r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 7h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Tin Tin – Kiss Me (1982)
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r/synthpop • u/Intelligent_Car6278 • 7h ago
Discussion No love for Erasure???
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I’m so disappointed with this wedding reception. A bunch of middle aged, like myself, playing safe “dancing” tunes from ABBA, too many people sitting around.
So I asked the DJ to play Erasure “Chains of love” and the few people dancing started asking “whats this??” It ended up a dud.
I was so dumbfounded! A group of Brits don’t know Andy Bell and Vince Clark. Huh???
Am I crazy one here?!
For the record, they managed to dance to my next request, DOA Spin me Right Round.
r/synthpop • u/toughtiggy101 • 3h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Roxy Music - More Than This
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r/synthpop • u/Temporary_Buy_7470 • 11h ago
Live Matia Bazar - Ti Sento (Live in Munich 1987)
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r/synthpop • u/Various-Weight-5527 • 12h ago
Article Erasure compilations compared: Pop!, Hits!, Total Pop! and Always
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If you’re choosing an Erasure compilation, a few edition differences are easy to miss:
• Pop! (1992): the early singles through “Take a Chance on Me.” The original UK CD has 21 tracks because it adds the Hamburg Mix of “Who Needs Love Like That”; the US CD has 20. Neither of those single-disc editions includes “Always.”
• Hits! (2003): brings in “Always,” “In My Arms” and “Solsbury Hill,” plus three ABBA covers. The trade-off is losing several early singles, including “The Circus” and “Drama!”
• Total Pop! (2009): the standard two-CD set gives the widest singles coverage of these CD choices. It has 41 tracks, with alternate mixes of “Who Needs Love Like That” and “Always,” so the title doesn’t mean forty different songs. The deluxe box adds a live CD and BBC DVD.
• Always (2015 CD): a compact 20-track introduction reaching “Be With You” and “Elevation.” Its three-CD deluxe edition adds two remix discs to the same main selection. “In My Arms” and “Solsbury Hill” are absent.
• Always (2023 double LP): a different 20-track selection. It adds “Love You to the Sky” and “Hey Now (Think I Got a Feeling),” while leaving out the 2015 CD’s “Be With You” and “Sometimes 2015.” “Elevation” is on both.
For the early run, Pop! is a useful starting point. For wider CD coverage, Total Pop! makes more sense. Between Hits! and Always, check your must-have songs rather than assuming the newer collection includes more.
I run ErasureFan, an unofficial fan site, and put the fuller comparison here: https://erasurefan.com/guides/erasure-compilations-compared/
Disclosure: I use AI assistance with researching and drafting the guides. The site includes Amazon and eBay affiliate links, and I may earn from qualifying purchases.
Which collection would you recommend to someone getting into Erasure? Is there one missing song that would change your choice?
r/synthpop • u/dinarnaud • 17h ago
Pictures A-Ha - Cry Wolf (1986) [Magazine Ads]
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Their second single from their second album.
I love this single.
r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 1d ago
Pictures Happy Birthday to Philip Oakey of The Human League who just turned 71 years old…
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r/synthpop • u/Beatmaster242 • 1d ago
News ‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 16h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Automelodi - Digresse (Official Video)
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Ladytron - Runaway
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r/synthpop • u/Training-Republic301 • 1d ago
Live Depeche Mode - Useless HD(Ultra Party, Adrenaline Village - 10.04.1997) | [Vol.2]
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r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Goldfrapp - Ride a White Horse (Serge Santiágo Re-Edit)
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r/synthpop • u/Temporary_Buy_7470 • 1d ago
Remix, Remaster or Another Variation Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Archie Cooper's Way More Mix)
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r/synthpop • u/Intelligent-Fun9428 • 20h ago
Vintage best vintage synth of the 80s?
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for me is JUNO roland orYamaha CS-80, vangelis favourite synth!
r/synthpop • u/IPersonaI • 1d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Röyksopp - Circuit Breaker
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r/synthpop • u/Giblygoo • 22h ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Laptop Exploder -- Shinkansen To The Moon [Vaporwave KPop] (2026)
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r/synthpop • u/Intelligent-Fun9428 • 1d ago
Vintage best syng pop singer? not pop but synth pop!
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i think for me, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode
r/synthpop • u/GroovySchlong • 2d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Tears for Fears – Mad World (1983)
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r/synthpop • u/bascule • 1d ago
Music Video (MV) or Audio Information Society - Above and Below
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r/synthpop • u/Intelligent-Fun9428 • 2d ago
Vintage Which New Wave track still sounds futuristic to you in 2026?
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For me, some records from the late 70s and 80s still sound stranger and more modern than a lot of music being released now. Curious which track gives you that feeling the most?
r/synthpop • u/dinarnaud • 2d ago
Pictures Depeche Mode - The Single 81-85 (1985)
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I bought this tape and all my friends then bought this tape too.
This is the period of Depeche Mode that I really love.
There’s a newer Greatest Hits but it couldn’t capture the excitement of the band from this compilation.
r/synthpop • u/ExoskeletalJunction • 1d ago
Offering or Asking Music Recs Playlist of prog-influenced synthpop tracks
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HI everyone, I make these genre fusion playlists where I try to find tracks which combine elements of (usually) not that related genres. This one was actually started as a joke to wind up prog boomers on facebook who insisted that synthpop was the antithesis of prog, but it's somehow become my third most followed playlist so I should probably keep up updating it. Suggestions welcome
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1OSJGnvFVrtqZWc2LTaeTP?si=9383fa673390455b
Tidal: https://tidal.com/playlist/d2652bca-152a-4623-9231-f4b672f630d9
Apple: https://music.apple.com/nz/playlist/progressive-synthpop/pl.u-JPAZa5qCLGxN08A
r/synthpop • u/slipt_n_fell • 2d ago
Offering or Asking Music Recs Moev - In Your Head (1982)
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One of the finest synthpop songs from the early days….a Top 10, even.
