Best of the worst

[Gary1962]

Ok pop pickers here is my Top 20 Best of the Worst, a selection that would be ideal to play if you want to torture someone:

What Keeps Mankind Alive
If Love Were All
Saturday Night Forever
Boy Strange
Silver Age
The Former Enfant Terrible
Legacy
Together
Winner
Ego Music
Hold On
Shouting In The Evening
Bolshy
Thursday
Happiness
The Pop Kids
Groovy
Pazzo!
Monkey Business
Wedding In Berlin

[tottenhammattspurs]

Ok pop pickers here is my Top 20 Best of the Worst, a selection that would be ideal to play if you want to torture someone:

What Keeps Mankind Alive
If Love Were All
Saturday Night Forever
Boy Strange
Silver Age
The Former Enfant Terrible
Legacy
Together
Winner
Ego Music
Hold On
Shouting In The Evening
Bolshy
Thursday
Happiness
The Pop Kids
Groovy
Pazzo!
Monkey Business
Wedding In Berlin

Wow! You really didn't like Electric did you!!

[Gary1962]

No, it is an album I just cannot get into at all, my least favourite PSB album by a country mile.

[jasonjohn]

So weird that people keep putting Breathing Space on their lists. One of their best songs.

I agree.

Absolutely. It's an incredibly sweet track, and the production is rich, Neils vocals so warm.

Although Chris has said he had nothing to do with the track, but he may of been understating things.

[TallThinMan]

So weird that people keep putting Breathing Space on their lists. One of their best songs.

I agree.

Absolutely. It's an incredibly sweet track, and the production is rich, Neils vocals so warm.

Although Chris has said he had nothing to do with the track, but he may of been understating things.

He’s got a co-write credit, so he must have turned up at some point!

[OakeyDokey]

How could you hate The Pop Kids?!

[jasonjohn]

I agree.

Absolutely. It's an incredibly sweet track, and the production is rich, Neils vocals so warm.

Although Chris has said he had nothing to do with the track, but he may of been understating things.

He’s got a co-write credit, so he must have turned up at some point!

Yeah exactly, but I wonder if that's just a blanket album credit?

I'm just repeating what he said in an interview, can't remember what one though.

In any case, I agree he would of been understating his work as he generally does.

[jyllinge]

I dont have any worst...Its all best - I deeply respect the art they (Chris and Neil) create and the efforts they put into the work.

It all depends on my mood and season etc. I do have PSB favorits but even those can have a very long break while I explore new musical territory.

Sometimes I have weird playlist - right now I listen to the Finish 2023 Eurovision song "Cha Cha Cha" by Käärijä (in Finnish) its brilliant production. mixed with Cicero "weekender" and then I go for Langi Seli og Skuggarnir "OK" - last in Icelandic. And then back to a few PSB songs. Oh Ludovico Einaudi "Elements" is brilliant as well.. Just saying it all depends on mood and feelings and season.

One thing for sure -Pet Shop Boys always shows up in my playlist somehow.

[Tentenlad]

By the way, does anyone know how many songs the boys have released? I am guessing it must be around 320? That would mean I am not keen on just 6 percent of their work.
Nobody will ever topple the boys from being my favourite source of music, anyone else I like doesn’t come close to that level of perfection!

[Dog]

By the way, does anyone know how many songs the boys have released? I am guessing it must be around 320? That would mean I am not keen on just 6 percent of their work.
Nobody will ever topple the boys from being my favourite source of music, anyone else I like doesn’t come close to that level of perfection!

I make it 309


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[britboy]

If this is the best of the worst then where's the rest of the worst?

[davidctecno]

01 To face the truth
02 My October Symphony ( sorry I don´t like...)
03 Saturday Night Forever
04 Strange Boy
05 Footsteps
06 The night I fall in Love
07 You choose
08 For all of us
09 Friendly fire
10 Tall thin men
11 If love were all
12 Silver age
13 Luna Park
14 Casanova In Hell
15 Indefinitive leave to remain
16 One way street
17 King Of Rome
18 Legacy
19 I cry for us
20 Breathing space
21 Hold on
22 Give it a go
23 Requiem in denim and leopardskin
24 The last to die
25 Groovy
26 You are the one
27 Wedding in Berlin
28 Odd Man Out
29 Wiedersehen
30 New boy

[domino]

I hope they'll search for the 20 most hated tracks in this topic and perform an one-off-concert with these. I would actually go there, not only for I'd like to see "What Keeps Mankind Alive" as an encore.

[MikeyC]

If this is the best of the worst then where's the rest of the worst?

Sounds like a couple of New Order releases waiting to happen!

[alternativeformat]

Love that song ! My favorite track of Fundamental !

What do you like about it?

It's a great story and the song is in three movements, three very different parts combined into one, a great work of art.

I like that, hearing "I made my excuses and left" in three movements. It's always an affecting moment for me when the violin arrives at the end of the middle part to unfurl the deceptively simple melody we last heard in the opening, via Chris's Kermit-y voice singing into his phone recorder, "I'm all alone again. I'm all alone". It feels notable to me that arguably the most emotionally naked lines in their catalog are uttered by Chris. Those ones in "Excuses" pair up for me with the ones in "We came from outer space": "Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me. I love you". That heartbreaking plea in the midst of such a daffy song always chokes me up.

As for "Breathing space", it is indeed another lovely song. I always question that it didn't make the cut on my Elixir pairing of Elysium and Electric, but "Give it a go" made a better fit in the overall feel; between those two songs, I believe "Breathing space" has the edge for me. Listening to it again, it feels like a precursor to "Into thin air". Neil is always singing about escapes, though, of course.

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