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When it comes 2 synth-pop music Scotland had the best, most melodic (AND most underrated as well) synth-pop bands ever.

4 bands, that never had the chance they deserved 2 make it big…just only a few minor hits during the 80s, and nothing more beyond that….. perhaps with the exception of “Feels Like Heaven” by Fiction Factory which was a known 80s hit.

Difficult 2 choose 1 of those albums though…but I’d go with Fiction Factory’s “Throw The Warped Wheel Out”. It had many songs that I liked including “Ghost Of Love”, “Hanging Gardens Of Babylon” , “Hit The Mark” or the title track basically

Midge Ure is the genius behind Ultravox and Visage, and he was also a member of Thin Lizzy. He’s also co-organized the famous Live Aid concert along with Bob Geldof, from Boomtown Rats.

He had a somewhat successful solo career, scoring a UK #1 hit, called “If I Was”

Although studio-project Visage were not a Scottish group (lead singer Steve Strange was Welsh)…it was a super-group somehow, but Midge Ure was one of the core members so that’s y they’re included in this poll.

Anyway, my favorite would be “The Anvil” from this list…. although it wasn’t as successful as their debut, but the production was much more “polished” and the sound of it was “tighter” somehow.

My favorite songs from this record would be “Again We Love” and “Wild Life”

Oh well now, let’s go 4 the Scottish bands. The land of the best bands basically

(Yeah so many gr8 artists come from this land)

Let’s begin with 2 indie pop bands of that era, Aztec Camera and Orange Juice. Aztec Camera had a bunch of hits during the 80s, and their biggest hit was “Somewhere In My Heart”, whilst Orange Juice had only 1 hit during the 80s called “Rip It Up” which was a synth-funk song basically, and not very similar in the style of most of their songs…Orange Juice’s singer Edwyn Collins would score a big hit again in the mid-90s with his song “A Girl Like You"

My personal fav would be “Love” by AC among the list,.. it was actually different than their first 2 albums, closer 2 the pop/blue-eyed soul style similar with bands like Breathe or Brother Beyond. “Working In A Goldmine” gotta b my fav song of the album.,.. and of course the classic “Somewhere In My Heart”

https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=e9PldrFGnNU

All of them were Irish pop-rock bands active during the late 80s and had some moderate success around their area basically

Interestingly though Hothouse Flowers managed to achieve some success in America as well with their songs “Don’t Go” and “I’m sorry” both charting at a good spot in both US modern rock/mainstream rock charts

(“Don’t go” reached #7 and #16 in US modern rock/mainstream rock charts respectively,and “I’m Sorry” reached #12 and #23)

And The Adventures’ song “Broken Land” was the most played song on BBC Radio 1 in 1988 basically

Although there were some differences according to musical styles within each band,but all of them were branded as “pop-rock”

The Adventures were closer to the post-punk/new wave sound especially in their first album “Theodore and Friends”

Cry Before Dawn were more “alternative rock”

Hothouse Flowers had soul influences (that explains their success in America probably)

and In Tua Nua had more Irish Folk influences.



My personal favorite would be “The Sea Of Love” by The Adventures basically….besides their hit “Broken Land” this album had some other nice ballads like “Drowning In The Sea Of Love” or “Heaven Knows Which Way”

Also their other album “Theodore And Friends”



https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=s2vUUPedwiA



https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=_GYCvS_2CL4

Chris De Burgh is probably the most popular solo Irish artist during the 80s basically…..mostly known 4 his song “Lady In Red”…and his unibrow as well :-P

Released many albums during his 40 year old career but his 80s albums were the most successful basically.

My personal favorite would be “Man On The Line” because it’s more new-wave-ish with songs like “I Love The Night” and “High On Emotion”

https://musicmp3.ru/artist_chris-de-burgh.html

Now we’ll examine some more interesting bands basically…yet unknown to public.

Young Marble Giants were an experimental band active in the early 80s realising only one LP though called “Colossal Youth” This album would be considered somewhat an album with Brian Eno’s signature effects,without Brian Eno on the production…a really good effort basically.

After a few years the band members splitted and formed 2 separate bands…The Gist and Weekend

Gist’s album “Embrace The Herd” was similar in style with YMG’s “Collosal Youth”,and i might say even better since it included a nice pop song within called “Love at First Sight”

The other band was called Weekend which later became “Working Week” scoring a minor hit in UK called “Venceramos We Will Win” basically


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