C90: Bombastic synthpop

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Like "Rock Me Amadeus" or H17's "Temptation"

― Fergal Cussen (Burger), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Come Live With Me," "Let's All Make A Bomb," "And That's No Lie" -- Heaven 17 owns this thread.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jump"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Pamala Stanley's "Coming Out of Hiding"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The entirety of DM's Black Celebration.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

you might as well include 'Emerge'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm tempted to add the Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion," but the Jim Steinman factor kinda takes that to another level...

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

GAZEBO!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been meaning to ask this,is anything by van halen as good as jump?

― robin (robin), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Berlin, "Take My Breath Awayyyyyyyyyyyy"

(I once fell in love with a married woman based on our mutual admiration for this song and its flatulent prog bass-synth whomps. Sadly, she liked the song better than she liked me.)

― Neudonym, Friday, 23 May 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Alphaville - "Forever Young"
Ultravox - "Vienna"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been meaning to ask this,is anything by van halen as good as jump?

Hold that thought. Hstencil had a theory the other day that VH's "Dancing in the Street" was more "postpunk" than the Rapture et al. I'm not really sure if that's true but it got me thinking about the breadth of styles DLR-era VH drew from (and no, I don't just mean cuz of "Ice Cream Man" and "Take Your Whiskey Home"). I was inspired to post "Jump" on this thread because of the recent "Disco Rock" thread, where I countered that "Little Dreamer" was more purely disco (think: the slow strut of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack) than "Jump" (which applies the bombast of Flashdance-y hi-NRG to a prog-metal context).

Anyone wanna add to this?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Eyed Peas -- "Where Is The Love"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Duran Duran, "Hold Back The Rain"

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

must download a few more then
i don't think i've ever heard anything other than jump

― robin (robin), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'll Wait" from 1984 is better than Jump and is a delightfully bombastic piece of synth-pop.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

good call.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Go West - "We Close Our Eyes"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Genesis - "No Reply At All"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Camouflage - The Great Commandment (= the ultimate 80s synthpop song)

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 23 May 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Blancmange 'Living On The Ceiling'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

reap the wild wind - ultravox
the promise - when in rome

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 23 May 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: Van Halen - the one-two punch of "Sunday Afternoon in the Park" and "One Foot Out the Door" at the end of Fair Warning is probably the most bombastic synth-based recording VH ever made.

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Friday, 23 May 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Propaganda's "A Secret Wish" which is surely thee uber-bombast synthpop rekkid of all time!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 May 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Q to thread dammit! All this VH talk and no him.

Europe's "The Final Countdown" could sorta be a real sick candidate here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 May 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's hard to pick just one Simple Minds tune, but "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" has gotta be one of their most bombastic (which would place it high in the runnin' for most bombastic worldwide).

The The's "Giant" is right up there, too.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok"

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the promise - when in rome

say what now? this doesnt strike me as bombastic, it always reminded me of 'love is in the air' cos of that bassline tho

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sparks - "Academy Award Performance"

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 24 May 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
"Common People"

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 25 May 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Toy Soliders" too!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 25 May 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Does Your Mother Know", Abba
"Visitors" too, f'course

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 25 May 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this is just like dclmc

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 25 May 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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