You can take your 21st century and shove it up your oscillator. The 80s were best
Somehow we knew that the eerie Yamaha CS-80 synth theme to Blade Runner would do well in our ‘official’ Top 40 Greatest Synth Sounds (of all time) poll that we ran on MusicRadar a few months’ back, but little did we predict how well, nor how many fellow synth sounds from the decade from which it was initially tweaked, would sit alongside it. But pretty much the entire top 10 – actually top 20 – of the chart was dominated by 80s synth sounds, alongside just a smattering of 70s timbres, with 90s and 21st century tones only scraping in the lower reaches of the chart. So does this mean the 80s was truly the best synth decade? That the best synths were made back then? That analogue is king? Or simply that the people that voted are just old fogies? Well, you tell us, as you’ve only got yourselves to blame!