<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Don’t be too hard on your self, I’d say it’s a quite difficult list of songs :-)<br class=""><br class="">I’ll post the answers tomorrow around lunch…</blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Here’s the list:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">01 Blancmange - Feel me - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_(band)" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_(band)</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Most known for “Living on the ceiling” and “Blind Vision”. Their debut album Happy Families is a 80s treasure.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">02 Talk Talk - It’s so serious - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Talk" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Talk</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">From their debut album, before they got caught up in seriousness and still were writing songs. Love the sound of this album.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">03 Boytronic - Luna Square - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boytronic" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boytronic</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">The best synthpop act from Germany during the 80s (the K’s are not pop :-). Two great albums before they split up (not counting the record company shameless restart with other members).</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">04 Indochine - Leila - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochine_(band)" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochine_(band)</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Many of you might have missed their first album, L’Aventurier, which were the only good one.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">05 Rupert Hine - The Golden Age - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Hine" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Hine</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Mostly heard as a producer for other bands. I guess you can hear that this was done at the same period as Howard Jones debut album :-)</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">06 Thompson Twins - Kamikaze - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Also a band that peaked early. This is from their album “Quick step & side kicks”. Love the sound of that album.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">07 Fad Gadget - Ladyshave - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_Gadget</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Probably one of the easier? Daniel Miller helped produce this which you quite clearly can hear. Get Dave Gahan on vocals and this would fit right in on Speak & Spell.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">08 Naked Eyes - Emotion in motion - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Eyes" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Eyes</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Might have been the first synthpop band to extensively use the Fairlight CMI.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">09 China Crisis - You never see it - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Crisis" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Crisis</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">More commonly known for their smash hit “Wishful Thinking” around 1983-1984. This was from their first album which was more experimental and less mass appeal.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">10 Data - Opera Electronica - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATA_(band)" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATA_(band)</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">One of the most under-appreciated bands of the 80s. I regard their album “2-Time” as one of the best albums of the 80s. Still sounds modern to me :-)</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">11 Twice A Man - Decay - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_a_Man" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_a_Man</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Swedens top synth act of the 80s. Had some followers among the hardcore synth-fans, mainly in Germany and NL. In the early 80s they were offered to play in London as an exchange band for New Order playing in Sweden (apparently it needed to be some kind of trade balance regarding concerts at the time). At the time they were known as Cosmic Overdose. The arrangers told them they had to change name as everyone would think they were hippies and no one would show up. They got some suggestions and in a rush just picked Twice A Man as a name.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>Did you get some of them?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Micke</div></body></html>