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▲ 47 r/synthpop

What are your thoughts on the visual identity/style of synthpop artists? Is it part of what makes the genre unique?

Artists listed below in order:

  1. Dead or Alive
  2. Kajagoogoo
  3. Tears for Fears
  4. A Flock of Seagulls
  5. Japan
  6. Duran Duran
  7. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
  8. Pet Shop Boys
  9. Thompson Twins (Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie)
  10. a-ha (Morten Harket)
  11. ABC (Martin Fry)
  12. Soft Cell (Marc Almond)
  13. Depeche Mode (Martin Gore)
  14. Human League (Philip Oakey)
  15. Visage (Steve Strange)
  16. Gary Numan
  17. La Roux (Elly Jackson)
  18. Magdalena Bay (Mica Tenenbaum)
  19. Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele)
  20. MGMT
u/toughtiggy101 — 1 day ago
▲ 56 r/synthpop

Favorite Erasure album? Also, did they have a better run in the 80s or 90s?

Albums and release years listed below:

  1. Wonderland (1986)
  2. The Circus (1987)
  3. The Innocents (1988)
  4. Wild! (1989)
  5. Chorus (1991)
  6. I Say I Say I Say (1994)
  7. Erasure (1995)
  8. Cowboy (1997)
  9. Loveboat (2000)
  10. Other People’s Songs (2003) [Covers Album]
  11. Nightbird (2005)
  12. Light at the End of the World (2007)
  13. Tomorrow’s World (2011)
  14. Snow Globe (2013) [Christmas Album]
  15. The Violet Flame (2014)
  16. World Be Gone (2017)
  17. The Neon (2020)
  18. Day-Glo (Based on a True Story) (2022)
u/toughtiggy101 — 2 days ago
▲ 587 r/TheMatpatEffect

That funky bacteria sounding music used in the background of some reels is 2023 song “Bloopin” by Eddie EWI

u/toughtiggy101 — 4 days ago
▲ 1.1k r/TheMatpatEffect

The Homelander laugh happened after he killed a guy in S3E8 of “The Boys” (2019). This same scene also has the origin of the violin music that was used in memes for a while.

u/toughtiggy101 — 10 days ago
▲ 616 r/TheMatpatEffect

The origin of the “Hmmmm” audio and two others come from “SHED.MOV” by hotdiggedydemon. The video was posted on February 3, 2012

u/toughtiggy101 — 14 days ago
▲ 47 r/synthpop

German synthpop vs. British synthpop - What do you prefer?

Artists and songs listed below in order:

German:

  1. Das Model - Kraftwerk
  2. 99 Luftballons - Nena
  3. The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime) - Peter Schilling
  4. (I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena - Sandra
  5. Duel - Propaganda
  6. Dance With Me - Alphaville
  7. Cheri, Cheri Lady - Modern Talking
  8. Love Is a Shield - Camouflage
  9. Face to Face, Heart to Heart - The Twins
  10. Don’t Let Me Down - Boytronic
  11. Will You Be There - Celebrate the Nun
  12. Situations - Cetu Javu
  13. American-Soviets - C.C.C.P.
  14. The Sparrows and the Nightingales - Wolfsheim
  15. Enjoy the Unknown - And One

British:

  1. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
  2. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Dreaming - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  5. (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
  6. The Look of Love - ABC
  7. Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
  8. Oh L’Amour - Erasure
  9. Brand New Lover - Dead or Alive
  10. The Reflex - Duran Duran
  11. Gold - Spandau Ballet
  12. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox
  13. Shout - Tears for Fears
  14. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
  15. Such a Shame - Talk Talk
u/toughtiggy101 — 15 days ago
▲ 28 r/TheMatpatEffect

“Ain’t nobody got time for that” audio originates from an interview with Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins. It originally aired on April 8, 2012 on KFOR-TV

u/toughtiggy101 — 18 days ago
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The scatting bit from the Goofy Goober Rock song in the 2004 “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” originates from David Lee Roth’s 1985 cover of “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” (Timestamp 2:54)

u/toughtiggy101 — 18 days ago
▲ 130 r/synthpop

What are some of your favorite British synthpop artists/bands?

Artists listed in order below:

  1. Depeche Mode
  2. Duran Duran
  3. ABC
  4. New Order
  5. Ultravox
  6. Spandau Ballet
  7. Dead or Alive
  8. A Flock of Seagulls
  9. Talk Talk
  10. Eurythmics
  11. Tears for Fears
  12. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
  13. Soft Cell
  14. Pet Shop Boys
  15. Erasure
  16. Human League
  17. Thompson Twins
  18. Heaven 17
  19. Bananarama (Note: Irish-English)
  20. Bronski Beat
u/toughtiggy101 — 19 days ago