Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless

[tottenhammattspurs]

The nine and a half minute mix is better.

[jasonjohn]

There's something incredible emblematic about having Marr riding shotgun here, too.

Marr was just happy to play the Smiths. Pretenders and Roxy probably found him first for pop collaboration.

But with PSB, he really found a second home (and then later Electronic of course!).

It just works, even if at the time some rock purists could of felt betrayed

[Gabby]

If you grew up in the 70s and 80s in the British public school system, and were a bit of a social outcast, this one really resonates.

[Leonidas]

As a teenager, This Must Be... was my least favourite track on Behaviour, it's now one of my favourites.

Julian Mendelsohn's 7 minute extended mix is majestic (seek it out if you haven't heard it). How this version somehow didn't make it to the further listening disc is a glaring oversight !

9/10

This JM mix I’ve never heard of! I can’t find it on YouTube, would appreciate if someone can send a link.

[petshopgrrl]

I only wish I hadn’t learned that Sunblest is a brand of white bread; I always imagined it as something more mysterious!

I was already familiar with the brand of bread from my 1970s childhood, but for ages I thought “surely he can’t mean that?” so assumed it was some kind of Catholic religious thing!

Ladies and gentlemen, Neil Tennant in all his guilty Catholic wordsmithing glory. Who else could make your breakfast toast sound so ominous and foreboding?

This song takes pride of place on my moody playlist of songs to wallow in in the dark. So evocative that I can practically smell the floor polish of the main hall and feel the fog drifting across the lacrosse pitch at my alma mater. Can't be many of us that haven't had a dream about being in an exam that you haven't revised for.

[Pinhead44]

As a teenager, This Must Be... was my least favourite track on Behaviour, it's now one of my favourites.

Julian Mendelsohn's 7 minute extended mix is majestic (seek it out if you haven't heard it). How this version somehow didn't make it to the further listening disc is a glaring oversight !

9/10

This JM mix I’ve never heard of! I can’t find it on YouTube, would appreciate if someone can send a link.

Note if you've heard the 9 minute mix, this is just an edited version of that, I just prefer the shorter mix. This version was on the maxi cd of jealousy.

https://youtu.be/ECyVSLDBSxE?si=O8qXXcq74YMwln_C

[Gabby]

Sorry to backtrack, but I was struck today at the song "White China" by Ultravox similarity to Don Juan (particularly the verses)

[petshopgrrl]

Sorry to backtrack, but I was struck today at the song "White China" by Ultravox similarity to Don Juan (particularly the verses)

Hmm, yeah, I can hear it - it's the gallop. God, why does it sound so dated?? I used to like Ultravox! I have to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of Don Juan but it just kicked White China to the curb.

Is it time to proceed?

Track 47 : To face the truth
Behaviour Further Listening Disc 1 - Track 3

Sweet, sparse, simple... and a sob-tastic tearjerker to boot. Listening to this just now has made me realize what a lounge ballad it is too. For all its misery, I do enjoy the poetry of this one, especially in the (what I think of as) choruses - the care/bear (or go/expose) and proof/truth, etc. It gives the impression of being lovingly crafted. I'd love to see them perform this one.

[Too Many Shadows]

Another corker! A song full to the brim with the feeling of creeping dread whilst on the night bus home at three in the morning. We're back in lonely people and woolly relationships territory. An uncomfortable situation for our central figure, but good for us. After all, who's not a sucker for some broody, low-lit ambience that's channeling 1970's soul opulence?

[tottenhammattspurs]

My all time favourite number one PSB song. It’s this song I send people to when you get the usual “all their songs sound the same” nonsense. It’s beautiful. It’s fragile. It’s perfect.

[Too Many Shadows]

It’s this song I send people to when you get the usual “all their songs sound the same” nonsense.

It’s so reductive when anyone says that about art. Having an identity doesn’t imply being repetitive. It’s more a continuing to develop a distinctive aesthetic; exploring the nooks and crannies of what might be considered a restricted space.

[Gnomic]

To face the truth is alright, actually a lovely song, but doesn't do it for me like This must be the place does. For some reason This must be the place reminds me of that Ready Brek ad with the glowing boy walking to school in the dark and cold That song is just so evocative, probably for most of us; I mean school wasn't always a barrel of laughs, was it? (Though there were times... but not really for legitimate reasons.) This must be the place is one of my go-to PSB tracks when in a certain mood, and one of my favorites on Behaviour.

[Xakrij]

Makes me think of that Ready Brek ad with the glowing boy walking to school in the dark and cold

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SVAvA6fP8Xw

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[rashomon]

Love reading all the thoughts here on the amazing catalogue our boys have given us ...

Anyone else think the thread title will need to be changed before we get to the end of Nonetheless era though?

[Gabby]

Love reading all the thoughts here on the amazing catalogue our boys have given us ...

Anyone else think the thread title will need to be changed before we get to the end of Nonetheless era though?

Me by the time we get to Nonetheless in this thread...