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"Essential Synth Albums"


  

          

You can interpret that anyway you want. This is a list post.
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Wendy Carlos - Switched on Bach
May 04th 2012
1
definitely
May 04th 2012
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Walter/Wendy's "Switched On Bach" Is A Classic
May 06th 2012
46
Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Baby 1-3
May 04th 2012
2
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
May 04th 2012
3
has synths, but i wouldn't consider this a synth album.
May 04th 2012
4
Sextant was more a straight synth album. Whole beginning of
May 04th 2012
8
Why not? The synths were very prominent in the sound
May 04th 2012
10
as far as Herbie and synths go... this is a start
May 04th 2012
24
Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind & Talking Book
May 04th 2012
5
Les McCann - Layers
May 04th 2012
6
RE: Very very essential.
May 04th 2012
14
Yep yep.
May 04th 2012
20
Lonnie Liston Smith - can't decide which album w/ cosmic echoes
May 04th 2012
7
Pink Floyd "DSOTM", NiN "TDS", SD "Aja", Stevie "Innervisions"
May 04th 2012
9
RE: Just, yes.
May 04th 2012
16
      Lol I was going to name "Substance" b/c I'd probably give
May 04th 2012
18
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples on the Moon
May 04th 2012
11
Useless bonus-trivia re:Subotnick
May 04th 2012
31
Mulu - Smiles like a shark
May 04th 2012
12
Depeche Mode - "violator", Autechre - "confield"
May 04th 2012
13
RE: Some Tangerine Dream should be in here somewhere.
May 04th 2012
15
Definitely think Tangerine Dream should be in there somewhere.
May 04th 2012
19
Have you heard Mike's sister Sally?
May 04th 2012
23
      RE: Never even knew about her until right now.
May 05th 2012
42
Prince - 1999
May 04th 2012
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he hit his synthesizer peak during this time, IMO
May 04th 2012
30
Com Truise ''Cyanide Sisters'' and ''Galactic Melt''
May 04th 2012
21
Great synth album
May 04th 2012
29
OP said to interpret however you want so that was my opening lol
May 04th 2012
32
i would agree.
Oct 01st 2013
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Warp's Usual Suspects
May 04th 2012
22
George Duke - FEEL
May 04th 2012
25
Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
May 04th 2012
27
The Moog Cookbook, self-titled album
May 04th 2012
28
The System - Sweat and Dont Disturb This Groove?
May 04th 2012
33
I dunno if I mentioned them
May 07th 2012
54
Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams
May 04th 2012
34
RE: Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams
May 05th 2012
40
Tomita
May 04th 2012
35
Isao Tomita Has Been A Favorite Of Mines For Mad Years
May 06th 2012
48
RE: Essential Synth Albums
May 05th 2012
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Isleys Brothers - Between Them Damn Sheets
May 05th 2012
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Guy's debut album keith sweat's debut album
May 05th 2012
38
Broadcast - HaHa Sound
May 05th 2012
39
"Computer World" - Kraftwerk
May 05th 2012
41
RE: I agree with this pick.
May 05th 2012
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IMO it's one of those "Spawned a new Genre of Music" albums.
May 06th 2012
45
"Computer World" Is At The Top Of My List...
May 06th 2012
47
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oct 01st 2013
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RE: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark seems relevant to this topic.
May 05th 2012
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Here's My Top Ten Favorite Synth Sounding Albums
May 06th 2012
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Great call on Gary Numan
May 07th 2012
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      RE: Second.
May 07th 2012
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Philip Glass - North Star
May 06th 2012
50
No Parking On The Dance Floor
May 06th 2012
51
Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange
Sep 26th 2013
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The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby
Sep 28th 2013
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and Foreigners 4
Sep 29th 2013
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*grabs a folding chair*
Sep 29th 2013
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Rick James Street Songs, throwin down, Keiht Sweat Make it last forever
Sep 29th 2013
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood's WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME n/m
Sep 29th 2013
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RE: bookmark
Oct 01st 2013
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imcvspl
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1. "Wendy Carlos - Switched on Bach"
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http://www.wendycarlos.com/+sob.html
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26. "definitely"
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46. "Walter/Wendy's "Switched On Bach" Is A Classic"
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When it comes to popular moog themed albums, Walter/Wendy marked new ground with that album, about ten years ago I found "Switched On Beethoven" which is dope as well.


