UMT 2012: Genre #32 - Synth Pop

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UMT 2012: Genre #32 - Synth Pop

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For the FINAL provisional round, rank your top 5 artists from 1-5. The top 8 artists will advance to the next round. Here are the 32 artists in the next genre.... Synth Pop. Enjoy!

A Flock Of Seagulls
ABC
Cut Copy
Depeche Mode
Erasure
Eurythmics
Falco
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Franz Ferdinand
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Heaven 17
Information Society
Kylie Minogue
Missing Persons
New Order
OMD
Pet Shop Boys
Phoenix
Shiny Toy Guns
Soft Cell
Talk Talk
The Associates
The Bravery
The Buggles
The Human League
The Killers
Thomas Dolby
Ultravox
Wham!
When In Rome
Yazoo
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1. Depeche Mode
2. New Order
3. The Killers
4. Franz Ferdinand
5. OMD
** Cut Copy
** Eurythmics
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1. New Order
2. Franz Ferdinand (synth pop??)
3. Depeche Mode
4. Cut Copy
5. Pet Shop Boys

Phoenix and The Killers would be a very close 6 and 7.
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1. The Human League
2. New Order
3. Goldfrapp
4. Depeche Mode
5. ABC
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1. Depeche Mode
2. New Order
3. Franz Ferdinand
4. Eurythmics
5. Gary Numan
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1.New Order
2.Pet Shop Boys
3.Eurythmics
4.Depeche Mode
5.Human League
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Hot damn is this an awesome group. I'm ranking them all again. At least 15 of these are probably in my top 100 artists of all time. The only ones I don't care for are the bottom 5.

1. Eurythmics
2. Kylie Minogue
3. New Order
4. Depeche Mode
5. The Human League
6. Gary Numan
7. Franz Ferdinand
8. Yazoo
9. The Associates
10. Erasure
11. Heaven 17
12. OMD
13. Soft Cell
14. Missing Persons
15. Thomas Dolby
16. Pet Shop Boys
17. A Flock Of Seagulls
18. Goldfrapp
19. Talk Talk
20. Frankie Goes To Hollywood
21. Ultravox!
22. Information Society
23. The Buggles
24. Falco
25. ABC
26. When In Rome
27. Cut Copy
28. Wham!
29. Phoenix
30. Shiny Toy Guns
31. The Bravery
32. The Killers
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1. New Order
2. Thomas Dolby
3. Eurythmics
4. Pet Shop Boys
5. The Killers

6. Depeche Mode
7. Erasure
8. Human League
9. Franz Ferdinand
10. Soft Cell
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Talk Talk
The Associates
ABC
The Human League
New Order
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1. New Order
2. Depeche Mode
3. Talk Talk
4. Goldfrapp
5. Soft Cell
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1. Depeche Mode
2. New Order
3. Pet Shop Boys
4. Franz Ferdinand
5. The Human League
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1. Depeche Mode
2. Pet Shop Boys
3. Talk Talk
4. New Order
5. The Killers
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1. Talk Talk
2. Goldfrapp
3. Cut Copy
4. Depeche Mode
5. Franz Ferdinand
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1. Talk Talk
2. New Order
3. Depeche Mode
4. Pet Shop Boys
5. Kylie Minogue
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1. Phoenix
2. New Order
3. Franz Ferdinand
4. Pet Shop Boys
5. Eurythmics
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1)New Order
2)Talk Talk
3)Franz Ferdinand
4)Depeche Mode
5)The Human League
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Yeah I don't really list Franz Ferdinand among "synth pop" either.

Here's my 5:

1) Depeche Mode
2) Soft Cell
3) Pet Shop Boys
4) Eurythmics
5) Erasure
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1. Gary Numan (& Tubeway Army?)
2. Talk Talk
3. New Order
4. Franz Ferdinand
5. Phoenix

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1. Depeche Mode
2. Pet Shop Boys
3. Eurythmics
4. New Order
5. Talk Talk
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1. Depeche Mode
2. New Order
3. Eurythmics
4. Gary Numan
5. Phoenix
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1. Pet Shop Boys
2. Soft Cell
3. Kylie Minogue
4. Depeche Mode
5. New Order
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1. New Order
2. Franz Ferdinand
3. ABC
4. Depeche Mode
5. Eurythmics
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I missed Talk Talk, please slide in Talk Talk at #4 and remove Phoenix from my list. Thanks.
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RESULTS... (41) voters...

135 - Depeche Mode
106 - New Order
48 - Pet Shop Boys
45 - The Killers
43 - Franz Ferdinand
37 - Talk Talk
36 - Eurythmics
20 - The Human League
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17 - Phoenix
14 - Wham!
12 - Soft Cell
11 - Erasure
10 - Goldfrapp
9 - Thomas Dolby
8 - ABC, Gary Numan, Kylie Minogue, OMD, Shiny Toy Guns
7 - Missing Persons
6 - A Flock Of Seagulls, The Associates
5 - Cut Copy
2 - The Bravery, When In Rome, Yaz
1 - Falco, Information Society, Ultravox
0 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Heaven 17, The Buggles
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Others...
1. Depeche Mode 2. New Order 3. Eurythmics 4. Yaz 5. Wham
1. Depeche Mode 2. New Order 3. Eurythmics 4. Erasure 5. Talk Talk
Depeche mode, killers, franz Ferdinand, Phoenix, Omd
1. Depeche Mode 2. New Order 3. The Killers 4. A Flock Of Seagulls 5. Soft Cell
Depeche New Order Pet Shop Boys Killers Bravery
1. Thomas Dolby 2. Depeche Mode 3. Missing Persons 4. Franz Ferdinand 5. The Killers
1. Depeche Mode 2. Killers 3. Eurythmics 4. Soft Cell 5. Wham!
1. depeche mode. 2. new order. 3. pet shop boys. 4. eurythmics. 5. abc
WHAM!, THE KILLERS, SHINY TOY GUNS, DEPECHE MODE, FRANZ FERDINAND
Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode, Shiny Toy Guns, The Killers, Wham!
The killers - Phoenix - Franz Ferdinand - Wham! - The Bravery
1. OMD. 2. DePeche Mode. 3. A Flock Of Seagulls. 4. The Killers. 5. Information Society.
1. The Killers 2. Depeche Mode 3. Pet Shop Boys 4. The Human League 5. Falco
Depeche mode, new order, petshop boys, erasure ,eurythmics
Depeche Mode, Missing Persons, New Order, The Human League, Franz Ferdinand
Killers, wham!, DM, When in Rome, Flock
Depeche mode, new order, erasure, pet shop boys, omd
1. New Order 2. Pet Shop Boys 3. Erasure 4. Depeche Mode 5. Eurytmics
-Phoenix -Franz Ferdinand -The Killers -Shiny Toy Guns -Goldfrapp
1.) The Human League 2.) Talk Talk 3.) Depeche Mode 4.) The Associates 5.) Ultravox
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Too late - but here's my picks anyway.

1. New Order
2. Franz Ferdinand
3. Phoenix
4. Goldfrapp
5. Depeche Mode
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Would vote for The Killers in an "alternative" category..but not in synth pop...hence they didn't get a vote from me.

I tend to consider it synth pop only when the keyboards/electronics are the predominant instrument and I don't think that's the case with Flowers and company...
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