Anthems: Electronic 80s auf 3 CDs

This album charts the birth of synthesised pop music in the 1980s and ultimately the roots of contemporary electronic dance music.

The importance and continued popularity of 80s pop is not to be underestimated, and the emergence of serious synthesised music producers in Kraftwerk, The Human League, Heaven 17, The B. E.F., OMD, Yazoo, Ultravox, Talk Talk, Japan, Devo, Sparks, Gary Numan, New Order and The Pet Shop Boys, all of whom massively pushed the boundaries in experimenting with (mainly) Roland synths in this era, ultimately showed the way for the house and techno producers of the 90s to the present day.

Within this more serious side there was also some brilliant, pure synth - pop from The Thompson Twins, Scritti Politti, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Thomas Dolby, Simple Minds, Propaganda, Erasure, China Crisis, Belouis Some, The Lotus Eaters, A Flock Of Seagulls, Howard Jones, Blancmange and The Associates.

As with the 2 preceding Anthems releases we have cherry picked a mix of the biggest commercial tracks in addition to the most important and influential ones making it a truly fantastic collector’s package and thoroughly entertaining listen.
The TV creative promises to be truly epic, proper hairs on the back of the neck stuff.


Tracklist:

CD 01

1 Ultravox Vienna
2 Gary Numan Cars
3 Soft Cell Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? 12" Mix
4 Visage Fade To Grey
5 Yazoo Don't Go
6 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Enola Gay
7 Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
8 Japan Quiet Life
9 Duran Duran Planet Earth
10 The Human League Being Boiled
11 Heaven 17 Penthouse And Pavement
12 Simple Minds Promised You A Miracle
13 Kim Wilde Kids In America
14 Altered Images Don't Talk To Me About Love
15 Fiction Factory (Feels Like) Heaven
16 Art Of Noise Close (To The Edit)
17 M Pop Muzik
18 Jona Lewie You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties
19 Gary Numan / Tubeway Army Are 'Friends' Electric?
20 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Maid Of Orleans

CD 02

1 The Human League Love Action (I Believe In Love)
2 Heaven 17 Temptation
3 Spandau Ballet To Cut A Long Story Short
4 Scritti Politti Absolute
5 Blancmange Living On The Ceiling
6 Thompson Twins Love On Your Side
7 A Flock Of Seagulls Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
8 China Crisis Black Man Ray
9 Thomas Dolby Hyperactive!
10 Landscape Einstein A Go-Go
11 Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81 / 82 / 83 / 84)
12 B. E.F. Groove Thang
13 Lotus Eaters The First Picture Of You
14 Stephen Duffy Kiss Me
15 Go West We Close Our Eyes
16 Kajagoogoo Too Shy
17 Furniture Brilliant Mind
18 Belouis Some Imagination
19 It's Immaterial Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)
20 Art Of Noise Moments In Love

CD 03

1 Tears For Fears Mad World
2 Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
3 New Order Blue Monday
4 Duran Duran The Reflex
5 Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy
6 Yazoo Situation 12" Remix
7 Erasure Sometimes
8 David Bowie Fashion Radio Edit
9 Blondie Rapture
10 Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder Together In Electric Dreams
11 Johnny Hates Jazz Shattered Dreams
12 Deborah Harry French Kissin' In The USA (Edit)
13 Classix Nouveaux Is It A Dream
14 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Love Missile F1-11
15 Devo Whip It
16 John Foxx Underpass
17 Sparks Beat The Clock
18 Propaganda Duel
19 Paul Hardcastle 19
20 M/A/R/R/S Pump Up The Volume