The Strangler’s “Golden Brown” and Frank Musik’s “When You’re Around”

The Strangler’s song “Golden Brown,” originally released on their album “La Folie” in 1981 and later featured in Guy Ritchie’s film “Snatch” in 2000.

… and Frank Musik‘s “When You’re Around” from his album “Complete Me” – 2009

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…

Frankmusik

I was checkin out other blogs looking for new bands and came across this gem, Frankmusik.  I found Frankmusik on a post on The New Wave Diva, who credits a Mr. Billy Suede for turning her on to this great little British pop artist.  Check out this video for the song “3 Little Words” off of his debut album “Complete Me.”  Very 80s and very fun!!  The video for “3 Little Words” reminds me of a scene from the 80s movie “Big” with Tom Hanks where he is dancing on the giant keyboard.  Frankmusik has also remixed material from other artists such as Lady GaGa and the Pet Shop Boys.

Here’s a couple more pure pop fun vids from Frankmusik, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hXlOh9Ro0