Similarities between 1980s in music and Synth-pop
1980s in music and Synth-pop have 73 things in common (in Unionpedia): A Flock of Seagulls, A-ha, ABC (band), AllMusic, Alphaville (band), Annie Lennox, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bruce Springsteen, Camouflage (band), Dance music, Dance-pop, David Bowie, Dead or Alive (band), Depeche Mode, Disco, Don't You Want Me, Donna Summer, Duran Duran, Electro (music), Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Erasure, Eurythmics, Folk music, Funk, Gary Numan, Glam rock, Grunge, Hip hop, ..., Hip hop music, House music, I Ran (So Far Away), Japan (band), Jean-Michel Jarre, Juan Atkins, Kraftwerk, Los Angeles, Madonna (entertainer), Modern Talking, MTV, New wave music, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Patti Smith, Pet Shop Boys, Pop music, Popular music, Post-disco, Punk rock, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Romanticism, Roxy Music, Second British Invasion, Simon Reynolds, Soft Cell, Soul music, Spandau Ballet, Synthesizer, Tangerine Dream, Tears for Fears, Techno, Telex (band), The Beach Boys, The Human League, The Smiths, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Ultravox, Van Halen, Visage (band), Yellow Magic Orchestra, ZZ Top. Expand index (43 more) »
A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave and synth-pop band originally formed in 1980 in Liverpool by Michael "Mike" Score (keyboards, vocals) and his brother Alister "Ali" James Score (drums), with their most famous line-up consisting of the Score brothers along with Francis Lee "Frank" Maudsley (bass) and Paul Reynolds (guitar).
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A-ha
A-ha (usually stylized as a-ha) is a Norwegian band formed in Oslo in 1982.
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ABC (band)
ABC are an English pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Alphaville (band)
Alphaville is a German synthpop/new wave band which gained popularity in the 1980s.
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Annie Lennox
Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.
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Camouflage (band)
Camouflage is a German new wave trio consisting of lead singer Marcus Meyn (b. May 2, 1966), Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
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Dead or Alive (band)
Dead or Alive was an English pop band, formed in 1980 in Liverpool.
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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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Don't You Want Me
"Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group The Human League, released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album Dare (1981).
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.
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Electro (music)
Electro (or electro-funk).
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke.
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Eurythmics
Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.
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Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.
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Grunge
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.
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Hip hop
Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
1980s in music and Hip hop music · Hip hop music and Synth-pop ·
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.
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I Ran (So Far Away)
"I Ran (So Far Away)", also released as "I Ran", is a song by English new wave band A Flock of Seagulls.
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Japan (band)
Japan were an English band formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums), Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Mick Karn (bass guitar).
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Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.
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Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962) is an American musician.
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
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Modern Talking
Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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New wave music
New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
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Pet Shop Boys
The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Post-disco
Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.
1980s in music and Post-disco · Post-disco and Synth-pop ·
Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Roxy Music
Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.
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Second British Invasion
The Second British Invasion refers to music acts from the United Kingdom that became popular in the United States from the middle of 1982 into late 1986, primarily due to the cable music channel MTV.
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Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.
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Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.
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Soul music
Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet are an English band formed in Islington, London in 1979.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
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Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.
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Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.
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Telex (band)
Telex was a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music".
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
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The Human League
The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.
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Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, singer and producer.
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Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins were a British pop band that formed in April 1977.
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Ultravox
Ultravox (earlier stylized as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in 1973 as Tiger Lily.
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Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.
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Visage (band)
Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.
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1980s in music and Synth-pop Comparison
1980s in music has 775 relations, while Synth-pop has 339. As they have in common 73, the Jaccard index is 6.55% = 73 / (775 + 339).
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