"Always On My Mind " (#8)"Domino Dancing" (#5)"Left To My Own Devices" (#8)"So Hard" (#4)"How Can You Expect..." (#19)"Where The Streets Have No Name" (#4)"Can You Forgive Her" (#1)"Go West" (#1)"Absolutely Fabulous" (#7)"I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" (#2)"Paninaro 95" (#4)"Yesterday When I Was Mad" (#4)"Before" (#1)"Somewhere" (#19)"To Step Aside" (#1)"Break For Love" (#1)"I Don't Know What You Want..." (#2)"New York City Boy" (#1)"Sexy Northerner" (#15)
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Discoteca2. Single3. Up Against It4. It Always Comes As A Surprise5. Hit and Miss6. Before7. Se A Vida E8. The Survivors9. Red letter day10. Betrayed11. To Step Aside12. Saturday Night Forever
― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
"Chris: This is where we invented left-field New York Deep House music."
― D. Bachyrycz, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
They might post-rationalise a distaste for house, but in being cut off from the great youth movement of their time the PSBs were caught like the rat pack in the mid 50s surveying rock n roll. It was a moment of crisis. I am not devaluing what they did after 87 but it was a key moment for them.
― Guy Beckett (guy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this is true, but I don't think it was because the PSB cared less about having a dance floor hit. (For example, they've continued to use trendy remixers that they suspect will be the next big thing.) Rather I think it's mostly because the nature of dance music in the UK changed in the early 90s, becoming more of an specialized industry that could be a little snobby about "pop" acts and their "extended remixes," as well as a more segmented one (thus house became more distinguished from hi-nrg and the latter consigned to G.A.Y., etc).
― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― biz, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
YES, I TOTALLY REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THAT SONG ON THE RADIO. I REJOICED - IT WAS LIKE "FINALLY, THEY ARE PLAYING MY KIND OF MUSIC ON MAINSTREAM RADIO!!!"
― knowitalnembutal, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I was not a hipster in 1986 (I was in jr. high) but my initial reaction was that I liked "West End Girls" but liked "Suburbia" and "Opportunities" even more.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
They've been working with Trevor Horn again. And they've said the new stuff is more "electronic and quite epic".
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
By the early-mid 90s, they had very much moved away from the pop spotlight, at least the teen audience one. They still had Top 20 hits, but they were more fan-bought rather than long-staying top 10 blockbusters, with the odd novelty-led exception like 'Go West'.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link
But....where they liked by the enlightened pop connoisseurs in the 80s? You know, the type who flock this place ;) Or perhaps those kind of people didnt exist then?
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.ondarock.it/photo/Popgroup.gif
vs.
http://bobdylan.50g.com/the_band.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
what's stunning Dan is how your opinion of PSB stuff is so spot on with mine, and yet wrt NewOrder we're at odds about half the time. odds in a good way of course.
― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
is ILM still defined as the board that likes MBV and PSBs? or is it now pavement?
― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Conversely, the slamming bombast of "Opportunites" clicked with me from the get-go and the wistful charms of "Love Comes Quickly" made me a complete believer.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember one of my mates (a fellow American--I woould never really use "mate," obviously), a pen-pal really, who I discussed music with a lot, liking the Pet Shop Boys a lot in the 80s; and he was a bit of an "enlightened pop listener" or whatever the phrase was above. I honestly can't remember what they sound like, but I don't think they'd be my type of music anyway, especially now. Sorry about the syntax.
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
see: Steely Dan
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Just for Dan, what do we all think of the Swe-pop cover of "Domino Dancing" done by PSB cover band "West End Girls"
Forthcoming singles by them will be "The Sound of the Atom Splitting" and "How I Learned To Hate Rock'n'Roll". No, I just made that up.
MP3 is here:http://home.iprimus.com.au/edwardo/nodelete/domino.zip
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link