Dark end of the hidden cameras

[verbow79]

I thought PSB had said that Chris came up with the idea of covering Dark end of the street, only to notice that Neil’s friend Joel Gibb did the same song in 2016….coincidence?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xql0X4VDKOo

[Sandy Shaw]

I thought PSB had said that Chris came up with the idea of covering Dark end of the street, only to notice that Neil’s friend Joel Gibb did the same song in 2016….coincidence?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xql0X4VDKOo

Maybe not!

I've borrowed your subject title to make a playlist! I may change the list to "Dark End of the Hidden Pets"!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hGRe ... 0nD3YRE1dg

[DopeFiend]

It's an Annually, the decision came from viewing a poster.

The final new song is a cover of "The dark end of the street", a song written in 1966 by songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman, and first recorded by the southern soul singer James Carr. Chris discovered it when watching a documentary about the post-hippie-era music enclave in the Californian community of Laurel Canyon. Even the way he discovered the documentary involved some happenstance: "There's a room in Warner's where we sit and have a coffee and a KitKat when we're there for work, and there was a poster for it on the wall and I thought: I'll watch that sometime." When he finally did watch, what Chris took from it wasn't all their mellow soft rock explorations but that "they all cite this old r'n'b record, which I'd never heard before". He liked it enough that he made a demo and sent it to Neil. "No one's done it quite like us,"
says Chris.
"It's always been done very, very, very slow," says Neil, "and we've sped it up a lot. Then Anne Dudley did, at the same session as for the 'Young dudes', the string arrangement. It's got this great disco string arrangement - it's absolutely fantastic."
"It was great watching her," says Chris. "This English rose conducting disco strings."
"It's is a classic Pet Shop Boys record," Neil agrees. "I love the lyrics. Particularly the way we've done it. It's got this heartbroken quality. The middle bit's the best bit, I think."

Though it's interesting reading this with the context that The Hidden Cameras covered it.
They literally speak about how others have covered it. I'm sure they would have heard this version.

Nice spot.

[Tom Angel]

There's no doubt in my mind that they should have released this instead of the risible Dudes - does anyone love that song?

Dark end is maybe their third best cover version in the mould of Always on my mind rather than Somewhere . It's a another missed opportunity letting it languish on the nonetheless extras ..