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El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:40 pm

What Orwell wanted to warn us about.

What really happened.

BJ · Post by BJ » Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:37 pm

1984 was the last year the world knew tranquillity and freedom from disturbance.

Then I was born in 1985.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:46 pm

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:55 pm

1984. Frankie Goes To Hollywood had hits with Relax and Two Tribes while Propaganda had Dr Mabuse.

ZTT made everything else suddenly sound rubbish.

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:21 pm

Sinthesiser? Pfft.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:33 pm

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:38 pm

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:16 pm

Enough Video Unavailable links - put the names in the post at least!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:17 pm

sade and van hailing.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:18 pm

literally have no memory of anything pre 86 sorry.
probably 87 tbh, took a while for the brain to work again.

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:41 pm

It was a fine year.

Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines
U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Madonna - Like A Virgin
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

And I'm not proud, some terrific straight pop too:

Bananrama - Robert De Niro's Waiting
Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat
Philip Oakey and Georgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams

Drive by the Cars is now indelibly associated with Live Aid (and rightly so), but it was a regular slow dance song in 1984. But speaking of Live Aid, Band Aid was Christmas '84. Still love everything about both. I watched this mini documentary on VHS a lot.

PS - Midge Ure's autobiography is a good read. That man got around.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:42 pm

Appreciation of videos or instruments?

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:11 pm

I just watched Band Aid again. Every lead vocal a white man, but otherwise well done all. In the end credits I noticed one of the camera ops for the documentary was Roger Deakins.

Examigan wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:42 pm Appreciation of videos or instruments?

Apart from the 106, what were the other big releases of '84? I was gonna say the mixed blessing that was the DX7, but apparently that was '83. The Fairlight and Synclavier were long out, the PPG Wave features in the Band Aid video, that goes back to '81 in its first incarnation.

Also featuring briefly in the documentary was an Asteroids arcade game. That was '79.

So really I think '84 was a lot more notable for the music itself and pop culture than the instruments. Though I do love the 106.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:32 pm

Polyphonic instruments
Akai AX80
Crumar Bit One
E-mu Emulator II
Ensoniq Mirage
Kawai SX-240
Kurzweil K250
Linn Electronics Linn 9000
Oberheim Xpander
Rhodes Chroma Polaris
Roland GR-700
Roland Juno-106
Roland MKS-10
Roland MKS-80
Roland TR-909s
Sequential Circuits DrumTraks
Sequential Circuits Max
Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
Siel DK600
Teisco SX-240
Yamaha TX816

Monophonic instruments
BOSS HC-2 Hand Clapper
BOSS PC-2 Percussion Synthesizer
E-mu E-Drum
Oberheim Prommer
PPG KX5

Source: https://www.vintagesynth.com/synthfinde ... ax%5D=1984

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:47 pm

Nice. Of that little list, the Mirage and Emulator 2 were a big deal and there's some good expanders, but the big one that leaps out is the 909. 4 years later it was the only thing on the radio.

1984 Appreciation Thread