I am lovingly hypnotized!

[rockytopva]

Top post reads... "When I was 10 years old I played this song over and over. The synthesizer sounds were hypnotic. Still love it at age 50."

 

[AlexB23]

Top post reads... "When I was 10 years old I played this song over and over. The synthesizer sounds were hypnotic. Still love it at age 50."

I love the 1980s, well technically the song came out in 1979 (which I did not know), but is has more of an early 1980s style. In other words, Gary Numan was maybe 2-5 years ahead of the time in my opinion. This song can be hypnotizing.

Apparently, Fear Factory made a cover of this song in 1998. Both versions are pretty cool:

 

[SavedByGrace3]

My first recall of synthesizers is from the late 1960s and early 1970s: Switched-On Bach, 1968. The earliest was the Monkeys! "Daily Nightly." Most notable in the early days were Emerson Lake and Palmer on Lucky Man. Then of course there was the synth track on Baba O'Riley (The Who). It was an amazing sound for back then.

Baba O'Riley

 

[AlexB23]

My first recall of synthesizers is from the late 1960s and early 1970s: Switched-On Bach, 1968. The earliest was the Monkeys! "Daily Nightly." Most notable in the early days were Emerson Lake and Palmer on Lucky Man. Then of course there was the synth track on Baba O'Riley (The Who). It was an amazing sound for back then.

Baba O'Riley

I love Baba O'Riley. That song from The Who sounds like it was released 10 years later, like in 1980 instead of 1971. This is why I feel that The Who was ahead of their time by nearly a decade.

Isn't it strange, how the late 1960s and early 1970s was so far ahead of the times? Just look at the Apollo missions from 1969-1972. Humans did not achieve powered heavier-than-air flight until 1903, and supersonic flight until 1947. So, in just 2/3 of a century, we went from barely flying to landing on the moon. The music of the 1970s is so modern for the era, as in a mere 25 years, music went from the last of the jazz era in the 1940s to rock music with synths.

I also like the alternative rock cover of The Who - Baba O'Riley by Gaslight Anthem (2011) that I found in February 2024:

 

[DragonFox91]

The Holy Spirit calls us to soberness so we can make accurate judgements, not hypnotism.