Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results

24. Young Offender. (1993, Very, 194 points, 7 votes, 1 number one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNdfweCLbws

http://open.spotify.com/track/2mW9NoDYvVCz4wxixsGYjf

RIF: This pisses over the track with the same title by New Order.

This almost made my list, really love this song but I already had five songs from Very in my list.

So far, only 3 songs from my ballot.

I'll do what you want if you want me enough
I'll put down my book and start falling in love

Next up, a song we've already had.

23. I'm Not Scared. (1988, Introspective, 195 points, 8 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dj3ymyCl3s

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1nBb2RD977IqXEY3yWxjBW

RIF: Written by Tennant after successfully overcoming his agoraphobia.

daavid, I put Fugitive high on my ballot so you never know.

Only paid attention to Young offender after people were hyping it for the poll. Like it a lot.

Awesome. I voted for most of this batch. But... inexplicably, I'm not sure I've ever even heard "Flamboyant" before!!!

xpost: would never have guessed there was this much love for "I'm Not Scared" in any of its incarnations.

I'm Not Scared my number 5, Young Offender my number 2.

xxpost fingers crossed!

"I'm Not Scared" so far my favourite song on the list

Dan, look away now.

22. Domino Dancing. (1988, Introspective, 195 points, 10 votes, 0 number one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2YF05iX2w

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/2ttsl8yf9YJhlHEUKobmeJ

RIF: Their last US Top 40 single.

The version of "I'm Not Scared" on Introspective is majestic in the right way. Love the rising and falling sequencer line.

Lots of Introspective in the last few tracks. My favorite PSB album but I think I only voted for WEG and Domino Dancing.

omfg

it didn't make the top 20

really really really happy (because I knew it was going to show up; I was dreading a top 5 finish)

I didn't think DD would make it! Pleasantly surprised.

Domino Dancing is my favourite PSB video.

I wanna BE in that video!

21. Suburbia. (1986, Please, 205 points, 9 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCqAjYO3NM

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/5pe3YdqFq6jUc4WardZgto

RIF: Inspired by the Penelope Spheeris film of the same name.

such pretty people

20. Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is) (1996, Bilingual, 215 points, 9 votes, 1 number one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dV59MEc_o

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3CDWeAFgNs5lUsPCySDSxK

RIF: The translation is incorrect and should be 'If Life Is'.

can I just say the Deep Dish Liquid remix of this is FANTASTIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exv_HdcnU6o

think I Want To Wake Up was my number one vote... TOO LOOOOW

Domino Dancing RIF (#2): Title inspired by Chris being upset from losing at dominoes. Never thought of this before but the line "...or are you just a bad loser" is probably a reference to that.

19. Home And Dry. (2002, Release, 216 points, 10 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ossii9Ipiv4

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/0ZlVW64JVzh7QXKAwfza1t

RIF: Chris's spoken "We're going home" near the end of the song is a conscious nod to Paul McCartney's matching spoken words at the end of the Beatles track "Two of Us."

3 mins into this deep dish rmx and...woah.

yeah! tbh this was the first version of "Se A Vida E" I heard and is what I always think of when I think of the song

At this point it seem very likely that all tracks on Introspective will chart.

Huh. Only three of my songs have placed so far. Seems to be the way with me and polls - my choices either make up most of the top 20 or don't appear at all.

18. Go West. (1993, Very, 223 points, 10 votes, 1 number one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5M

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3kkwL9s48fjogUXKfbLgqx

RIF: This song is played whenever SSC Napoli win a home game.

Glad to see something from Bilingual show up. I never knew people rated "Se A Vida É". Was it it's inclusion on the last tour that helped it? (x-post)

Always loved it. Wasn't it their biggest Brit hit from the album?

Nice video too, filmed in Florida.

I rank Se A Vida E behind the first three songs on Bilingual but it's a solid track. Funny how closely the first few tracks on Bilingual mirror Nightlife, with #4 being a total dud.

IIRC ppl have been all about "Se A Vida E" since it came out (that was why I originally sought it out, which lead me to that Deep Dish remix)

"Home and Dry" was one of only 3 21st century choices for me. One-phrase-repeated choruses always have the potential to annoy but this keeps on giving. Hadn't seen this video until this week though. Fabulousness.

That's your lot for tonight. I'm up early tomorrow and need my beauty sleep. 17-1 tomorrow evening.

tbh I have never really "gotten" "Go West"

Se A Vida É is a lovely song and so much better than Before which is a contender for my least favourite single of theirs.

I really don't understand the appeal of Home & Dry, it's the first song in the list I'm pretty disappointed to see place.

This is worth checkinhg out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M10gkdP6tt4

who voted for "It Always Comes As a Surprise"?

OK here goes my top 10 prediction and back to work:

10 - King's Cross
9 - What Have I Done To Deserve This
8 - Left To My Own Devices
7 - Love Comes Quickly
6 - Rent
5 - Always On My Mind
4 - Paninaro
3 - Can You Forgive Her?
2 - West End Girls
1 - Being Boring

The miners' choir in that vid is breathtaking. xpost

I really like "Se A Vida É", but it would probably come 7th or 8th for me on Bilingual. (x-post)

New York City Boy is a far superior take on the Go West theme.

^^^^ agreed!

"New York City Boy" got a fair amount of airplay here -- without checking I think it's their biggest American crossover hit since the early nineties -- but I know a lot of rong people who think it's rather tacky.

That would be me. I find it a bit PSB-by-numbers and much less moving than Go West.

I don't understand that at all. There really isn't anything about "Go West" that doesn't make me roll my eyes to the point of sprain.

As someone in a (superficially) similar life situation as the video's main character when the track came out, I don't have a problem with the tacky obvious parts of New York City Boy. But it sure isn't the most subtle thing in the world. With Go West, the listener does get to fill in the blanks a little.

(I hate the original too so it isn't totally PSB's fault)

You have to at least give them credit for taking a genuinely joyful and optimistic track and turning into something rather mournful without actually changing much.