It's about time!!!!!! This is My Favorite Female singer. I been Begging, pleading for you to react to Allison Moyet since the first time I subscribed to you Channel.!!!!!You need to Invisible and Love Resurrection. This is my girl😘 I have wonderful memories of dancing to Yazoo and Her solo work.
Adele does not have that high octave vocals that Alison has if you listen to both singers Adele sounds of screaming into her vocals which is off putting
@@HalfWomanHalfHobNob If Alison Moyet a 1000 times better singer than Adele what is Kate Bush? A bush kangaroo with lady's slippers ? Is Bob Dylan 1,5 Mio better than Bruce Sprinsteen? Music is not a competition, music is creativity temperament, love, emotion etc.
@@susannewitt6112 who said anything about Kate Bush? Or Springsteen or Dylan for that matter? The comparison was between Adele and AM. Go give your head a wobble!
Alison Moyet had a fantastic voice. It's a shame that the music industry is more focused on looks and image than talent. All of the music is electronic and composed by Vince Clarke, the guy at the synthesiser, who was an original member of Depeche Mode.
Exactly. Acts like Madonna really made people focus on looks/sex rather than talent. MTV certainly pushed this too as the music video became more important than the music.
Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke were known as Yazoo in Europe and Yaz in the U.S. Their biggest hit was Only You which is more of a ballad, but they also had other dance hits with Situation and State Farm. Vince helped start the band Depeche Mode (which is still around and was inducted into Rock Hall of Fame in 2020,) before leaving after 1 album and creating Yaz/Yazoo. They broke up after 2 albums, and Vince formed a group called The Assembly but they didn't make an album they only made a single called Never Never and a "B-Side" called Stop/Start. Then he formed Erasure (which is still around) with Andy Bell who sounds a lot like Alison. When Adele first became known, many compared her to Alison. ~Be Blessed
@@baylessnow There was a band in the US known as Yazoo so they had to go by Yaz here. There was a singer in the UK in the mid 80s named Yasmin Evans who was known as Yazz, not Yaz.
I just learned so much from you. Never knew Vince Clarke was in Depeche Mode. Never understood why I knew this band as Yaz but it shows up as Yazoo on UA-cam. I did know about Erasure but it never clicked that Andy sounds like Alison. It’s true! Thanks for the history lesson!
@@aliwantizu One z missing, so don't be such a pedant'. Yazz and the Plastic Population to be totally accurate. You obviously knew who I was talking about.
Kinda? I mean, that's definitely a synthesizer and *not* a piano. But this was 1982 and the kind of synths they were using had very (wonderfully) limited capabilities and could really only sound like synthesizers. It was within the next few years that digital synthesis and sampling technology became affordable enough for acts like this to use synthesizers to "make any sound you want". But... they could make badass synth, drum machine, and bass sounds, and pretty much anything Vince Clarke has made with any band (Depeche Mode, 1981; Yazoo, 1982-83; Erasure, 1985-present) .
Vincent Clarke was the guy on synth here ...he was the master ...he was in depeche mode and left to form yazoo with Alison moyet here...on the same label I believe..mute records.
@Bobbo Robbo The synthesizer he has here can only play one note at a time. The song as a whole probably features 5 or 6 synthesizer parts and a drum machine
Vince Clarke is the original main songwriter of Depeche Mode - he left after the first album and formed Yazoo. When Alison Moyet decided she wanted to sing a different style of music he recruited Andy Bell who has a similar style of voice to her and formed Erasure. You chould check out Oh L'Amour by Erasure or their hilarious cover of ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me", try Alison Moyet's "All Cried Out" to see what direction she went and "Just Cant Get Enough" by Depeche Mode to see where it started.
Two other dance hits from them from this same year (1982) are "Situation" and "Bring Your Love Down." They also had a hit with a slower song called "Only You."
