Best Pet Shop Boys "Please" era B-side

We've polled ALL their b-sides but it's far too overwhelming.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Good poll idea. I've always been fond of the uncharacteristically rough vocals on That's My Impression and WTWIW (and the gleeful trying out of the latest club tricks on the latter) but In the Night and Paninaro are stone-cold classics.

― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

These are good songs. I'll probably vote for "Paninaro," which is sometimes the greatest thing the Boys have ever committed insofar as it nails an aesthetic and a sound.

"A Man Could Get Arrested" has the only "eighties" production that graces a PSB single.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

Wait...no hat on Chris there? Something's wrong.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

the young Chris Lowe was a fetching lad.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

man do I love the fuck out of all of these songs

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

Lock thread, all votes to go previous post.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

In The Night
Jack the Lad
Paninaro

how the hell can I choose between these three

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

pretend each song corresponds to a favorite Alanis tune

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:26 (11 months ago) Permalink

Paninaro.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

You oughta know which one to choose DJP

― Get wolves (DL), Friday, 25 May 2012 10:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

If you want to choose.
Don't choose.
Do it.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 11:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Probably my least favourite set of their b-sides pre-Very, but still not a dud among them. Voting for the theme to the Clothes Show.

― etc, Friday, 25 May 2012 11:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

it's a sexy beast, ain't it?

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 11:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

The lyric to In the Night is one of my favourite examples of the PSBs taking an abstruse theme and marrying it to a killer tune. Such a clever, nuanced lyric about the relationship between music and politics and whether hedonism can be a form of resistance or a selfish escape from it. Pre-internet it took me years to work out who he was singing about - for Don Juan I practically needed Cliff Notes.

― Get wolves (DL), Friday, 25 May 2012 12:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

plus, it boasts the best "comment allez-vous" in rock history.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

I love precisely these 5 songs more than anything on Alternative. I would like give my vote to the wonderful WTWIT because I feel it's generally shunned. But I never vote that way in polls, and the obvious highlight is Paninaro.

― daavid, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

I meant 6 songs

― daavid, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:52 (11 months ago) Permalink

― phuturephase, Saturday, 26 May 2012 09:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

Fans of Please-era b-sides would probably like their demo, "In The Club Or In The Queue".

― PublicRadio, Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 2 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

Vote damn you

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2012 05:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

voted Paninaro

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Saturday, 2 June 2012 10:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 3 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

daaayum

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 June 2012 01:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

Huh. I mean, I like "Paninaro"'n'all, but I've never quite gotten w/how prominently it figures w/in the PSBs canon (top 10 in the poll IIRC?) compared with other Lowe-monologue tracks like "I Want A Dog" or "One Of The Crowd".

― etc, Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

I, too, can't believe two songs that weren't on this poll didn't win it

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

Sorry, I meant the overarching done-w/-ballots poll Billy Dodds ran. I know "Paninaro" had a video and was revamped/re-released ... did it get a lot of underground dancefloor play that other PSBs tracks didn't?

― etc, Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Paninaro" has so many awesome things going on at once.

(I didn't vote for it)

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

Actually b-sides coming soon btw

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

P sure the solitary Jack the Lad vote was me.

― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

we
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― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

I really really wanted to vote "Jack the Lad" but the "Paninaro"/"In The Night" 1-2 was too much to resist

It's a great song, though.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Monday, 4 June 2012 14:16 (11 months ago) Permalink