29-Feb-2012, 1:30 PM
How can you not like New Order, Dave? True heresy!
I LOVE OMD! I can't believe I forgot about them!
Without Soft Cell, you don't have synth-pop's all-time best moment: the 12" version of "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye," complete with clarinet introduction.
Japan are responsible for the terrible song "Ghosts." You've probably heard it.
I don't consider Madness to be synth-pop. "Crap that gives ska a bad name" works, though.
The Human League have more than one great song; they've got a great album (ok, track 6 sucks), plus "(Keep Feeling) Fascination."
Tears For Fears are the band with three or four great songs (Advice For The Young At Heart, Badman's Song, Sowing The Seeds Of Love, the 12" version of Pale Shelter), and then a bunch of blandness. And I have to say that the breakup of the Beatles gives me great pleasure, because I love to hear fanboys crying themselves to sleep about the Evil Yoko Ono. Plus, by breaking up when they did, they spared the world another dozen albums' worth of mediocrity.
I LOVE OMD! I can't believe I forgot about them!
Without Soft Cell, you don't have synth-pop's all-time best moment: the 12" version of "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye," complete with clarinet introduction.
Japan are responsible for the terrible song "Ghosts." You've probably heard it.
I don't consider Madness to be synth-pop. "Crap that gives ska a bad name" works, though.
The Human League have more than one great song; they've got a great album (ok, track 6 sucks), plus "(Keep Feeling) Fascination."
Tears For Fears are the band with three or four great songs (Advice For The Young At Heart, Badman's Song, Sowing The Seeds Of Love, the 12" version of Pale Shelter), and then a bunch of blandness. And I have to say that the breakup of the Beatles gives me great pleasure, because I love to hear fanboys crying themselves to sleep about the Evil Yoko Ono. Plus, by breaking up when they did, they spared the world another dozen albums' worth of mediocrity.
Quote:In Jr. High School, I would take a gummi bear, squeeze its ears into points so it looked like Yoda, and then I would say to it "Eat you, I will!". And of course then I would it eat.