Released : 1978 In 1977 the city of Sheffield, as has already been established, felt itself estranged from the phenomenon … More
Tag: Synth Pop
100 Greatest Songs of The 80’s #11 Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Released : 1982 One person is always first to the moment. Whilst Morrissey was singing about being ill and Bono … More
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 #70 Japan – Ghosts
Released : 1982 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 #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
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #75 Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown
Released : 1983 Whilst some of the lines of early electronic music were clean, symmetrical and unquestionably pop, underneath the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #81 Thomas Dolby – Airwaves
Released : 1981 Briefly, it seemed that the meek might inherit the earth. Engineered by futuristic lab natives like Kraftwerk … More
The Voice Of Unreason 