As bad as Oasis was ( I didnt mind some of Blur stuff ) its was still viable in terms of some creaivity and there were other things going as others here mentioned here though perhaps winding down .
What I dont get is how so many US ( alternative acts lets says ) just somehow evaporated after 96 / 97 .
I know some of it was related to the post grunge scene but there were acts like NInce Inch Nails , Pumpkins even Bjork which just Universally got crap and have done nothing of note since.
Seminal 80s synthpop pioneers HEAVEN 17 are marking the 30th anniversary of their debut album, PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT, by releasing a 2 disc DVD set featuring a full live concert, filmed in Sheffield in March 2010, and the acclaimed BBC2 documentary charting the band's career. Plus the first 200 fans who pre-order the DVD set at the band's website will receive a copy signed by the band.
thank you ever so much for uploading. For people to remenber the times britain was actually producing MUSIC (70s,80s) and before the hip-hop alied to consumerism system scene fucked music and prety much all the rest wih it..
i do not disagree with you, oasis are not my favourite, but oasis are not "electronic" based. So the arguement is flawed. What came after these guys were people like Dr Alban, The Prodigy, Haddaway etc, i am not saying that they are my fave either, but from the point of view of progression this is what happened
I dont know why this was directed at Oasis, as the synth pioneers paved the way for electronic dance music which was the idea of depeche mode in the first place, to have people dance to their music. Toward the end of the 80s you had salt-n-pepa, technotronic and similar acts which continued the progression of electronic synth music
@foxtrotfoxtrotsierra , totally agree with you. UK would produce Richard D James, Autechre, and Drum'n'Bass... in the 90's...the British answer to US, Detroit techno, NY No-Wave, and First wave of Hip-Hop (Afrakaa Bambaataa, Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy......)
Depeche Mode have done a brillant job of evolving with time. The days of bouncy simplistic synth bubbles is long gone; look at the depth and texture of their music now!
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if the Oasis are shitthen the synth pop is the bigest shit and all the electronic music, wich sounds so cheep, uncreative and unhuman....if the years of 1967-1975 where golden era of popular music where the years of 1976...with punk and synth pop total waste of time...prog rock forever and fuck off the sintetic bullshit
The 90's was in general a musically depressing era...however new pioneers like Daft Punk and Massive Attack...Chemical Brothers brought it back...for us synth fans...and balanced out the 90's obsession with the Beatles and Hippie Rock.
A great piece of tv for a great(er) piece of musical history! How many like me have been covered with shit by elder rock-oriented "brothers" in the Eighties? In their opinion, these musicians weren't but shooting stars. They were, indeed. But what a light!
Its true Oasis sux, but Daft punk hit it big the next year...Just comes off overly bitter. You dont hear thomas dolby on tv claiming she blinded me with science changed music.... ; )
Not my favourite decade but fascinatng and thanks for posting. It makes me laugh when they call it a golden age. More like nylon coated sprayed on gold effect age . .
The only Depeche Mode records really worthwhile were See You, New Life and Get The Balance Right, other than that this band has gotten way too much attention in this documentary.
Yes, they should've been mentioned too. I'm a big fan of the "Happy Familes" and "Mange Tout" albums. Both are '80s synth-pop masterpieces as well, esp. the former. Stephen Luscombe is one of the finest synth players from the era. But unlike you I wouldn't call them prototype Pet Shop Boys as they sounded different from each other.
I don't know what's wrong with Blancmange at all. Cabaret Voltaire, Matt Johnson (The The), New Order and Soft Cell to name some, all rated them. They had a critical appeal too. If they weren't available/invited already they should've been mentioned with just one small picture in as the same part Eurythmics and Japan got featured as well - "Between 1981 and 1983 synth-pop ruled supreme" sentence that is.
It's time to make part 10/10 with "children of synthy indie" - Royksopp, MGMT, Cut Copy, Passion Pit, Hot Chip, Mike Snow, La Roux, Empire Of The Sun, Hair Glow, Delphic, Parallels.
"And then what happens towards the end of the 80's, and even worse in the mid 90's. Everybody decides that guitars are back in and synthesizers are somehow old fashioned. And you get Oasis... Horror!"
Nice to see this in it's entirity, although you'd get a very odd idea of what TG sounded like from it.
Also, although they mention Kraftwek and Tangerine Dream (briefly), I can't believe they ignored Suicide. The 1st LP was incredibly influential, and given that they toured with the Clash, they would have been seen by loads of people in the UK.
