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When Synth-Pop Went Silly

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Greg shares a song by an 80s synth-pop band that set themselves apart with their great sense of humor.

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0:00.0

I tell you little buddy, this whole island is bewitched.

0:04.0

Just to cost away, island lost a sea, oh.

0:09.0

Now I'm stranded on my own.

0:14.0

Sandy, far from home.

0:19.0

You remember, we were shipwrecked together.

0:23.5

Sandy, I'm a bonus episode of Sound Opinions.

0:29.3

I'm Jim D. Regattus.

0:30.5

That guy over there is Greg Cott.

0:32.7

And if you want to be the first to hear our bonus podcast, become a sound opinions member on Patreon, like Patrick

0:40.0

Daniel, from Richmond, California. Thanks for your support, Patrick. Love California. How are you

0:46.2

guys holding up out there? I hope you're not by any fires. Greg and I have a loving desire to

0:53.2

continue adding songs to the desert island jukebox.

0:56.5

It's one of our favorite things.

0:57.8

It's why we have this bonus podcast.

1:00.2

Songs we can't live without, at least at this moment on this day.

1:04.8

Give us a slight hint, Mr. Kot, of what you're going to lay on us.

1:08.2

Well, Jim, I'm going to go back to the Halcyon days of Chicago in the 1990s when there was all sorts

1:14.4

of creative projects going on throughout the Chicago music scene.

1:19.3

This group made only one album and then sort of disappeared.

1:24.0

And I want to go back to that disappearing group.

1:26.9

Well, we were busier as journalists and critics in that era than we've ever been.

1:32.0

It was like every night, you know, there was going to be some debut of a record that would soon be on top of the charts or changing the culture.

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