The guy is called Vince Clark and he is playing a keyboard that is actually a synthesizer (probably a Roland).Synthesizers are very pricey as the electronic format or as previously analog format is very involving. A top synthesizer make is Moog a USA brand . The band was short lived , making two albums , both of them required listening. Both artists went on their seperate ways, Clarke later went onto form Erasure a sucessful 80s/ 90s band and Alison Moyet went onto a successful solo career. Both artists albums are also worth listening too. Yazoo is in my opinion one of the defining bands of the early 80s.
Like Screamin' Jay Hawkins from the 50s, the inventor of shock rock, writer ad original performer of I Put A Spell On You. He didn't choose though, being black meant there was little choice for him.
Dude. Read "Early life" on this Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Moyet There was an episode about this song on the swedish TV show "Hit song history" ( Hitlåtens historia ) and there wasn't a single mention about any opera singer trainging. I don't doubt she could have been succesful there too. But she comes from a totally different place.
@@cherylbohlender7341 They just dont know about instruments. Plenty of keyboards and synthesizers are being released every year!! Nothing to do with being old!!
Be good if you heard her sing All Cried Out, and That Ole Devil Called Love.And from 2016, her singing Only You live at the Burberry Womenswear show. An amazing voice. Shivers
The female vocalist is called Alison Moyet and the synth player is Vince Clarke (playing a Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer - www.vintagesynth.com/sci/seqpro1.php). They formed Yazoo (also called Yaz in USA/Canada) in 1982 and had a few other hits, 'Only You', 'Situation' and 'Nobody's Diary', but then split in 1983. Alison went solo and had a few hits throughout the mid 80s and is still going now. Vince started off as main songwriter with Depeche Mode, penning their first 3 singles: 'Dreaming of Me', 'New Life' and 'Just Can't Get Enough' and their first album 'Speak and Spell' and then left shortly after to form Yazoo with Alsion Moyet. After Yazoo, Clarke went on to form a brief band called The Assembly with Eric Radcliffe (who was a Sound Engineer by trade) and recruited Feargal Sharkey, ex vocalist of the punk band The Undertones (with their standout track 'Teenage Kicks'......a must listen if you get the chance too) to sing on their only single 'Never Never' (another 'must listen to' track). That band lasted just a few months, before he teamed up with Andy Bell in 1985 to form Erasure, who had numerous hits throughout the 80s and 90s (look them up, as they have loads of good tracks for you to listen too) and both are still going strong now still as Erasure.Vince is a synthesizer king and has a massive synthesizer collection at hishome in Brooklyn - sonicscoop.com/2013/03/24/icons-inside-vince-clarkes-synth-kingdom-in-brooklyn/ :-)
Alison Moyet is one of the best vocalists I've ever heard. Amazing range and power. Listen to some of her solo stuff. Outstanding singer. In the same class as Freddie Mercury and George Michael, to my mind at least.
yes all those sounds were coming out of his synth , in the 80s the synthesizer came out and or became more mainstream (available to the public) and thats why all that great music came out of the 80s , because all the musicians were in awe of this new instrument , and they all took advantage of it and made great music
Vince Clarke on keyboard & singer Allison Moyet, it was called Electro Pop. Allison does have a deep unique voice, but she is female, that's pretty much how a lot of us dressed and did our make up in the 80's, mine was lol. Songs to check out are Nobody's Diary, Midnight, Bring Your Love Down (didn't I), Good Times & Only You. 😎👌
"I didn't expect no deep voice like that..." oh buddy you wait. PS. Boy/Girl. Just labels. It's not important, not really. Alf had and still has one of the best voices in music, ever!
The Piano is a Sequential Circuits Pro-One monophonic analog synthesizer ... and might I say ... one of the the best and coolest vintage-synths available. And it's actually Vince Clarke's all-time favorite synth. Stay safe. Love you guys
The instrument used was a synthesizer. When this song hit in the US, it was a dance-floor filler, but a lot of people hearing it first on the radio thought it was a man singing.
This is called synth wave music. The synthesizer can make almost an infinite amount of sounds. The synth player is the player from Depeche Mode. You can check that band out next.
