I feel kind of foolish even posting this question, because I have so few details to share.
Backstory - I am putting together a playlist of songs for an upcoming weekend - all the songs are going to be ones loved by my sister who passed away 5 years ago. The upcoming (September) weekend is the 5-year anniversary of her death and some of her (and my) friends are visiting and I have a set of activities planned that were her favorite things to do. So of course we need a playlist, right?
Any way… my sister went away to college in 1986, and discovered a band that I can’t remember the name of. It would have been a band currently putting out music in 1986, but I don’t know if 1986 was near the beginning, middle or end of their career.
I used the get them mixed up with Alphaville, which annoyed my sister. I am almost 100% sure their name also began with A. They were probably kind of synth-poppy and soft. Maybe some variety of Scandinavian?
There are kind of a lot. Any ideas as to one song and try to figure it out from that direction?
Well, there is the one called ABC? Since you mixed them up with Alphaville, and the name is the beginning of the alphabet…
Softer synth-pop starting with a vowel around then, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), or not a vowel, Spandau Ballet. There’s a lot to slog through, without maybe a particular song to find.
