You don't really see that I share a lot of 80s on this blog. I am always so confused by the era, not really implying it's pretentious and super campness. However, I find it more repetatitive and very attention seeking. It's like the bandwagon culture right? Remember everyone tried to play an instrument or trying to get into a band. Yeah I find the era simply a shame, although it can be very playful and camp. Every singer looks like they are on some serious drug abuse, not a maybe bad thing for the sound but also tunes are very romantic, chaotic and even psychedelic. In this beautiful Mark Hollis vocal-gasm and Talk Talk synthesizer orgy, we just simple question ourselves in a dramatic way, even though the tune is very fun. So yeah, a chaos but still a delightful one. Gotta be one of those songs should be in your Sunday morning syndrome playlist with a plenty of coffee!

This song by Cocteau Twins reminds me wonderful memories. A strong and impressive song from 80s. I wanted to share this with my wonderful readers. It was actually soundtrack of Mysterious Skin (2004).

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I wanted to live in the year 2525, it would help me to break free! Or, it's just my imagination on 10 o'clock while I was trying to kill bugs in my kitchen! I always enjoyed for the 1980s weird, disco-like music. The artwork above is created by me. I know that I have to see my doctor. Enjoy!

mp3: Visage - In the Year 2525 (from The Best of Visage)

Go to Pitchforkmedia for Michael's best music and videos.
...And my favorite song of him:

mp3: Michael Jackson - Billy Jean

Brilliant Trees is an eclectic affair fusing funk, jazz, and ambient. And one of the best tracks, "Weathered Wall," absolutely deserves a mention on The Modern Music blog.

I love picking some perfect songs from past and present. I hope you like David Sylvian's amazing voice and night atmosphere. Brian Eno also appears as collaborator with the woozy trumpet.

mp3: David Sylvian - Weathered Wall (from Promise The Rarities album)

How can you forget amazing ending of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides movie? And the passioned soundtrack by hard rock group who initially found success in the mid-'70s. Crazy On You! The song is actually from their first album "Dreamboat Annie" in 1976.

Heart had reached another commercial success by their self titled album on 1985. And there are three amazing songs in this record: These Dreams, Never and What About Love. Now download time!

mp3: Heart - Crazy on You
mp3: Heart - These Dreams (1985)

I love 80s dreamy music. Culture Club (well known with lead singer Boy George) is maybe one of the gayest bands in the 80s. Their unforgettable hits such as Time (Clock Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Everything I Own, my favorite and best Church Of The Poison Mind. It stars strong harmonica, and flows with Boy George's girlish amazing voice. Then on choruses, strong female vocals make the strong a classic 80s hit.

download:
Church Of The Poison Mind

Bergen ( a.k.a. Woman of Pains) is one the most successful singers of turkish arabesque music ground. His pathetic life story, his cruel husband who throws nitric acid to her face when she's performing her songs, then she becomes a blind singer covering her one eye with her hairs. Her blind eye wasn't a handicap to go on her career, she continued to sing her songs in more painful sound. After that, another tragic and sad event follows that she dies because of his same brutal husband by several gun fire at the age of 28... All of these tragically added to Bergen's music the most gloomy sound. I think she's one of the most impressive voice that i've ever heard. That's why she has been called by "Woman of Pains" from now on.

Bergen - Elinde Fotorafin
Bergen - Benim Icin Uzulme

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Post of 80s' effect never ends on this blog. Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell, Modern English can be remarkable names having similarity with Stephen Duffy. Especially original synth pop sound, stupid, saucy lyrics like "Kiss me with your mouth.", touchy male voice are all up in the song Kiss Me. One of Stephen Duffy's the most colourful tracks, works to settle down to your memory. More you listen Kiss ME, more you'll love exploring his music.

Stephen Duffy - Kiss Me

The spiky synth pop of Spandau Ballet's first single, "To Cut a Long Story Short," owes more to the seemingly uncommercial likes of early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark than to the smooth, soulful pop hits that turned the bandmembers into megastars within the year. Built on not much more than a dirty, overdriven synth sound and a stomping Gary Glitter-like backbeat under Tony Hadley's herky-jerky vocal tics, "To Cut a Long Story Short" is almost minimalist, but it has an infectious, bubblegummy quality that links it to the kind of gloriously dumb glam rock one-hit wonders that undoubtedly helped inspire the future Spandaus at an impressionable age. If the group had never gone on to much, this would likely be considered a minor lost classic of the early-'80s U.K. synth pop scene; as it stands, it's so unlike Spandau Ballet's later, bigger hits that it's largely forgotten.

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

My taste's a | little strange | I've been told | You're the kind of person | I want to hold | You'll never be a picture | I don't care | I've been looking | out for you | Everywhere | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | You make me feel so hot | I want you so | Will I always love you? | I don't know | There may be no tomorrow | Anyway | Let's forget the future | And live today | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | I'm tried of trying | Tired of lying | Letting pride | get in my way | I'm going to speak true | I really want you | I've got nothing | else to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | I'm tried of trying | Tired of lying | Letting pride | get in my way | I'm going to speak true | I really want you | I've got nothing |
else to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | So if you need somebody | Just let it flow | I'm waiting for | your answer | Let me know | I want to be your lover | Right away | If you want me, baby | You've got to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now |

Philip Oakey - Be My Lower Now

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The Human League - Dare!