Vince Clarke, one of the most influential people in 80's music. He is using a synthesiser (a computer based keyboard that has pre-programmed 'sounds'). In fact, this style of music is known as synth-pop. It's not really Alison's style, she was forced to do this by the contract the record company put together. Still, she proved that she was more than capable of being the queen of the 80's.
Y'all are cute. That's *not* a piano - or an electric piano. It's a synthesizer (or a "synth"), which takes "electric" a step further, toward "electronic". And yes, that's how all the sounds in this song are made. Not just with that particular synth, but a couple of others, and through programming the synth lines and drum patterns using a MIDI sequencer. This style of music was called "Synthpop" and was a signature 80s sound that mostly came from the tail end of the UK Punk explosion, as that rebellion found a new outlet in making unorthodox and experimental Pop instead of aggressive Rock. Acts like Depeche Mode, The Human League, OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), Erasure, New Order, Naked Eyes, Ultravox, Sparks, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, (early) Eurythmics, Soft Cell, and many others had tons of UK hits and at least one major hit apiece in the US, and with many of those acts being duos made up of a singer and a synth player. Synths were also a huge part of R&B at this point in the late 70s, early-80s, as well. While their use was often a bit different, the UK Synthpop/New Wave approach and US R&B/Electrofunk approach influenced each other back and forth and influenced Pop in a major way so that by the mid-80s, most popular music (including Rock, Country, Jazz, and Easy Listening) featured synthesizers and elements of New Wave and Electrofunk.
Alison Moyet is a rare Contralto pop singer. Cher is kinda like that too. One of the best concerts I ever went to was Alison Moyet a few years ago. Very talented songwriter. You should watch "Is This Love?" her most known hit. Fun video. Synthesizers were basically digital mixer/samplers with a piano keyboard attached. Based on MIDI technology you could actually use any instrument as your control interface but the keyboard was easiest. But once computers got good enough the synth became obsolete. Now you can do all this sampling/mixing/playing on your home computer.
Vincent Clark, guy on synth; he's a synth legend in UK he's been a part or Yazoo/Depeche Mode/Erasure. Alison Moyet she was possibly the Adele of the 80s, just one of those voices you know who it is as soon as you hear.
The album this is from, "Upstairs At Eric's", was one the THE classic New Wave albums from this year (and '82 had a LOT of great new wave albums). If you've ever watched the show "Once Upon A Time", one of the main characters adopted another track from this album, "Only You", as his "theme song."
Child in the 80s and teen in the 90s.....dancing, cheerleading and gymnastics routine music.....raised on synth pop/new wave and yes once of age and in the clubs (MIA & NYC) dancing to this and alike tracks as an adult......nothing matches that feeling 💃🏾 non stop dancing until the club lights come on....then the after parties ..... and ending with food at Denny’s or Sergio’s To then crash, wake up, shower and repeat 😎 no better time in life ☝🏾 Alison & Vince 🙌🏾🤩🥸🤩😎🔥💃🏾
It's a korg synth,and the man playing it is Vincent Clark who is a fantastic synth artist,his other bands were depech mode,and also erasure,check out yazoo situation.
As others have said, Alison Moyet has a great voice, very distinct and powerful. Situation and Nobody's Diary were other great hits from Yazoo (who were known as Yaz in the US due to copyright issues), and you should check out Alison's solo work too, as she had some great hits of her own. Keyboardist Vince Clarke, who went on to be a member of Erasure after Yazoo split, does some great work here too
React to 'All Cried Out' next please? Alison Moyet is in my top three favourite female singers - honestly, one of the few who could sing jazz and I would listen to it!!! I love your reactions by the way - they are so genuine.
Electric piano? :) You mean a synth? Synthesizer... or a "keyboard". Can make all sorts of sounds that you record or program into them and then you can play it back by hitting keys like on a regular piano. They more or less had those in all 80's songs. Dont think they are that uncommon now either...
