The 1980s were an incredibly polarizing time for music fans, thanks in no small part to the vast differences in popular genres, which ranged from heavy metal to synth-pop to hip-hop. Frankly, in the ...

Top 20 Best ‘80s Synth Songs Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most iconic and irresistible synth-driven songs of the 1980s. We’re considering any track that placed ...

In the late 1970s and 1980, the synthesizer had become the instrument of choice for many a pop, rock, and new wave act. That was the case for the following three musicians, each of whom scored a big ...

For many music fans, the 1980s is synth-pop. But while the charts of the whole decade pulsate with the futuristic sound of synthesizers, we believe that 1981 is the year that synth-pop truly hit its ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

Not even music compilations are immune to the prequel treatment these days. Thus far, Cherry Red’s Musik Music Musique series has documented the rise of synth pop in chronological fashion, with one ...

Pete Byrne, the shaggy-headed lead singer of the pop duo Naked Eyes, who rode high during the MTV-fueled second British Invasion with buoyant hits like “Always Something There to Remind Me” and ...

Australian born composer Asmodelle has dedicated her life to electronic music, and is committed to help evolve the genre. Haunting, beat driven, danceable, and always unique tracks fill her latest ...

Synth pop—a concise portmanteau of “synthesizer” and “pop”—is a genre that has reshaped the sonic landscape of mainstream music since its emergence at the close of the 1970s. Born from an era when the ...