Spose I'd clarify my previous point that once the leeches and the shit-munchers got on board the synth gravy train, the cool folk either pursued new avenues of novelty and invention, or clung more vigorously to their heroes of old... Thanks
Not anymore. Unfortunately. It had been up on the site for several weeks after the show's TV premiere and then they got it deleted. Wrong BBC site's moderators' policy again. They should leave such things to stay on the site all the time, and not deleting them. :-(
@connieplankghost Check out Oasis's 2000 single Sunday Morning Call - a pure OMD-style synth track!! I concur with you though, love synthpop, don't mind some Oasis though!
Andy has been using a proper bass guitar as well since the start of OMD. But that's not the point. There were synth bands that used both traditional and electronic instruments but they made something that sounded modern. It was not at all like that boring Brit-pop scene of the 90s when bands were basically copying the bands and artists of the 1960s.
To stay vital and interesting music must get into the unknown and uncharted territories, and not copy trends from the past.
Brit-pop wasn't the only thing that happened in the '90s. '90s gave us some of the best dance(!) music ever as well, especially the trip-hop one. Massive Attack, The Future Sound Of London, Orbital, The Orb, Propellerheads, Apollo 440, Daft Punk, Air, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy ...etc etc. That was where the real(!) '90s were at! ;-)
By the way, I am going to see OMD at the Wembley Arena, tonight. They will be playing there with Simple Minds. I heard that they will be joining Simple Minds on stage to do a Kraftwerk song!
He he. Funny that. I'm going to see them at the Wembley Arena tonight as well!! The Kraftwerk song they're going to perform together is "Neon Lights". Both covered it in the past. :-)
Wow! Which seat number have you got? Where are you sitting- South or North? S11? N13? Have you got "Standing" tickets? Let me know. I'll just try to come to meet you and say hello!
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I think other than some groups like Kraftwerk, TG, Carbarat Voltaire, and The Normal, this "Documentary" is only about Synthesizers itself, and not electronic music, and ofc they're going to select synthpop and electropop, new wave, darkwave, etc, bands.
Otherwise id put some Big Beat, Electronica, Breakbeat, Electro, Techno, Jungle,Newer EDM, Ambient, Post-Industrial, Trance, Futurepop, Fiction, Downtempo, Dub, Darkstep, Cold, Dark electronic, ????, IEM(independant electronic musi) on too.
This is a wonderful snapshot of that time and style. You will note they say that things changed and the other dance based styles you mention while electronic really aren't part of this slice of time.
The early synth-pop people are the ancestors of your fave styles but owe nothing to these later cliques.
The doco could have mentioned Neon Judgement and Front 242 as well but they were not British in the way these artists were.
Yes, I think exactly the same too. Their intention mainly was to cover the genre's golden i.e. most commercial period which admittedly was the one between 1979 and 1983 when Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Soft Cell, Eurythmics, The Human League (MKII)...etc ruled the charts. And having that on mind I have no single objection to say on that really at all.
But the story should've tackled some of the (sub)genres you've mentioned definitely. For the importance and influence reasons at least.
Somewhere around 1982/1983 Yamaha flooded the market with digital model DX7 which changed the complete approach to electronic keyboards. I think this also had influence on musicians who were already used to analog equipment.
Yes, that was another case as well. Music naturally follows technology development too. But that was more a case back then than now when music more or less looks back to the past despite rapid technology development over the last 10 or so years. Music MUST look to the future or follow technology development at least if it wants to stay vital and interesting, as I said earlier on another documentary's part. Works of the artists who looked to the future still sound intriguing and interesting.
Ha ha ha. Now you've reminded me of him. But unlike late '80s/early '90s Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley ...etc I never thought of him as a typical SAW artist. "Infinity" melody was OK but I always detested its lyrics and Josh's irritating as hell vocal performance. "1990s time for Guru"...*LOL*.
1987 - 1989 acid house music explosion and Madchester movement saved the period/music from SAW's chart crap. Thank God for that!
Vince Clarke composes music using acoustic guitar too, as that's some of the best ways to get the right melody i.e. key(!). But like Andy McCluskey he doesn't put it to the front but more as an accompanying thing to get (a little bit) richer sound. That's all. What Vince Clarke composes on guitar he just later transfer it over to synthesizer. For the nearly same reasons Cabaret Voltaire's both, Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder were/are guitar and bass guitar players respectively as well.
