What's the WORST Pet Shop Boys single?

Picking Single-Bilingual. IMO, those failed attempts at latino on that album were even worse than the singles from "Release". Also not too impressed by "New York City Boy", "Always On My Mind" works best as a ballad and "It's Alright" would have been my pick in its original horrible house version.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

one of these:

Liberation
Absolutely Fabulous
Single-Bilingual
New York City Boy
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
Home And Dry

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

i've heard perhaps 2 of the last fifteen of these so i can't really say if it's any of those, but i'd be willing to wager none are worse than 'absolutely fabulous'

― electricsound, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Liberation for breaking the amazing run

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Absolutely Fabulous," which I wouldn't even say I particularly hate, it's just really so-what.

― sw00ds, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Liberation" is a great album track, not single.

The only dud on that list (which ranges to just-as-great to ok) is "Numb."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm With Stupid

― abanana, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

HI DERE and I guarantee at least 2 votes for "Domino Dancing", but hopefully there will be more.

― John Justen, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

Vote for "DJ Culture" and I will break your kneecaps. Or possibly I will frown at you through the computer so hard that you will feel it, perhaps in the form of an embarrassing rash or itch you cannot reach.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

paninaro. it's fucking annoying.

― stephen, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

HI DERE and I guarantee at least 2 votes for "Domino Dancing"

fuck you guys.

I might vote for "Go West."

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 13 December 2007 04:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

can't believe it won't be Numb in a cakewalk!

Ab Fab doesn't count, not credited to PSB

also Integral not included, probably the best off the last album (though Minimal was awesome live)

― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Integral" was only released as a downloads only, in the version from the "Disco 3" album. I felt it didn't count as a single. Plus it (at least the original) is great anyway, so. :)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

Too many to choose from. Anything after "Being Boring" qualifies.

― DavidM, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely Fabulous, obv

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely Fabulous. Was it an example of that nadir of Western music, the Comic Relief single?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm voting "Minimal", because they criminally chopped off the best bit for the single edit.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 13 December 2007 10:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

too many to choose from really. it's not like you hear 'absolutely fabulous' too often (ie ever!) whereas 'opportunities' or 'it's a sin', you still do after two long decades.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 10:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

Worst off Discography would have been better poll.

― ledge, Thursday, 13 December 2007 10:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

that would be Was It Worth It (as with TIC, final track syndrome - as if they agreed "we've put a mediocre one out at last, better release a hits comp in case this trend continues")

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

I always found "Domino Dancing" a bit boring.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

i think they're all pretty bad up to What Have I Done To Deserve This? and again after I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

you don't need me to tell u 'u maaad' so i won't

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

Paninaro

― zeus, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

one of these:

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk

Eh, that's one of the great PSB songs, and one of the best from their 'mature' (i.e dull) period.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

Dunno. The title is great at least. One of the best songtitles ever.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

best more like worst.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Red Letter Day" - pop stars endorsing politicians = dud

― snoball, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

i get along. awful

― Alan, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

"I Get Along" is okay. This is really a cage match between "Domino Dancing" and "Absolutely Fabulous".

― HI DERE, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 23 December 2007 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― ILX System, Monday, 24 December 2007 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

I guess I should have left "Absolutely Fabulous" off the poll, but happy to see that I am not alone in my "Single-Bilingual" hatred :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 24 December 2007 00:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

AbFab is a worthy winner. Single/Bilingual is however GREBT, 2nd place is nonsense. (OK I don't really know the single version, but I think it's a wonderful one-two on the album.)

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 24 December 2007 00:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

Being Boring 1

u crazy ^^

― stephen, Monday, 24 December 2007 01:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

I AM NOT CRAZY.

Also, Absolutely Fabulous were awesome. Once I played it so many times in a row that the neighbours asked me to play something else.

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 24 December 2007 01:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

that would be Was It Worth It (as with TIC, final track syndrome - as if they agreed "we've put a mediocre one out at last, better release a hits comp in case this trend continues")

Christ on a crutch, are you LISTENING?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

mmm?

― blueski, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

Can one of the three mentalist haters please explain what is so bad about Domino Dancing? It's great.

― Matt DC, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe "Single Bilingual" was actually released as a single. It sounds so incomplete without "Discoteca" preceding it.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 December 2007 03:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

Aha fuck that explains my otherwise meaningless post above, what I meant was that Discoteca -> Single is a great one-two on the album. Thanks snrub. Can see that "Single" alone loses loads.

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 24 December 2007 03:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

We have a Winner

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

Haha OTM

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:20 (8 months ago) Permalink

lol

― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

Ha! It's so true. Before Winner came out I'd struggle to think what would be their weakest single. I've never been that keen on Before, Was it Worth it ? and I Get Along but none of those are that terrible. Winner is their first truly awful single. What were they thinking putting that out as a single?

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 23 September 2012 12:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

Before is OK but it was an odd choice for a first single. Se a vida é was the obvious choice from Bilingual, but I guess as 'summer smash', it was considered too early to release in April.

It's a weird album as it suddenly gets more commericial from Se a vida é onwards, opening with a string of atypical Pet Shop Boys songs.

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 23 September 2012 13:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

I love the Deep Dish remix of "Se A Vida E" so much

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 15:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

Meanwhile "Love Etc" felt like a worst in 2009 but now it's one of their very best. There isn't a week when I'm singing "I belieeeeeeve that we can achieeeeeeve the love that we need"

― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

Being Boring 1
u crazy ^^

― stephen, Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:47 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Love Etc" never felt like the worst PSB single, wtf

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

i think they're all pretty bad up to What Have I Done To Deserve This?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, December 13, 2007 6

― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

Admittedly that is an insane statement

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 17:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'll never understand why they realeased "Numb" as a single. It's so boring I deleted it from my copy of Fundamental. The version of "Integral" they released as a single was a weird choice. And why they kept "Fugitive" off the album is a mystery to me.

― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

'Leaving is rather quite good in a 'Before 2' kind of way

I think I kind of hate the new album though.

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah the new album is not the best

I am weirdly compelled by by "Ego Music" though

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

Have been putting off listening to the album after the "Winner" single. First two tracks were great, maybe my doubts were wrong. If they must do wistful autumnal melancholia then that's the way to do it. Then we get "Winner" and then it's downhill, alternating between the bland and the bitter. Maybe he wouldn't need to rail against those who prefer their early stuff if the new work had something approaching a pulse. I'll give it another go for old times sake but maybe it's time to move on.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

but maybe it's time to move on.

;_; i'm reading this in neal's voice.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, 23 September 2012 20:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

I thought Love Etc was a mess the first time I heard it but it grew on me so much and now I kind of love it. They have one great single per album these days, Leaving from the new one one, Love Etc from Yes and Minimal from Fundamental, which is a great album they just picked the wrong singles.

I have mentioned some of this in the Elysium thread, new album is a huge grower. Winner remains the worst song ever, Give it a go has an annoying chorus and Hold on should have been a B-side but the rest is solid. Nine really good tracks isn't bad going for them these days, it's certainly better than the two good songs on Release (Home & Dry and The Samurai in Autumn)

LeRooLeRoo is OTM about Fugitive, it might just be their best song in the last ten years or so.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 24 September 2012 06:56 (8 months ago) Permalink