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Tag: Synth Pop

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #65 Sparks – The Number One Song in Heaven

Released: 1979 Or, when Ron and Russell met Giorgio. Back in Los Angeles following a spell in England, the brothers … More

100 Greatest Songs Of The 70's, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, Synth Pop, The Number One Song in Heaven

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #68 Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?

Released: 1979 “I’m over the top paranoid” confessed Gary Numan – who at the time still essentially was Tubeway Army … More

100 Greatest Songs Of The 70's, Are Friends Electric, Gary Numan, Synth Pop, Tubeway Army

Confidence Man – Tilt review

For Confidence Man’s Janet Planet, it’s more than just a band name. Tilt opens with Woman, on which the never … More

Confidence Man, Confidence Man Tilt review, Disco, House, Janet Planet, Synth Pop

White Lies – As I Try Not To Fall Apart review

Seeing most of their contemporaries – Delphic, Editors, Late of The Pier, Friendly Fires – fall more or less by … More

As I Try Not To Fall Apart, Synth Pop, White Lies

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #91 Japan – Quiet Life

Released : 1979 As the trickle of synth pop bands at the end of the decade became a wave, there … More

100 Greatest Songs Of The 70's, David Sylian, Japan, New Wave, Quiet Life, Synth Pop

100 Greatest Tracks of the 70’s #94 The Human League – Being Boiled

Released : 1978 In 1977 the city of Sheffield, as has already been established, felt itself estranged from the phenomenon … More

100 Greatest Songs Of The 70's, Being Boiled, Phil Oakey, Post Punk, Synth Pop, The Human League

100 Greatest Songs of The 80’s #11 Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

Released : 1983 One person is sometimes first to the moment. Whilst Morrissey was singing about being ill and Bono … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Jim Kerr, New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84, Simple Minds, Synth Pop

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #18 The Human League – Love Action (I Believe In Love)

Released : 1981 1981 was the decade’s most turbulent year, gut punched in the middle by a series of riots … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Love Action, Phil Oakey, Synth Pop, The Human League

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #70 Japan – Ghosts

Released : 1981 By the early months of the new decade the Musicians Union had seen enough: worried by the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, David Sylvian, Japan Ghosts, Synth Pop

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #71 Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Released : 1982 Marc Almond and Dave Ball had come a long way since meeting at Leeds Poly in 1977. … More

1982, Leeds, Marc Almond Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Soft Cell, Synth Pop

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