When I was obsessed with Behaviour in 1990, How can you expect to be taken seriously? always stuck out for three reasons. Firstly, it was the spikiest track on the album that wasn't So hard. Secondly, it burnished my sense that Pet Shop Boys were the good guys, the band whose identity I could absorb...

A song about not blowing your load early when you’re at an orgy is the height of pop music? lol. As mentioned earlier, Frankie had four fantastic singles - all great records. But not one of them was a great song (though The Power of Love is arguable, despite the vaguely ludicrous Hooded Claw line)....

Poor Holly. Whatever you think of FGTH - and I think four of their singles were magnificent - he didn't make better records than Pet Shop Boys or Bronski Beat. Because even if you feel those Frankie records were "better", they were made by Trevor Horn. Regardless, to say It's a sin, West E...

Feel is such a beautiful sentimental song, full of good vibes, good intentions, and magnificent tuneage.

It just floats along effortlessly, lifting spirits as it flies.

It's lovely to see them release a song like this as a single.

Drico.

Dancing star would trouble my top 40, Loneliness too. I rate the latter at much the same level as I don't know what you want but I can't give it anymore, in that it's a slightly underrated gem that will likely stand the test of time. The album as a whole, however, does very little for me, which is d...

When I saw Performance in Dublin in 1991 as a teenager, I went with my beloved brother, grievously missed to this day. Last night, in Berlin, for Dreamworld, I went with my better half and our 11-year-old son. Generations will come and go... There's something comforting in the Pet Shop Boys as a con...

I'm with stupid appears on Now Millennium 2006-2007 out on June 14:

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Drico.

Only a laugh, no harm done. Just testing the new spoiler functionality. If you wish to use it, the following text will allow you to add a "spoiler" including title text: [ spoiler title="Name of the spoiler"] This is your hidden text [ /spoiler ] To work, you cannot have any spa...

symco wrote: ↑Fri 03 May 2024, 8:03 pm I wonder how many places it will drop next week?

It doesn't really matter. Last week's number 2 - by Pearl Jam - is now at number 123. Last week's number 5 - by UB40 - is now at number 176 - both having sold about 1.5k this week.

Music Week: Ahead of Swift on the first couple of sales flashes but never in with a real chance of becoming No.1, because of her far superior streaming power, the Pet Shop Boys’ new set, Nonetheless (No.2, 22,419 sales) nonetheless gave the veteran synth-pop duo their highest chart position since co...

Nice, Steffen. Thanks for this.

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Shopping and Rent represent the thematic heart of Actually. The conspicuous consumption of Shopping - where everything's for sale - provides the societal backdrop to the complex interpersonal relationship that characterises Rent. I love you; You pay my rent: Love as a monetary transaction, the logic...