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Noteworthy (or famous) keyboard and synth riffs / melodies?

Plunder

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It would be awesome to compile a whole lot of great standout melodies and riffs from anything keyboard or synth related. Always looking for new stuff to learn by ear. Hopefully we'll get something I've never heard of before, but post famous or popular ones too since maybe some haven't heard them yet.

I'll start it off with Head over Heels - Tears for Fears. Very iconic, massive reverb bright stage piano mixed with DX7 bell/vibe patches

 
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Plunder

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Just some off of the top of my head.
The Caesers - Jerk It Out
Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands, Blue Collar Man
Toto - Africa
Robert Miles - Children
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Gary Jules - Mad World (Cover)
Coldplay - The Scientist
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Bon Jovi - Runaway
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Daniel Powter - Bad Day

Nice, this is probably my favorite piano riff from Coldplay

Coldplay - Trouble

 

Fox who?

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I enjoy large synthesizer solos, interludes, and just long projects. I love all of A Treatise On Cosmic Fire (all 4 parts) by Todd Rundgren, which is all synthesizer. Very long, drawn out, and dreamy. Makes great smash music IMO.
 
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