SSQ - Synthicide (1983)

This track and this video has become pretty famous on the internet. It was uploaded years before Youtube let you make your own thumbnails, but somehow managed to get the perfect screen shot to lure people in. The best part is, everything this thumbnail looks like, this song delivers on and then some. It's so spot on you would swear this is a modern band trying to appear like a band from the 80s.

Nope. Just pure, raw, early 80s synthy goodness.

And wouldn't you know it, our good friend John Van Tongeren was one of the 3 or more synth heads manning the helm on this one. I can't be sure if he is the one playing the synth bass, but it doesn't matter anymore. This guy is the key to a fantastic treasure trove of rad jams and killer albums. It's only now that I know his name that i see how many great albums I already enjoy that he was a part of.

It may not be ultra obscure anymore, but this track has to be on this list. It has everything I am looking for, with a killer video to boot. Stacey Swain (aka Stacey Q) does a phenomenal job of being lead man surrounded by all these synth nerds. Synth nerds in synth branded jump suits, haha. Who wouldn't want a Simmons jump suit? I'd wear that right now!