Synth Pop

80's Pop

Tesla Girls (OMD Cover)

My all-synth version of the almost all-synth 1986 hit. The difference is my synths cover decades and are ... weirder. (This was actually a pretty mainstream track for OMD - have a listen to something like Red Frame / White Light).

If You Leave (Fuschia Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth of the all-synth multi-looped hit from 1985. A secret wish, the marrying of lies, today you find is true what common sense denies.

p:Machinery (Analytical Engine Version) (Propaganda cover)

My all-synth version of the 1985 hit. The first cut won't hurt at all.

Duel (Quasiperiodic Version) (Propaganda cover)

My all-synth version of the 1985 hit. There’s a room where the light won’t find you.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Ozymandias Version) (Tears for Fears cover)

My all-synth version of the 1981 track. I’m the dandy highwayman who you’re too scared to mention.

Stand and Deliver (Proton Channel Version) (Adam and the Ants cover)

My all-synth version of the Captain’s 1982 hit. It went bang, I said shut up. It went bang, I said rap up. Well I’m aware that the guy must do his work, but the piledriver man drove me berserk.

Wot! (Oleic Version) (Captain Sensible cover)

My all-synth version of the 1985 track. You want to Diva a deduction you want to do what they do.

Perfect Way (Grav Assist Version) (Scritti Politti cover)

My all-synth cover of the 1990 track. I’d bolted through a closing door and I would never find myself felling bored.

Being Boring (Narcoleptic Version) (Pet Shop Boys cover)

My all-synth version of the 1985 track. Hey, it was a challenge I set myself, and I like to do messed-up stuff. Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born...

Sally MacLennane (Distillate Version) (The Pogues cover)

My all-synth cover of the 1985 hit. I almost called it Dub Vulture - fans will know why. I like walking in the park when it gets late at night.

Subculture (3rd Harmonic Version) (New Order cover)

My all-synth Gadgetised version of the 1980 track.

The chance to change has nearly gone
The alternative is only one
The final source of energy
Solar electricity

Electricity (240V RMS AC 50Hz Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth version of the 1980 track.

Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play they're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's eight fifteen and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give, it's never going to fade away

Enola Gay (EMP-Hardened Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth version of the 1991 hit. When I was doing this, the music itself said ‘go retro’.

You say that love will capture me
Not unless you give it free.
You're sailing on the seven seas
Sister Rae is on TV.
The light above, it shines so bright
That the F.B.I. won't sleep tonight
'Cause I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue.
Sick and tired, I don't know why
Skin and bones, touch the sky
Sex and lies, can't bring me down
'Cause I sold my soul
All over town.
People try to drag us down
So we learn to swim before we drown.

Sailing on the Seven Seas (Bermuda Triangle Version) (OMD cover)

I make obnoxious synth covers of previously fine songs. All done with Korg Gadget.

If You Leave (Fuschia Version) (OMD cover)

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