Visage - Fade to Grey

Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells

0:30 Thriller - Michael Jackson.

One of my favorite things about Thriller, as a jazz musician, is how nice and full the chords are. Listening to the Rhodes part, it's a lot of Minor 7s and Diminished chords, and at one time they even play a 7th chord shape on one hand and a 6th shape on the other, but they still didn't forget about simple chords.

Some of my favourite synth riffs/melodies in no specific order:

0:31 - Thriller

Just imagine what Bach could have done with today's synths......

Pipe Organ: the original synthesizer

The synthesiser was the King of the 80's music genre when you hear those sounds you always think of the music of the 80's

The “Jump” synth part is extremely authentic to the original sound. Also, when a lot of people play this, they usually get the last chord wrong in the sequence. Subtle, but always the wrong notes. This guy got it right.

Everybody's gangster until Bach steps up to the synthesizer

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene part 2 and 4. Gary numan - Cars, Are friends Electric, Complex. Kraftwerk - the model, Star Was - the original 1977 theme track, Visage - Fade to Gray, Ultravox - Veinna, OMD - Maid of Orleanes and Joan of arc, Japan - Ghosts, Heaven 17 - Quiet Life, temptation and that's just off the top of my head.

Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" has to be on this list.

When "thriller" stopped, my mind kept the rhythm on.

“Crockett’s Theme” - Jan Hammer

Alan Parsons Project: Mammagamma