Great song,epic synth song from the early 1980s by an english synthband,many of the best ones came from England,in this case,Yazoo,one of the best ones together with groups like Depesche Mode. 1980s were the golden era for this type of music.......but a pity that you guys didnt do a reaction on the music video to this song,that would have got this reaction a dimension because its a fun video and I think you would have enjoyed that quite abit...Concerning what he is playing on,its a synthesizer..a syntheziser is a versatile..
SHE THIS WAS SHOCKING!!!
It's about time!!!!!! This is My Favorite Female singer. I been Begging, pleading for you to react to Allison Moyet since the first time I subscribed to you Channel.!!!!!You need to Invisible and Love Resurrection. This is my girl😘 I have wonderful memories of dancing to Yazoo and Her solo work.
Allison moyet, 80's female music legend. She has a deep voice but she is very much female artist.
synthesiser
@@tigerback62 love resurrection is my favourite Alf song of all time. And All cried out.
@@markchisnall4535 me too!
Alison moyet was the adele of the 80s brilliant beautiful voice
Only about 1000 times better singer.
Adele does not have that high octave vocals that Alison has if you listen to both singers Adele sounds of screaming into her vocals which is off putting
@@TheGoody71 funny you say that actually
@@HalfWomanHalfHobNob If Alison Moyet a 1000 times better singer than Adele what is Kate Bush? A bush kangaroo with lady's slippers ?
Is Bob Dylan 1,5 Mio better than Bruce Sprinsteen?
Music is not a competition, music is creativity temperament, love, emotion etc.
@@susannewitt6112 who said anything about Kate Bush? Or Springsteen or Dylan for that matter? The comparison was between Adele and AM. Go give your head a wobble!
Alison Moyet has one of the best voices ever.
I LOVE her voice, Alison Moyet's solo song 'All Cried Out' is amazing
"Love Resurrection" also.
Being English, I can say we're very proud of Alison Moyet. Definitely All Cried Out, along with Weak In The Presence Of Beauty.
… search out her version of the Christmas song Coventry Carol
I had the great pleasure of seeing this beautiful lady around ten years ago in Sheffield England what a legend what a voice
Alison Moyet had a fantastic voice. It's a shame that the music industry is more focused on looks and image than talent. All of the music is electronic and composed by Vince Clarke, the guy at the synthesiser, who was an original member of Depeche Mode.
Totally agree with you.
Exactly. Acts like Madonna really made people focus on looks/sex rather than talent. MTV certainly pushed this too as the music video became more important than the music.
... and Erasure.
She has a fantastic voice. Cos she still rocks till this day.
Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke were known as Yazoo in Europe and Yaz in the U.S. Their biggest hit was Only You which is more of a ballad, but they also had other dance hits with Situation and State Farm. Vince helped start the band Depeche Mode (which is still around and was inducted into Rock Hall of Fame in 2020,) before leaving after 1 album and creating Yaz/Yazoo. They broke up after 2 albums, and Vince formed a group called The Assembly but they didn't make an album they only made a single called Never Never and a "B-Side" called Stop/Start. Then he formed Erasure (which is still around) with Andy Bell who sounds a lot like Alison. When Adele first became known, many compared her to Alison. ~Be Blessed
'Yaz' in the UK was a totally different singer.
@@baylessnow There was a band in the US known as Yazoo so they had to go by Yaz here. There was a singer in the UK in the mid 80s named Yasmin Evans who was known as Yazz, not Yaz.
I just learned so much from you. Never knew Vince Clarke was in Depeche Mode. Never understood why I knew this band as Yaz but it shows up as Yazoo on UA-cam. I did know about Erasure but it never clicked that Andy sounds like Alison. It’s true! Thanks for the history lesson!
@@aliwantizu One z missing, so don't be such a pedant'. Yazz and the Plastic Population to be totally accurate. You obviously knew who I was talking about.
He also wrote this song and all of DModes early hits!
The singer is Alison Moyet - she's amazing!!
The 80s had the funnest music to dance to
The” Piano” is a synthesiser it can play almost any sound you want.
