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Not that you can copyright a bassline apparently, but I reckon that if only the chords were nicked, it would be a much more subtle rip off.

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It's quite an obvious addition to the topic, but Cicero warrants a mention.

Oh, and the Pound Shop Boys of course.

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Greetings, I notice that some artists are releasing old singles in either digital formats (e.g. Madonna) or pressing remastered versions of the original era 12" singles (e.g. New Order). Do you expect Pet Shop Boys to do likewise? And if they do it, do you expect them to just recreate the earli...

I can't believe they included In Depth on there. Why include a Japanese compilation EP? And if In Depth must be there, where's Mini?

Very random.

Greetings, Jordan Peterson's analysis of the hierarchy in lobsters seems pertinent to this point I think Neil just threw up in his mouth reading someone suggest Jordan Peterson might be pertinent to anything at all. Given that Neil wrote "Love Is A Bourgeois Construct", which juxtaposes th...

Greetings, I've listened to it once and that will probably do me for now. Not sure whether I absorbed the intended message or not, but to me it communicates that although there is impermanence in all things, some things persist far longer than we would like, and that whilst they may be impermanent, ...

Greetings, I agree with those who say that it shouldn't have been touched. Imagine how peeved you would be as a US fan to find out you got a scrappy collection of edits and b-sides, and that the UK got the superior and intended version of the album with the full length tracks? It would really make y...

Greetings, On a side note, this is the first time I remember an Annually book being "re-promoted"... normally it's sold out before release without that. Could it be that postage costs and living expenses are hitting hard, or might we be expecting Lost to become a multi-format release, wort...

Greetings, Here we go again. Neil has stated in a rather vague and preliminary way what it's about, from his side. I see no benefit in anyone quarreling over differences in their own political perspectives. Surely we can wait until we find out what the lyrics are, and then maybe have a meaningful an...

Greetings, Interesting. Postage makes it prohibitive for me, but a Pethead in Europe might want to get onto securing themselves a copy of the 12" before that starts getting pricey too. I've got a vinyl rip of the 12" and musically, you're not missing out on much as it's a pretty awkward ha...

Greetings, But Nightlife and Bilingual both had some exceptional pop moments. I don't see them as "decline" Compared to the near faultlessness of Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour and Very, it's hard not to. Obviously taste is a subjective matter, but I'd be quite confident that i...

Greetings Dog, I know what you are saying, but I think Release should be credited as the moment they reset, ready to rebuild. I hear you, but given that the "rebuild" checked in immediately afterwards via Miracles, Flamboyant, their remixes of Yoko Ono's Walking On Thin Ice (note that ther...

Greetings, I've said it before, but for me Disco 3 was a very significant release because it arrested the period of decline and inconsistency that had effectively commenced the moment after Very was put on the record store shelves, 10 years prior. Taking advantage of the back-to-basics sound ushered...

Greetings, International postage to Australia was a bit of a killer - I rationalised it by thinking of the book as the "purchase price" and the CD as the "postage price". But after giving the previous edition a miss due to the lack of a CD, it looks like I'm back on the Annually ...

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The 7" version sounds like walking through a swanky furniture store, and the music doesn't even remotely fit the lyrical themes.

The Alternative version (and the 12" version) have the appropriate hardness and street edge.

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