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2. "Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Baby 1-3"
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http://www.discogs.com/Raymond-Scott-Soothing-Sounds-For-Baby/master/312685
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaMxJ2FBYI&feature=related
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3. "Herbie Hancock - Headhunters"
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http://www.discogs.com/Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters/release/31381
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4. "has synths, but i wouldn't consider this a synth album."
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Jordan!

  

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8. "Sextant was more a straight synth album. Whole beginning of "
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Rain Dance was on some computerized quantized shit

  

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10. "Why not? The synths were very prominent in the sound"
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Listen to "Chameleon" and tell me that's not what makes the song.

  

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24. "as far as Herbie and synths go... this is a start"
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(ditto for Sextant and Crossings)

but I'd probably put on something (strangely enough) like DEDICATION (with songs like "Nobu" and the weird take on "Cantaloupe Island" that is much unlike much other takes), SECRETS, or again... MR. HANDS (for "Spiraling Prism" and "Just Around The Corner").

HEADHUNTERS was the first real album where Herbie started to apply his own voice to the synth.

  

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5. "Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind & Talking Book"
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fuck you.

  

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6. "Les McCann - Layers"
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14. "RE: Very very essential."
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One of my all time favorites.

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20. "Yep yep."
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Nail on the head.

  

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7. "Lonnie Liston Smith - can't decide which album w/ cosmic echoes"
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9. "Pink Floyd "DSOTM", NiN "TDS", SD "Aja", Stevie "Innervisions""
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GZA "Liquid Swords"/Raekwon "OB4TCL"
Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair"
New Order "Low-Life"
Kraftwerk "The Man Machine" & "Trans Europe Express"
Giorgio Moroder "From Here To Eternity"
Air "Moon Safari"
Bowie "Station To Station"
Might be going into personal preference then universal but
Rush "Moving Pictures"
M83 "Before The Dawn Heals Us' & "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"
Elvis Costello "This Year's Models"

  

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16. "RE: Just, yes."
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>New Order "Low-Life"
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I'd say Substance paints an overall better picture of their influence, but I understand not wanting to name a compilation.

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18. "Lol I was going to name "Substance" b/c I'd probably give"
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that album to someone wanting to study synth but know comps aren't albums and The Lesson loves debates.

  

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11. "Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples on the Moon"
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31. "Useless bonus-trivia re:Subotnick"
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When I was in my mid-teens, the main library started to sell their least borrowed vinyl albums for like $1 each since cd's were taking over. They sold Subotnick's '71 "Sidewinder"-LP and I bought it just because it looked cool. It was pretty damn close to being near mint which is VERY rare when it comes to records in libraries-I suspect noone had ever borrowed it. Unfortunately, it's not worth anything I guess since there is this big Gothenburg Library plastic shit stamped on the cover which I of course had to rip off and it became ruined in the process, oh well...

Anyway, really cool stuff IMO even if I suspect many people would just call it noise and I just love the sounds those old synths have. There are pictures of the synths on the cover and it looks like a factory or something-they are SO big! That album is recommended...

  

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12. "Mulu - Smiles like a shark"
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FLT RSK - People and places

http://flightrisk.bandcamp.com/album/people-and-places

  

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13. "Depeche Mode - "violator", Autechre - "confield""
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15. "RE: Some Tangerine Dream should be in here somewhere."
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Phaedra would be my pick. But pretty much anything from the 70's is good.

Probably not a "cool" choice in hindsight, but Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells seems pretty influential.

And Kraftwerk, obviously.

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19. "Definitely think Tangerine Dream should be in there somewhere."
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It's hard to pick one of their albums but that's a good choice.

