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What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
I'd add, off the top of me head:
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
There's bloomin loads though
only you by yaz (or yazoo, if you so like). it reminds me of summer camp and this boy i liked. *sigh*
Tangerine - SunburstOther Two - New HorizonsThe Other Two - Tasty FishAlien Nation - Lovers of the WorldYellow Magic Orchestra - Expected Way
Red Turns To... - Deep Sleep Shark Vegas - Pretenders Of Love OMD - VCL XI Joy Division - As You Said Sandra - Everlasting Love (12" Extended Version)
Cabaret Voltaire - HypnotisedBeat Club - Security (Bernard Sumner Remix)The Shamen - Omega AmigoIF? - Saturday's Angels (Lee Martin Terrace Mix)No - Mr. Disco
Electronic - Getting Away With It Cath Carroll - Moves Like You Yazoo - The Other Side of Love Erasure - Chorus Alphaville - Forever Young (Bill Hamel Club Mix)
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My MindKon Kan - I Beg Your PardonDavid Bowie - Sound & VisionGiorgio Moroder - Together in Electric DreamsBuggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Daft Punk - Digital Love Taffy - I Love My Radio Echoing Green - Apology Tin Tin Out feat. Espiritu - Always Something There To Remind Me The Killers - Mr Brightside (TWD Remix)
No - 1963OMD - SouvenirLemon Interupt - EclipseUnderworld - Two Months OffNo - BLT
AgentWood wrote: only you by yaz (or yazoo, if you so like). it reminds me of summer camp and this boy i liked. *sigh*
Yes how i could i forget that. Vince Clarke is the man. But I always thought it was their one hit wonder, never cared much for 'Dont Go'
Limassol/Maximo Park Isolation/Prospect Lane Confessions/Deluka
These three bands usually use a lot of keyboard/synth in their songs.
and of course, many early New Order songs:)
Tim wrote: whats a synth?
As far as I know, it's like a synthesizer, but American. They may claim they invented it, but Dr Moog was a dirty immigrant, and he was only developing work (the Theremin) done by the KGB's chief gadgeteer.
Best syth songs?
Hmmmmmm Most of "everything you ever wanted to hear on a moog synthesizer but were too afraid to ask for", The bit from Carmen is particularly excellent, as is Bolero.
In a lonely place wrote: What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
7 7 7 wrote: Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles ( superb)
Spectacularly little synth on that if memory serves.
TRY HARDER FOLKS!
And leave DM out of it after 82 or so, all emulators, ie SAMPLERS not synths.
I Feel Love, naturally. As far as I know, there's only one syndrum sound in there, the other percussive sounds come from Moroder triggering the Moog. 
Doctor? wrote:
In a lonely place wrote: What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
Yes that is the machine Hannett hankered after, but never could cos the money was spent on the Hacienda instead
Hannet, me, and 75% of the noise-making-machine geeks on the planet, the other 25% will settle for nothing less than an NED Synclavier.
In a lonely place wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
In a lonely place wrote: What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
Yes that is the machine Hannett hankered after, but never could cos the money was spent on the Hacienda instead
A JX8P was never that expensive...
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
In a lonely place wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
In a lonely place wrote: What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
Yes that is the machine Hannett hankered after, but never could cos the money was spent on the Hacienda instead
A JX8P was never that expensive...
I believe he was referring to the Fairlight as expensive.
Wasn't Hannett wanting a Synclavier?
TOO MANY TOO MENTION!
But at a pinch,the ones that spring to mind.
NO: BLT/YOUR SILENT FACE/The Village/Here To Stay HUMAN LEAGUE:Sound Of The Crowd/Seconds/Radio WJXL OMD : Statues/Almost/Stanlow THOMAS DOLBY: Wreck Of The Fairchild ('cause it's got a good bassline too) KRAFTWERK: The Robots/Musique Non Stop/Radioactivity LADYTRON : Flicking Your Switch/Playgirl/Evil JOHN FOXX :Underpass/Mr No/Endlessly (remix) GARY NUMAN : Down In the Park(live)/Cars/Films (live) BLANCMANGE : Living on The Ceiling ULTRAVOX : We Stood Still/Sleepwalk/The Thin Wall YAZOO : Don't Go/Goodbye 70's DEPECHE MODE : (too many to mention,but anything off VIOLATOR) DURAN DURAN :Save A Prayer/The Chauffeur JOY DIVISION: Isolation/Decades/Atmosphere 808 STATE :Pacific State ORBITAL :Halcyon (and on..)/One Perfect Sunrise PET SHOP BOYS : So Hard/Always On My Mind/Can You Forgive Her
Christ nearly forgot .. VISAGE - Damned Don't Cry (played it non-stop about 30 times when it came out)
OMD - Telegraph
ROXY MUSIC - Same Old Scene
BIS = Love Will Tear Us Apart
Bentley wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
In a lonely place wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
In a lonely place wrote: What are your favourite songs where the keyboards are dominating the song. I love the synth pop genre very much so the choices are almost infinite. I am pretty keen on:
(1) Perfect Kiss (I would be a heretic not to say this) (2) Maid of Orleans - OMD (3) Your Silent Face (4) Just cant get enough - Depeche :o (5) Its a sin - PSB's (6) Midnight - Orbital (7) TEE - Kraftwerk (8) Closedown - The Cure (9) Enola Gay - OMD (10)Love Action - Human League
It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
Yes that is the machine Hannett hankered after, but never could cos the money was spent on the Hacienda instead
A JX8P was never that expensive...
I believe he was referring to the Fairlight as expensive.
Wasn't Hannett wanting a Synclavier?
The CIA would NEVER have let a bunch of commies like Factory have one, they refused Paul Hardcastle cos he was a dangerous subversive cos he said the troops in 'Nam, were an average age of 19. Ahhhh the US govt.'s aversion to truth, you gotta love it.
Bentley wrote: Maybe I'm just tired and missed something... but, what are you going on about Steve?
The synclavier's onboard computers are so powerful that they come under the same US export restrictions as the highest grade Military tech, the CIA have to check your ass out before you buy one. NASA used to borrow it (as recently as the late 1990's) to debug spacecraft as it was simply the only portable computer on Earth capable of digesting the Shuttle's (or some satellite) massive realtime telemetric output. It is also reckoned that it could easily handle running the strategic missle systems of a medium sized country.
To this day, you hear them all the time on TV and in films. Any time you hear an orchestra when none is credited, it the old Synclavier proving it's still the best.
Doctor? wrote:
Bentley wrote: Maybe I'm just tired and missed something... but, what are you going on about Steve?
The synclavier's onboard computers are so powerful that they come under the same US export restrictions as the highest grade Military tech, the CIA have to check your ass out before you buy one. NASA used to borrow it (as recently as the late 1990's) to debug spacecraft as it was simply the only portable computer on Earth capable of digesting the Shuttle's (or some satellite) massive realtime telemetric output. It is also reckoned that it could easily handle running the strategic missle systems of a medium sized country.
To this day, you hear them all the time on TV and in films. Any time you hear an orchestra when none is credited, it the old Synclavier proving it's still the best.
Can't keep track of inane details like that. :D
I am aware that people still use both the Synclavier and Fairlight.
Bentley wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
In a lonely place wrote:
Doctor? wrote: It's a sin is primarily Fairlight, which is a sampler and resynthesizer. There is however a JX8P explosion on it, that was previously used on FGTH's relax.
Yes that is the machine Hannett hankered after, but never could cos the money was spent on the Hacienda instead
A JX8P was never that expensive...
I believe he was referring to the Fairlight as expensive.
Thanks for clearing that up. 
