K SPECIAL - UPDATE VA - Synth-pop: 300 Classic Electronic Anthems (Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition) [2024] (18 x CDs)

K SPECIAL - UPDATE

VA - Synth-pop: 300 Classic Electronic Anthems (Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition) [2024] (18 x CDs)

Ever since the introduction of the modular synthesizer by Robert Moog, the history of music had been changed forever. As electronic music continues its rise to fame, none of this could have been done without the early pioneers of different sound and modular synthesizers. As synthesizers began to gain popularity over the years, this helped create new genres of music, such as synth-pop, electronic music, and much of the pop music we hear today.

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop) is a subgenre of new wave music and pop music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.

What Is Synth-pop?

With a synthesizer as the main instrument behind the genre, synth-pop began to go mainstream with the help of progressive rock and electronic bands like Kraftwerk. While synth-pop is also known to be like electropop, the new wave of this genre were bands like Alphaville and a-ha.

Synthpop Artists

Synth-pop has taken over many waves throughout the years. Synth-pop bands and artists include Kraftwerk, a-ha, Alphaville, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, The Buggles, ABC, Yazoo, Soft Cell, Visage, Ultravox, Eurythmics, Devo, and a number of other synth-pop artists.

Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan and Tubeway Army in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band would be a major influence on early British synth-pop acts. The development of inexpensive polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI and the use of dance beats, led to a more commercial and accessible sound for synth-pop. This, its adoption by the style-conscious acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV, led to success for large numbers of British synth-pop acts in the US during the Second British Invasion.

The term "techno-pop" was coined by Yuzuru Agi in his critique of Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine in 1978 and is considered a case of multiple discovery of naming. Hence, the term can be used interchangeably to "synth-pop" but generally used to the scene of Japan and is a preferred term there.

"Synth-pop" is sometimes used interchangeably with "electropop", but "electropop" may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, more electronic sound. In the mid to late 1980s, duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was highly successful on the US dance charts, but by the end of the decade, the 'new wave' synth-pop of bands such as a-ha and Alphaville was giving way to house music and techno. Interest in new wave synth-pop began to revive in the indietronica and electroclash movements in the late 1990s, and in the 2000s synth-pop enjoyed a widespread revival and commercial success.

Synth-pop music has established a place for the synthesizer as a major element of pop and rock music, directly influencing subsequent genres (including house music and Detroit techno) and has indirectly influenced many other genres, as well as individual recordings.

In 1977, Giorgio Moroder released the electronic Eurodisco song "I Feel Love" that he had produced for Donna Summer, and its programmed beats would be a major influence on the later synth-pop sound. David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, comprising the albums Low (1977), "Heroes"(1977), and Lodger (1979), all featuring Brian Eno, would also be highly influential.

British punk-influenced band Tubeway Army, intended their debut album to be guitar driven. In 1978, Gary Numan, a member of the group, found a mini-moog left behind in the studio by another band, and started experimenting with it. This led to a change in the album's sound to electronic new wave. Numan later described his work on this album as a guitarist playing keyboards, who turned "punk songs into electronic songs". A single from the album, "Are Friends Electric?", topped the UK charts in the summer of 1979. The discovery that synthesizers could be employed in a different manner from that used in progressive rock or disco, prompted Numan to go solo. On his futuristic album The Pleasure Principle (1979), he played only synths but retained a bass guitarist and a drummer for the rhythm section. A single from the album, "Cars" also topped the charts.

In 1979 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released their debut single "Electricity", which is regarded as integral to the rise of synth-pop. This was followed by a series of landmark releases within the genre, including the 1980 hit singles "Messages" and "Enola Gay". Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark became one of the most influential bands of the period, directly inspiring the electronic music career of Vince Clarke, who went on to co-create and serve as lead songwriter of the popular synth-pop groups Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure (he was later succeeded as Depeche Mode bandleader by Martin Gore. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's principal songwriters, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, have been described in the media as "the Lennon–McCartney of synth-pop".

