"New Pop": What went wrong?

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What went wrong is that some idiot at Yamaha suddenly found out he'd replace all those beautiful warm analog sounds with "dirty" digital sounds. Those digital sounds sounded like shit and people stopped enjoying synth sounds.

Also, homophobia played an important part in new pop's demise...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

"people stopped enjoying synth sounds" pah what rubbish gier! Funny how stuff like depeche mode, most of who's good albums are covered in dx7 and synclavier fm sounds sold shitloads. Also, many, many big pop rekkids from the mid-late eighties are full of dx7, m1, d50 etc etc. Plenty of people bought those, and plenty of people enjoyed the synth sounds on them. what analogue synth sold as well as the dx7 and the m1? eh?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

the dx7 is alright but people who don't know how to make it sound ok should be beaten around the head with soft shoes

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

I could make my old tx7 (ie module version) sound pretty good.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

Yamaha started supplying DX7s to schools in the 80s and everybody started associating the sounds with rubbish music classes!

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

I wish we'd got dx7s. All we got was recorders and xylophones.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

Um, acid house anyone? All massive New Pop fans, but taking the music elsewhere, harder to define as pop perhaps, but...

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

My own list.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link

Most of those artists don't code as "new pop" to me. New wave, synthpop, even new romantic: yes. I'm particularly laughing my tits off at The Jam being described as "new pop" ...

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link

important contribution itt

― mark s, Monday, 24 April 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IxGtRLM9HYc/maxresdefault.jpg

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link

I do like most of the songs on the list, but no way would I put all of those artists in the same pigeonhole, and in many cases not in that particular pigeonhole.

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link

'The Gift' is the Jam's New Pop album, hence trumpets and so forth

― soref, Monday, 24 April 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link

I disagree, it's just a Jam album with horns on it. If the whole LP sounded like 'The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong' or parts of early Style Council, I'd agree... but it doesn't and I don't!

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link

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