Melody Club – “Destiny Calling”

It’s rock, it’s pop, and it could totally be 1984 … nobody does it better folks, here’s Melody Club‘s “Destiny Calling” from their album “Scream” (2006)

Europe, synthpop, and more Melody Club

It seems like a lot of artists that I’ve been checking out lately are European.  From Frankmusik (british) to Elegant Machinery (swedish) to Midnight Resistance (german), it looks like Europe is where it’s at when it comes to synthpop!  And most of it sounds so 80s!  So I’ve started putting locations together with the bands to kind of keep track of what scenes different styles are coming from, just for fun.  In the spirit of this, here’s another video from synthpop group Melody Club (’cause I like ‘em so damn much) and another from Universal Poplab (’cause they’re just too fun) (both bands are from sweden).

Maybe next week we can talk about some american bands like Passion Pit or Shiny Toy Guns…

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun… or do they?

Miley Cyrus – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun off her new album Breakout.

An interesting footnote about the album: the title track was co-written by The Go-Go’s Gina Schock

…or do they? Melody Club – Girls Don’t Always Wanna Have Fun off their new album Goodbye to Romance.

another interesting take on the song by Emilie Autumn

and of course, here’s the original Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper off her album She’s So Unusual (1984)

More Melody Club

I can’t help it, these guys are sooo 80s!

Melody Club… synthpop/rock from Sweden takes you back to the future!

Swedish synthpop band Melody Club takes a little more than a page from history, more like a whole chapter!  Melody Club is sooo retro 80s that it’s not even funny, it’s actually cool!  Each of their albums are full of very slick, well-crafted pop songs that get you movin’ to the beat and humming along.  Everything about this band makes me feel like I’ve just taken a ride in a DeLorean equipped with a flux capaciter, set the time to 1984, we’re going back, to the future!

Check out Melody Club’s youtube channel for more videos, there are videos that are even more 80s than this, The Only Ones is from their new album Goodby to Romance.