Kinda? I mean, that's definitely a synthesizer and *not* a piano. But this was 1982 and the kind of synths they were using had very (wonderfully) limited capabilities and could really only sound like synthesizers. It was within the next few years that digital synthesis and sampling technology became affordable enough for acts like this to use synthesizers to "make any sound you want". But... they could make badass synth, drum machine, and bass sounds, and pretty much anything Vince Clarke has made with any band (Depeche Mode, 1981; Yazoo, 1982-83; Erasure, 1985-present) .
There's a whole documentary here on UA-cam on Vince Clarke's synthesizer crypt.
and some you don't
Vincent Clarke was the guy on synth here ...he was the master ...he was in depeche mode and left to form yazoo with Alison moyet here...on the same label I believe..mute records.
@Bobbo Robbo The synthesizer he has here can only play one note at a time. The song as a whole probably features 5 or 6 synthesizer parts and a drum machine
Alison Moyet (Yazoo) was an icon in the 80s. This took me right back to my teenage years. Glad to see you two can't sit still.
You'll love their "Situation" and Alison Moyet's "Love Resurrection" from her solo career. Great voice.
I second your motion!
The album this song came off of, Upstairs At Eric's, is a true masterpiece!!
The keyboard instrument is a synthisizer, couldn't tell you what brand or make.
In 1982, that cost more than a new car.
Alison moyat and Vince Clark . Alison did big venues with no microphone on some numbers. She is much slimmer now .. still amazing voice 😍💜
Welcome back to the nightclubs of the 80s! ❤
Alison Moyet is the real Adele
she is One of the best Singer
like
Cyndi Lauper
Annie Lennox
Brilliant singer Alison Motet.
It's worth reacting some YAZOO (or YAZ) live ones in Berlin 2015
It's a synthesizer. Look up Dr Mix here on youtube.
Vince Clarke is the original main songwriter of Depeche Mode - he left after the first album and formed Yazoo. When Alison Moyet decided she wanted to sing a different style of music he recruited Andy Bell who has a similar style of voice to her and formed Erasure. You chould check out Oh L'Amour by Erasure or their hilarious cover of ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me", try Alison Moyet's "All Cried Out" to see what direction she went and "Just Cant Get Enough" by Depeche Mode to see where it started.
Alison Moyet was known as Alf in this era of Yazoo (UK)
The guy on the keyboard is Vince Clarke. He does all the music.
Two other dance hits from them from this same year (1982) are "Situation" and "Bring Your Love Down." They also had a hit with a slower song called "Only You."
Only u massive half the uk loved their fast hit the other half the love songs oldies had the money so lol band was legend
You need some "Situation" in your life. 80s synth music, these guys basically created their own sounds.
"Situation" is another great hit of theirs
The laughter heard on Situation was sampled in Macarena.
It’s the only other great hit of theirs
@@brianlogsdon4824 Don't forget Only You
Yes I love SITUATION
@@brianlogsdon4824 Whatski?! Nobody's Diary, Only You, Bring Your Love Down, The Other Side of Love..?
It is a synthesiser.
Her name is Alison Moyet. She has lost a lot of pounds and she has long hair nowadays.
Alison Moyet is a goddess. No joke. The woman is an actual goddess.
The guy is called Vince Clark and he is playing a keyboard that is actually a synthesizer (probably a Roland).Synthesizers are very pricey as the electronic format or as previously analog format is very involving. A top synthesizer make is Moog a USA brand .
The band was short lived , making two albums , both of them required listening. Both artists went on their seperate ways, Clarke later went onto form Erasure a sucessful 80s/ 90s band and Alison Moyet went onto a successful solo career. Both artists albums are also worth listening too. Yazoo is in my opinion one of the defining bands of the early 80s.
She trained as an opera singer and chose to do pop music, great voice.
Is that true? I never knew that about Alison. Although I know Shirley Bassey was told she should do Opera
Like Screamin' Jay Hawkins from the 50s, the inventor of shock rock, writer ad original performer of I Put A Spell On You. He didn't choose though, being black meant there was little choice for him.
