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The Album Years

#58 1982 (Part 2) Synth-Pop: Duran Duran, Gary Numan, Associates, Thomas Dolby & more

The Album Years

W!ZARD Studios

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4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Continuing our series on the year 1982, up for discussion this week are synth-pop albums, featuring Duran Duran's smash hit Rio, Thomas Dolby's debut masterwork The Golden Age of Wireless, Associates' Sulk, Gary Numan's I Assassin and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Disney Plus proudly presents Rivals.

0:03.2

Come to the Coswolds.

0:05.6

Based on the best-selling novel by Dame Jilly Cooper.

0:08.7

Sneaking around, lying, betrayal.

0:11.1

It's genius.

0:13.3

Starring David Tennant.

0:15.0

I'm going to destroy you.

0:16.8

You know you're dancing with the devil.

0:19.0

Everyone wants to get on top.

0:21.4

Game on.

0:22.3

Rivals.

0:23.1

A new original series now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.

0:27.0

18 plus subscription required T's and Cs apply. Tim, let's move on to another category, which kind of follows on and away from the field of production category, which is synthetic poppers,

1:01.9

which is not a designer drug for people into sadomasochism, but it is the name of a group of albums that are, I suppose, more about the technology we were talking about earlier, but more

1:07.3

about synthesizers rather than samplers. So in this category, we have a whole

1:11.7

generation of chart beating acts, chart beating acts. Some very big hitters in this category. Duran

1:19.2

Duran's Rio. Now, we talked about Roxy and how their obsession with glamour, sophistication, decadence.

1:26.2

And, of course, the new romantic movement, a kind of movement that bands like Durandaran

1:31.5

and Spandah, ballet was sort of lumped in with, is kind of reaching a peak.

1:36.6

And maybe this is the lightning rod.

1:39.9

This album is the lightning rod around which the whole scene kind of coalesces.

1:43.8

Rio, I just remember those fantastically decadent videos of them sort of lounging on yachts in the Bahamas with scantily clad supermodels around them.

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