Thought you might enjoy this.
The Great British Synth Documentary (BBC).
part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXPpsz9LP8
Awesome–thanks!
THANK YOU!!i could look at this for ages…
It’s available as Synth Britannia Documentary Sunrise2.
I watched this a few weeks back… so good!
so could I… 
Favorited 1-10, minus 9…unavailable due to copyright infringement. 
Nothing infringing about the episodes now.
Its a real shame that explosive bursts of new ideas don’t come along as much these days. Who cares what people look like, how simple the music is, or plain embarassing the lyrics are? Its the sound of being swept along in an excitement. Historical context is everything. Which reminds me that we desperately need something new right now. Are we just too post everything to want to make something new?
B
So you can watch episode 9?
Man I have a better appreciation of the 80’s synthpop after watching this.
It is interesting how it stemmed from punk, but then soon became mainstream and far removed from the original intentions of those who began the movement.
THe funniest part to me was when it was talkig about Depeche Mode and they said
“Their combination of sex appeal and synthesizers”
coming from a guitarcentric culture that is just so freakin hillarious on sooooo many levels.
Eric
Yes, part 9 is fine. Maybe its a regional thing, because its no problem in Australia.
The humour is great, as it should be in these documentaries. If you can’t laugh at yourself then you don’t really understand where you have been 
B
Nope, can’t watch due to copyright restrictions.
Anyonw want to pm me what band or anything interesting that goes on (no spoilers here for anyone else) that can’t be shown here due to the copyright laws?
OK, spoiler alert on the next paragraph. Sorry 'bout that, but I assume that some people may never be able to view it on YouTube.
I bet its Depeche Mode. They are the last quarter of the video. It mentions that they were the only band to get success in the USA. There is also OMD, Eurhythmics and UltraVox. And I am sure the copyright restriction is not everywhere.
B
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I don’t understand why the BBC isn’t selling this as a DVD, I would have bought it for sure.
I think it’s brand new. I’m sure they will be.
Well the BBC missed out on a good thing by not releasing it to DVD immediately after airing.
It’ll cut their sales down by at least a quarter due to torrent, rapidshare and youtube releases.
I wouldn’t buy the documentary, and pleased that the entire series was ligitimately available on YouTube. To purchase a single doco which is in low quality because of the '70s and '80s footage is not worth a DVD. Not worth the quality of DVD and personally only worth $10 to me, but it would be at least double to buy in Australia.
Cheers,
B
I tried to find an official DVD to purchase because it’s a great synthpop docu that I really enjoyed, but since they haven’t released a DVD I had to convert the available AVI’s to DVD. Looked pretty good on my 52" plasma.
My favourite part of the doco is that the members of one of the bands all had a mono synth each and took them on the subway to the venue
Its cute that you could have a pop single with 4 monophonic synths.
And I completely identify with the envy at seeing a VCS3, MiniMoog, even Roland SH-1000 or miniKorg 700 and knowing I could never afford one in a million years. Of course, now I have a Voyager but it seemed impossible back then. Personally I saved for a second hand Moog Satellite which of course does almost nothing.
The doco was about me, except for the fame bit
B
This is great!