Dude. Read "Early life" on this Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Moyet There was an episode about this song on the swedish TV show "Hit song history" ( Hitlåtens historia ) and there wasn't a single mention about any opera singer trainging. I don't doubt she could have been succesful there too. But she comes from a totally different place.
He's playing on a synth
This song and video have been embedded in my brain ever since I was a kid and watched Tango and Cash. Great, great song. Amazing vocals.
That “piano” is called a synthesizer/electric keyboard and can play multiple sounds
Alison is from my home town in Essex
Oh shit you've stumbled upon the synth genius Vincent Clarke and the voice Alison Moyet!
Midnight
Situation
Only You
The 80s was a golden decade for UK synth bands ,nowbody could touch us . It's a synthesizer
You should try Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy.🙋♂️
A keyboard, synthesizer.
An acoustic piano is a different thing.
This is 80's synth pop.
OMG....I feel so old. The kid doesn't know what a keyboard is?
@@cherylbohlender7341 Perhaos just not around many musicians or seen live bands.
@@cherylbohlender7341 They just dont know about instruments. Plenty of keyboards and synthesizers are being released every year!! Nothing to do with being old!!
Be good if you heard her sing All Cried Out, and That Ole Devil Called Love.And from 2016, her singing Only You live at the Burberry Womenswear show. An amazing voice. Shivers
I absolutely love your guys's reaction he was awesome! Heart heart heart heart heart
She's never seen a keyboard... Mind blown.
She does an incredible remake of The First Time I Saw Your Face.
OMG. I’ve never heard this. I have to find it.
@@joshuayeager3686 I had a little trouble posting this. Enjoy
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The female vocalist is called Alison Moyet and the synth player is Vince Clarke (playing a Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer - www.vintagesynth.com/sci/seqpro1.php). They formed Yazoo (also called Yaz in USA/Canada) in 1982 and had a few other hits, 'Only You', 'Situation' and 'Nobody's Diary', but then split in 1983. Alison went solo and had a few hits throughout the mid 80s and is still going now. Vince started off as main songwriter with Depeche Mode, penning their first 3 singles: 'Dreaming of Me', 'New Life' and 'Just Can't Get Enough' and their first album 'Speak and Spell' and then left shortly after to form Yazoo with Alsion Moyet. After Yazoo, Clarke went on to form a brief band called The Assembly with Eric Radcliffe (who was a Sound Engineer by trade) and recruited Feargal Sharkey, ex vocalist of the punk band The Undertones (with their standout track 'Teenage Kicks'......a must listen if you get the chance too) to sing on their only single 'Never Never' (another 'must listen to' track). That band lasted just a few months, before he teamed up with Andy Bell in 1985 to form Erasure, who had numerous hits throughout the 80s and 90s (look them up, as they have loads of good tracks for you to listen too) and both are still going strong now still as Erasure.Vince is a synthesizer king and has a massive synthesizer collection at hishome in Brooklyn - sonicscoop.com/2013/03/24/icons-inside-vince-clarkes-synth-kingdom-in-brooklyn/ :-)
Alison Moyet an 80’s legend and the piano is a synthesiser played by Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode and Erasure fame as well, iconic keyboard player!
Alison Moyet has some fantastic album.
Alison Moyet is one of the best vocalists I've ever heard. Amazing range and power. Listen to some of her solo stuff. Outstanding singer. In the same class as Freddie Mercury and George Michael, to my mind at least.
Great song and brilliant voice 🌹🌹🎵🎶🎵🎶🎹🎹🎹
Check out "Midnight" and "Only You" by Yazoo. Her voice, her voice, her voice!
I love when he's all like "Ooohhh, that's power"
yes all those sounds were coming out of his synth , in the 80s the synthesizer came out and or became more mainstream (available to the public) and thats why all that great music came out of the 80s , because all the musicians were in awe of this new instrument , and they all took advantage of it and made great music
I point to Alison Moyet Everytime some Adele fan gets on my nerves like she's the first British woman with soul
Vince Clarke on keyboard & singer Allison Moyet, it was called Electro Pop. Allison does have a deep unique voice, but she is female, that's pretty much how a lot of us dressed and did our make up in the 80's, mine was lol. Songs to check out are Nobody's Diary, Midnight, Bring Your Love Down (didn't I), Good Times & Only You. 😎👌
The instruments were a synthesizer, and a drum machine, both of which were fairly new interments for pop music in the late 1970s, and early 1980s.
