# electroclash/synth-pop/new-wave/nu-romanticism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 16, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009 "2002-12-16T03:30:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bucket\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@bucket\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucket_girl)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009/1 "2002-12-16T03:30:18Z")

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Can anyone reccomend some good artists either new or old that would qualify as the genres in the subject line? Here’s what I’ve already checked out:

New-  
Miss Kittin  
Console  
Adult  
Chicks on Speed  
Fashionist  
Tracy and the Plastics  
Fischerspooner  
Ladytron

Old Stuff-  
Kraftwerk [obvious]  
Telex  
OMD  
Human League  
Gary Numan  
Altered Images  
Visage  
Ultravox  
Classix Nouveaux

Anything else?

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**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009/2 "2002-12-16T03:56:34Z")

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Suprised you haven’t check out **The Faint** or **Peaches** yet…

Here are some more Synth-Pop bands:

Devision  
Mesh(not to be confused with Mesh STL)  
State Machine  
Anything Box  
Soviet  
Elegant Machinery  
Freezepop

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**Author:** ![bucket\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@bucket\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucket_girl)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009/3 "2002-12-16T04:09:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \*  
> \*\*Suprised you haven’t check out **The Faint** or **Peaches** yet…
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Actually I have, they just didn’t interest me much. Thanks for the other suggestions tho, searching for mp3s now.

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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009/4 "2002-12-16T07:01:31Z")

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Old _and_ new:

Alphaville

Old (and mostly obvious):

Camouflage  
Erasure  
some Pet Shop Boys  
some New Order  
Yaz

I haven’t heard of most of the new ones you list, **bucket girl** ; could you describe some of them?

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**Author:** ![Semp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Semp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Semp)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electroclash-synth-pop-new-wave-nu-romanticism/143009/5 "2002-12-17T02:43:45Z")

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I’d suggest Soft Cell, both their old stuff and their new album. The new one, **Cruelty Without Beauty** (or maybe it’s vice versa, can’t be sure), is probably the best fusion of old synthpop’s sound and technique brought up to date in a clearly identifiable form. Other older bands have updated their equipment but somehow lost “their sound,” but Soft Cell didn’t fall in to that trap.

Heaven 17 was hit or miss in their first era, and then they came out with an album in the late 90’s which, well, was hit or miss. But the hits on **Bigger Than America** were good enough to merit checking out the disc. Otherwise a greatest hits compilation isn’t a bad buy.

Other artists I’ve mentioned in other threads that fit here are Add N to (X) and VNV Nation. Oh, and for old synthpop the first A Flock of Seagulls album is actually quite good, but some people tell me I’m in a minority thinking that.