  

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23. "Have you heard Mike's sister Sally?"
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I grew up thinking she was a big star since my mom played her album "Celebration" all the time but later found out that it was only a big record in sweden and germany. Anyway, she was a nice and somewhat new agey folk-pop singer who for some reason started to mix that vibe with disco on the aforementioned album and possibly before that. Check this out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWn2kEs64yA

EDIT:This was the big hit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggDLFUndCU
vERY sappy but pretty too...

  

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42. "RE: Never even knew about her until right now."
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This song you linked is very Kate Bush-esque.

I have some investigating to do.

Thanks.

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17. "Prince - 1999"
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signature pose.

  

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30. "he hit his synthesizer peak during this time, IMO"
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As far as his albums go, I would def. recommend this but wouldn't stop there. The Time's WHAT TIME IS IT? also has a lot of this sound.

  

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21. "Com Truise ''Cyanide Sisters'' and ''Galactic Melt'' "
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>You can interpret that anyway you want. This is a list
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29. "Great synth album"
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Was a bit hesitant to put bands like Neon Indian (Era Extrana), Com Truise or Washed Out (Life Of Leisure EP & Within and Without) b/c of the "essential" but definitely love the synths on those albums

  

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32. "OP said to interpret however you want so that was my opening lol"
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>Was a bit hesitant to put bands like Neon Indian (Era
>Extrana), Com Truise or Washed Out (Life Of Leisure EP &
>Within and Without) b/c of the "essential" but definitely love
>the synths on those albums

Essential to me in this thread is simply "if you're a fan of synths, check these out".
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62. "i would agree. "
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22. "Warp's Usual Suspects"
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25. "George Duke - FEEL"
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also from George Duke: THE AURA WILL PREVAIL and THE SOLO KEYBOARD ALBUM (aka THE DREAM, check the sig)

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27. "Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart"
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his little suite called "El Bozo" dominated a summer of mine years ago.

also on the RTF side of things, I'd definitely go w/The ROMANTIC WARRIOR. Words can't describe how geeked I was to hear the united RTF play "Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant" live (ABROCK33, weren't you there for that?)

  

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28. "The Moog Cookbook, self-titled album"
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it's from 1996, yet some of those tracks sound like they could have been recorded some 20 years prior. It can be a little "gamey" and at times borderline schmaltz. But I love what they did with Green Day's song.

I became familiar with this in the oddest way, Top Gear in its pre-2002 format used one of its songs as background music...

  

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33. "The System - Sweat and Dont Disturb This Groove?"
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54. "I dunno if I mentioned them"
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but yes, the System (and the acts they produced in the '80s) are very good examples of synth work in the period.

  

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34. "Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams"
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40. "RE: Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams"
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35. "Tomita"
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1974 Snowflakes Are Dancing
1975 Pictures at an Exhibition (version of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky)
1975 Firebird (version of The Firebird by Stravinsky)
1976 The Planets (version of The Planets by Gustav Holst)
1978 Kosmos (originally released under the title Space Fantasy)
1978 Bermuda Triangle (inspired by the Bermuda Triangle) (5 channel stereo recording)

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48. "Isao Tomita Has Been A Favorite Of Mines For Mad Years"
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>1974 Snowflakes Are Dancing
>1975 Pictures at an Exhibition (version of Pictures at an
>Exhibition by Mussorgsky)
>1975 Firebird (version of The Firebird by Stravinsky)
>1976 The Planets (version of The Planets by Gustav Holst)
>1978 Kosmos (originally released under the title Space
>Fantasy)
>1978 Bermuda Triangle (inspired by the Bermuda Triangle) (5
>channel stereo recording)

I got everyone of those albums (some I own 2 to 3 copies of too), everyone of them is great to listen to, what got me into Isao Tomita "The Planets" album, and since then I've been buying his albums (don't have his mid-80's to the 2000's ones yet but I will) but it's hard to say which one I like the most cause they're all good.


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36. "RE: Essential Synth Albums"
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vangelis - ???

