reNAISSANCE
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
[you know what is a totally underrated PSB song, is "Heart"
Yeah, top 5 imo.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
I may have said this before, even on this thread, but on what planet is Suburbia even a slight misstep?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
fuck stopping this at “Liberation”
― g simmel, Thursday, 10 April 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
Ha everytime I see this thread I think the same thing. I love "Liberation".
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 April 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
'Liberation' is such an incredibly beautiful song. One of my favourites!
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 11 April 2014 06:25 (ten years ago) link
It's only in the past few months that I've begun to enjoy the single mix, which always felt tacky and overblown when compared to the album version to me. That's where I feel the misstep is.
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Friday, 11 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
I love the breakdown in the middle of the Introspective version of 'Domino Dancing' ... "ALL DAY ALL D-D-DAY D-D-DAY DDDAY" - great use of stereo panning. Sublime.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Here are my twenty-five tracks.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
My list would look very different, but great to see 'Burn' and 'Thursday' on there!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
typical quality list
― Dreadnought of chicanery (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
The only thing that sucks about these lists is that Soto seems to spend more time compiling 'em than posting here!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
good mourning Alfred!
― Dreadnought of chicanery (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican),
Maybe! I'm all over the political, book, film, and poll threads.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
Was out doing some quick grocery shopping this afternoon when I heard a familiar voice and keyboard lick playing faintly over the speakers, and after listening intently for a while to figure out what it was, it turned out to be...
...'DJ Culture'
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
dance with me
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
I always find myself forgetting about 'DJ Culture' for some reason. I think it's because I very rarely put Discography on, but then I don't have a similar issue with 'Was It Worth It?' ... it's not a song I ever hear out "in the wild" anyway, so it was a real surprise.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
"Was It Worth It" is by far the best song and one of their least heralded great songs -- Tennant's unofficial coming out record.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
It's very cleverly done because it's only apparent if you're really paying attention. Like the second verse in which he acknowledges that he's in love with a guy and it's changed his life and he regrets it not happening much sooner, or later on in the song with "I reserve the right to live my life this way and I don't give a damn when I hear people say I'll pay the price that others pay" ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
It sure sounds to me like "then he smiled and I was lost" instead of you, too.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
that's how I heard it for years
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I think it's a better lyric/song than the later and similarly themed 'Metamorphosis', which is really on the nose. I dunno, Tennant must have thought he needed to address the subject as directly as possible after many missed it on 'Was It Worth It?' ... although there was a lot that went over people's heads as far back as Please, really.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
"Later Tonight" is explicit as he was before 1991, and no straight man would have written "Why Don't We Live Together"
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, 'Later Tonight' is so blatant!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
or later on in the song with "I reserve the right to live my life this way and I don't give a damn when I hear people say I'll pay the price that others pay" ......all of these lines rhyming with (a very implicit) “gay”
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
since nobody ever got around to it back in 2003, a poke through Discogs suggests these were Chic's first 32 US commercial A-sides:
1977 Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)1977 Everybody Dance 1978 NORMA JEAN - Saturday1978 NORMA JEAN - Having A Party [Cooke] b/w So I Get Hurt Again [Nile/Bernard]1978 NORMA JEAN - Sorceror1978 Le Freak 1978 I Want Your Love 1979 SISTER SLEDGE - He's The Greatest Dancer1979 SISTER SLEDGE - We Are Family1979 SISTER SLEDGE - Lost In Music1979 NORMA JEAN - High Society1979 Good Times 1979 My Forbidden Lover1979 My Feet Keep Dancing 1979 SISTER SLEDGE - Got To Love Somebody1979 SHEILA & B. DEVOTION - Spacer1980 SISTER SLEDGE - Reach Your Peak1980 SISTER SLEDGE - Let's Go On Vacation1980 SISTER SLEDGE - Easy Street1980 SHEILA & B. DEVOTION - Your Love Is Good1980 SHEILA & B. DEVOTION - King Of The World1980 DIANA ROSS - I'm Coming Out1980 DIANA ROSS - Upside Down1980 DIANA ROSS - My Old Piano1980 Rebels Are We1980 Real People1981 Stage Fright 1981 DEBBIE HARRY - Backfired1981 DEBBIE HARRY - The Jam Was Moving1982 Soup For One1982 CARLY SIMON - Why b/w CHIC - Why1982 Hangin'
― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 20 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
I can hear what Tennant is on about when he says it's PSB doing SAW, because the verses of 'Was It Worth It?' remind me of late '80s Kylie stuff melodically, although not so much the chorus. I could totally imagine '80s Kylie doing a rendition of it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 21 January 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
so I rank the first twenty-five to thirty...
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/ranking-pet-shop-boys-british-top-forty-singles-1985-1999/
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
Conspicuously, no Hague! (But yes Stephen Hague!) Knowing that none of those songs are necessarily bad, I can totally get with your grouping.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
Not one is less than meh, and only after a certain year. What a run.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Just about to be live on BBC2 for their headline show at Hyde Park.
― piscesx, Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07mddc9/radio-2-live-in-hyde-park-2019-radio-2-live-in-hyde-park
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Chris's hat makes him look like odious pickup artist Mystery.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
relistening to Bilingual and it's pretty much as i remember it - that is, not remembering much of it other than the stand out tracks. but rediscovered the closer, Saturday Night Forever and i think it didn't get the attention it really deserves.
that includes treatment from the boys themselves - it could be a proper disco anthem instead of what feels like an afterthought. Love To Infinity remix gets a bit closer - i wonder why it was never officially released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kms6dlWs078
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
So many old videos look like they’re viewed through ground glass, nice to be able to view them properly. Hopefully others will be remastered.
Five Pet Shop Boys music videos that have been updated with improved high definition audio and video tracks are now available to watch in a new YouTube playlist at the link below.https://t.co/Eubo2IeaTd pic.twitter.com/qN181pujNa— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) June 26, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 27 June 2020 09:02 (four years ago) link
I don't know exactly when or why this started happening, but whenever I hear the synthy intro to Bon Jovi's "Living On a Prayer," at exactly where you would expect it to be I hear a British voice intoning, "Sooner or later, this happens to everyone ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
lol
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
Taking Sides on songs with short spoken intros: "Love Comes Quickly" vs "Livin' on a Prayer" vs "Caribbean Queen"
― Vinnie, Thursday, 2 July 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
vs Modern Love.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Now imagine Neil Tennant starting "Love Comes Quickly" with "She's so awesome."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
As they did fifteen of these twenty songs last night I hold Tom's original collective judgment of their worth to be fully accurate. (DJP is still wrong about "Domino Dancing" of course -- and that was a LOUD crowd singalong.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 October 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Best bit about the news of yet another compilation; a Blu Ray with 66 videos
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pet-shop-boys-smash-the-singles-1985-2020/
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Great indeed, but my real hope is that they do a sequel/update to the amazing commentary track they did for the PopArt DVD -- and if that's not ported over somehow I'm holding onto my copy.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Hear, hear. A friend you and I have in common quote it all the time.
"Fabulous acting here."
"Unintentionally hilarious.""As ever."
"Oh, look! We're doing choreography."
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
Chris Lowe's laugh at the end of the commentary for "Somewhere" lives in my head rent-free, as does "Ah...revenge" from the "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" commentary.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
SO many highlights but Chris’s drawling, sighing “Urrgh GOD.. “ when he sees himself at the start of ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This?’ is the one that has entered my lexicon.
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
"I look TERRIBLE! Stupid hair. Dickie bow."
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
Here’s that old Pop/Art DVD commentary in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9W0NbssnI
― piscesx, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link