Love it just as Martyn Ware is saying "cancerous growth of market-led A and R-ing" at 7.21, they cue to a shot of Pete Waterman. Sums up synthpop's downward slope after the early 1980's perfectly.
Although I rate a few of the works they made for the likes of Dead Or Alive, Mel And Kim and Princess, for example, SAW's music production and their overall marketing really damaged music for good indeed. 1987 - 1989 was one of the worst periods for pop(!) music ever. 1990 changed it all and put it back right on the track. Well, for some time at least until all that mid /late '90s boy-bands/girl-bands explosion happened. Horrid times for pop again!
As bad as Oasis was ( I didnt mind some of Blur stuff ) its was still viable in terms of some creaivity and there were other things going as others here mentioned here though perhaps winding down .
What I dont get is how so many US ( alternative acts lets says ) just somehow evaporated after 96 / 97 .
I know some of it was related to the post grunge scene but there were acts like NInce Inch Nails , Pumpkins even Bjork which just Universally got crap and have done nothing of note since.
kinkabala 1 year ago
I love how everyone has turned into a music act progression expert. it happened how it happened and can't be changed.
kingofkeyboards 1 year ago
New Order FTW!!!!
mutedisease 1 year ago
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Seminal 80s synthpop pioneers HEAVEN 17 are marking the 30th anniversary of their debut album, PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT, by releasing a 2 disc DVD set featuring a full live concert, filmed in Sheffield in March 2010, and the acclaimed BBC2 documentary charting the band's career. Plus the first 200 fans who pre-order the DVD set at the band's website will receive a copy signed by the band.
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thank you ever so much for uploading. For people to remenber the times britain was actually producing MUSIC (70s,80s) and before the hip-hop alied to consumerism system scene fucked music and prety much all the rest wih it..
mistresspav 1 year ago 2
i do not disagree with you, oasis are not my favourite, but oasis are not "electronic" based. So the arguement is flawed. What came after these guys were people like Dr Alban, The Prodigy, Haddaway etc, i am not saying that they are my fave either, but from the point of view of progression this is what happened
foxtrotfoxtrotsierra 1 year ago
@foxtrotfoxtrotsierra what is the relation between prodigy and haddaway?
tsspng 1 year ago
i hate oasis with a passion most unoriginal band thats ever been
basswhore73 1 year ago
I dont know why this was directed at Oasis, as the synth pioneers paved the way for electronic dance music which was the idea of depeche mode in the first place, to have people dance to their music. Toward the end of the 80s you had salt-n-pepa, technotronic and similar acts which continued the progression of electronic synth music
foxtrotfoxtrotsierra 1 year ago
@foxtrotfoxtrotsierra , totally agree with you. UK would produce Richard D James, Autechre, and Drum'n'Bass... in the 90's...the British answer to US, Detroit techno, NY No-Wave, and First wave of Hip-Hop (Afrakaa Bambaataa, Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy......)
kim1971 1 year ago
@davidtrochtova yeah and oasis wouldnt have a career if it werent for the beatles or stone roses so what does that tell you
basswhore73 1 year ago
@davidtrochtova Agreed.
stephenmyers99 1 year ago
BRING BACK PURE SYNTH MUSIC!!!
GanEdenAustralia 1 year ago
Who the fuck is the young bloke with the specs? He probably wasn't even born then!
GanEdenAustralia 1 year ago
Fucking hate 'Britpop'
GanEdenAustralia 1 year ago
Now I know what I want for my upcoming Christmas presents, Synthesizers!!!
SweetMatheson 1 year ago
Depeche Mode have done a brillant job of evolving with time. The days of bouncy simplistic synth bubbles is long gone; look at the depth and texture of their music now!
mattokc 1 year ago 3
Oasis - horror!! LOLOLOL!!
Lissabon 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading:)
Lissabon 1 year ago
just watched the whole thing - thanks so much for uploading!
bohjen 1 year ago
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if the Oasis are shitthen the synth pop is the bigest shit and all the electronic music, wich sounds so cheep, uncreative and unhuman....if the years of 1967-1975 where golden era of popular music where the years of 1976...with punk and synth pop total waste of time...prog rock forever and fuck off the sintetic bullshit
bajko1000 1 year ago
@bajko1000 to be blunt with you man, oasis are shite. electronica music has come way farther than any indie shite has.
