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Tom Angel wrote: Fri 06 Oct 2017, 6:10 pm I agree re Dancing in the Dusk, Reunion, and One-Way Street. Excellent songs.

One-Way Street works particularly well alongside Girls don't cry

It's a bloody crime (when you look the way you do) that songs like Slow Motion don't make it onto what is a sublime album (Elysium) when Winner and Hold On do)
It will be interesting to see what the PSB says about “In Slow Motion”. Especially why it was not used.


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Zog wrote: Fri 06 Oct 2017, 6:40 pm
Tom Angel wrote: Fri 06 Oct 2017, 6:10 pm I agree re Dancing in the Dusk, Reunion, and One-Way Street. Excellent songs.

One-Way Street works particularly well alongside Girls don't cry

It's a bloody crime (when you look the way you do) that songs like Slow Motion don't make it onto what is a sublime album (Elysium) when Winner and Hold On do)
It will be interesting to see what the PSB says about “In Slow Motion”. Especially why it was not used.


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I know!! Chris has vetoed some of their best tracks - and Hold on is entirely his doing.

(not that we can get too angry, as he was also responsible for about 300 other great songs that did make it! )

How many songs have they even written now?
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When the next set of Further Listening's are released shortly we can then all compile our own 'Elysium' or whichever album sequence we so desire.. No..?? 8)
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So far, in slow motion is my favorite demo out of the new fl releases. Imagine the great album they could have done by finishing and packing these songs together.

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jules wrote: Sun 08 Oct 2017, 1:50 pm So far, in slow motion is my favorite demo out of the new fl releases. Imagine the great album they could have done by finishing and packing these songs together.
I agree. I was thinking that the other day. Actually, that might make an interesting forum question:


- Select some of the “new” tracks, and create a fantasy PSB album.

- Mimimum of 10 tracks, and a maximum of 12.

- Arrange those tracks into a good order, with a what you think might be the best album opener, etc.

- Rinse, and repeat.

- Ignore the above attempt at humour.



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Love Hold On.

This track is good, but I wouldn't replace Hold On. Add it as an extra track, but I quite like it buried as extra material too.

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Wonderful track. This is my favourite PSB 'flavour' ... moody, melancholy .... MORE of this please!
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#39 Post by chrissyboy »

So, they choose Your Early Stuff, Ego Music and Hold On over this. You could not not make it up. Do they pick songs out of a hat for an album?

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Admittedly they aren't that good at compiling album setlists, but I don't know if ISM would have suited Elysium. That album had a skeletal sound, and even at a demo stage the song sounds too "beefy" for that, just as "A face like that" sounds out of place on the record.

Beefy, Pet Shop Boys. :mrgreen:
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chrissyboy wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:27 am So, they choose Your Early Stuff, Ego Music and Hold On over this. You could not not make it up. Do they pick songs out of a hat for an album?
I'm really bored with people dissing the above three songs. They're excellent, particularly Hold on and Your early stuff. Can someone please explain what is wrong with them? They're melodic, witty, sincere, heartfelt.

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daveid wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:57 am
chrissyboy wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:27 am So, they choose Your Early Stuff, Ego Music and Hold On over this. You could not not make it up. Do they pick songs out of a hat for an album?
I'm really bored with people dissing the above three songs. They're excellent, particularly Hold on and Your early stuff. Can someone please explain what is wrong with them? They're melodic, witty, sincere, heartfelt.
Hear, hear. Your early stuff is one of my favourites on the album. Some people seem to really hate humour in lyrics whereas I love it.

As regards Zog's challenge, I was already planning to do that, minus the 12 song maximum length stipulation.

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daveid wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:57 am
chrissyboy wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:27 am So, they choose Your Early Stuff, Ego Music and Hold On over this. You could not not make it up. Do they pick songs out of a hat for an album?
I'm really bored with people dissing the above three songs. They're excellent, particularly Hold on and Your early stuff. Can someone please explain what is wrong with them? They're melodic, witty, sincere, heartfelt.
It's subjective isn't it. I simply can't stand Ego Music or Hold On. I don't find the former witty, I find it irritating, nor do I find the latter sincere or heartfelt, just awkward and cloying. Whereas I think In Slow Motion is lyrically interesting and musically gorgeous. Mind you, I'm a big fan of Winner and I would take Fundamental over Electric or Super any day, so I am very much in the minority around here!

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daveid wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:57 am
chrissyboy wrote: Wed 11 Oct 2017, 8:27 am So, they choose Your Early Stuff, Ego Music and Hold On over this. You could not not make it up. Do they pick songs out of a hat for an album?
I'm really bored with people dissing the above three songs. They're excellent, particularly Hold on and Your early stuff. Can someone please explain what is wrong with them? They're melodic, witty, sincere, heartfelt.
Nothing wrong with those tracks. People seems to want a thematically brooding album. They've never done this, though. The closest they've come is maybe Fundamental and Behaviour, but they still mix it up enormously. I doubt they'd ever release an album that was monotone.

Do like Slow Motion, though.

I have a theory that they limit the number of miserable "declarations of how I feel about life" songs on an album.... they seem to write them easily..... Probably why Always fell to the side, as good as it was.

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#45 Post by glennjridge »

I totally wish a study could have been done. I suspect had these little demos made it to the final recordings and the songs that actually did had been reversed, alot of you would be saying the same thing about these tracks....ie I cant believe they put "in slow motion" on and left off "face like that". personally save for "Ring road" I think the majority of the songs show exactly why they werent selected.

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