Synthpop Compilation

A new compilation coming soon from Sony compiling the best of 1980s Synthpop across three CDs.

No twelve-inch versions for a change, but just a hit-tastic selection of 53 tracks, 46 of which went top ten, back in the day.

The track listing offers no real surprises but is nonetheless full of great songs, even if Prefab Sprout‘s The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll plays fast and loose with the ‘synthpop’ moniker.

Unlike the forthcoming 12-Inch Dance: Indie set, there’s no Pet Shops Boys music to be found, presumably because Warners wouldn’t license their music out to a rival’s compilation. A-ha‘s Take on Me does make an appearance, however.

This set sports an attractive front cover design and comes packaged as a digipack. It is released on 20 April 2015.

• • UK Pre-order: Synth Pop
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Synth Pop

Track listing

Disc: 1
1. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Eurythmics
2. Don’t You Want Me – The Human League
3. Cars – Gary Numan
4. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
5. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
6. Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
7. 19 – Paul Hardcastle
8. The Reflex – Duran Duran
9. Don’t Leave Me This Way – The Communards feat. Sarah Jane Morris
10. Gold – Spandau Ballet
11. Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
12. Only You – Yazoo
13. Vienna – Ultravox
14. Fade to Grey – Visage
15. Enola Gay – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
16. Pop Muzik – M
17. Money – The Flying Lizards
18. Axel F (From “Beverly Hills Cop”) – Harold Faltermeyer

Disc: 2
1. Blue Monday – New Order
2. Are ‘Friends’ Electric – Gary Numan/Tubeway Army
3. Temptation – Heaven 17
4. Together in Electric Dreams – Philip Oakey / Giorgio Moroder
5. Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat feat. Jimmy Somerville
6. (Feels Like) Heaven – Fiction Factory
7. A Little Respect – Erasure
8. Too Shy – Kajagoogoo
9. Take on Me – A-Ha
10. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
11. Love & Pride – King
12. Love Plus One – Haircut 100
13. Quiet Life – Japan
14. What Is Love? – Howard Jones
15. If I Was – Midge Ure
16. Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins
17. It’s My Life – Talk Talk
18. More Than This – Roxy Music

Disc: 3
1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
2. Somewhere in My Heart – Aztec Camera
3. Love Resurrection – Alison Moyet
4. The King of Rock ‘N’ Roll – Prefab Sprout
5. Body Talk – Imagination
6. Einstein a Go-Go – Landscape
7. Big in Japan – Alphaville
8. Don’t Talk to Me About Love – Altered Images
9. Living on the Ceiling – Blancmange
10. Rockit – Herbie Hancock
11. She Blinded Me with Science – Thomas Dolby
12. Is It a Dream? – Classix Nouveaux
13. Imagination – Belouis Some
14. I Ran (So Far Away) – A Flock Of Seagulls
15. Whip It – Devo
16. Oh Yeah – Yello
17. Moments in Love – Art Of Noise