Perfect 80's Techno Pop?

equalsql

Scritti Politti - Perfect Way.
This track was mind blowing at the time and still sounds good over 30 years later considering the technology.



Any other candidates of this type of techno-pop that sparkle for you from this era?

webrthomson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8

Which then became:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kE8565_xrc&list=RD2kE8565_xrc

fob

So popular it almost seems cliched but boy was it good. The video's dramatic close-ups onto their eyes and then onto the cow's eyes still makes me laugh.

boogieman

Thomas Dolby. Brilliant songs that have stood up well over the years. 

https://youtu.be/-FIMvSp01C8


https://youtu.be/yNWPYH-XKpI

Grunfeld

boogieman said:

Thomas Dolby. Brilliant songs that have stood up well over the years.

Oh this is a strange one... I love synths (maybe more than guitar-based music until the whole ambient thing got going).
And I don't like 80s techno pop at all!
However... Thomas Dolby made an album "Astronauts & Heretics" which is sublime -- I'm not really sure how.
Here's the first track, "I love you, goodbye" which suffers at the hands of old you tube compression here but the original is perfection.  It's a whole soundscape.  Probably my favourite piece of production ever.

ICBM

Kajagoogoo



I love the Eurythmics, and a lot that's really more synth-duo (OMD, Yazoo, Blancmange etc) than techno-pop, quite like Thomas Dolby, but I absolutely cannot stand Scritti Politti!

boogieman

Grunfeld said:

boogieman said:

Thomas Dolby. Brilliant songs that have stood up well over the years.

Oh this is a strange one... I love synths (maybe more than guitar-based music until the whole ambient thing got going).
And I don't like 80s techno pop at all!
However... Thomas Dolby made an album "Astronauts & Heretics" which is sublime -- I'm not really sure how.
Here's the first track, "I love you, goodbye" which suffers at the hands of old you tube compression here but the original is perfection.  It's a whole soundscape.  Probably my favourite piece of production ever.

I haven’t heard that album. Nice! 

I dug out Aliens ate my Buick after this thread reminded me I hadn’t played it for ages. Love this track
https://youtu.be/GAdK74gJe04

Kebabkid

Propaganda- live, their synth sounds could be very powerful and aggressive 

mistercharlie

Kebabkid said:

Propaganda- live, their synth sounds could be very powerful and aggressive 

I was going to suggest Propaganda. I was a big fan, back in the 80s. 

Whitecat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE61Bz7IHKg

Whitecat

Kebabkid

If you like your guitar mixed in, Go West and Nik Kershaw to a point and Corey Hart, who's been already mentioned (try Eurasian Eyes and Boy in a Box); however, have a listen to the excellent Bourgeois Tagg. I know that people will know them for the one UK Beatle-esque hit "I don't mind at all" but the other tracks on that album are pretty electronic with nice guitar parts.

Freebird