Hey guys, I was wondering if you could rec me some 80s synth music with vocals on it

[Andrew King]

hey guys, I was wondering if you could rec me some 80s synth music with vocals on it.

Now before you start naming some top 100 shit, I'd like to know what you enjoy the most, not what's the most popular.

[Andrew Lewis]

stuff like this?
youtube.com/watch?v=2gxbgP66xDk

[James Morgan]

hey, that's pretty good!

Do you have any recs with normal vocals and maybe funkier leads?

[Gabriel Wood]

i love the prophet 5:

youtube.com/watch?v=v5WJ3BiJ5jg

[Cameron James]

I really like Deux

They released a few singles in the 80s but not really much else but they have a few compilation albums released somewhat recently with unreleased stuff on them.

youtube.com/watch?v=6lirxq3cT7g

Moderne are another cool French synthpop group

youtube.com/watch?v=uDv2yfvvg88

Oppenheimer Analysis might be my favorite, or at least the album they released

youtube.com/watch?v=NQWXIa_LCdE
youtube.com/watch?v=0L2yYCie368

[Austin Cooper]

Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION

[Ethan Sullivan]

>Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION
oh my lord

everyone else, thanks for the recs so far.

Does anyone have anything that sounds darker? not like black metal, but something a little bit original

[John Bennett]

also is there anything that sounds like that comfort album by sweet trip?

I like that surrealist sound (please no vaporwave)

[Justin Flores]

New Order
check out "Substance" by them

Talking Heads' "Speaking in Tongues"

there are a lot of great synthpop single compilations out there

[Carter Hill]

it's not 80's, but Cold Cave is extremely dark synth based music
check it out, i think you'd like it

[Daniel Hill]

It's interesting, the guy having a naturally unappealing voice kind of turns me off though.

This is my last question before I go to bed, do you guys have something that actually does kind of sound like synth black metal? I hate to use this example, but something with a similar vibe to deal grips. Something chanty?

[Parker Nguyen]

Some industrial sounds like darker synthpop. Try Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (though that's '79, I can't remember if any of their other albums sound like this) and Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca. Not sure how much vocals those have though.

youtube.com/watch?v=UZJXJjM2C3I
youtube.com/watch?v=iKPJWv35lWc

The Residents can be kind of dark too at points, though I don't think they're a strictly synth band.

[Anthony Nguyen]

their song "beware" by the way

[Owen Hall]

Not Op, but Oppenheimer Analysis if great stuff

[Lincoln Morris]

You see, the reason I ask for these types of requests is that I'm a music maker looking for inspiration. I enjoy the sounds of a lot of these, but the darker I make the sound, the harder it is to combine it with vocals.

[Nathaniel Ward]

Oh and Depeche Mode if you haven't already. They're kind of more popular than I imagine you're looking for but they fit the criteria of dark synthpop (at least for some of their stuff) with vocals.

[Brandon Nguyen]

Here's some stuff you may like.

youtube.com/watch?v=Jqz7FlcYCt4

youtube.co/watch?v=U7WPI4TJImo

youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XZ9rfEdqA

youtube.comwatch?v=yBalm5YoVcs

[Oliver Richardson]

*woops the last link is missing a slash (*/*)

[Leo Howard]

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[David Brooks]

Tears for Fears The Hurting and Songs from the Big Chair are LITERALLY perfect

[Hudson Barnes]

youtube.com/watch?v=isI3ihO4Z3I
It's prehistoric shit, but I think their whole album pretty gud