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by Lush
Tue 08 Jun 2021, 8:22 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Their saddest songs
Replies: 62
Views: 13942

Re: Their saddest songs

Your Funny Uncle", obviously. As Drico said, sadness is what they do. That, and regret. Those few PSB songs where those qualities are missing, are the ones that do not work. "Pop Kids" is an excellent example of a song that is just someone reminiscing about the good old days until the...
by Lush
Mon 25 May 2020, 2:18 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Desert Island Decades: Your Ten Essential Tracks
Replies: 46
Views: 7254

Re: Desert Island Decades: Your Ten Essential Tracks

Interesting exercise.... 1980s West End Girls In the Night Suburbia (The Full Horror) It’s a Sin What Have I Done to Deserve This? Left to My Own Devices (Album version) Domino Dancing Always On My Mind Do I have to? Your Funny Uncle 1990s This Must be the Place I waited Years to Leave So Hard Can Y...
by Lush
Tue 05 May 2020, 11:39 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Review: the most common thought from a non PSB fan about the PSB discography
Replies: 27
Views: 7279

Re: Review: the most common thought from a non PSB fan about the PSB discography

minimal wrote: Wed 29 Apr 2020, 2:16 pm (i.e. objectively it's far from being their best work)

Just out of curiosity: What scale of measurement do you apply to OBJECTIVELY rate albums, thus arriving at the conclusion above? I am genuinely intrigued.
by Lush
Mon 20 Apr 2020, 12:22 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Your choices: the debut album that might have been ...
Replies: 20
Views: 4938

Re: Your choices: the debut album that might have been ...

In my opinion, "Please" IS an absolutely stupendous debut and - by some distance - the best debut album of all time (even if I don't consider it the best PSB album). The song writing was top-notch, and the production was fresh and inspired.
by Lush
Wed 15 Apr 2020, 7:20 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: A PSB-related easter egg just where you'd least expect it
Replies: 3
Views: 1942

A PSB-related easter egg just where you'd least expect it

...at left back, to be specific. I am assuming the journalist was listening to "Hotspot" when he wrote that :D

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by Lush
Fri 13 Sep 2019, 7:03 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Rate "Dreamland"
Replies: 128
Views: 27135

Re: Rate

Exactly. People are confusing infectious beat and the fact that it's new with it being a great song. Sure it may make your toes tap and your knees jiggle but so does St. Vitus dance. It doesn't even sound like a PSB song. It sounds the same as everything else does now, a song by someone or other bu...
by Lush
Thu 05 Sep 2019, 8:40 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: 21st Century Boys
Replies: 19
Views: 5259

Re: 21st Century Boys

Drico One wrote: Wed 04 Sep 2019, 10:11 pm Poor old Dale is long since gone, swept away in the Grim Reaper's trolley dash of fate, Dotmusic is a mere memory after a botched revamp, and BlueSwan are as defunct as a Michael Jackson playlist. Musical differences, I'm told.
:lol: Brilliant. Just brilliant.
by Lush
Mon 26 Aug 2019, 8:06 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: 38 years ago today
Replies: 10
Views: 3200

Re: 38 years ago today

In the days before Grindr, guys hooked up in electronic stores? Crazy times. Cruised, I guess, not hooked up! That'd be wild even for ths 80s. I always thought this story sounded ridiculous but seeing how many times they've told it over the last 30+ years without any details changed it must be true...
by Lush
Fri 21 Jun 2019, 8:36 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Today I listened to Elysium for the first time since 2012...
Replies: 53
Views: 22377

Re: Today I listened to Elysium for the first time since 2012...

Elysium is a beautifully produced album desperately looking for a good song. Which is why a lot of people like the instrumentals. There isn't a decent song on it, but Dawson did a dynamite job trying to salvage something.
by Lush
Fri 02 Nov 2018, 10:59 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Dricography: Ranking Introspective
Replies: 46
Views: 16631

Re: Dricography: Ranking Introspective

The album versions "Domino Dancing" and "Left to My Own Devices" in each their fashion are Pet Shop Boys at their majestic, incomparable best. Left to my own devices was probably PSB at the height of their creative power. The magnificent build-up, the meandering lyrics, the thump...
by Lush
Fri 19 Oct 2018, 9:12 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Dricography: Ranking Introspective
Replies: 46
Views: 16631

Re: Dricography: Ranking Introspective

When the album came out, I was finding it difficult to get my head around Always on my mind/IMH. Then in the early 00s, at Kasper Lauest's insistence (does anyone remember him?), I listened to it again and realized that it's a career highlight. THAT moment, when Chris Lowe's definitive mega-riff com...
by Lush
Thu 18 Oct 2018, 9:35 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Dricography: Ranking Introspective
Replies: 46
Views: 16631

Re: Dricography: Ranking Introspective

Had Trevor Horn not made a complete mess out of It's Alright, Introspective would have been a great candidate for best album ever. As it is, it will only rank second for me.
by Lush
Thu 18 Oct 2018, 9:26 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Dricography: Ranking Very
Replies: 21
Views: 9151

Re: Dricography: Ranking Very

joe stalin wrote: Sun 07 Oct 2018, 5:54 pm I presume the last two are
2) Can you Forgive Her
1) Young Offender

And I wouldn’t argue with that one bit
Can You Forgive Her? will be number one, obviously. Drico is a sensible man 8)
by Lush
Sun 10 Sep 2017, 9:24 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: 30 years of Actually
Replies: 30
Views: 11203

Re: 30 years of Actually

Still the greatest album of all time.
by Lush
Tue 15 Nov 2016, 9:49 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: The wedding
Replies: 6
Views: 2222

Re: The wedding

And so? Or this just in case people on this forum do not check the official site? FYI, I don't usually check the official site daily. In fact I sometimes go a week or more without checking the official site. Hard to believe, I know. So I appreciated this posting. Rest assured though, if I did not ....