coffee and wearing a shirt and tie, was not the original target environment for optimum appreciation...
Don't think there was a lot of electronic country and western music back in the eighties
Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon
Human League cover a top notch nonce song
(Rock n Roll Part II)
Electronic 80s music that isn't 'dancey' - hmmm
Yazoo - Only You, f'rinstance
Corporation of 1 -
The real life.....
Electronica...bah
FGTH - Two Tribes
You've never heard Humanoid before?!! 😯
Clearly not a veteran of such upmarket fleshpots as Peppermint Place in Blackburn then? 😆
[i]Yazoo - Only You, f'rinstance[/i]
I think that ones been suggested already
Depeche mode - New Life
Human League - Being Boiled
Clearly not a veteran of such upmarket fleshpots as Peppermint Place in Blackburn then?
Nah, I was s****ing it up at Coco Savannah's in Stockport 🙂
Davy DMX - One For The Treble
Time Zone - Wildstyle
Yazoo - Nobody's Dairy
A guy called Gerald - voodoo ray
Are we talking early 80's elecctronic, Depeche Mode, Visage etc. or the '88-'89 acid house. Both good, but for me very different beasts.
CHris and Cosey, ex Throbbing Gristle members
OMD - Red Frame white Light
Bit more poppy...
Video killed the radio star - Buggles
Are we talking early 80's elecctronic, Depeche Mode, Visage etc. or the '88-'89 acid house. Both good, but for me very different beasts.
I was originally envisaging the former, but we seem to have quite a bit of the latter...
So, either.
Lil Louis - French kiss
I wasn't familiar with this ditty. Listening to it for the first time now, I'm sensing that experiencing it at a desk in a wealth management firm, whilst drinking a cup of coffee and wearing a shirt and tie, was not the original target environment for optimum appreciation...
Depends, how many pills have you had?
Underpants!
Underpass - John Foxx
Got to have a bit of ZTT - Propaganda, Dr Mabuse
Depends, how many pills have you had?
Two - Vitamin D and a cod liver oil
If anyone puts Howard frickin Jones on this compilation, I'm going back to 2017.
Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand (King of the Flies not on YT, unfortunately)
Can't post youtube from here but I've a few;
Kano - Another Life
Quando Quango - Love Tempo
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Everything up to Fad Gadget added, go for your life cos I should probably do some work:
https://open.spotify.com/user/karen.massey/playlist/4sLEcpRGPH6sKlXqR9U9wi?si=cRPXVBapTOSRnJBwCeZTXw
Adamski - NRG
Push it!
Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields Pt 1:
Trance-tastic.
New Order - Temptation
Is it just because I used to sing it with my first GF, or does this track get everyone's heartstrings?
Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach....
Renegade sound wave- the phantom
Visage - Fade to Grey: 80’s Royalty.
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
Oh nice Fad Gadget
David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses 😀
Inner City 'Good Life'
Ye gods the 80s was one long ear-worm! Not sure if survived. 😕
Doug e fresh - the show
Moist Germans: DAF - Der Mussolini
[i]Doug e fresh - the show[/i]
You shore? 😆
KLF - What time is Love ( The original non-rap version)
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again, Shake the Disease, Stripped
Gary Numan - I Die You Die, Down in the Park
Japan - Ghosts
Sylvian e Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
DAF- Der Mussolini
Skinny Puppy - Worlock
KMFDM - What do You Know
Foetus - Wash It All Off
Is this electronica?
Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey
Doesn't strictly fit the OPs criteria but surely we can and must allow 'I Feel Love'?
Yes Salt & Pepa !!
Made me think of Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance...
Loved this BITD
I trust you're all updating the Playlist, yeah?
Moist Germans: DAF - Der Mussolini
Is that Jamie Vardy?
Hazel O'Connor - Eigth Day....
I trust you're all updating the Playlist, yeah?
Sorry I don't use Spotify, just here for the vibes.
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New Order - Blue Monday
Bin Dun
On an indie tip... PWEI - Defcon one
GMMM&tFF - The Message & White Lines
Jan Hammer: Crockett's Theme
Eurythmics: Here Comes The Rain Again
I'd categorise Bananarama as pop.
[i]Foetus - Wash It All Off[/i] - Yeah! I've got that on 7" - worth nearly £50 according to discogs 🙂
Planet rock
Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
I feel soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo old!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New Order - Thieves Like Us
Echo And The Bunnymen - Never Stop