Giorgio Moroder collaborated with the band Sparks on their album No. 1 In Heaven (1979). That same year in Japan, the synth-pop band P-Model made its debut with the album In a Model Room. Other Japanese synth-pop groups emerging around the same time included the Plastics and Hikashu. This zeitgeist of revolution in electronic music performance and recording/production was encapsulated by then would-be record producer Trevor Horn of the Buggles in the international hit "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1979).

1980 also saw the release of where "Video Killed the Radio Star" came from, the Buggles' debut album The Age of Plastic, which some writers have labeled as the first landmark of another electropop era, as well as what for many is the defining album of Devo's career, the overtly synth-pop Freedom of Choice.

Commercial success (1981-85)

The emergence of synth-pop has been described as "perhaps the single most significant event in melodic music since Mersey-beat". By the 1980s synthesizers had become much cheaper and easier to use. After the definition of MIDI in 1982 and the development of digital audio, the creation of purely electronic sounds and their manipulation became much simpler. Synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s, particularly through their adoption by bands of the New Romantic movement.

The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and the Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Visage, and Spandau Ballet. They adopted an elaborate visual style that combined elements of glam rock, science fiction and romanticism. Spandau Ballet were the first band of the movement to have a hit single as the synth-driven "To Cut a Long Story Short" reached number 5 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1980. Visage's "Fade to Grey", characteristic of synth-pop and a major influence on the genre, reached the top ten a few weeks later. Duran Duran have been credited with incorporating dance beats into synth-pop to produce a catchier and warmer sound, which provided them with a series of hit singles, beginning with their debut single "Planet Earth" and the UK top five hit "Girls on Film" in 1981. They would soon be followed into the British charts by a large number of bands utilising synthesizers to create catchy three-minute pop songs. In the summer of 1981 Depeche Mode had their first chart success with "New Life", followed by the UK top ten hit "Just Can't Get Enough". A new line-up for The Human League along with a new producer and a more commercial sound led to the album Dare (1981), which produced a series of hit singles. These included "Don't You Want Me", which reached number one in the UK at the end of 1981, and also topped the US Billboard charts in 1982.

Synth-pop reached its commercial peak in the UK in the winter of 1981–2, with bands such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan, Ultravox, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and even Kraftwerk, enjoying top ten hits. The Human League's and Soft Cell's UK number one singles "Don't You Want Me" and "Tainted Love" became the best-selling singles in the UK in 1981. In early 1982 synthesizers were so dominant that the Musicians' Union attempted to limit their use. By the end of 1982, these acts had been joined in the charts by synth-based singles from Thomas Dolby, Blancmange, and Tears for Fears. Bands such as Simple Minds also adopted synth-pop into their music on their 1982 album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84). ABC and Heaven 17 had commercial success mixing synth-pop with influences from funk and soul music.

In the US, where synth-pop is considered a subgenre of new wave and was described as "technopop" or "electropop" by the press at the time, the genre became popular due to the cable music channel MTV, which reached the media capitals of New York City and Los Angeles in 1982. It made heavy use of style-conscious New Romantic synth-pop acts, with "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982) by A Flock of Seagulls generally considered the first hit by a British act to enter the Billboard Top Ten as a result of exposure through video. The switch to a "new music" format in US radio stations was also significant in the success of British bands.

Reaching No.2 in the UK in March 1983 and No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 six months later, Rolling Stone called Eurythmics’ single "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" "a synth-pop masterpiece".

The success of synth-pop and other British acts would be seen as a Second British Invasion. Synth-pop was taken up across the world, with international hits for acts including Men Without Hats and Trans-X from Canada, Telex from Belgium, Peter Schilling, Sandra, Modern Talking, Propaganda and Alphaville from Germany, Yello from Switzerland and Azul y Negro from Spain.

In the mid-1980s, key artists included solo performer Howard Jones merged the technology-intensive sound of new wave with the cheery optimism of hippies and late-'60s pop", (although with notable exceptions including the lyrics of "What Is Love?" – "Does anybody love anybody anyway?") and Nik Kershaw, whose "well-crafted synth-pop" incorporated guitars and other more traditional pop influences that particularly appealed to a teen audience. Pursuing a more dance-orientated sound were Bronski Beat whose album The Age of Consent (1984), dealing with issues of homophobia and alienation, reached the top 20 in the UK and top 40 in the US.

