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 20th December 2017, 07:49 PM
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 So I recently made myself a sort of best of PSB album and I've been listening to it lots and lots since it's aural birth. After all these listens I'm going to put them forward as quite possibly the act that has the best potential set of hits for a best of ever. 01 Left To My Own Devices 02 It's a Sin 03 What Have I Done To Deserve This? 04 Rent 05 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) 06 Suburbia 07 Always On My Mind 08 Losing My Mind 09 So Hard 10 Can You Forgive Her? 11 Minimal 12 The Pop Kids 13 The Way It Used To Be 14 Being Boring 15 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More 16 A Red Letter Day 17 Integral 18 It's Alright 19 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) 20 DJ Culture 21 West End Girls 22 Go West 23 Love Etc. 24 Heart 25 Domino Dancing 26 The Theatre 27 Flamboyant 28 Leaving 29 I Want To Wake Up 30 Jealousy Honestly that is such a great album. I know they're quite fondly thought of amongst music fans but it has struck me while going through their tracks just how consistently great they have been over a very long period of time... maybe a rate is in order sometime soon? This post has been edited by dandy*: 20th December 2017, 07:57 PM |
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20th December 2017, 08:01 PM
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Oh yes,one of my favourite groups. There will be plenty of Pet Shop Boys songs in my top 1000.
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20th December 2017, 08:16 PM
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That's certainly an impressive track listing. It's a pity they don't have hits any more
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20th December 2017, 08:21 PM
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Mansonette
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It is indeed. The Pop Kids was perfectly radio friendly (well, sort of) and deserved to be a hit - and I think the theme really worked in the song too, sort of like a more upbeat Being Boring. In fact, their lyrics are often really very vivid and descriptive of subjects that other bands just never sing about, I really do love them
 Also... feel free to suggest things I've missed off as I'm not totally familiar with everything they've ever done... This post has been edited by dandy*: 20th December 2017, 08:24 PM |
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20th December 2017, 09:12 PM
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Right in front of my salad?!
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Their best tracks for me are are What Have I Done To Deserve This and Rent. I love ...Actually so much, classic.
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20th December 2017, 09:34 PM
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Did they break through in 1985? If so I'm looking forward to totp performances in the coming year!
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20th December 2017, 09:56 PM
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A rate would be fab
 - I'm still sitting on a quickie rate notion (never get the time, but in the new year I go part-time hooray!). PSB are easily my top rated act of the last 32 years, consistent throughout, that level of quality is rare for that length of time, and they can do any genre of music - anyone who thinks they all sound the same hasn't listened properly!Overall, I rate them up there with Beatles and Abba as my holy trinity of pop. Tracks not on your list that I love dearly: You Only Tell Me Me You Love Me When You're Drunk Liberation Numb Nothing Has Been Proved (Dusty) Daydreamin' (Dusty) I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing Se E Vide Es Hallo Spaceboy (Bowie/PSB's) Hit And Miss Single Footsteps Miracles Girls Don't Cry More Than A Dream All Over The World I Started A Joke Burn Say It To Me Plenty more though |
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21st December 2017, 04:15 PM
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Loue psb especially their early stuff. Always on my mind was 1st single i ever bought also bought Heart. Losing my mind was by liza manelli produced by psb, bought that too!
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28th January 2018, 03:17 PM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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Its Alright on listening to it now sounds quite Inner City-esque. Very good track.
Heart is one of the only dancey sounding hits in 1988 that wasn't acid house. Most synthpop groups seem to have stopped making dancey songs when acid house became a big trend in 1988 apart from the Pet Shop Boys. |
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28th January 2018, 03:47 PM
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Mansonette
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Good spot The Snake... It's Alright is actually a cover of a house track so your senses are on point!
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6th February 2018, 07:47 PM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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QUOTE(dandy* @ Jan 28 2018, 03:47 PM)  Good spot The Snake... It's Alright is actually a cover of a house track so your senses are on point! Didn't know it was a cover!  Yep the cover of It's Alright by The Pet Shop Boys is house I think, whereas Heart is still the Hi-NRG genre I think (although I don't know). The use of crowd noise in a part of It's Alright is a bit ahead of its time, before the main trend of that in rave music in 1991 started! This post has been edited by The Snake : 6th February 2018, 07:50 PM |
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