Great synthesizers use in a song

[stormgol]

ukrainian artist vitalij kuprij on keyboards. probably the most incendiary keyboard guitar shredfest in the history of mankind. greg howe on guitars.

 

[stormgol]

solo project of children of bodom keyboard player, janne wirman. from finland.

 

[spackard]

Well, I liked Steve Roach before he moved to AZ and started making deep bass syn. You probably think it's simplistic by today's standards but Cloud Motion was good in its day.


Tim Story, a Los Angeles composer from the '90's, here at Ambicon 2013


Roger & Brian Eno – Slow Movement: Sand


Then, for a really bizarre song, warm leatherette by The Normal

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

 

[y_p_w]

I became of age in the 80s, so I'm kind of partial to the golden age of synth music, when they started transitioning from analog equipment to digital



Also - what represented synths in the 80s better than Miami Vice and Top Gun? It was a lot of electric guitar and piano, but that the drum programming and synth is what really makes it tick.

 

[BigGeo]

Another Eno influence:

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

I became of age in the 80s, so I'm kind of partial to the golden age of synth music, when they started transitioning from analog equipment to digital



Also - what represented synths in the 80s better than Miami Vice and Top Gun? It was a lot of electric guitar and piano, but that the drum programming and synth is what really makes it tick.

Yes!!!!!!

 

[KneeGrinder]

Way back when, it was Led Zeplin, "No Quarter"

 

[PF52]

My favorite on that album is "The Analog Kid", specifically for the keyboard part that runs through the guitar solo.

Then one day I saw a video of them playing it live.... Geddy was playing bass so the keyboard part was done with pedals. I remember it being somewhat of a letdown but it's still cool.

 

[Pablo]

The whole enchilada. Before synthesized drums became lazy.



EDIT TO ADD: "Tarkus" is a great song, (at 15 Min) just not a great synthesizer song. A really under appreciated song, IMHO. Genius lyrics, IMHO. I didn't really appreciate it when I was 15.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/emersonlakepalmer/tarkus.html

 

[DwightFrye]

Some might remember that the first ARP 2600 synthesizer was introduced in 1971 it was the first to place a keyboard on cable not in a console. It was used to gteat effect by Edgar Winter in ”Frankenstein” who found a way to extend the cables. Nobody, I mean nobody was doing that in 1973. He was the first.

Interesting that you mention that. I saw Edgar Winter in concert in 1973 when Frankenstein was on the charts. When he played that song he disconnected the keyboard from the stand and had it supported by a strap around his neck. They must have coated the keys and his hands with black light paint, as all the stage lighting was turned off except for a bunch of black light fixtures and as Edgar strutted around the stage all you could see was his long white hair, his hands and the keyboard glowing. Very memorable.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I have a rs "mini-moog" collecting dust in the closet.

let's start with the master and then work up to pop; In the style of Walter Carlos of the late sixties:

 

[ARCOgraphite]

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Unrelenting, menacing Synth Dance Pop.
The Brillaint Dave Stewart and incredible Annie Lennox

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Gotta have some Kraftwerk. This tune is catchy. Great to play whilst doing chores.
Way back in the 70's!

 

[Oily_Thing]

Boston "Foreplay"

 

[ARCOgraphite]

oNe more and Ill stop hogging this thread Yes I am a child of the eighties.

 

[aquariuscsm]

oNe more and Ill stop hogging this thread Yes I am a child of the eighties.

They had some great songs! Hold Me Now and Lies.

 

[Scuder]

Kind of a one hit wonder, but along with "Lucky Man," this song got a lot of airplay on FM rock stations in my teen years. Pretty good synth solo in the middle of the song.

 

[CB22]

Pretty much anything from YELLO