I grew up with the creative, innovative music of Thompson Twins, OMD, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Alphaville, etc.
Then suddenly the mainstream music industry decided that synthpop was no longer a viable musical genre. Painful-sounding musical styles became the new thing. I thought beautiful, intelligent music was dead. I lost interest in music. Nothing was as good as what I had grown up with.
Only recently have I found that great music still exists, it's just gone underground. There is new music that's at least as good as the best of the 80s. Some of the best "new" synth-pop groups include Iris, Mesh, VNV Nation, Echo Image, And One (some of it), Beborn Beton, De/Vision, Endanger, Lavantgarde, Leiahdorus, Neuroactive, T.O.Y., Neuropa, and Wolfsheim.