The Thompson Twins, whose popularity peaked in 1984 with the album Into the Gap, which reached No.1 in the UK and the US top ten and spawned several top ten singles.

Initially dismissed in the music press as a "teeny bop sensation" were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synth-pop, which, along with an MTV friendly video, took their 1985 single "Take on Me" to number two in the UK and number one in the US.

So, after exhaustive and extensive online research, plus my own recollections, memories and records bought at the time, here is my personal compilation of what I consider to be the 300 best and most important tracks from the original synth-pop era.

This newly updated, expanded and fully packed 18CD set contains many rare and extremely hard to find tracks, with a number featured in either their original 7" or 12" mixes. Only the original CD quality studio mixes are included. No later remixes, live versions or poor-quality YouTube rips here!

Compiled as always using the very latest and highest quality digital remasters, with a considerable number of tracks sourced from the original master tapes for superior sound quality and enjoyment.

Also, check out the artwork folder in the download for a great selection of excellent Classic Pop magazine special edition synth-pop issues in PDF format.

Almost 23 hours of classic synth-pop to enjoy.

K

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Track lists

CD01

01 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 4:45

02 Scritti Politti - Absolute 4:24

03 New Order - Age of Consent 5:16

04 ABC - All of My Heart (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:49

05 New Order - All the Way 3:24

06 Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind (Original 1987 7" Single Version) 3:57

07 Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me 3:39

08 Tubeway Army - Are "Friends" Electric? 5:21

09 China Crisis - Arizona Sky 5:24

10 Joy Division - Atmosphere 4:09

11 Blondie - Atomic 4:40

12 Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Original 1974 7" Single Edit) 3:14

13 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (from "Beverly Hills Cop") 3:01

14 Soft Cell - Bedsitter (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 7:51

15 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind the Mask (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:37

16 The Human League - Being Boiled (Original 1978 Fast Product 7" Single Version) 3:50

17 Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (Original 1990 'Behaviour' Full-Length Album Version) 6:50

CD02

18 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes 3:45

19 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Original 1986 12" Extended Mix) 6:43

20 China Crisis - Black Man Ray 3:40

21 Blancmange - Blind Vision 3:57

22 New Order - Blue Monday (Original 1983 12" Single Version) 7:28

23 Altered Images - Bring Me Closer (Extended Version) 6:15

24 Vitamin Z - Burning Flame (Original 1985 7" Single Version) 3:49

25 Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight 4:15

26 Gary Numan - Cars (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:56

27 Tears for Fears - Change (Radio Edit) 3:57

28 Duran Duran - The Chauffeur 5:21

29 China Crisis - Christian (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:27

30 Art of Noise - Close (to the Edit) (Original 1984 7" Single Edit) 4:06

31 The Associates - Club Country (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:02

32 Kraftwerk - Computer Love 7:19

33 Visage - The Damned Don't Cry (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:02

CD03

34 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 4:10

35 ABBA - The Day Before You Came 5:51

36 The Fixx - Deeper and Deeper (Original 1984 12" Long Version) 6:31

37 Magazine - Definitive Gaze 4:29

38 Missing Persons - Destination Unknown 3:35

39 Electronic - Disappointed (Stephen Hague 7" Single Version) 4:21

40 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 4:33

41 Yazoo - Don't Go 3:05

42 Altered Images - Don't Talk to Me About Love (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:46

43 Blancmange - Don't Tell Me (Original 1984 7" Single Mix) 3:29

44 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 4:20

45 The Human League - Don't You Want Me 3:58

46 The Beloved - Don't You Worry 3:50

47 Freur - Doot-Doot 4:03

48 Tubeway Army - Down in the Park 4:24

49 The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights 6:31

50 Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (A Paranoid Fantasy) (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 4:19

