Synth Britannia - Part 5/9

Total LOL at 3:47

"I don't speak for the people because I don't even know them"-- Well said Gary!!!! You're even more adorable now.

We need Part 9! Please?

Halfway this INCREDIBLE show, I can't help noticing how humble and nice everyone interviewed is coming across. I am thinking it's because they have now seen how massively influential all of them have been (especially in this decade). They should all be very pleased.

My only personal issue with the history of synthpop, et al... is that Fad Gadget's Under The Flag is out of print. It is the most underrated record of this genre.

"The decade would end with Numan as the
unlikely synth-pop hero come good "

Thanks for clearing that up.
I hadn't known that he was attacked
in the music press so badly. I remember
that he disappeared kind of quickly although
he was still putting out albums so he just
got ex-communicated.

Synthesizer i.e. machine music got ignored by the music press because it wasn't manly, earthy, real, sweaty, just like Andy McCluskey said it clearly. And that was a totally wrong approach. Overall ideas are more important than instruments playing skills. Someone can be a very gifted synth/guitar/bass/drum/etc player but the overall thing they're coming out with can be very bad. And music journalists are raving over someone's playing skills more than ideas. Rock thing, mind! ;-)

Hey you!

I was gutted too when I first heard
"Cars". I bought the single and played
it in front of my loser older stepsister
that same day and she just stared.

Daniel Miller:
"Four little mono synths kind of teetering
on beer crates."