Originally Posted by Neapolitan

However that holds true to a lot of music at this time, and it has to do with the synths available at the time, namely FM. Not that I hate FM synthesizers. But what marked the down fall of 80s music was the switch from analog to FM synthesizers. They were thin sounding. They didn't have the depth and warmth of analogy. I'm not knocking FM, you can coax some interesting sounds. I only mention that cause that is my problem with any music from this era. Whatever they used, there are parts on this album where it sounds like they were using a toy synthesizer on it.