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Help me make an 80s synth playlist?

Trying to keep the vibe going w/the tracks below... suggestions?

1. Little Red Corvette - Prince

2. Running with the Night - Lionel Richie

3. Stand Back - Stevie Nicks

Thank you.

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Reply #1 posted 10/23/18 12:35pm

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Reply #2 posted 10/23/18 2:46pm

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Kraftwerk - Numbers
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call
Jaya - If You Leave Me Now
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - Scorpio
Herbie Hancock - Autodrive
Kas Product - Never Come Back
Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands

Milli Vanilli - Money
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever

DJ Magic Mike - Drop The Bass

Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices (Extended)
Newcleus - Jam On It
Man Parish - Boogie Down Bronx
Van Halen - I'll Wait
Whodini - Five Minutes Of Funk
The Deele - I Surrender
Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth (Electro Mix)
The Jacksons - The Hurt
Rick Astley - Take Me To Your Heart
Yazoo - Don't Go
Kimberly Ball (or Captain Rapp) - Bad Times
Human League - Fascination
Noel - Silent Morning

George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (US Mix)

L.A. Dream Team - The Dream Team Is In The House!
Captain Rock - The Return Of Captain Rock
Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Gap Band - Talkin' Back

Mel & Kim - Respectable
Junior - Too Late
Howard Jones - You Know I Love You, Don't You?
Bar-Kays - Sexomatic (12" version)
The Jets - Private Number
Cameo - Alligator Woman
Shalamar - Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills

Yello - Oh Yeah
Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat (12" Extended Mix)

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #3 posted 10/23/18 5:55pm

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"Don't You Want Me" - Human League

"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats

"Jump" - Van Halen

"How Will I Know" - Whitney Houston

"Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" - Glass Tiger

"Into The Groove" - Madonna

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "When You Were Mine" - Cyndi Lauper

"Easy Lover" - Phil Collins & Philip Bailey

"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell

"Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car" - Billy Ocean

"Waiting For A Star To Fall" - Boy Meets Girl

"Let's Hear It For The Boy" - Deniece Williams

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #4 posted 10/25/18 8:36am

namepeace

One of the greatest synth-driven acts of the 1980's -- The S.O.S. Band


Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #5 posted 10/25/18 8:38am

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"Sweet Dreams," Eurhythmics


"Say It Isn't So," Hall & Oates

"Rockit," Herbie Hancock

"Time After Time," Cyndi Lauper

"Wonderful Christmastime," Paul McCartney

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #6 posted 10/27/18 11:45am

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Basically nearly all new wave or old school R&B would qualify for this playlist.

New Wave:

Gary Numan - Cars
M - Pop Muzik
Yazoo - Situation, Don't Go, Only You
The Human League - Don't You Want Me, Fascination, Human
Animotion - Obsession
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough, Everything Counts, People Are People, Master and Servant, Strange Love
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
nearly all of New Order's discography
nearly all of the Pet Shop Boys' discography
Alphaville - Big In Japan, Forever Young
Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night
Europe - The Final Countdown
Journey - Separate Ways
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight, Sussudio
Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Information Society - What's On Your Mind


Old School:

The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb On Me
Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid, Wet My Whistle, No Parking On the Dance Floor, Midas Touch
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Gavin Christopher - One Step Closer To You
Junior - Mama Used To Say
Laid Back - White Horse
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Inner City - Big Fun
Expose - Come Go With Me, Point of No Return
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
Ready For the World - Tonight, Oh Sheila
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - I Wonder If I Take You Home, Head To Toe
Keith Sweat - Make It Last Forever

music typing
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Pointer Sisters - Automatic

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Reply #8 posted 10/27/18 8:02pm

MickyDolenz

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Gap Band - Video Junkie
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Margie Joseph - Knockout
Run-DMC - 30 Days
Stan Ridgway - Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)
Cheri - Murphy's Law
Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version)
Rockwell - Obscene Phone Caller
The Cars - Drive

Peabo Bryson - D.C. Cab

Raydio - Tonight's The Night

Rod Stewart - Young Turks

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Bobby Jimmy & The Critters - We Like Ugly Women
Shawn Brown - Rappin' Duke

ABC - Be Near Me
Felix & Jarvis - Flamethrower Rap
Bon Jovi - Runaway
Reathel Bean & The Doonesbury Break Crew ‎- Rap Master Ronnie
Ron And The D.C. Crew ‎- Ronnie's Rapp
New Edition - Kinda Girls We Like

Morris Day - Love Sign

Men At Work - Helpless Automaton
Sexual Harrassment - I Need A Freak
Richard "Dimples" Fields - Jazzy Lady
World Class Wreckin' Cru - Surgery

The Monkees - That Was Then This Is Now
Bob Seger - Shakedown
James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There
Elton John - I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That (The Shep Pettibone Mix)
Wuf Ticket - Ya Mama
Falco - On The Run
Alisha - Baby Talk
D Train - Keep On
Shanice Wilson - No Half Steppin'
Jermaine Jackson - Dynamite
Stevie Wonder - Land Of La La
Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne - You're A Friend Of Mine
Donna Allen - Serious

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #9 posted 10/28/18 8:57am

SPYZFAN1

"Pretty Hate Machine" - NIN

"Scary Monsters" - David Bowie

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Reply #10 posted 10/30/18 12:45pm

jungleluv

Don't forget Depeche Mode.

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Reply #11 posted 10/30/18 5:31pm

JoeyC

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Ultravox-We Came To Dance
Tubeway Army- Are Friends Electric
Royal Cash-Radio Activity
Yellow Magic Orchestra-Firecracker, Tong Poo,

Caberet Nocturne-Blood Walk
John Carpenter-Domain

Electric Youth-Right Back To You
Com Truse- Just about all of the songs off the albums Iteration, Galactic Melt, In Decay, and Cyanide Sisters.


I tried to mix it up a bit.

Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.
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Reply #12 posted 11/01/18 12:20pm

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A-Ha -Take on me

OMD - Souvenir

P Lion - Dream/ Happy children

The Cure - whole catalog

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Reply #13 posted 11/01/18 5:21pm

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Also, you might want to check out some of the retrowave, synthwave and chillwave playlists(and artists) on YouTube. A lot of those artist do a really good job of capturing that 80's synth sound. Actually those are about the only genres of music that i think do just as good of a job(and sometimes even better) of recreating a particular sound of the past. Some of those artists tightened up, and expanded on the synth music of the past.

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Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.
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Reply #14 posted 11/12/18 10:35am

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Reel To Reel - Love Me Like This


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #15 posted 12/12/18 2:18pm

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Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Everything Will B-Fine


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #16 posted 12/12/18 5:51pm

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music I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. music
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