Periodic Table of Synthpop: Then/Now

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Many times you may have asked yourself "what is the life of that artist of the 80s today?". Many of those synthpop/new wave artists who peaked in popularity during the 80s or 90s are still working today or have released material from time to time beyond the year 2000. I set out to put together the best songs that those artists released during this century, and here's the result.
This compilation brings together 20 songs by synthpop/new wave and related artists that you may have lost track of. It includes Men Without Hats, OMD, Pseudo Echo, Erasure, New Order, Duran Duran, Dubstar, and Camouflage, among others!

Annotation last modified on 2021-06-29 16:52 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Fathers Arms
Pseudo Echo4:51
2Brilliant
Ultravox4:22
3Head Above Water
Men Without Hats3:33
4Jonestown
Information Society3:28
5Door Ajar
programming:
Eliot Leigh, Kurt Uenala and Chuck Zwicky
guitar, keyboard and background vocals:
Alan Tarney
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Swinglong Ltd. (holding company - do not use as release label!) (from 2015 to present) and We Love Music (from 2015 to present)
recording of:
Door Ajar
lyricist and composer:
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitarist, songwriter and singer)
a‐ha43:44
6Hygiene Strip
Dubstar4:08
7House of Ghosts
recording of:
House of Ghosts
lyricist:
Marian Gold
composer:
Marian Gold and Martin Lister
publisher:
BMG Rights Management GmbH (not for release label use! file releases under its imprint “BMG” (2008–present)) and Budde Music Publishing GmbH
Alphaville4:59
8Be a Rebel
recording of:
Be a Rebel
writer:
Tom Chapman (UK bassist for New Order & Bad Lieutenant), Phil Cunningham (rock musician), Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris (New Order) and Bernard Sumner
New Order54:48
9Leave Your Room Behind
producer and mixer:
Volker Hinkel and Heiko Maile
background vocals:
Oliver Kreyssig
lead vocals:
Marcus Meyn
recording of:
Leave Your Room Behind
lyricist and composer:
Volker Hinkel, Oliver Kreyssig, Heiko Maile and Marcus Meyn
publisher:
Tapete Songs
Camouflage4:48
10Sacred
Erasure4:04
11If You Want It
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Bluenoise
recorded at and mixed at:
The Motor Museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
If You Want It
writer:
Tracy Carmen and Andy McCluskey
publisher:
Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark4:41
12Beating Mr. Neg
recording of:
Beating Mr. Neg
Howard Jones5:33
13You Kill Me With Silence
recording of:
You Kill Me With Silence
writer:
Simon Le Bon (singer for Duran Duran), Mr Hudson, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor (UK bassist for Duran Duran) and Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)
Duran Duran4:24
14Only the Dark
programming:
Pet Shop Boys
producer and mixer:
Stuart Price
recording of:
Only the Dark
writer:
Chris Lowe (1/2 of Pet Shop Boys) and Neil Tennant
Pet Shop Boys3:37
15The Lonely Goatherd
cover recording of:
The Lonely Goatherd (The Sound of Music)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
composer:
Richard Rodgers (composer)
part of:
The Sound of Music (Rodgers & Hammerstein musical)
Laibach3:30
16Something New
engineer:
Pierre Duplan
producer:
Saint Etienne and Shawn Lee (American musician, producer, video game composer)
mixer:
Pierre Duplan and Shawn Lee (American musician, producer, video game composer)
analog synthesizer [Teisco 100P], Hammond organ, keyboard, piano, Rhodes piano [Fender Rhodes] and synthesizer [Yamaha YS100]:
Gerrard Johnson
trombone and trumpet:
Ben Greenslade Stanton
performer:
Shawn Lee (American musician, producer, video game composer)
mixed at:
The Shop, London in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Something New
writer:
Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne member) and Pete Wiggs
publisher:
Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.)
Saint Etienne43:17
17Breaking the Chains
producer:
I Monster
recording of:
Breaking the Chains
writer:
Robert Barton and Philip Oakey
The Human League3:59
18And It All Began With You
recording of:
And It All Began With You
lyricist and composer:
Gary Numan
Gary Numan6:21
19I Smashed Your Phone
Blancmange4:40
20Hollywood Forever
recording of:
Hollywood Forever
writer and composer:
Marc Almond (English pop singer and songwriter)
Marc Almond4:49

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