Gothica059 1 year ago
The 90's was in general a musically depressing era...however new pioneers like Daft Punk and Massive Attack...Chemical Brothers brought it back...for us synth fans...and balanced out the 90's obsession with the Beatles and Hippie Rock.
radiusfreq 1 year ago
@radiusfreq they did remain underground though and only had commercial airplay years after...
matzomaniac 1 year ago
@matzomaniac True that is!
radiusfreq 1 year ago
Advice on musical stereotypes from the man who brought us Atomic Kitten?
clivetemple 1 year ago 4
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ViVA1981Glasgow 1 year ago
Glasgow synth pop 1981 search for jonn harton viva
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ViVA1981Glasgow 1 year ago
A great piece of tv for a great(er) piece of musical history! How many like me have been covered with shit by elder rock-oriented "brothers" in the Eighties? In their opinion, these musicians weren't but shooting stars. They were, indeed. But what a light!
tommasolabranca1 1 year ago
What is the song / video at 6:40?
andymc24 1 year ago
@andymc24
It's Howard Jones's "New Song" from 1983!
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
Its true Oasis sux, but Daft punk hit it big the next year...Just comes off overly bitter. You dont hear thomas dolby on tv claiming she blinded me with science changed music.... ; )
Slimpickens504 1 year ago
PET SHOP BOYS!!!! AWESOME!!!
kingofkeyboards 1 year ago
Electric dream's, Yeah!
CivikR 1 year ago
Not my favourite decade but fascinatng and thanks for posting. It makes me laugh when they call it a golden age. More like nylon coated sprayed on gold effect age . .
keddw 1 year ago
fucking awesome
burnsdc 1 year ago 2
that was an amazing series, thankyou SO much for posting!
ellirene 1 year ago
No matter how many times I hear West End Girls... it always sounds fresh. What a great tune... I'm not even a big PSB fan. Great documentary.
sirmoog 1 year ago
I love Depeche Mode very, very much
Aszen88 1 year ago 3
Love how enthusiastic Neil is lol :D
toniv77 1 year ago
zare , ono, ubacio si verovatno najbitniji muzicki dokumentarac na youtube-u. toliko njih shvata tako malo... pozdravljam.
nebeskavojska 1 year ago
zare , ono, ubacio si verovatno najbitniji muzicki dokumentarac na youtube-u. pozdravljam.
nebeskavojska 1 year ago
The only Depeche Mode records really worthwhile were See You, New Life and Get The Balance Right, other than that this band has gotten way too much attention in this documentary.
Meowbay 1 year ago
Blue Monday 12" - best record ever. Amen!
siggyuke 1 year ago
Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
davidsan01 1 year ago
what's the name of the first new order song on the clip... at 4:05? can anyone help me?
saramcosta 1 year ago
@saramcosta
It is "Sooner Than You Think" from the truly superb "Low-life" album that came out 1985. ;-) :-)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@saramcosta blue monday
koschku 1 year ago
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@saramcosta blue monday
koschku 1 year ago
@saramcosta
koschku 1 year ago
"Never Let Me Down Again"
mrfeathers1 1 year ago
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Compyniro 1 year ago
@Compyniro ...NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN...(music for the masses album)
zarcon85 1 year ago
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Compyniro 1 year ago
What's the Depeche Mode song that plays during the stadium scene?
Compyniro 1 year ago
@Compyniro
"Never Let Me Down Again"
mrfeathers1 1 year ago
that is the best documentary about electronic music i ever seen
congratulations for the team who make do that!
sinceraly!
bsduser07 1 year ago
How come Blancmange didn't get a mention?.....prototype Pet Shop Boys
pawnsacrifice1 2 years ago
Yes, they should've been mentioned too. I'm a big fan of the "Happy Familes" and "Mange Tout" albums. Both are '80s synth-pop masterpieces as well, esp. the former. Stephen Luscombe is one of the finest synth players from the era. But unlike you I wouldn't call them prototype Pet Shop Boys as they sounded different from each other.
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
I don't know what's wrong with Blancmange at all. Cabaret Voltaire, Matt Johnson (The The), New Order and Soft Cell to name some, all rated them. They had a critical appeal too. If they weren't available/invited already they should've been mentioned with just one small picture in as the same part Eurythmics and Japan got featured as well - "Between 1981 and 1983 synth-pop ruled supreme" sentence that is.
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
Great "synthumentary"(c)!
The best I've ever seen.
Eternal shine of spotless synth pop!