51 The Fallout Club - Dream Soldiers 4:02

CD04

52 The Cars - Drive 3:55

53 Propaganda - Duel (Original 1985 7" Single Version) 4:46

54 Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl 3:50

55 The Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair 3:40

56 Landscape - Einstein a Go-Go 2:59

57 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity 3:33

58 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Original 1990 7" Single Edit) 4:16

59 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay 3:31

60 Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins 3:20

61 John Foxx - Europe After the Rain (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:38

62 Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World 4:12

63 The Korgis - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 4:16

64 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:59

65 Wham! - Everything She Wants (Original 1984 12" Remix) 6:29

66 Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face 4:58

67 Visage - Fade to Grey (Original 1981 12" John Luongo Dance Mix) 6:43

68 Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:31

69 The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture of You 3:40

CD05

70 David Sylvian; Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours 4:40

71 Alphaville - Forever Young (Original 1984 12" Special Dance Mix) 6:09

72 Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Furniture Music 3:31

73 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 5:35

74 Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:31

75 Depeche Mode - Get the Balance Right 3:15

76 Electronic - Getting Away with It 5:15

77 The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You 4:15

78 Japan - Ghosts (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:02

79 Duran Duran - Girls on Film (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:26

80 Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart 5:00

81 Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 3:58

82 Scandal - Goodbye to You 3:47

83 Camouflage - The Great Commandment (1988 US 12" Mix) 6:12

84 Classix Nouveaux - Guilty (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:13

85 Talk Talk - Have You Heard the News? 5:06

86 The Blue Nile - Headlights on the Parade 6:17

CD06

87 Pet Shop Boys - Heart (Original 1988 7" Single Version) 4:17

88 Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 5:05

89 Icehouse - Hey, Little Girl 4:23

90 Howard Jones - Hide and Seek 5:39

91 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 4:46

92 Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Original 1981 12" Dance Version) 4:34

93 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:29

94 a-ha - Hunting High and Low (Original 1986 7" Single Remix) 3:47

95 Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 4:09

96 Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden) 4:00

97 Blancmange - I Can See It (Original 1986 7" Single Version) 4:07

98 Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Original 1977 GTO UK 7" Single Version) 5:55

99 Jon and Vangelis - I Hear You Now (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 4:13

100 The Beloved - I Love You More 3:54

101 Modern English - I Melt with You (Original 1982 7" Stereo Single Mix) 3:48

102 A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) (1982 US 7" Single Version) 3:40

103 Simple Minds - I Travel (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:09

104 Nik Kershaw - I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me 3:23

CD07

105 Ph.D. - I Won't Let You Down 4:05

106 Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home 4:27

107 Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared 4:27

108 Stephen Tintin Duffy - Icing on the Cake (12" Extended Mix) 7:26

109 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave 4:29

110 The Cure - In Between Days 2:58

111 Dead or Alive - In Too Deep (Original 1985 UK 7" Mix) 3:51

112 Spandau Ballet - Instinction (1982 Trevor Horn 7" Single Remix) 3:33

113 Classix Nouveaux - Is It a Dream (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:38

114 Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin 4:59

115 Talk Talk - It's My Life 3:53

116 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Joan of Arc 3:48

117 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:44

118 The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Bob Clearmountain Single Mix) 3:32

119 The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination 3:43

120 Kim Wilde - Kids in America 3:24

121 Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross 5:12

122 Tin Tin - Kiss Me (1983 12" François Kevorkian Extended Remix) 7:20

CD08

123 Our Daughter's Wedding - Lawnchairs (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:27

124 ABBA - Lay All Your Love on Me 4:34

125 Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence 4:02

126 Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices (Original 1988 7" Single Version) 4:47

127 Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:22

128 The Cure - Let's Go to Bed 3:34

129 Thompson Twins - Lies 3:10

130 Spandau Ballet - Lifeline 3:34

131 Saint Etienne - Like a Motorway 3:43

132 Erasure - A Little Respect 3:32

133 New Musik - Living by Numbers 3:28

134 Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:00

135 Trans-X - Living on Video (Radio Edit) 3:44

136 ABC - The Look of Love (Part One) (Original 1982 7" Single Mix) 3:29

137 The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) 5:01

138 Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly 4:19

139 Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger 3:42

140 The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way 3:34

141 Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (Rap Boy Rap) (Original 1983 12" Extended Single Mix) 7:27

