Roxy Music / Bryan Ferry is another of my favorites, I'd love to see them in concert. I love that subdued warm sound of their synth pads (More Than This being an example). If all goes well I may be able to see Fleetwood Mac on tour this summer (not a synth band, but another one of my all time faves and perhaps showing how diverse my taste gets).
Occasionally yes I do listen in the car. What seems to help me the most is to reference against a good pro-quality track on the same monitors, the sooner in the process of creation the better.
I think every music lover should have SiriusXM. Did you know you can get an Internet subscription and download the app to your phone or tablet, then there you can stream it to a wireless speaker or listen on the go or whatever. You'd really like 1st Wave, not just for all of the familiar 80's tunes but for the occasional obscure ones you would have otherwise forgotten about. I don't think it would replace your current solution for in-car tunes, because unless you're close to Wi-Fi, streaming over your data plan might be a hassle, but once you have it you won't want to live without it and you could always add a vehicle solution later to the same SiriusXM plan.
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