It's time to make part 10/10 with "children of synthy indie" - Royksopp, MGMT, Cut Copy, Passion Pit, Hot Chip, Mike Snow, La Roux, Empire Of The Sun, Hair Glow, Delphic, Parallels.
Penzaman 2 years ago
"And then what happens towards the end of the 80's, and even worse in the mid 90's. Everybody decides that guitars are back in and synthesizers are somehow old fashioned. And you get Oasis... Horror!"
ROFLMAO
Sahlander00 2 years ago 4
...and then came Richard D. James.
MisterDogshit 2 years ago
fucking great
freddifree 2 years ago
Nice to see this in it's entirity, although you'd get a very odd idea of what TG sounded like from it.
Also, although they mention Kraftwek and Tangerine Dream (briefly), I can't believe they ignored Suicide. The 1st LP was incredibly influential, and given that they toured with the Clash, they would have been seen by loads of people in the UK.
eyesaw77 2 years ago
Thank you for uploading all these stuff. Great !
Monsternase 2 years ago
Spose I'd clarify my previous point that once the leeches and the shit-munchers got on board the synth gravy train, the cool folk either pursued new avenues of novelty and invention, or clung more vigorously to their heroes of old... Thanks
Oscar301 2 years ago
Fantastic! my development from punk to synth pop to hip hop makes sooo much sense now
mlrdmn 2 years ago
Synth died out like everything great dies out, a victim of its own success...
Anyhoo, you're a gentleman and a scholar for posting this, thanks
Oscar301 2 years ago 2
that was fuckin epic, I had forgotten what creativity was about. what's next?....
monkeyrobot 2 years ago 2
can this be downloaded off bbc site anyone?
000michaelb000 2 years ago
Not anymore. Unfortunately. It had been up on the site for several weeks after the show's TV premiere and then they got it deleted. Wrong BBC site's moderators' policy again. They should leave such things to stay on the site all the time, and not deleting them. :-(
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
@TheMercyBeat
yes, its like apes assumed control in a museum
bugsweed 2 years ago 2
Yep. Glad we agree on the matter, bugsweed!
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
you can download these by using Firefox web browser with the free DownloadHelper add on installed.
lewisr47 2 years ago
They forgot Portion Control :)
synthfugl 2 years ago
Yeah Portion Control and Endgames, should have been mentioned.
crazzieddie 2 years ago
they forgot tons of things
doktorsawade 2 years ago
Oasis ... HORROR! That is so true!
INHeadKay 2 years ago 12
Totally agree with Andy McCluskey! Oasis!! Horror!!!
connieplankghost 2 years ago 40
@connieplankghost Check out Oasis's 2000 single Sunday Morning Call - a pure OMD-style synth track!! I concur with you though, love synthpop, don't mind some Oasis though!
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
Thankyou for the upload :-)
sacredcow1979mk2 2 years ago 4
Andy! You are my brother! I absolutely agree with the last point you made.
ajittffcure 2 years ago 2
Well...Andy started using guitars again in the 90's as well... :P
synthfugl 2 years ago
Andy has been using a proper bass guitar as well since the start of OMD. But that's not the point. There were synth bands that used both traditional and electronic instruments but they made something that sounded modern. It was not at all like that boring Brit-pop scene of the 90s when bands were basically copying the bands and artists of the 1960s.
ajittffcure 2 years ago
To stay vital and interesting music must get into the unknown and uncharted territories, and not copy trends from the past.
Brit-pop wasn't the only thing that happened in the '90s. '90s gave us some of the best dance(!) music ever as well, especially the trip-hop one. Massive Attack, The Future Sound Of London, Orbital, The Orb, Propellerheads, Apollo 440, Daft Punk, Air, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy ...etc etc. That was where the real(!) '90s were at! ;-)
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago 3
I do agree on that. It took me a while to really appreciate bands like Prodigy and Massive Attack, though. But yes, you do have a point.
ajittffcure 2 years ago
By the way, I am going to see OMD at the Wembley Arena, tonight. They will be playing there with Simple Minds. I heard that they will be joining Simple Minds on stage to do a Kraftwerk song!
ajittffcure 2 years ago
He he. Funny that. I'm going to see them at the Wembley Arena tonight as well!! The Kraftwerk song they're going to perform together is "Neon Lights". Both covered it in the past. :-)
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
Wow! Which seat number have you got? Where are you sitting- South or North? S11? N13? Have you got "Standing" tickets? Let me know. I'll just try to come to meet you and say hello!
ajittffcure 2 years ago
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I think other than some groups like Kraftwerk, TG, Carbarat Voltaire, and The Normal, this "Documentary" is only about Synthesizers itself, and not electronic music, and ofc they're going to select synthpop and electropop, new wave, darkwave, etc, bands.
