Crazy good semi cheesy 80's non-English synth pop

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Maybe not cheesy enough?

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Two French classics :

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Tangerine Dreams ex member Peter Baumanns is all over the place :space_invader:

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oooo my goodness
i had and enjoyed their whole album back in those days
even given the fact that they were a classic one hit wonder band


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Maybe not synthy enough but cheese aplenty.

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it is now irreversibly connected with Deutschland 1983 tv show now
 for me.

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Yeah, for me too - though other countries (including Germany) used New Order for the theme music apparently:

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Beat me to it with Desireless. Classic!

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Non cheesy (for me). There’s. A great DMC remix of this too.

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Wow! That’s a blast from the past!

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Italo Disco classic.

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Brilliant :joy:

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Pop-adjacent certainly

An old favourite; my daughter loved it when she was little and still does at parties.

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This:

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Romanian synth-pop from 1986 with a crazy good chord progression during the verses (the chorus is a bit of a letdown after that, musically speaking). No idea what synths could have been used here


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I paid money for this album (well CD, but it’s expensive to get them in from Japan). Whole album is great, though not all of it is in Japanese. I don’t speak a lick of Japanese, youtube just sent me down a rabbit hole of 80s japanese jazz fusion a few years ago and I never looked back. Got some synthpop along the way.

I also have an album that heavily features the CS-80 from the 70s (IE before Vangelis showed everyone what the CS-80 was going to sound like in the 80s), but it isn’t synthpop, more of a soft rock jazz thing.

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Easy peasy super cheesy :space_invader:

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