What Was The First Synth / Electronic Track You Remember Hearing?

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:30 pm

Not sure if there was one of these threads before..

I've always thought it was Blue Monday by New Order was the first electronic tune I heard. Guess it was pure 4/4 anyway. Used to love how it progressed as a kid. Still do.

However I was forced into watching Xmas music videos for several hours the other day.. & remembered Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime. Such a pretty abstract Xmas tune tbf!!

I recalled PMCC's Coming Up & Temporary Secretary a while back too. Both have synths.

Also remember Kraftwerk The Model.. and loved Falco's Amadeus. Pure cheese. Heard it years later at a club some friends ran & it wasn't controversial at all. People loved it. Can't remember if it was in English or German when it was in the charts.

youtu.be/ieEvOvdr2Fg

youtu.be/hdCH7ZewAfY

youtu.be/V9BZDpni56Y

youtu.be/7km8iVCWyhM

youtu.be/KFq2pU21cNU

youtu.be/FYH8DsU2WCk

borg · Post by **borg** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 2:37 pm

being born in 1972, there is no contender really... 1977

youtu.be/Nm-ISatLDG0

even better, but not as old

youtu.be/9EDzPtHO8BI

My very very first recollection (at the age of two) of this feeling "fuck yeah! MUSIC!!!" was Dynamite by Mud, no synths though.

That Temporary Secretary track is amazing, isn't it. That arp synth seems just perfect!

Barfunkel · Post by **Barfunkel** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:30 pm

How electronic a track it needs to be? I mean, synths have been on pop music for a long time.

SigEnt · Post by **SigEnt** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:42 pm

I'd love to be cool and say New Order or Kraftwerk but as a kid I remember loving the "synth bits" in music.

My very earliest musical memory is hearing this in the kitchen a house we lived in up until I was about 4-5. (pity it was Phil fuckin' Collins)

please forgive me a I would have been a toddler.

youtu.be/h9zj11gf9Qk (the bit at 2.23 for those that don't have the stomach to endure the full track)

Another is this, which my mum bought me on 7" and taught me how to use the record player - I remember hearing it loud in a local fairground - the synth sounded so powerful.

youtu.be/mA3oRP-qmcM

As got a little older I got into taping Depeche mode and New order songs from the top 40 - and well anything that had a synth in it that didn't have vocals that were too sappy

Barfunkel · Post by **Barfunkel** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:49 pm

I fuckin' love Phil Collins.

SigEnt · Post by **SigEnt** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:04 pm

Barfunkel wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:49 pm
I fuckin' love Phil Collins.

Phil fuckin' Collins.

He should be imprisoned for crimes against polo shirts..

I present to you - exhibit A

youtu.be/kLRy_RkoTKA

Post by **Mono-xID** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:33 pm

I hope this counts.

youtu.be/svajy2bPhGc

Pelecaras · Post by **Pelecaras** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:10 pm

long time ago but I reckon it was this belter

youtu.be/hRJFvtvTGEk

Post by **jordanneke** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:24 pm

Madonna - Material Girl.

From my parents white clock radio with a red digital display (the most 80's thing ever).

I was very confused. I assumed she was literally made of material, like a rag doll. I hate that song.

Post by **jordanneke** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:24 pm

SigEnt wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:04 pm

Barfunkel wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:49 pm
I fuckin' love Phil Collins.
Phil fuckin' Collins.

He should be imprisoned for crimes against polo shirts..

I present to you - exhibit A

youtu.be/kLRy_RkoTKA

Fucking phil collins.

Amøbe · Post by **Amøbe** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:41 pm

erm...

youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A

Post by **jordanneke** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:46 pm

Amøbe wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:41 pm
erm...

youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A

No fuckin way. That came out in 94/95. Jesus.

Well, Whigfield is 1 million times better.

Amøbe · Post by **Amøbe** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:50 pm

jordanneke wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:46 pm

Amøbe wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:41 pm
erm...

youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A
No fuckin way. That came out in 94/95. Jesus.

Well, Whigfield is 1 million times better.

I was born in 91 - the first "grownup" music I remember is Oasis and Aqua

Post by **Mono-xID** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:54 pm

Philling Fuck Collins

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:27 pm

borg wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 2:37 pm
being born in 1972, there is no contender really... 1977

youtu.be/Nm-ISatLDG0

even better, but not as old

youtu.be/9EDzPtHO8BI

My very very first recollection (at the age of two) of this feeling "fuck yeah! MUSIC!!!" was Dynamite by Mud, no synths though.

That Temporary Secretary track is amazing, isn't it. That arp synth seems just perfect!

Always thought that Donna Summer track ace.. then I found out it was No1 in 1977 when I was born

Never heard that Yello track before. Very cool. I can hear how it influenced other electro tracks I've encountered. Really must check them out. Know very little about them, apart from oh Yeah.

PMMC TS - perfect Arp line. Love it. Kinda sounds like old 70s computers, busy computing fx

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:29 pm

Barfunkel wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:30 pm
How electronic a track it needs to be? I mean, synths have been on pop music for a long time.

You won't be punished if you misunderstand, bend or break the rulez. Go wild

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:37 pm

SigEnt wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:42 pm
I'd love to be cool and say New Order or Kraftwerk but as a kid I remember loving the "synth bits" in music.

My very earliest musical memory is hearing this in the kitchen a house we lived in up until I was about 4-5. (pity it was Phil fuckin' Collins) please forgive me a I would have been a toddler.

youtu.be/h9zj11gf9Qk (the bit at 2.23 for those that don't have the stomach to endure the full track)

Another is this, which my mum bought me on 7" and taught me how to use the record player - I remember hearing it loud in a local fairground - the synth sounded so powerful.

youtu.be/mA3oRP-qmcM

As got a little older I got into taping Depeche mode and New order songs from the top 40 - and well anything that had a synth in it that didn't have vocals that were too sappy

Bought a PC best of CD for a 5er a few years back. Has never left the car. Mega tunes. Great production & sounds.

Ah.. that other tune reminds me of Axl F Beverley Hills Cop theme.. long before cRaZY Frog butchered it. God. Had that theme on a complication CD & felt like the luckiest guy in the world to have it in my collection.

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:40 pm

Pelecaras wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:10 pm
long time ago but I reckon it was this belter

youtu.be/hRJFvtvTGEk

Yeah yeah.. totally remember that blasting out of the radio!!

Post by **Críoch** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:42 pm

Mono-xID wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:33 pm
I hope this counts.

youtu.be/svajy2bPhGc

Never consciously heard that.. but really sounds familiar

Revaron · Post by **Revaron** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:52 pm

Having grown up in Detroit in the 80s I'd love to say Cybotron or similar, but I'd be lying, instead my cub scout leader was into new wave synth pop stuff and when we went on outings we listened to it in his van. This was the first music I can recall as being definitely not like the rest and I wanted to know why and was told synthesisers. Some of the obvious ones that I can remember from his tapes were Visage - Fade to Gray and Devo - Whip It, but here's a pretty well forgotten period nugget that I can still clearly remember trying to make sense of to this day:

youtu.be/OG3PnQ3tgzY

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