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37. "Isleys Brothers - Between Them Damn Sheets"
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38. "Guy's debut album keith sweat's debut album"
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Rick James Cold blooded album

Michael Jackson dangerous

Bobby Brown don't be cruel


r.Kelly 12 play and self title album

stevie wonder hotter than july

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39. "Broadcast - HaHa Sound"
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41. ""Computer World" - Kraftwerk"
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43. "RE: I agree with this pick."
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Because it's their most "new wave" sounding album (intentionally, most likely). It's like they realized their own influence and decided to imitate the imitators. Brilliant,

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45. "IMO it's one of those "Spawned a new Genre of Music" albums."
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it definitely changed the face of Dance Music forever.

It's without a doubt one of the essential building blocks of Chicago House, Detroit Techno and all of their respective offshoots.

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47. ""Computer World" Is At The Top Of My List..."
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...of favorite synth albums and in my top ten of just plain favorite albums period; it still sounds just as impressive as it did when I first heard it back in the day.


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63. "^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"
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44. "RE: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark seems relevant to this topic."
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But I'm way too biased to pick just one of their albums.

The first four are so brilliant, I can't even. . .

. . .fuck it, Dazzle Ships.

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49. "Here's My Top Ten Favorite Synth Sounding Albums"
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Kraftwerk "Computer World"
Walter Carlos "Switched On Bach"
Yellow Magic Orchestra "YMO" (the first side)
Isao Tomita "Live At Linz: The Mind Of The Universe"
Jon Hassell "Works Of Fiction"
Gary Numan "Pleasure Principle"
Herbie Hancock "Future Shock"
Paul Hardcastle "Rain Forest"
Art Of Noise "Who's Afraid Of A.O.N.?"
Flying Lotus "1983"


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52. "Great call on Gary Numan"
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That album is amazing, he did some amazing things with synths on that album. I mean for it to rock that much with no guitars is quite a feat. Plus he was one of the first ppl to program their own

Also Art of Noise goes without saying

  

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53. "RE: Second."
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~Austin

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50. "Philip Glass - North Star"
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I love the sounds on that album.

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51. "No Parking On The Dance Floor"
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55. "Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange"
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Not to be confused with the soundtrack.

signature pose.

  

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56. "The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby"
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...that one along with some obvious classics which have already been mentioned by Stevie Wonder (SEVERAL from that killer 70's run), Prince (1999)...

I'd also like to throw in a Parliament /Funkadelic record, though i'm not sure which one specifically yet...

as for the Flat Earth...not sure if folks will consider it a 'synth' album per-se'...and the thing i think i like about it actually is its seamless combination/merging of synth use WITH 'natural' instrument use...

..i think thats what i like about ALL of the ones above...they have the 'right' ratio of synth/natural mix...

as for mr Dolby, dont sleep....'Flat Earth' and 'Aliens Ate My Buick' are both still in regular rotation on my ipod...very creative interesting stuff that have been underrated in my opinion...

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58. "and Foreigners 4"
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>...that one along with some obvious classics which have
>already been mentioned by Stevie Wonder (SEVERAL from that
>killer 70's run), Prince (1999)...
>
>I'd also like to throw in a Parliament /Funkadelic record,
>though i'm not sure which one specifically yet...
>
>as for the Flat Earth...not sure if folks will consider it a
>'synth' album per-se'...and the thing i think i like about it
>actually is its seamless combination/merging of synth use WITH
>'natural' instrument use...
>
>..i think thats what i like about ALL of the ones above...they
>have the 'right' ratio of synth/natural mix...
>
>as for mr Dolby, dont sleep....'Flat Earth' and 'Aliens Ate My
>Buick' are both still in regular rotation on my ipod...very
>creative interesting stuff that have been underrated in my
>opinion...
>
>

  

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57. "*grabs a folding chair*"
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59. "Rick James Street Songs, throwin down, Keiht Sweat Make it last forever"
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Lionel RIchie Can't slow down, Michael Jackson thriller,Bad and Dangerous.

Prince Controversy and 1999.

Cameo ALigator Woman.

Bar Kays Night Crusing

Kool and the Gang Emergency

Donald Fagan the Nightfly

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Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

  

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60. "Frankie Goes To Hollywood's WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME n/m"
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61. "RE: bookmark"
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