I can copy-paste another Amg Song Review, shouldn't i? Because this song cheers me up. Brilliant, shining, perfect with what it has got. Review says most of all, and i can only ad some mp3 and video in plus. Enjoy with best music on The MM blog.

One of the most brilliant synth-dance singles of all time, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" is a pinnacle of the form. The arrangement, by singer/songwriter Green Gartside and his co-conspirators David Gamson and Fred Maher, combines with Arif Mardin's seamless production into a textbook example of how to make a dance track that's so kinetic that it's impossible not to move to, but so clever and rich-sounding that it's equally fun to listen to alone on headphones with the lights off. Gartside's lyrics are among his most allusive and playful, mixing soul homage and his usual hyperactive wordplay, and his helium-pitched vocal style (imagine Boy George channeling the prepubescent Michael Jackson) is one of the most bizarre and wonderful musical personas of its era. Not a US chart hit, but a dancefloor classic, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" is a frothy, almost silly masterpiece.

Scritti Politti - Wood Beez

This video used to make me smile so much and I'm happy posting it. Blancmange is one of the most underrated bands in the pop history. This video was briefly featured in the movie "Flight of the Navigator", in the scene when David is at NASA, in a secured room. Sarah Jessica Parker's character told David, what have you never seen a music video before?

Blancmange - Love Your Love

"Enola Gay" is a song by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. It was written by frontman Andy McCluskey, and appears on the band's second album, Organisation (DinDisc/Virgin, 1980). It was released as a 7" single on 26 September 1980, and reached number 8 in the UK chart, also topping the charts in several European countries.

The song has been covered several times in 2007. Swedish artist Sommarkillen made a cover of the song called Sommartjej with new Swedish lyrics; the Danish electro-pop trio, Oliver North Boy Choir (formerly called Pierre)also recorded it. This track was posted on many MP3 blogs. In June 2007, José Galisteo released his cover of it on his debut album, Remember.

The song is named for the USAAF B-29 Superfortress which dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, ostensibly to bring an end to the Second World War.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola gay

I love 80s section in this blog, hope you like too. I thought that it was better copy and paste the great amg song review about this nice song. Ok you'll like the tune, actually i've a lot of good songs to post on this blog, you know i love sharing, but every little post takes time. So keep reading!

"I Melt With You" was never a Top Ten or even a Top 40 hit -- it peaked at number 76 in July 1990 -- but it's one of the most recognized songs of the new wave era. Originally released in the U.K. in 1982, the song was a minor hit in the U.S. in the spring and summer of 1983 -- thanks, in part, to being the love theme of the cult hit Valley Girl. (It was used in the mid-movie montage as well as over the end credits.) The song's strummy up-tempo beat, vocalist Robbie Grey's English drawl, and the ultimately positive, us-against-the world chorus made the tune a hit in dance clubs and on pop radio. In 1989, Modern English slightly revamped the song and re-released it, but it again failed to crack the Top 40. Several years later, the track was used in a Burger King TV ad in an attempt to attract the Gen-X market. Despite the fact that it never broke through to mainstream success, "I Melt With You" endures as a watermark for 1980s optimism and sentimentality, and as a classic pop song that never quite got the accolades it deserved. Review Source

Modern English - I Melt With You

For all intents and purposes, Frank Tovey was best known as the man behind Fad Gadget, one of the most significant cult acts of the post-punk boom. As Fad Gadget, Tovey on the perils of and his revolving door of conspirators released several singles and four full-length albums that stretched the boundaries of pop music during the late '70s and early '80s. "Ricky's Hand" is a song by Fad Gadget, released as a single in 1980. Lyrically the song was a sardonic cautionary taledrink driving: "From the pocket it pulled five pound / Ricky bought another round… Ricky contravened the highway code / The hand lies severed at the side of the road". The cover of the original vinyl single showed the hand in question being burnt by drops of beer in the fashion of a corrosive warning symbol.

Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand

Ricky's Hand Video

Ultravox - Vienna

Vienna

We walked in the cold air -
Freezing breath on the window pain
Lying waiting

A man in the dark in the picture frame
So mystic and soulful.
A voice reaching out and a piercing cry

It stays with you until
The feeling is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna -

The music is weaving -
Haunting notes pizzicato strings

The rhythm is calling
Alone in the night as the daylight brings a cold empty silence
The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky

It fades to the distance.

The image is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna -

This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna.
Vienna

Do you ever dream that you are dancing like a professional dancer on a dance floor? Then, you'll fall in love with Soft Cell The Twelve Inch Singles. Oh! What a fun! I'd like to wear a mask that always looks eccentric. My favorite Soft Cell cut is So which is the closing track of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. I know i love this song at heart, because its harmony means a lot to me, it reminds to me the times that i've been so exciting. No doubt, the song is sexy, a little dirty, and so passionate. What's your favourite passionate disco song?

Soft Cell - So (Twelve Inch Version)
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Named after Godard's 1959 science-fiction masterpiece and heavily influenced by '80s synth
bands like Depeche Mode, Alphaville was the Munich-based trio of Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd
and Frank Mertens. Following their all-keyboards approach longer after synth-pop was fashionable but unfortunately disbanding before artists such as Mouse On Mars made Germanic
synthesizer music hip again in the late '90s, Alphaville remained rather outside of musical trends during their mid-'80s lifespan. What i like most about 80s great synth-pop bands is you play them whenever you want!
Red Rose (Single Version '88)
Forever Young (Album Version)

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