CD09

142 Simple Minds - Love Song (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:53

143 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Original 1980 Factory Records 7" Single Version) 3:24

144 The Cure - Lullaby (Single Mix) 4:10

145 Tears for Fears - Mad World 3:32

146 Space - Magic Fly (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 4:19

147 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) 4:12

148 Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) (1984 7" English Single Version) 4:09

149 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Messages (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 4:01

150 Berlin - The Metro 4:07

151 Secession - Michael (1986 Chris Lord-Alge 12" Dance Mix) 6:03

152 M83 - Midnight City 4:04

153 The Human League - Mirror Man 3:50

154 Kraftwerk - The Model 3:40

155 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love 10:17

156 Sparks - More Than a Sex Machine 5:03

157 A Flock of Seagulls - The More You Live, The More You Love (7" Remix) 4:07

CD10

158 Telex - Moskow Diskow (Original 1979 French 12" Extended Version) 7:30

159 New Order - Mr. Disco 4:21

160 Duran Duran - My Own Way (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:41

161 Kraftwerk - Neon Lights 8:52

162 Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again 4:22

163 The Assembly - Never Never (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:43

164 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Original 1983 7" Single Mix) 4:46

165 Howard Jones - New Song 4:13

166 A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares (12" Version) 5:04

167 Japan - Nightporter (1982 Steve Nye 7" Single Remix) 5:02

168 New Order - 1963 (Stephen Hague Original 1987 12" Single Mix) 5:32

169 Prince - 1999 (1982 7" Stereo Single Edit) 3:36

170 China Crisis - No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool) 3:47

171 Sparks - The No. 1 Song in Heaven 7:27

172 Yazoo - Nobody's Diary 4:31

CD11

173 B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 3:39

174 Animotion - Obsession (Original 1984 12" Dance Remix) 5:55

175 Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines Is Missing 5:12

176 Yazoo - Only You 3:11

177 The Human League - Open Your Heart 3:57

178 Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (1986 7" Single Version) 3:43

179 The Lotus Eaters - Out on Your Own (Original 1984 12" Extended Single Version) 5:25

180 The Beloved - Outerspace Girl 4:49

181 Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène (Part IV) (Original 1977 7" Single Mix) 3:33

182 Propaganda - p:Machinery 3:48

183 Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter (1983 2nd Single Version) 4:36

184 The Associates - Party Fears Two (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:05

185 Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 4:04

186 New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Original 1985 12" Full Version) 8:49

187 Duran Duran - Planet Earth (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 4:01

188 Heaven 17 - Play to Win (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:24

189 Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator 4:56

CD12

190 ABC - Poison Arrow 3:23

191 Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth 5:14

192 M - Pop Muzik (1979 Nik Launay 12" Full Length Disco Mix) 4:55

193 When in Rome - The Promise 3:39

194 Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:00

195 Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises (1983 US 7" Single Remix) 3:44

196 Japan - Quiet Life (1981 7" Single Edit) 3:35

197 Electronic - Reality 5:39

198 Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind 3:44

199 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Red Frame/White Light 3:10

200 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (Original 1983 7" Mix) 3:53

