New Wave/Synthpop songs ranked from #200 to #1, one per day.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Number 3: Trans-X - Eyes Of Desire
Canadian new wave group Trans-X released multi-platinum album Living On Video in early 1986. The LP featured their biggest hit, "Living On Video" (#165 on this list) and the awesome track "Through The Eyes Of The Nineties" (#107). Another song, however, eclipsed them both for pure synthpop excellence: "Eyes Of Desire". This tune was somehow never released as a single, but it held the #1 spot on this list for a time before eventually settling in at #3. Pascal Languirand, Laurie Gill, and the rest of the band outdid themselves with this track, and for me synthpop music doesn't get any better than this (well, I suppose it does get better, since "Eyes Of Desire" is #3 not #1, but you know what I mean). Trans-X hits it out of the ballpark with their third and final entry on my Top 200.
...and they still rock! Here's Trans-X with their 2011 single release "I Want To Be With You Tonight".
Like Blofeld or Goldfinger, through the years Pascal has gone from being a small-time time street-based Euro-pimp into the leader of a broad-based powerful empire. By skillfully manipulating Trans-X he has morphed the band from a small Canadian synth-pop outfit into a multi-national musical conglomerate, all while building a revolving team of henchman and an international stable of hoes to do his bidding. Do not let the over-sized dark classes fool you ... if you don't pay up, he will still slap the shit out of you with his synth.
Like Blofeld or Goldfinger, through the years Pascal has gone from being a small-time time street-based Euro-pimp into the leader of a broad-based powerful empire. By skillfully manipulating Trans-X he has morphed the band from a small Canadian synth-pop outfit into a multi-national musical conglomerate, all while building a revolving team of henchman and an international stable of hoes to do his bidding. Do not let the over-sized dark classes fool you ... if you don't pay up, he will still slap the shit out of you with his synth.
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