Otherwise id put some Big Beat, Electronica, Breakbeat, Electro, Techno, Jungle,Newer EDM, Ambient, Post-Industrial, Trance, Futurepop, Fiction, Downtempo, Dub, Darkstep, Cold, Dark electronic, ????, IEM(independant electronic musi) on too.
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
This is a wonderful snapshot of that time and style. You will note they say that things changed and the other dance based styles you mention while electronic really aren't part of this slice of time.
The early synth-pop people are the ancestors of your fave styles but owe nothing to these later cliques.
The doco could have mentioned Neon Judgement and Front 242 as well but they were not British in the way these artists were.
BenedictRoffMarsh 2 years ago
Yes, I think exactly the same too. Their intention mainly was to cover the genre's golden i.e. most commercial period which admittedly was the one between 1979 and 1983 when Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Soft Cell, Eurythmics, The Human League (MKII)...etc ruled the charts. And having that on mind I have no single objection to say on that really at all.
But the story should've tackled some of the (sub)genres you've mentioned definitely. For the importance and influence reasons at least.
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
Somewhere around 1982/1983 Yamaha flooded the market with digital model DX7 which changed the complete approach to electronic keyboards. I think this also had influence on musicians who were already used to analog equipment.
vokshumana 2 years ago
Yes, that was another case as well. Music naturally follows technology development too. But that was more a case back then than now when music more or less looks back to the past despite rapid technology development over the last 10 or so years. Music MUST look to the future or follow technology development at least if it wants to stay vital and interesting, as I said earlier on another documentary's part. Works of the artists who looked to the future still sound intriguing and interesting.
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
right on dude... you forgot guru josh lol
000michaelb000 2 years ago
Ha ha ha. Now you've reminded me of him. But unlike late '80s/early '90s Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley ...etc I never thought of him as a typical SAW artist. "Infinity" melody was OK but I always detested its lyrics and Josh's irritating as hell vocal performance. "1990s time for Guru"...*LOL*.
1987 - 1989 acid house music explosion and Madchester movement saved the period/music from SAW's chart crap. Thank God for that!
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago 2
Vince Clarke composes music using acoustic guitar too, as that's some of the best ways to get the right melody i.e. key(!). But like Andy McCluskey he doesn't put it to the front but more as an accompanying thing to get (a little bit) richer sound. That's all. What Vince Clarke composes on guitar he just later transfer it over to synthesizer. For the nearly same reasons Cabaret Voltaire's both, Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder were/are guitar and bass guitar players respectively as well.
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago 2
finally!someone else who realises Oasis are (were?) SHITE!
fifthera 2 years ago 35
Love it just as Martyn Ware is saying "cancerous growth of market-led A and R-ing" at 7.21, they cue to a shot of Pete Waterman. Sums up synthpop's downward slope after the early 1980's perfectly.
slideshowrod 2 years ago 2
Although I rate a few of the works they made for the likes of Dead Or Alive, Mel And Kim and Princess, for example, SAW's music production and their overall marketing really damaged music for good indeed. 1987 - 1989 was one of the worst periods for pop(!) music ever. 1990 changed it all and put it back right on the track. Well, for some time at least until all that mid /late '90s boy-bands/girl-bands explosion happened. Horrid times for pop again!
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago 4
very interesting...thank you for the upload.
ncreeep 2 years ago
thanks for the upload! great documentary. i'm definitely going to spend this week listening to nothing but synthpop.
obnoxicant 2 years ago 4
Ha! That's all I've been doing since watching the doc a couple of weeks ago!
slideshowrod 2 years ago
The BBC does it again..superb doc..thank you for the upload..
blackascoal 2 years ago 7
thanks britain for gave us
the best music of the world.
saludos de mexico
lalomusic80 2 years ago 5
you'll get it in swedish, TACK!
Chrispoffer 2 years ago 3
Precis Tack så mycket :)
fezkraut 2 years ago
thank you !
robntone 2 years ago
cheers for posting.i must confess that i wait for this a bit.
cosmicrider287 2 years ago
Thank you so much for your quality upload
I missed this when it was on TV
Nice one!
andromedacity 2 years ago 4
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Orhuxley 2 years ago