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