Originally Posted by
WorzelG
I love A-Ha too, they were a bit weird and a lot of their music, is quite melancholy I think, very Scandinavian. Also i always equate NIN as being slightly heavier synth pop because I got into them through Pretty Hate Machine and NIN to me are the bridge between 80s synth pop (my first proper pop music love) and the much heavier music I had got into, because pop music went really downhill at least in the uk imo around the late 80s with stock aitken and Waterman, it really started sounding like a conveyor belt