Musik Music Musique-1980: Dawn Of Synth Pop / Var Musik Music Musique-1980: Dawn Of Synth Pop / Var CD

Three CD box set. This set explores the arrival of synth pop and the dawn of a new musical era. 58 tracks including songs by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Human League, Ultravox, Toyah, Spandau Ballet, Kim Wilde, Philip Lynott, The Buggles - And Underground Figureheads - Fad Gadget, Suicide, M, John Foxx, D. A. F., Dalek I Love You, Visage, The Residents, Yello, and many others. As the dust settled following the punk rock explosion, countless new genres began to solidify and coalesce. Chief among these, in a field of it's own, was Synth Pop - a suitably descriptive umbrella for the new electronic pop sound which had emerged over the previous couple of years. Musik Music Musique captures a snapshot of this milestone moment in music. Independent novelties and curiosities sit alongside big budget pop perfection. Artists who would go on to sell millions take their first steps into this new landscape whilst others make the briefest contribution before the wave moves on. For every too-cool-for-school Human League there is a so-far-out-it's-in Yello. In retrospect, the speed at which these new instruments and production techniques were absorbed by such a variety of artists astounds and confounds. Not to be confused with so many synth-pop-by-numbers budget releases, Musik Music Musique is an essential and insightful compendium of a place and time unique in musical chronology.

1. Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 2. Musik, Music, Musique - Zeus 3. Coitus Interruptus - Fad Gadget 4. Computed Man - Xynn 5. Metal Love - Rod Vey 6. Performance Vendor's Box - Gina X 7. Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding 8. Tokyo - Science 9. Only After Dark - the Human League 10. Victims of the Riddle - Toyah 11. DCT Dreams - Nick Nicely 12. Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne - Suicide 13. Waiting - Ultravox 14. Money - Moebius 15. Falling Years - the Fallout Club 16. Da Vorne Steht Ne Ampel - Der Plan 17. No, Nothing, Never - Dark Day 18. Sons and Lovers - Hazel O'Connor 19. Sympathy - Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls 20. Glow - Spandau Ballet 21. Official Secrets - M 22. Chip N Roll - Silicon Teens 23. Galactica - Rockets 24. Tuning in Tuning on - Kim Wilde 25. European Man - Landscape 26. Can't You Take a Joke? Ha Ha Hi Hi! - Henriette Coulouvrat 27. A Circuit Like Me - the Metronomes 28. No One Driving - John Foxx 29. Kebabtr?ume - D.A.F 30. Harmonitalk - Gary Sloan and Clone 31. Yellow Pearl - Philip Lynott 32. Dalek I Love You (Destiny) - Dalek I 33. Mannequin - Taxi Girl 34. This World of Water - New Musik 35. Quiet Life - Japan 36. Chase the Dragon - Kevin Harrison 37. Diskomo - the Residents 38. Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) - Buggles 39. Mannequin - Berlin Blondes 40. A Certain Way to Go - the Passage 41. Between - Sic 42. Bimbo - Yello 43. Images of Delusion - Genocide 44. The Lonely Spy - 45. Lori and the Chameleons 46. Lucy - Craze 47. I'm a Computer - the Goo-Q 48. Doctor...? - Blood Donor 49. Brushing Your Hair - Alex Fergusson 50. Drawn and Quartered - the Korgis 51. Mind of a Toy - Visage 52. D'ya Think I'm Sexy - British Standard Unit 53. Living Wild - Mataya Clifford 54. Private Lives - Systems 55. The Eyes Have It - Karel Fialka 56. Suis-Je Normale - Nini Raviolette 57. China Blue Vision - Eyeless in Gaza 58. The Russians Are Coming - the Red Squares 59. Dampfriemen - la Dusseldorf