synth pop
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Notes On Weezer’s Cover Of A-Ha’s “Take On Me”
“Weezer isn’t stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.” -Rivers Cuomo, Weezer I’m listening to Weezer’s cover of “Take On Me”, a synthpop hit from 1984 by the Norwegian band A-Ha. I like both versions of the song: the original was exceptional—a song almost sublime in Continue reading
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The 1980s Revisited: Synthesizers, Drum Machines and La Roux
In the early 1980s, just as I was getting seriously interested in music, electronic musical instruments were getting seriously interesting and affordable. I spent a lot of time lurking around the back section of music stores and even home organ stores (yes, they used to have such places; do they still?) fiddling with the then brand-new Roland Continue reading
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