Showing posts with label SYNTHPOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SYNTHPOP. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
"This album was created with absolutely no guitars"
that's written on the back of the first two Synergy records, 1975 and 1976, an inverse nod to Queen's "This album was created with absolutely no synthesizers"
that's written on the back of the first two Synergy records, 1975 and 1976, an inverse nod to Queen's "This album was created with absolutely no synthesizers"
c.f Human League - “We are the Human League, there are no guitars” (Phil Oakey, voiceover on “Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex’,
which is 1977 I think) and also "We're the Human League.
There
are no guitars or drums played on this record" on 'Dance Like A Star" which is also 1977 I believe.
I don't think Queen though were anti synths, though, so much as trying to say "all these amazing sounds you're hearing on the record, that's our wizardry with guitars and the mixing desk"
they don't seem like Luddites
plus there was quite a lot of synth-ery in mainstream rock before Synthpop...
Pete Townsend had a big collection of synths
Pink Floyd "On the Run"... Hillage...
or this
or this
there's loads more examples
sort of makes you wonder why Synthpop was such a big deal
i guess because it wasn't so player-ly, so obviously musical in the Old Wave sense... and synthpop also had the mechanistic post-Moroder rhythm aspect... it very much didn't rock, didn't groove
Sunday, August 5, 2012
under-rated band, Missing Persons
great vocalist, Dale Bozzio, like an American Clare Grogan almost
another New Wave American outfit that made no impression whatsoever in the U.K. (well, not until they stopped being New Wave in this case and did a horrible, huge-hit power ballad AOR type thingy whose title escapes me) was Berlin... like Missing Persons, they're on the radio still, a lot, usually with this tune ...
unlike Missing Persons (an obviously proficient and seasoned rock band who'd gone Noo Wave... indeed some of them supposedly played with Zappa!), Berlin were fully-fledged synth-pop... indeed one of the few American examples that can really rank with the U.K. and European outfits of the time (I mean, Our Daughter's Wedding, gimme a break... and as for early Ministry...)
on "The Metro", Berlin are a bit like an American Visage... vapid Europhilia at its most alluring
great vocalist, Dale Bozzio, like an American Clare Grogan almost
another New Wave American outfit that made no impression whatsoever in the U.K. (well, not until they stopped being New Wave in this case and did a horrible, huge-hit power ballad AOR type thingy whose title escapes me) was Berlin... like Missing Persons, they're on the radio still, a lot, usually with this tune ...
unlike Missing Persons (an obviously proficient and seasoned rock band who'd gone Noo Wave... indeed some of them supposedly played with Zappa!), Berlin were fully-fledged synth-pop... indeed one of the few American examples that can really rank with the U.K. and European outfits of the time (I mean, Our Daughter's Wedding, gimme a break... and as for early Ministry...)
on "The Metro", Berlin are a bit like an American Visage... vapid Europhilia at its most alluring
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