She sung a song called Love Resurrection, worth listening to, very good.
the 80's had some amazing music....... grew up in the 80s.
I was 10 years old when this song came out and it was waaaaaaaaay ahead of its time. The guy on the keyboards ended up moving on to Depeche Mode.
"I didn't expect no deep voice like that..." oh buddy you wait.
PS. Boy/Girl. Just labels. It's not important, not really. Alf had and still has one of the best voices in music, ever!
The Piano is a Sequential Circuits Pro-One monophonic analog synthesizer ... and might I say ... one of the the best and coolest vintage-synths available. And it's actually Vince Clarke's all-time favorite synth. Stay safe. Love you guys
The key board is called a synthesiser.
The square padded machine is called a sampler.
Another one I can recommend with her is "Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection".
Best n my fave Synth pop bands of 80s in UK, Britain. Got all their albums on vinyl.
Their song "Situation" is so bumpin'
The instrument used was a synthesizer. When this song hit in the US, it was a dance-floor filler, but a lot of people hearing it first on the radio thought it was a man singing.
I love your enthusiasm …. ❤️
Love my 80s , take me back ... the best music
Guys it’s called a synthesizer!!!!! Your killing me!!!! Arrrrgh!!!!! Lol
It’s not a piano 🎹. It’s a synthesizer!
This is called synth wave music. The synthesizer can make almost an infinite amount of sounds. The synth player is the player from Depeche Mode. You can check that band out next.
check out their song. nobody`s diary. total awesomeness!
Vince Clarke, one of the most influential people in 80's music. He is using a synthesiser (a computer based keyboard that has pre-programmed 'sounds'). In fact, this style of music is known as synth-pop. It's not really Alison's style, she was forced to do this by the contract the record company put together. Still, she proved that she was more than capable of being the queen of the 80's.
I haven't heard this one in ages...nice! ☺
Y'all are cute. That's *not* a piano - or an electric piano. It's a synthesizer (or a "synth"), which takes "electric" a step further, toward "electronic". And yes, that's how all the sounds in this song are made. Not just with that particular synth, but a couple of others, and through programming the synth lines and drum patterns using a MIDI sequencer. This style of music was called "Synthpop" and was a signature 80s sound that mostly came from the tail end of the UK Punk explosion, as that rebellion found a new outlet in making unorthodox and experimental Pop instead of aggressive Rock. Acts like Depeche Mode, The Human League, OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), Erasure, New Order, Naked Eyes, Ultravox, Sparks, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, (early) Eurythmics, Soft Cell, and many others had tons of UK hits and at least one major hit apiece in the US, and with many of those acts being duos made up of a singer and a synth player. Synths were also a huge part of R&B at this point in the late 70s, early-80s, as well. While their use was often a bit different, the UK Synthpop/New Wave approach and US R&B/Electrofunk approach influenced each other back and forth and influenced Pop in a major way so that by the mid-80s, most popular music (including Rock, Country, Jazz, and Easy Listening) featured synthesizers and elements of New Wave and Electrofunk.
Vince Clarke doesn't use MIDI much. He prefers to wire up his various analogue synths which is a lot more hassle but he feels produces a better sound.
These young bloods make me laugh. If I had a time machine to take you guys back it would blow your mind in a disco. 😂😃👍🏻
Alison Moyet is a rare Contralto pop singer. Cher is kinda like that too. One of the best concerts I ever went to was Alison Moyet a few years ago. Very talented songwriter. You should watch "Is This Love?" her most known hit. Fun video. Synthesizers were basically digital mixer/samplers with a piano keyboard attached. Based on MIDI technology you could actually use any instrument as your control interface but the keyboard was easiest. But once computers got good enough the synth became obsolete. Now you can do all this sampling/mixing/playing on your home computer.
