Top 10 80’s Bands on Spotify

Here’s a quick check on 80s tunes and especially 80s British synthpop bands currently represented on Spotify:

  • Depeche Mode (11 albums, about 30 CD singles, live albums, best-ofs, compilations)
  • Yello (10 albums, 2 compilations)
  • OMD (10 albums, 4 compilations including the excellent Peel Sessions 1979-1983)
  • Ultravox (8 albums, 7 compilations including Rare volumes 1 & 2)
  • Human League (9 albums (including the Fascination EP and the recently released remaster of The Golden Hour of the Future), 5 compilations)
  • New Order (7 albums, 5 compilations, 6 CD singles)
  • Soft Cell (6 albums, 3 compilations)
  • Fad Gadget (4 albums, 2 compilations, and the entire Mute Audio Documents series)
  • Yazoo (everything they ever released. Yep, double-checked: everything. Unfortunatley that isn’t very much)
  • The Associates (2 albums, 1 compilation)

As for current music, well it’s not so good for me: out my Top 20 Albums of 2008, Spotify only has a measly two of them (The Presets and Zeigeist).