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Post by queenofthehours on May 29, 2016 12:11:45 GMT
As mentioned earlier I had no time for these at their peak. They seemed to be on every tv programme and were the type of act who would move me just to turn the radio off when they were played. I spent a lot of the 80's being angry at music, I took the burgeoning electonica as being lazy and without substance. Why learn to play an instrument when you could just stand and press a button. it felt on the vacuous and easy. Underline that with the so called (and seldom seen) third PSB (pete somebody?) who supposedly did all their programming. I thought I had little reason to pay them anytime. Utter nonsense now I know 29-years later. This is a perfect example of how I was so off the pace and sat in my own silly little world. Some of these are indeed excellent pop songs. Oh, I know what you mean about being angry at music. I used to be angry at anything that sounded like ELO including ELO and went towards PSB/electronica instead. But now I'm glad to say I can listen to both . Life is all about changing your mind about things!
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Post by queenofthehours on May 29, 2016 12:26:08 GMT
Shopping - I sometimes wonder if people write songs with titles like this in the hopes that TV will use them as background music for related features. I've certainly heard clips from it when seeing items on, well, shopping. Wasn't it also the theme tune for the old Clothes Show? Snappy and stompy, sounding a bit more of its time than One More Chance but still a great foot-tapping track. Plus, is that a vocoder? More points awarded for that. Rent - I love this song to bits, it might be my favourite PSB song ever. Annoyingly when we went once to see them live they had a woman singing it at about a fifth the correct speed, what a massive disappointment. It's not meant to be a sultry torch song, it's meant to forge along like this. Great video too, loving Margi Clark vamping it up, although it doesn't have a lot to do with the song as far as I know but who cares? The whole package is perfect ... It's a Sin - Wheee! This is a lot more like it - serious contender for favourite PSB song. Really, how could a person not love this, it's HUGE sounding with interesting lyrics, thunderclaps and a brilliant video, this is what they do best and they don't have a whole lot of competition. The more I see the young Neil Tennant in these vids though, the more he reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson. Not sure if this is a good thing or not, but this song might very well be appropriate No it wasn't 'Shopping' that was the theme tune to The Clothes Show but 'In the Night' which I believe was the b-side to 'Opportunities' -
'Rent' might be my favourite PSB song too! You have excellent taste unomusette ! I can't even remember if the boys played it when I saw them, they were going through their acoustic phase back then.
I'm not sure I will be able to un-see the young Jeremy Clarkson in Neil now though!
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Post by queenofthehours on May 29, 2016 12:35:09 GMT
"West End Girls" is one of my favorite 80's songs. But aside from that, I don't know much Pet Shop Boys. Ok, let's get to it... ... "It Couldn't Happen Here" - In a way, this reminds me of ELO's "Another Heart Breaks". Atmospheric. Just try and dance to 'West End Girls' though, it's been said it's totally impossible yet everyone tries .
Yes! 'It Couldn't Happen Here' does bear an uncanny similarity to 'AHB'. Not only in soundscape but also in the fact that I think it's one of those tracks that fills the same spot in your life that 'AHB' fills - you can listen to it if you feel like it but can afford to skip it if you have little time.
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Post by unomusette on May 29, 2016 21:05:26 GMT
Yes! As soon as I heard In The Night begin it was blindingly obvious - I stand happily corrected
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