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)
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't think DD would make it! Pleasantly surprised.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Domino Dancing is my favourite PSB video.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wanna BE in that video!
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
21. Suburbia. (1986, Please, 205 points, 9 votes, 0 number ones)
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/5pe3YdqFq6jUc4WardZgto
RIF: Inspired by the Penelope Spheeris film of the same name.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
such pretty people
― skip, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
20. Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is) (1996, Bilingual, 215 points, 9 votes, 1 number one)
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3CDWeAFgNs5lUsPCySDSxK
RIF: The translation is incorrect and should be 'If Life Is'.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
can I just say the Deep Dish Liquid remix of this is FANTASTIC
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
think I Want To Wake Up was my number one vote... TOO LOOOOW
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
19. Home And Dry. (2002, Release, 216 points, 10 votes, 0 number ones)
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."
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
3 mins into this deep dish rmx and...woah.
― oppet, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
At this point it seem very likely that all tracks on Introspective will chart.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
18. Go West. (1993, Very, 223 points, 10 votes, 1 number one)
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3kkwL9s48fjogUXKfbLgqx
RIF: This song is played whenever SSC Napoli win a home game.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Always loved it. Wasn't it their biggest Brit hit from the album?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― skip, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
"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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's your lot for tonight. I'm up early tomorrow and need my beauty sleep. 17-1 tomorrow evening.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh I have never really "gotten" "Go West"
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is worth checkinhg out:
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
who voted for "It Always Comes As a Surprise"?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK here goes my top 10 prediction and back to work:
10 - King's Cross9 - What Have I Done To Deserve This8 - Left To My Own Devices7 - Love Comes Quickly6 - Rent 5 - Always On My Mind4 - Paninaro3 - Can You Forgive Her?2 - West End Girls1 - Being Boring
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
The miners' choir in that vid is breathtaking. xpost
― scotstvo, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really like "Se A Vida É", but it would probably come 7th or 8th for me on Bilingual. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
New York City Boy is a far superior take on the Go West theme.
― skip, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^^ agreed!
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
"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.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
That would be me. I find it a bit PSB-by-numbers and much less moving than Go West.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― skip, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
(I hate the original too so it isn't totally PSB's fault)
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've never liked Bilingual, but look forward to pulling out Nightlife and Fundamental again.
Interesting fact: PSB one of the few bands my wife and I love equally, can listen to every day, any time. It's true!
Other true fact: PSB my cousin's fave act besides Pearl Jam and Rush (!).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have never gotten "mournful" off of their version of "Go West", including the listen I just gave it to see if I'd changed my mind (I hadn't).
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
It was a really significant cultural moment here and I can't quite remember why.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you don't like go west you don't get the pet shop boys
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didn't it accompany their official coming out? That was how it was pitched over here, anyway.
also jabba is completely OffTM
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I definitely detect a tinge of sadness/hopeful melancholy in "Go West."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
;)
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
that is largely because of what Neil Tennant's voice sounds like, IMO
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can buy that. But not everything he sings is steeped in melancholy. Compare this song to something like Se a Vida, for example.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice run tonight! Bit bummed that "I Want To Wake Up" placed so low though.
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxpost It's not super obvious, context is an important part of it: The gay utopia thing gone sour because of AIDS and the fall of the Soviet Union and communism... but I sort of agree with jabba hands, it's all in Tennant's voice really.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait, how did the fall of the Soviet Union make gay utopia go sour
(I do remember subtext around HIV/AIDS now that you mention it)
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink