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Well, doing a kickass dance album was quite necessary after Yes, TMIT and Elysium. Why? "Yes" had plenty of dance. Their first albums that were summarised by Discography were far from pure dance, and those are the foundations. Electric is on it's own so far. Relentless and Disco are cousins, but no...

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It'd be a good thing, but without EMI's financial support he's probably too expensive now.

Well, doing a kickass dance album was quite necessary after Yes, TMIT and Elysium. Yet, to stretch that direction across two or three albums you'd really need a different approach on every "chapter", but from the point of view of a fan it's hard to tell what's left to explore with SP. Did he ever us...

I mean it just looks like SP isn't that great at "reading" the songs themselves, their peculiarities. It's just one big "ok, let's put some more distortion on vocals" after the other, basically. It works with blatant bangers and some live rearrangements, but with lighter and pop stuff it's just a me...

I don't know, Drico. The idea behind the "trilogy" seems to be "ok, let's beef up every single song we have", which was fine at first - but when it came to Super, it felt like subtlety went completely out of the window. "Into thin air" sounds like some 2001 Saint Ken remix of "Two divided by zero".

So, are we all particularly excited with the perspective of a third Stuart Price produced album? To be honest I'm a little uncertain. Electric was a career highlight, but hearing it now some of its strength might come from it being a reaction to its anemic predecessor. And Super never really worked ...

I think PSB could think about the possibility of a new political album and according to the sources this is a political song. Looks like this song is really good. An anthemic song really. It could be the new "Integral". If PSB think this is a good song, they are going to save it to themselves. More...

The plot thickens .... http://www.popbuzz.com/music/artists/years-and-years/sanctify-lyrics-meaning/ One of the major collabs that had been rumoured for the album was legendary duo Pet Shop Boys who were said to have written a song together but as of yet, the band are not sure exactly when we might...

I quite like "Magical Mystery Tour", which is generally dismissed as rubbish. On the other hand I've never seen the appeal of "Sgt. Pepper's", I find it really contrived and cheesy.

I don't get any similarity with "Suburbia", but on a side note the blueprint for "Billie Jean" is obviously "Moskow Diskow" by Telex.

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I reckon we on this forum probably know the boys so well now that we could probably pose a few random music related questions and respond pretty accurately in the style of Neil and Chris [emoji38] Yeah, this kind of article always makes me think it's no wonder successful bands can't be bothered wit...

Hi there! Perth houses the lovely Crawley Edge Boatshed, would like to visit that one day...

She's probably rather hard to work with - didn't Chris once call her "pushy" or something like that?

Drico's quite right. The only other band I can compare with PSB, in terms of musical mood swings and bipolar dichotomy between gloom and euphoria, is probably The Cure. Back on topic, I think the longer nature of songs on Electric balanced the limitations of Price's production, which otherwise tends...