Synthpop Archives - FRIZZO'S ELECTRIC CAFÉ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/tag/synthpop/ All Things 80s! Thu, 05 May 2022 13:14:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/frizzoselectriccafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-Frizzos-Electric-Cafe-Logo-01-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Synthpop Archives - FRIZZO'S ELECTRIC CAFÉ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/tag/synthpop/ 32 32 205889949 Sounds of West Germany https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/03/sounds-of-west-germany/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/03/sounds-of-west-germany/#respond Tue, 03 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=100 Five Essential Songs of the 80s For all the youth who read this, there was a time when Germany was divided in to two countries: East Germany, which was part of the Eastern Bloc and West Germany, which was part of NATO. Many of the iconic German bands of the 80s were from West Berlin […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/03/sounds-of-west-germany/feed/ 0 100 Rare Yazoo Song https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/02/rare-yazoo-song/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/02/rare-yazoo-song/#respond Mon, 02 May 2022 13:38:27 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=89 From 1982, here is the song “Get Set” by Yazoo. It’s a fun, catchy, and danceable synth pop ditty that would be right at home on an Erasure album. This archival footage features Alison “Alf” Moyet on vocals and the amazing Vince Clark on keys. Oddly, this was never released as a single nor was […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/02/rare-yazoo-song/feed/ 0 89 Song of the Day (Or So) #1 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/04/29/song-of-the-day-or-so-1/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/04/29/song-of-the-day-or-so-1/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:27:04 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=77 Every day or so, I wake up in the morning with a song in my head that just won’t go away. Sometimes, it something really great. Other times, it’s just a song. Rarely, it’s some song I’m really not into at all. Just a random mental jukebox of 80s music, if you will (maybe you […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/04/29/song-of-the-day-or-so-1/feed/ 0 77 My First Cassette Ever https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/04/27/my-first-cassette-ever/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/04/27/my-first-cassette-ever/#respond Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:52:49 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=36 Every music fanatic has to start somewhere… a record, an eight track, or (in my case) a cassette tape. I first became truly aware of my local record shop in 1983 or so. That’s the year I had my grandmother drive me there so I could purchase my first ever album on cassette. That album? […]

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