Soft Cell's debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is a seductive lure into sado pop. Frustration hits you with some bouncing synth lines and is fairly upbeat like most of the album. Tainted Love is brilliant. a classic slice of synth pop. Seedy films is pretty groovy with some nice saxophone and female vocals. Youth is good too with some pounding bass and monotone voice. Sex Dwarf is hilarious. a sadomasochism track filled with hilarity. its also the fastest paced song on the album. Entertain Me is good. Chips On My Shoulder is good and very uptempo and melodic. with some pulsating synth lines. perfect synth pop. Bedsitter is good too with the same sort of synth pop lines and grooves. Secret Life is grooving with some descending synth riffs. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye is a ballad and is probably the weakest track on the album. as a whole NSEC is a trip through synth pop and its a memorable trip aswell. 8/10
Simple Mind's album New Gold Dream is a passage of perfectly executed pop songs. Someone Somewhere in Summertime is a perfect pop song, with hooks and riffs on synth. the vocals are delayed. Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel is very funky with some nice riffs and hooks. Promised you a MIracle is good too with some ecstatic bass lines and synth hooks. Big Sleep opens with a synth riff and the vocals and band comes in and its very funky. Somebody up there likes you is an instrumental much like Bowie Low era. New Gold Dream opens with drum machine and synth and the vocals are brilliant. especially when the singer sings ''81-82-83-84'' its a punding relentless beat and its probably the best song on the album. Glittering Prize is the closest they come to a mainstream pop song and its propelled by the bass and drums with little synth hooks splatterred over it. Hunter and the Hunted is good with some nice strings added into the mix. King is white and in the crowd is the closest they come to their older stuff more post punk. this is simple mind's breakthrough album it serves to throw them into the forefront of what was 80's new pop. 8/10
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