Lets see this...

[~FaiveCR]

Ok. So this is a synth pop forum. Synth music is the genre and synth pop is the specie. Actually I dont like that much synth music (Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre) I really like POP music, you know, easy listening, danceable MELODIC music, very melodic by the way, that is what POP is all about. So you add a synth factor to pop and you have synth pop. So I dont know if im right but aint synth pop an alternate name of techno-pop? Ok. So, i think erasure, pet shop boys, red flag, early depeche mode, cause & effect, real life, a-ha, is pure synth pop. Dont you agree?
Know any more groups as good as those?

[~Mike Gjennestad]

Ok. So, i think erasure, pet shop boys, red flag, early depeche mode, cause & effect, real life, a-ha, is pure synth pop. Dont you agree?
Know any more groups as good as those? [/B][/QUOTE]




SURE!! Cosmicity, Iris, mesh devision, echo image, merge, b! machine, neuroactive, neuropa, beborn beton, and one, moulin noir, no decay, INTACT, tyco brahe, shades of grey, kaj, brave new world...........


need i go on?



mike

[Avil]

I´m just so much into ALPHAVILLE!!
They are so **** good,and I love them!!
They are synthpop,at least they were...back in the 80´s...

[~FaiveCR]

YEAH, ALPHAVILLE IS COOL TOO. I LIKE BIG IN JAPAN.

[~Gandalfe]

Originally posted by FaiveCR
YEAH, ALPHAVILLE IS COOL TOO. I LIKE BIG IN JAPAN.

In a lot of way, I think Forever Young was actually their worst album. It still has some fantastic memories for me, but I find myself reaching for Breathtaking Blue or Salvation a lot more often.

[~Mike Gjennestad]

my 2 faves from alphaville are Prostitute and Breathtaking Blue.



mike

[~Gandalfe]

Originally posted by Mike Gjennestad
my 2 faves from alphaville are Prostitute and Breathtaking Blue.

Prostitute is very experimental. I haven't really given it the chance to grow on me as much as I should have, I'll admit.

[~SFARAH]

Originally posted by FaiveCR
YEAH, ALPHAVILLE IS COOL TOO. I LIKE BIG IN JAPAN.

Whoever is interested in a good, brief and simple introduction to synthpop as a gender refer to the text of the "Too good for radio" promo by A Different Drum. Todd did a really good job on that. To me synthpop is more of a 90's word. In the 80's it was called "techno pop" in Europe. Except for DM, Erasure, Alphaville, and a few others, none of the other "80's" bands are still around; thus I dont know if they could be defined as synth bands per se since it wasn't unitl the 90's that people started calling them like that.
100% synth bands: De/Vision, Neuroactive, Cosmicity, Iris, Faith Assambly, Kie The Vez, etc.
When it comes to other great bands like Apoptygma, VNV Nation, or And One then I wonder if they are considered "synthpop". I guess it doesnt really matter because as far as I know there isn't a "synthpop manifesto" yet, thus we shouldn't worry about terminlogy.

sss


ps: Es bueno saber que hay otro tico interesado en este foro.

[~draxijn]

we must never forget omd! i'll always have a tender spot for'em. and that tribute better come out soon!!!

[~FaiveCR]

"ps: Es bueno saber que hay otro tico interesado en este foro."

Claro que sí. En los 80s la musica technopop tenía un poquito más de pegue en Costa Rica, porque había muchos grupos que sonaban a techno pop aunque no eran. Era como la moda, incluso, Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue, Madonna y otros tenían una que otra canción que trataba de sonar como "technopop". En los noventas hubo una GRAN RECESIÓN en lo que a música electrónica se refiere. Fue una década muy bonita para mí pero hasta ahí en lo que a musica se refiere. Es más, en la decada de los 90s experimentamos a muchos grupos puro techno pop (Depeche Mode) haciendo transiciones a otro tipo, como con el album Songs of Faith and Devotion. A finales de los 90s y principios de los 00s está volviendo MUCHISIMO en Costa Rica la afición por la música electrónico, pero dentro de lo que es el TRANCE y las fiestas rave.
Por dicha siempre contamos con grupos como Erasure, y con más auge los Pet Shop Boys que han seguido activos durante toda la década de los 90s y ahora también, sin haber cambiado mucho su estilo de techno pop.
PURA VIDA TICOS.

MY APOLOGIES: To all for having speak in Spanish. I know this is an english spoken forum and that everyone has the right to read what everybody is saying. But this is a little message to another person of my same nationality, a true coincidence!

[~FaiveCR]

Originally posted by draxijn
we must never forget omd! i'll always have a tender spot for'em. and that tribute better come out soon!!!


O.M.D. is so so cool! Its awesome. Its an incredible group. I dont have that many cds from them. I have the greatest hits also.

DREAMING is for me one of their best songs, I never get tired of listening to it.

I love the SUGAR TAX album, its got so great songs and I really love the SOUVENIR song.

I you people havent heard OMD yet and like the sound of PET SHOP BOYS, and early DEPECHE MODE, do not hesitate and buy at least their greatest hits album.