Psychedelic Synth Pop?

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This is actually pretty good!

http://www.platterpus.com/images/88347.jpg

From 1988 when they got signed to Paisley Park and were way more intentionally synth pop - look at these outfits!

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/t/h/threeoclock364860.jpg

Other examples of this perhaps non-existent genre? Not post-punk stuff as in "Cabaret Voltaire was kind of psychedelic," but total synth pop.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 June 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I always thought of Violator as the 90's Sgt. Pepper... ish. It is pretty trippy. Of course, under the right conditions, everything is pretty trippy. TRIPPY!

― Tronid K (tronidk), Friday, 9 June 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

NICK NICELY

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 9 June 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.psychedelic-music.net/pmdb/picdb/2413.jpg

pwns this thread

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 9 June 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Some Cabaret Voltaire is totaly synth pop though. Kinda psychedelic, sure, but TOTAL synth-pop, no doubt. Particularly on the more up-beat numbers during the Crackdown/Arm of the Lord period, look no further then Animation or Motion Rotation, tracks that turn the angry eleectro-funk down in favor of the synth pop, but that's neither here nor there.

Synth-pop that I think IS psychedelic? Teardrop Explodes, Fad Gadget?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 9 June 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

psychic tv, circa allegory and self.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 9 June 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

The Buggles? I think so.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire - as psyche as you could get but synthy as hell

― lexurian (lexurian), Friday, 9 June 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

The Associates? Definitely synth-pop-ish; not really psychedelic.

― Candice DeLorenzo (divifold), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Sweden.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

SERIOUSLY, THAT THREE O'CLOCK RECORD IS SERIOIUSLY CRAPTASTIC IN A GREAT WAY.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

I like that first Three O'Clock album cover better if I imagine that it shows blue shirt guy punching red shirt guy in the jaw.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like a really great Debbie Gibson record. (Note: record below is the "Love Explosion" 45.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Some early stuff by Thomas Dolby.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 10 June 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

far too literal i'm sure:

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000JR2A.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i initially thought visage for some reason.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

There aren't a lot of synths on the "Seeds Of Love" album. Tears For Fears may have started out making synthpop, but weren't synthpop by 1989.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 11 June 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Some stuff of Of Montreal

― zeus, Friday, 14 September 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

The Overlords were a late new-beat/acid/synthpop band from Denmark, (with Ian Ion of KoxBox fame). "Organic?" is a very cool album, it has a cover of "Holiday in Cambodia".

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2359/r7849971158500358my2.jpg

― no-nonsense, Friday, 14 September 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

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