One of the best English female vocalists of all time.
Alisons best Hit Song is definitely: Is this Love!
I was a bit partial to 'All Cried Out'.I thought that was her best song.
He created all the sounds on The Moog Synthesizer (no band) you turn knobs to create sounds played on a small keyboard then record them.
Vince Clark the synth player was also in another electronic band by the name of Depeche Mode
Vincent Clark, guy on synth; he's a synth legend in UK he's been a part or Yazoo/Depeche Mode/Erasure. Alison Moyet she was possibly the Adele of the 80s, just one of those voices you know who it is as soon as you hear.
The album this is from, "Upstairs At Eric's", was one the THE classic New Wave albums from this year (and '82 had a LOT of great new wave albums).
If you've ever watched the show "Once Upon A Time", one of the main characters adopted another track from this album, "Only You", as his "theme song."
The term you were probably looking for is a 'synthesizer' or perhaps 'keyboard'.
Child in the 80s and teen in the 90s.....dancing, cheerleading and gymnastics routine music.....raised on synth pop/new wave and yes once of age and in the clubs (MIA & NYC) dancing to this and alike tracks as an adult......nothing matches that feeling 💃🏾 non stop dancing until the club lights come on....then the after parties ..... and ending with food at Denny’s or Sergio’s
To then crash, wake up, shower and repeat 😎
no better time in life ☝🏾
Alison & Vince 🙌🏾🤩🥸🤩😎🔥💃🏾
The square ones are called Programmable Pads kids.
It's a korg synth,and the man playing it is Vincent Clark who is a fantastic synth artist,his other bands were depech mode,and also erasure,check out yazoo situation.
Awesome album
When she started she was in high school and want to the the. Show top of pops she was 17 and Vince Clark was with dece mode
Allison Moyet is best. You need to check her other songs. If you saw her now she looks amazing. She has shed all her weight.
The singer is Alison Moyet she had a great voice.
This is a huge step up from electric piano. This is called a synthesiser, with a huge range of instruments included in what it can mimic.
As others have said, Alison Moyet has a great voice, very distinct and powerful. Situation and Nobody's Diary were other great hits from Yazoo (who were known as Yaz in the US due to copyright issues), and you should check out Alison's solo work too, as she had some great hits of her own. Keyboardist Vince Clarke, who went on to be a member of Erasure after Yazoo split, does some great work here too
Check out Only You....by Yaz......aka Alison Moyet....you're gonna luv it
That sound is a million pounds worth of synthesiser.
5:09 Synthesizer. The most undervalued musical instrument in history.
This song was the Jam in the 80's while clubbing
React to 'All Cried Out' next please? Alison Moyet is in my top three favourite female singers - honestly, one of the few who could sing jazz and I would listen to it!!! I love your reactions by the way - they are so genuine.
Electric piano? :) You mean a synth? Synthesizer... or a "keyboard". Can make all sorts of sounds that you record or program into them and then you can play it back by hitting keys like on a regular piano. They more or less had those in all 80's songs. Dont think they are that uncommon now either...
They're probably more common than ever -- found in all types of music and nearly every chart record!!!
A key board and synthesizer are not the same thing. A keyboard had pre-set sounds . with a synthesizer you got to program the sounds yourself!
Great song,epic synth song from the early 1980s by an english synthband,many of the best ones came from England,in this case,Yazoo,one of the best ones together with groups like Depesche Mode. 1980s were the golden era for this type of music.......but a pity that you guys didnt do a reaction on the music video to this song,that would have got this reaction a dimension because its a fun video and I think you would have enjoyed that quite abit...Concerning what he is playing on,its a synthesizer..a syntheziser is a versatile..
The voice of her generation, Alison Moyet, coupled with THE Synth King, Vince Clark. It was inevitably epic! :)
It's a synthersizer people.Vince has a huge collection at his home/studio.There are electric piano's around,Yamaha make some good ones.