What's the most well known electronic music song you can think of?
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Even if people don't know the title, the song is easy recognizable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU&feature=related
For house electronic, I would say Scatman John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wMsnE2cvI&feature=related
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Tainted Love by Soft Cell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fCFkl-BFU
But I think the most famous electronic song of all might be Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by the Eurythmics. The video for this song has racked up just over half a million views in the last six months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52bh36j023Y
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I think that is synth-pop, which is using the electronic synthesizer but it's not quite electronic genre
I based on my knowledge and...Allmusic.com
Almusic editors are involved in music industry, unlike Wikipedia where anybody can write...Though Allmusic discussion of the genres is terse compared with Wikipedia.
Chariots of fire is under "electronic" genre and has the following styles: club/dance, progressive electronic, experimental electronic, neo-classical, movie themes, soundtrack, film music
I looked at the albums that include the three songs given by @thomas_k and none of them is under electronic though all are under synth-pop style. Indeed, as @thomas_k says, synth-pop and new wave introduced the electronic instruments, such as synthesizer into pop music.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:18
@doubleminaz, according to Allmusic(and also Wikipedia), electronica contains most of the subgenres of electronic music
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:11605
For me, the pure electronic music are Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze , Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre or Tangerine Dream. After such bands, various subgenres appeared and electronic music influenced all the music. It makes sense since we live in the digital age.
A sample of such recent music: "The Orb"
That was my feeling as well, that Electronic Music was synth-pop's "parent genre". And the Vangelis song seems to be classified as "New Age", which itself seems to have both electronic and acoustic roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age_music
I think both selections are valid, and judging by youtube views (taking into account how long the vids have been up there), it's really close between the two!
@mielu, you're clearly an electronic music afficionado and I admire that.
The interesting thing is that many bands associated with synth-pop left the synthesizer behind later in their careers. Eurythmics were one example, Duran Duran another.
But when giving my answer here I decided to dispense with labels or genre in many ways and just focus on the actual instrumental make-up of the tracks. The only things on “Sweet Dreams” that aren't electronic are Annie Lennox's vocal and a little bit of piano during the “middle eight”. The song may have been written with radio in mind but its make-up is electronic, just as much as, e.g. Kraftwerk's “The Model”. If we were to take a harder line, would the presence of an organic piano on Vangelis' track disqualify him? Would the piano and vocals on “Sweet Dreams” disqualify that? If we were to go down that road then @garyallen's choice would probably then be the only valid answer here, in that every single element of that song is, at its base, electronic.
Vangelis developed electronic music before all others; I agree Axel F is electronic
I can't confirm or deny what you say, that Axel F is purer as an electronic song
You raised an interesting point but I don't have time to dig more into it
I tipped you a little
mielu, I was also wondering what the definition of "electronic music" is, and whether there might be a subtle distinction between "electronic music" and "electronica".
As a long-time Rhapsody subscriber, I occasionally look at their definitions of genres (and sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres, even) for guidance. They seem to use "electronic" and "electronica" interchangeably at least once, and give a very broad definition. Using it, I think that "synth-pop" would qualify as "electronic music" and possibly an early version of "electronica" - to the extent that there IS a distinction.
Is anyone better able to distinguish and/or define them?
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The video for this song wasn't coming through here for me until now.
Personally, I think it's too close to call between all three of these. Anyone who hasn't spent their life in a cave would be familiar with each of them.
This song's views on youtube are split among many videos / versions (even if you exclude the silly "Crazy Frog" version from a few years ago), but if you add them all up, I think it's right up there.
