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Pet Shop Boys Rate. Part 1: 1985-1991. Winner.
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I’m all for personal taste and folks liking what they like ... but there has to be something in almost any PSB song to be positive about ...
To be a fan enough to bother to rate all these tracks and then decide ‘that’s a zero’ just doesn’t make sense to me ...
They/them, he/him
The Sound Of The Atom Splitting has absolutely no redeeming features. And neither does What Keeps Mankind Alive.
I thought you hated me for my Frappscores!
Spoiler: "Winner", "The Party Song", "Screaming", "Pazzo!", "The Night I Fell In Love" and "In Private" (NOT the Dame Dusty version) are getting zeroes from me. There is nothing to those songs I can be positive about, except it's amusing how horrifyingly they managed to ruin "In Private". Maybe they have great snare drums, but I am not going to give them points based on that.
That sounds rather absolute and there definitely are redeeming features in both songs (I admit that I do struggle to hear them in ...Mankind...). But saying a Brecht/Weill song has no redemming features is a bit like saying that Hitchcock made boring movies.
And The Night I Fell In Love has one line that totally turns the song on its head and makes it great
Rent out before the lazily Latin letdown?
Piffle.
Piffle.
Find Jesus.
(I will be giving points to "Mankind" and I scored "Splitting" 5, so...)
Technically that's not too far from what I do, but that's a very different discussion...
'Se A Vida E' is coming in part two.
You stole my line! But yes, absolutely this. The first time I played the album in Sep 1987, I thought, oooh this is VERY much a Soft Cell kind of thing...although Neil's earlier vocals (ie the first two albums) tended to bring Marc Almond to mind quite often. It's everything you mentioned...the lyrics, the ambience, the arrangement...etc etc....
I never knew there was a Bobby O demo of Rent!
Just out of interest how many Pet Shop Boys/Bobby O demos are out there? My iTunes tells me I only have West End Girls and One More Chance. I am a sucker for his scuzzy rough around the edges HiNRG tracks.
Just out of interest how many Pet Shop Boys/Bobby O demos are out there? My iTunes tells me I only have West End Girls and One More Chance. I am a sucker for his scuzzy rough around the edges HiNRG tracks.
I can´t answer that, but I just heard the Rent demo for the first tine and it´s...not very good.
It sounds even more like a Soft Cell track, ca. Mutant Moments EP (1980) and those were actually better.
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Pet Shop Boys: 1982 demos
[1982] demos
3:08 Bubadubadubadum ["All My Wasted Time"]
4:15 Dead Of Night
3:23 Oh Dear ["Walking Down The High Street"]
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Pet Shop Boys: undated early-80s demos
[198?] demos
CS: 198? UK (no label; no cat #)
4:50 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
4:23 I Get Excited You Get Excited Too
3:48 Two Divided By Zero
3:40 Rent
5:08 It's A Sin
4:58 In The Club Or In The Queue
6:32 I Want A Lover
2:45 Later Tonight