Best synthpop album ever ?

[Avihai]

What do you think ?
Please do not include AV albums as we
already know that it's an AV fans forum.

Edited by - avihai on 05 Jan 2001 11:24:04

[poul e]

My first thought was "Forever young" when I saw your topic, but if I can´t choose that it would have to be "Afternoons in Utopia". After that it would probably be "Hunting high and low" by A-ha, certainly not a DM album.

[wii]

I say Salvation !!!!!

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[Avil]

But hey, can´t we just skip AV-albums and take other artist´s albums???
The topic is in "Other artist" section, isn´t it? Not counting with AV, I say:

Iris-Disconnect

*I´m your best friend-the dream*

[poul e]

Good point Avil! I already said mine then: A-ha - Hunting high and low.

Other great albums includes (in no particular order):
Sugar Tax/Architecture and morality/Pacific Age - OMD
Disco/Actually/Introspective - Pet Shop Boys
Substance - New Order
Scoundrel days - A-ha
Wonderland/Circus - Erasure


Edited by - poul e on 05 Jan 2001 14:24:40

[Avihai]

(Well, I'll skip Forever Young) so it's
must be :
1. Violator / Music for the masses
2. Voices & Images / Hunting H&L
3. Many many bands ... such as :
New Order, Ultravox, Beborn,And1,OMD ...

[wii]

Ok:

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
A-ha - Scoundrel Days
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Erasure - Wonderland
OMD - Sugar Tax

and

X-perience - Never Ending Dream


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Edited by - wii on 05 Jan 2001 14:53:14

[Adiville]

FY and SALVATION <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

@ville - forever and ever.

[wii]

Not AV Adi !

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[Adiville]

Willy : you wrote SALVATION yourself !!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
well, its not a real album but i really love THE PET SHOP BOYS DISCOGRAPHY...


@ville - forever and ever.

[simpledumbpilot]

ok and the winners are........

1.Sparks - Number One In Heaven
2.Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
3.Pet Shop Boys - Please
4.I Start Counting - My Translucent Hands
5.OMD - Architecture & Morality
7.New Order - Substance (ok,so its a compilation but why not)
6.OMD - Architecture & Morality
7.Human League - Travelogue or Reproduction (tough choice)
8.Komputer - The World Of Tomorrow
9.Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
10.Fad Gadget - Gag

[simpledumbpilot]

Oh,for the love of god! I forgot Humans Lib by Howard Jones,Official Version by Front 242,Secret Wish by Propaganda,Whos Afraid by the Art Of Noise,Ebbhead by Nitzer Ebb.This question is much more difficult than i thought it would be.

[Sten]

The same as simpeldumbpilot and in addition,
Malcom Mclaren`s "Fans",Wax`s "American english" and Yello`s "Stella".

[simpledumbpilot]

Sten,at last a kindred spirit,but i do prefer Malcolm McLarens Duck Rock LP to Fans we should make each other a compilation tape ,i need to hear more bands like these,the UK music scene has become musicless,too many boybands!

[Sten]

The day I get the "drivecord" to my recordplayer, ( I`ve been waiting almost a year now )I`le be happy to make you a "personal best of CD".
Almost all my 80`s favorits is on albums, 7" or 12".

[simpledumbpilot]

No probs,most of my stuff from this period is vinyl as well,its the only way to listen to this stuff!

We are the Jet Set society,so lets all be sociable.

[Jonatan]

I'd vote for

Void (De/Vision)

[syntetico]

Well my choices are:
1/Forever young=Av (?)
2/Violator=Dm
3/The Innocents/Chorus=Erasure
4/Yesterday Man=Elegant Machinery

And many more: Karftwerk,Yazoo,Spock,New order,etc...


Syntetico


...You can halt your car for an afternoon in Utopia...

[wonder2000]

AV: AIU
AV: FY
PSB: Introspective
PSB: Actually
DM: Music For The Masses
DM: Violator
Erasure: Chorus
A-ha: Hunting High And Low

-Julian Moon-

Edited by - wonder2000 on 03 Dec 2001 12:34:27

[Ariana Dreamer]

ERASURE - WONDERLAND!
AHA - HUNTING HIGH AND LOW!
DEPECHE MODE - VIOLATOR!

Could I count Kraftwerk / The man machine

With all my love - I went into the world


Edited by - Ariana Dreamer on 19 Nov 2001 15:08:49

[Olek]

Let me think... alright:
Camouflage - 'Voices and images' (a definition of synthpop)
X-Perience - 'Magic fields' (when I first heard it, I just simply couldn't believe my own ears that it's possible to record such beautiful music nowadays)
Wolfsheim - 'Spectators' (that voice...)
de/vision - 'Void' (it's obvious, isn't it)
Psyche - 'The influence' ('rainy' music plus Darrin with his 'Marc Almond wannabe' voice)

Dm is also obvious, so I skipped them... Nah, place 'Violator' on the list!

As for the 'adifferentdrum' bandwagon, I just simply don't like those bands. Echoing Green, Agnes Poetry, Blue October, Cosmicity - they all sound so similar. Pretty boring. I bought 'shot' sampler and yawned all evening.

I think the same of 'Thou shalt not', which was to release their album through Marian's Navigator. He said he liked them so much, while I found them totally cliched. The same goes to Anything box.

Olek

[micki]

FY (by AV, ofcourse...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>)!!... well, there are so many, that I actually can't rate them in any kind of order...but here are a few of the most wonderful albums (besides FY)...;

"AIU"/AV
"Human's Lib"/Howard Jones
"Lament"/Ultravox
"Dream Into Action"/Howard Jones
"Into The Gap"/Thompson Twins
"Secret Wish"/Propaganda (can you call that a POP-album?...) ...+ many more....

"the 80's child"

Edited by - micki on 16 Nov 2001 14:05:22

[Ariana Dreamer]

allright Micki, I´m glad you let us all know what you feel about Forever young, but this topic were not to include AV-material.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

With all my love - I went into the world

[micki]

BAH!! Look at the earlier postings!!!...<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

"the 80's child"

Edited by - micki on 16 Nov 2001 14:47:40

[Ariana Dreamer]

quote:Originally posted by Avihai:

What do you think ?
Please do not include AV albums as we
already (...)
But hey, Micki... i didn´t mean to be rude
<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>

With all my love - I went into the world


Edited by - Ariana Dreamer on 16 Nov 2001 14:52:06

[micki]

Hey...I hope YOU didn't take this seriously...I was just kidding...OK?..I didn't know that, but thanx for telling me!!

"the 80's child"

[Ariana Dreamer]

:)no, no... don´t worry...:)

I love New Order as well,
I just had to say that...

With all my love - I went into the world

[Avil]

Got one with Daily Planet-The tide!
It´s very good, I liked like 9 of ten songs!

~/~/~Crystal vibrations~/~/~

[micki]

Yazoo ROCKS!! (Just listening to them at the moment..)

"the 80's child"

[russharvey]

hard to say.......

maybe.....

1. FY by AV
2. Pop the first 20 singles by Erasure
3. Best of OMD by OMD

After that...... don't know......

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