201 Pet Shop Boys - Rent 5:08

202 Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand 4:06

203 Duran Duran - Rio 5:37

204 New Order - Round & Round 4:31

205 New Order - Run 4:31

206 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 5:01

CD13

207 Roxy Music - Same Old Scene 3:59

208 The Blue Nile - Saturday Night 6:27

209 Duran Duran - Save a Prayer (1982 UK 7" Single Edit) 5:26

210 The Fixx - Saved by Zero (Original 1983 12" Extended Mix) 4:24

211 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 5:26

212 The Human League - Seconds 4:57

213 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Secret 3:58

214 Depeche Mode - See You 3:57

215 The Other Two - Selfish 4:09

216 Real Life - Send Me an Angel (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:53

217 Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf 5:11

218 Berlin - Sex (I'm A ...) 5:07

219 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:40

220 The B-52's - She Breaks for Rainbows 4:40

221 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - She's Leaving 3:28

222 Tears for Fears - Shout (Original 1985 'Songs from the Big Chair' Full-Length Album Version) 6:33

CD14

223 Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies 6:15

224 Thompson Twins - Sister of Mercy 5:08

225 Yazoo - Situation (1982 François Kevorkian US 12" Mix) 5:44

226 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 5:03

227 Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime 4:36

228 Erasure - Sometimes 3:39

229 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 3:03

230 The Human League - The Sound of the Crowd 4:04

231 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir 3:36

232 A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:22

233 The Beloved - Spirit 4:39

234 The Fixx - Stand or Fall 4:00

235 The Blue Nile - Stay 4:58

236 Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out 4:21

237 Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Original 1987 7" Single Version) 3:47

238 New Order - Sub-culture (1985 John Robie 12" Remix) 7:28

CD15

239 Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia (Original 1986 7" Single Version) 4:01

240 Talk Talk - Such a Shame 5:35

241 a-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV 5:06

242 The Beloved - The Sun Rising 5:04

243 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night 5:13

244 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:36

245 The Beloved - Sweet Harmony 5:02

246 Scritti Politti - The "Sweetest Girl" (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 6:16

247 The Normal - T.V.O.D. 2:54

248 Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 8:56

249 a-ha - Take on Me (1985 Alan Tarney 7" Single Version) 3:47

250 Talk Talk - Talk Talk (1982 7" Remix Single Version) 3:17

251 Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call 3:50

252 Heaven 17 - Temptation (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:01

253 Blancmange - That's Love, That It Is (Original 1983 7" Version) 4:23

254 New Order - Thieves Like Us (Original 1984 12" Single Version) 6:39

CD16

255 The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:14

256 The The - This Is the Day 5:01

257 New Musik - This World of Water 3:39

258 The Beloved - Time After Time 4:13

259 Spandau Ballet - To Cut a Long Story Short 3:20

260 Talk Talk - Today 3:28

261 Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 3:52

262 Soft Cell - Torch (Original 1982 12" Extended Single Version) 8:27

263 Lori and the Chameleons - Touch 4:19

264 China Crisis - Tragedy and Mystery 4:03

265 A Flock of Seagulls - Transfer Affection 5:21

266 Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 3:55

267 New Order - True Faith (Original 1987 12" Single Version) 5:54

268 Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race 6:07

269 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (Original 1984 'Annihilation' First 12" Mix) 9:08

CD17

270 The The - Uncertain Smile (Original 1982 12" Remix) 9:59

271 John Foxx - Underpass (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:19

272 Stephen A J Duffy - Unkiss That Kiss (Original 1985 12" Extended Version) 6:41

273 New Order - Vanishing Point 5:17

274 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:25

275 Ultravox - The Voice (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 4:24

276 The Beloved - Wake Up Soon 5:04

277 The Cure - The Walk 3:29

278 The Normal - Warm Leatherette 3:23

279 Blancmange - Waves (Original 1983 7" Single Remix) 4:07

280 Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang 4:18

281 The Monroes - What Do All the People Know 3:30

282 Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This? 4:23

283 Howard Jones - What Is Love? 3:38

284 Sparks - When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" 4:37

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285 Soft Cell - Where the Heart Is (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:32

286 Devo - Whip It 2:38

287 China Crisis - Wishful Thinking 4:38

288 A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) 5:30

289 Black - Wonderful Life 4:45

290 Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 3:36

291 Scritti Politti - The Word Girl (Flesh & Blood) 4:23

292 Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (Original 1981 12" Special Version) 6:31

293 Fischer-Z - The Worker (1979 Mike Howlett 7" Single Remix) 3:32

294 Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes (Original 1990 7" Single Version) 3:57

295 The Lotus Eaters - You Don't Need Someone New (Original 1983 12" Extended Version) 5:05

296 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Original 1984 UK 7" Mix) 3:16

297 Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up (High Plains Mixer) (12" US Sound Remix) 8:27

298 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties 3:00

299 New Order - Your Silent Face 5:56

300 Ultravox - Vienna (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 4:39

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