Shiny Toy Guns has several versions of their first CD. For all the talk about remastering and different female vocalists, these albums seem very similar. I made comparison tables and listened to them all. Here are simple track lists:
The European version is Version 3, but also has Rocketship as Track 12.
Another group that nailed the 80’s! Found this on DDRx which also has a Book of Love, a PSB, Alien Six, Fischerspooner, and so many more yummy Synthpop songs. They hail from Boston where Freezepop lives.
April 21, 2009 the match is on! In corner one:
Pet Shop Boys – Yes
In corner two the crowd’s favorite:
Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
This is a happy day for synthpop in the southwest!
The Faint
And
Ladytron
At Tucson’s Rialto, Friday April 24 2009 (With some crocodiles)
Huzzah for a new album!
Röyksopp are releasing Junior into the world. Everything seems deeper and bouncier from the samples I have heard. I am looking forward to grabbing the plastic disc thereof.
Chill out's finest
Yamaha Mitsubishibi Toyota Suzuki Sony Minolta Kawasaki Sanyo Casio Toshiba.
All the brands have survived! Humpe sisters have some amazing songs out there. “Happiness is hard to take” “Don’t spoil my day” Along with the Yamaha song, “Geschrien im Schlaf’s” melody really sticks in my brain.
Since I am new to the whole cellular scam (phone) industry, I was not prepared for how hokey cell phones are. I got a Casio Boulder G’z One. It was expensive and sounded rugged. Throw a few folders of music on it, and nothing happens! It turns out that many phones can not recurse directories. I had to dump my naked songs in the root music directory. Then the phone decided my file names were just too long with all that useless info like title and author.
Just look at what it did to my poor filenames:
How can we be such a powerful nation and limit ourselves so severely on technology? Please move my player’s marker further into the no-cell-phone camp.
Information Society made good on the Apocryphon CD set. Finally I have solid media for those Napster days collections.
Apocryphon’s insets are full of rare photos and tasty blurbs. The track remastering is clean and crisp as you would expect. Personal fave turns out to be “06 – Xmas At Our House” with suffering, torment, and pain. There are so many more tracks for a collection like this such as the Christmas track where “Santa’s comin’” was all twisted and sounds like we need to hide, or the cover of “One”. How about the 3DO tracks? Can we get them?
I followed rumors of a third Think Tank album as well, even saw track lists online! Were these fanciful fabrication only? Lately I want to know where the samples “It’s the information age, brother” and “Do you know that bad girls go to…?” come from.
I went nuts jumping and screaming when watching the 1995 movie “Death Machine” on some late-night cheese-a-thon and heard the samples from Think Tank – Googelplectic.
Why are all the pages I created about Think Tank, Brother Sun-Sister Moon and Hakatak deleted from Wikipedia?? That will teach me to keep information on a public forum.
Anyhow, the third Think Tank Album can be heard on Amazon:
The New Romantic revival is dawning again. Remember when “Alternative” and “New Wave” meant almost the same thing? That was twenty to thirty years ago. The following mentions are rated minor NSFC – Not safe for Christians (profanity and explicit lyrics). Some of the tracks are very listenable.
The industry let the term music be redefined. For two generations it has been forced into a little hole where the only valid instruments were the electric guitar, rock drum set, and one angry singer with no harmonic support. Fortunately this trend is loosing its grip. Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm are returning.
An honorable mention is M83 – Saturday=Youth. This is more indie, and not as popular as the above groups. If nothing else they get eleven points for the sweet recreation of 80s on the cover:
The brilliant part of this is that these groups fall into the modern “alternative” category and will be pushed down the throats of the teen generation. Thus the groups can restore some intelligence, harmony, and fun into the music. This will balance the angst and noise that has been so prevalent of late.
Yeah, I know it’s Monday. Time for compare and contrast. Go and listen to these two amazing synthpop tracks:
Gwen Stefani – Wonderful Life
and
Black – Wonderful Life
Now go and report your findings.
