Let’s do a Friday thing!

After the roaring success of the Now That’s What I Call The Best STW 80s Driving Album EVER 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.

** NO BLIND POSTING OF LINKS TO YOUTUBE WITHOUT ALSO NAMING THE TRACK, COS SOME PEOPLE’S WORK FIREWALLS BLOCK IT **

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

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxM6m1UojjA[/video]

Inner City – Big Fun

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-zG-IXDyo[/video]

Not only top quality 80’s tunage, but also the most 80’s video in the world EVER. Freeze IOU

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-1DYwaxrE[/video]

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
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2U5ziV_Z8[/video]

MARRS Pump Up the Volume

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y[/video]

Theme from S Xpress

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeRShWMdYM[/video]

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

name a favourite 80’s electronic track

Don’t think there was a lot of electronic country and western music back in the eighties

We’re counting electro then?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46sF1PcqL8[/video]
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
[video]https://youtu.be/EVxyqRl7Y98[/video]
(Rock n Roll Part II)

Electronic 80s music that isn’t ‘dancey’ – hmmm

Yazoo – Only You, f’rinstance

Corporation of 1 –
The real life….. [video]https://youtu.be/t9yCwZF5XJs[/video]

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? 😆

Yazoo – Only You, f’rinstance

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 swanking it up at Coco Savannah’s in Stockport 🙂

Davy DMX – One For The Treble

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23rQ4e6kKlI[/video]

Time Zone – Wildstyle

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPAewkvPapY[/video]

Yazoo – Nobody’s Dairy

A guy called Gerald – voodoo ray
[video]https://youtu.be/VFhxpMnfHB0[/video]

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.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqlTGkn2poQ[/video]
CHris and Cosey, ex Throbbing Gristle members

OMD – Red Frame white Light

[video]https://youtu.be/v5N46p2aU68[/video]

Bit more poppy…
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs[/video]
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
[video]https://youtu.be/3Y8w2W1uy2A[/video]

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?