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Topic History of: TV-Tip: Synth Britannia, 16/10, 9pm, BBC Four
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DJones |
Wasn't Sparks the blueprint for yin & yan synth duos?
Bowie will be mentioned next week in the second part / the prequel:
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf10k
Broadcasts on BBC FOUR:
Fri 23 Oct 21:00
Sat 24 Oct 01:25
Sat 24 Oct 23:30
Sun 25 Oct 01:30 |
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Chris Retro |
Although Nik was initially marketed as a 'synth-pop' act (and to be fair, Dancing Girls (his 2nd hit) was very electro) he was very much an old-fashioned singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist.
Definitely under-rated, his first 2 albums are excellent - and he never really went the way of horrible over-production, he just fell out of fashion |
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giles2008 |
Never really rated Nik Kershaw till i saw him live at Portsmouth Guildhall some years ago.He had a really good band which gave the songs a rockier edge."Wouldnt It Be Good" was thunderous! He still tours and is well worth seeking out.Details of a couple of accoustic shows on this link. Chesney Hawkes has been known to turn up at Niks shows but dont let that put you off!!
www.nikkershaw.net/ |
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JK2006 |
And Nik Kershaw who I thought was very talented and under estimated? |
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Chris Retro |
The niggles I have with it are very much similar to all BBC music docu's - the Britpop docu's that always mention Menswear as if to suggest the genre was doomed by mid-95, but always omit main players like The Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene etc at the expense of waxing over-lyrical on The Stone Roses, Blur & Oasis (central though those bands were)
Soft Cell pre-dated Yazoo by a year, and yet they stated Yazoo set the blueprint for yin & yan synth duo's. Ultravox seemed to not exist either before or after Vienna, and no mention was made to link Midge Ure with other synth-pop highwatermarks like Fade To Grey (which was played briefly) or Yellow Pearl (which represented not only acceptance by way of becoming the TOTP theme, but of synth-pops reach into the world of rock that OMD were so keen to bury). The Thompson Twins & Howard Jones were made out to be pop embarrassments symbolic of some kind of bangwagoneering, but in truth both those acts produced some excellent singles (Love On Your Side, What Is Love?) but never confined themselves strictly to synth pop anyway before (along with most acts of that era) disappearing up the road marked "OVER-PRODUCTION" in 1985. Why weren't The Eurythmics mentioned in that light, as they abandoned the synth-pop blueprint by the close of '84? And, like you said, the faliure to mention Bowie's Berlin trilogy (despite heralding Eno's role in Roxy) was just plain sloppy |
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