De 100 beste Synthpop nummers aller tijden

Beste Synthpop nummers herken je aan synthesizers, drumcomputers, sterke melodieën en producties die het geluid van de jaren tachtig voorgoed veranderden. Van Depeche Mode en Pet Shop Boys tot OMD, Erasure en Visage: elektronische pop werd mainstream.

Beste Synthpop nummers: 100 elektronische klassiekers

Van experiment naar wereldhits

Synthpop groeide vanuit elektronische muziek en New Wave. Betaalbaardere synthesizers maakten een compleet nieuwe manier van produceren mogelijk. De achtergrond van het genre lees je op onze pagina over Synthpop.

De top 25

1. Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
2. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
3. A-ha – Take On Me
4. The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
5. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
6. Yazoo – Only You
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
8. Erasure – A Little Respect
9. Alphaville – Forever Young
10. Visage – Fade to Grey
11. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
12. New Order – Blue Monday
13. Gary Numan – Cars
14. Ultravox – Vienna
15. Heaven 17 – Temptation
16. OMD – Maid of Orleans
17. Japan – Ghosts
18. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
19. Camouflage – The Great Commandment
20. Propaganda – Duel
21. ABC – The Look of Love
22. Thompson Twins – Hold Me Now
23. Talk Talk – It’s My Life
24. Nik Kershaw – The Riddle
25. Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking

Synthpop 26 tot en met 50

26. Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind
27. Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
28. Erasure – Sometimes
29. Yazoo – Don’t Go
30. A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
31. The Human League – Human
32. OMD – Souvenir
33. Howard Jones – What Is Love?
34. Real Life – Send Me an Angel
35. Sandra – Maria Magdalena
36. Camouflage – Love Is a Shield
37. Propaganda – P-Machinery
38. Book of Love – Boy
39. Anything Box – Living in Oblivion
40. Cause & Effect – You Think You Know Her
41. Information Society – What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy)
42. The Twins – Face to Face, Heart to Heart
43. Trans-X – Living on Video
44. Paul Hardcastle – 19
45. Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Again
46. Book of Love – I Touch Roses
47. Berlin – No More Words
48. Mr. Mister – Kyrie
49. A Flock of Seagulls – Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
50. Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises

Elektronische klassiekers 51 tot en met 75

51. Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
52. Bronski Beat – Why?
53. Alphaville – Big in Japan
54. When in Rome – The Promise
55. Animotion – Obsession
56. The Assembly – Never Never
57. Electronic – Getting Away with It
58. Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me with Science
59. Dollar – Mirror Mirror
60. Baltimora – Tarzan Boy
61. Depeche Mode – Policy of Truth
62. Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin
63. Erasure – Chains of Love
64. Yazoo – Situation
65. The Human League – Love Action (I Believe in Love)
66. OMD – If You Leave
67. Howard Jones – New Song
68. Heaven 17 – Let Me Go
69. Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
70. Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
71. Camouflage – Neighbours
72. Information Society – Walking Away
73. Book of Love – Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
74. Trans-X – Message on the Radio
75. Naked Eyes – Always Something There to Remind Me

Synthpop 76 tot en met 100

76. Alphaville – Sounds Like a Melody
77. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
78. Thomas Dolby – Hyperactive!
79. A Flock of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
80. Real Life – Catch Me I’m Falling
81. Berlin – The Metro
82. The Twins – Ballet Dancer
83. Hubert Kah – Sternenhimmel
84. Pete Shelley – Homosapien
85. Visage – Mind of a Toy
86. Landscape – Einstein A Go-Go
87. Re-Flex – The Politics of Dancing
88. The Art of Noise – Close (To the Edit)
89. Propaganda – Dr. Mabuse
90. Icehouse – Hey Little Girl
91. Electronic – Disappointed
92. Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams
93. Scritti Politti – Perfect Way
94. The Lotus Eaters – The First Picture of You
95. Furniture – Brilliant Mind
96. Flash and the Pan – Midnight Man
97. The Beloved – Sweet Harmony
98. Boytronic – You
99. Celebrate the Nun – Will You Be There
100. Book of Love – Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls

Synthpop luisteren op Florida Radio

Veel van deze tracks horen ook thuis bij 80’s muziek radio, Dance Classics en Popmuziek. Een mooi netwerk dus, in plaats van honderd nummers die SEO-technisch eenzaam in een hoekje staan te verpieteren.