ITT: Patrician 80s pop

ITT: Patrician 80s pop

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Hall & Oates

Aztec Camera
Prefab Sprout

fuck beat me to it

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soft cell
prefab sprout
madonna
kim wilde
orange juice

OMD

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Kim Wilde made some decent songs but she's nowhere near Prefab Sprout or Orange Juice

absolute kino

Songs From The Big Chair [Mercury, 1985]

Never one to pay much heed to the plaints of English lads with synthesizers, I assumed I could safely ignore this album until giving it a closer listen. It was then that my ears detected substance beneath the surface--uncommon command of keyboards, Baker Street sax, and synthesizers ragged enough to add texture rather than simply effects--even a lyric that goes "We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes."--not bad. Yet the surface is still annoying, promising a depth and drama that progressive rock has been promising and failing to deliver since the beginning. B-

Has this guy ever given new wave or synth pop a positive score?

He gave Parallel Lines an A because Blondie were from New York.

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This is seriously the greatest 80s pop record. Its only possible competition is Hounds of Love or The Colour of Spring.

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i love sting

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A lot of 80s pop that wasn't patrician in the 80s is in fact patrician now.

>80s pop
>album released in 1978

Well dang

>tfw I've slept on this album for months
>tfw the last thing I was listening to was The Hurting which I really, really like

One day I'll actually listen to Songs From The Big Chair.

Granted PL is one of those albums that previews the 80s, especially their skinny ties and mullets.

do it today, you're missing out.

It's like the hurting, but much grander and less new romantic-y.

Yeh the late 70s was a period when you had records like Some Girls and Spirits Having Flown that are clearly 70s albums and others like Parallel Lines and the first two Van Halen LPs that preview the next decade.

Parallel Lines is a good album, but they never really tried again after that.

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1. Hounds of Love
2. Madonna
3. This Nation's Saving Grace
4. Substance 1987
5. The Keys Album
6. The Color of Spring
7. Climate of Hunter
8. Avalon
9. The Nightfly
10. Purple Rain

bowie sucks.

Gee, I wonder who could be behind this post.

>most patrician band coming through

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overall yeah
but she made some really good singles.

H-he's kinda cute

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>tfw you're the only person on Sup Forums who cares about Squeeze

>tfw you love squeeze too

we're Few and far between brother

Quickly senpai rank their discography so I know you care

this looks like thom yorke wtf

It's Thom.

really now..? proof?

It's not Thom

it's thm

Nice mullet.

mullets are effay you dum dum

Turn On the Bright Lights [Matador, 2002]

They bitch because everybody compares them to Joy Division, and they're right. It's way too kind, and I say that as someone who thanks Ian Curtis for making New Order possible. Joy Division struggled against depression rather than flaunting it, much less wearing it like a designer suit. What's truly depressing is that, just as the hairy behemoths of the grunge generation looked back to the AOR metal they immersed in as teens, these fops tweak the nostalgia of young adults who cherish indistinct memories of much worse bands than Joy Division, every one of them English--Bauhaus, Ultravox, Visage, Spandau Ballet, Tears for Fears. At a critical moment in consciousness they exemplify and counsel disengagement, self-seeking, a luxurious cynicism. Says certified British subject Peter Banks: "Emotions are standard and boring. I'd like to find another way to live." That's thinking either big or very small. C+

where should I start with 80's pop

He's not wrong. I mean, all the British New Wave bands he listed there pretty much suck donkey nuts.

Side 1 of Argybargy is top tier pop

The whole album is good but damn those first tracks are catchy

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PSB
Depeche Mode

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DONT STAND SO

Tears for fears
Soft cell
China crisis
Prefab sprout
Pet shop boys
Frankie goes to Hollywood
OMD
Human league
Prince
The cure
Talk talk
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
Kate bush
Peter Gabriel

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>pop

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These guys' voices are annoying as fuck, thankfully they're so far back in the mix you can't hear them anyway.

mah nigga. Side A is perfect. The Police always need more love here.
supremely underrated band.

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OMD is boring as fuck to anyone who isn't a pretentious lesbian imho

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patrician tastes

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The thing is that Kate Bush is every bit as much of an obnoxious 80s Britbong with synthesizers as all those bands Christgau lists, but he gave Hounds of Love an A just because he wanted to fuck her.

Yeah...waifuism is a bitch, user. On Sup Forums we've even been deluded enough to think Grimes and Chvrches are listenable music.

He gave HOL a B actually.

I have listened to this like thirty times now and I still only find it okay at best.

Am I missing something?

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What was it with 80s British artists and obnoxious synthpop anyway?

how did none of you fucks post this

How the hell is This Nation's Saving Grace a pop record?

Have you listened to it?

I posted it twice already.

Yes, it sounds like post-punk.

>patrician
>pop

>>>>>facebook.com

this album has like 2 good songs and the rest are shit

Are they exclusive concepts?

Post-punk ain't exactly stochastic music, bub, let's get a little perspective here.

Thank you! Someone finally says it.

Real good album.
Im still looking for something similar

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Suddenly the new toys were cheap enough for passionate enough people to play with, so we got to hear them play with them.

>bitching about 80s British version of Outkast aka albums meant to fuck to
fuck off

Absolutely

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It's really one of a kind (besides other Blue Nile material obviously)

im listening to grimes right now

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I love 80s pop and when someone mentions it, Everybody Wants to Rule the World is always the first song I think of. This all stems from me growing up listening to all of mum's 80s compilation CDs

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youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU I unironically fucking love this song and groove on it all the time

Only just started listening to them because they play them all the time on SiriusXM's First Wave channel. They're pretty good.

Everything from Nena in the 80s was great but this album is my favorite.

"call you appetite" is most definitely one of the best songs of the 80's. prefab sprout is frighteningly overlooked.
aztec camera is pretty great as well.

i'm going to have to say, personally:
the go-betweens, fad gadget, blondie, the feelies, squeeze, scritti politti, game theory, xtc, orange juice, r. stevie moore, pet shop boys, early madonna, robyn hitchcock, julian cope [or] the teardrop explodes, steely dan, sparks, psychic tv, akiko yano, kidorriko, anything jun togawa-related (guernica definitely included, depending on your definition of pop that is) and the holy grail... tears for fears.

>I Ran
>not Space Age Love Song

sorry m8 I'm only casually into this stuff, my primary tastes are elsewhere. But I'll give it a go, just for you :)

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That's a lot of words to say absolutely nothing except "I just don't like it."

>Roland and Curt's beautiful voices
>annoying
Faggot.

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