This is excellent!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Can Stuart Price produce the next New Order album, please?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
just amazing, their best single since I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore IMO.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
I *love* Domino Dancing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah, I'm not feeling this... "cold" is the right word.
― skip, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
I liked the intro, but the verse and chorus didn't do much for me - pretty bland compared to most of the songs from Electric. It's the kind of song I could see enjoying in the album but not as a first single. I don't think Neil's voice has gotten any worse over time though, it's the best part about this song!
― Vinnie, Thursday, 18 February 2016 09:00 (eight years ago) link
This is SO GOOD
Needs a Sarah Cracknell version too
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 08:57 (eight years ago) link
with the melancholy tied to the memory rendered as implicit rather than explicit.
This is a lovely observation btw
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 12:01 (eight years ago) link
Listening again, love it. My favourite single since "Before".
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
There could be a whole album of early/mid-90s artists (Robbie Williams et al.) covering this song.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Listening again, love it. My favourite single since "Before".― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I wouldn't say it's their best single since 'Before' myself, particularly as Electric had the wonderful 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct' on it, but I still really like this a lot after countless plays. Part of me, though, is hoping that there are bigger and better highlights to come.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
I want to draw so many lines back to Behaviour with "The Pop Kids"; not only is it a thematic successor to "Being Boring" but I keep hearing it as a musical cousin to "So Hard"/"The End of the World" (with heavy lifts from "It's Alright" but that breaks my thesis so I'm pretending they don't exist, ha)
― its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
I hear the "The End of the World," especially the tone of quiet dread.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
I forgot about "Bourgeois"! So good. And "Thursday" too. But I like this better.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
It's not really a single (I think it was put into limited release for Record Store Day?) but "Fluorescent" is the song on Electric I keep going back to the most, followed by "The Last To Die"
― its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
Some of their best songs from the last couple of albums were never released as singles unfortunately."Here", "Fugitive", "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show", "All Over the World", "The Way It Used to Be", "This Used to Be the Future", would all have made better singles than most of what was chosen. I mean "Numb", really ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
"Numb" was a total cash-in on the World Cup tbf
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
'Integral' should have been a huge hit.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Friday, 26 February 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to Yes for the 3rd time this week, it's pretty great isn't it? Like maybe a tiny step below Very, IMO of course
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
IYO
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
By the way, how dumb is it that Yes didn't name their 2011 album Pet Shop Boys? What an opportunity wasted...
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Yes is a bit of a mixed bag and a step down from Fundamental for me. There's some great stuff on there like Love etc, More Than a Dream and The Way It Used To Be which are some of the best songs they've done since Very. There's a decent of songs that are pleasant but I can never really remember that well, King of Rome, Did You See Me Coming?, Legacy, Building a Wall etc. Beautiful People and Pandemonium are really bad and seem like the direction that they continued on for Elysium.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Oh and This Used To Be the Future should have been in on the proper album. Amazing song.
I still think 'Love etc.' is fantastic, but Yes is one of those records I don't return to very often. I like it more than Elysium, Release and Nightlife, but it doesn't even come close to touching Bilingual, Fundamental or Electric, IMO.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
I find Yes about as uneven as Bilingual. I'd have a hard time deciding between those two if I were to rank their albums. Out of all the albums since Very, Electric is by far my favourite followed by Fundamental.
I'm hoping Super can be a similar level to Electric as I'd love them to follow a great album with one that's equally good. I don't think they've done that since Very followed Behaviour.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Bilingual has grown on me massively over the last couple of years, it was just an album that was in the awkward position of being the follow-up to Very and had a song order which didn't really showcase the songs in the best possible way. Song for song though, I think it's leagues ahead of Yes.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Descending order:
FundamentalElectricNightlifeBilingual
don't rate the rest except for salvaged tracks
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Yes has "Love Etc" and "The Way It Used to Be," the dreary Release has "You Choose," "Home and Dry," that Eminem song, and a wonderful B-side called "Sexy Northerner."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
I adore "Home and Dry" so much
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
for me it takes off when Chris drops in the WE'RE GOIN HOME bit, sounding like he's got a cold. I love his bit in "Thursday" too.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, 'Home and Dry' is one of my favourites too. It absolutely towers over the rest of that record, IMO.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
I freely admit that a lot of my fondness for Release as an album lies in how much goodwill I give the rest of the songs due to their proximity to "Home and Dry"
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to Bilingual now for the first time in months and it's really hitting the spot... 'Discoteca' sounded as wonderful as ever, and apart from the ill-advised decision to put 'Metamorphosis' and 'Electricity' so close together and so early on in the album, it sounds very much like a strong PSB album to me. I can understand in some ways why it's not an album everyone likes, but I think it's an unfairly criticised record sometimes.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
If I made a compilation of PSB's post-Very highlights, I'd put 'Up Against It' on there in a heartbeat. What a fucking song.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
I think I'd put Release as my least favourite PSB album. The two singles are ok but they'd be close to the bottom if I ranked all their singles. The Samurai In Autumn is the only album track I really have any time for. Having said that, it doesn't have anything as awful as Winner, Give It a Go or Hold on,
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
"Winner" has the exact opposite effect on the rest of Elysium for me than I get from "Home and Dry"/Release; I dislike the song so much that it drags the rest of the album down for me even though there are a couple I like in isolation ("Ego Music", "A Face Like That")
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Hmm. 'Winner' isn't my least favourite song on the record, I think there's a hell of a lot worse on there, which I guess says a lot about the record.
I really like 'Leaving', though, and I have a soft spot for 'Ego Music' which isn't a great song but I enjoy Neil's performance on it and the lyrical theme of it.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
"Leaving" is good enough that I forget it comes from Elysium, lol
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Elysium was a sad record. I thought they were done.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
To be quite honest with you, I actually thought the same. Electric turned out so well that I keep forgetting how low my expectations were for it!
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Release has some other high points - I think London and Love is a Catastrophe are both pretty delightful.
Also rep for the opening three on Nightlife - amazing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
Leaving is a great song. I'm sure I liked a few other songs too but looking at the tracklisting, I can't remember which ones.
I really like Nightlife. I Don't Know What You Want and You Only Tell Me are both in my top 10 PSB singles. Love the Kylie duet too despite it being a little clumsy.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
I love Nightlife a lot and agree that the opening salvo is breathtaking
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
I know that Nightlife has its fans, and those fans tend to really, REALLY like the record, but it has so far failed to grow on me. It's really frustrating, actually, because I'd really like to enjoy it like others seem to. It seems to be one of those records that there's no real consensus over - there's people who adore that record and others that could easily live without it.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
"Yes" is a pretty good album but my expectations for it were ridiculously high considering how much I loved everything Xenomania was doing at the time. It is no exaggeration to say it's been my most anticipated album ever, by any artist. Disappointment was inevitable, but it does have some solid tracks.
"The Way It Used To Be" is probably my favorite PSB song of the past 10 or 15 years.
"Love etc." would have been perfect if it wasn't for that first verse. I don't know how it got past Brian Higgins, should've been vetoed immediately.
― daavid, Saturday, 12 March 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
do you mean the "I believe that we can achieve" bit? I love it. He sounds like a lover using corporate jargon (hence the title).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 March 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
No, no, I love that bit too!
I'm referring to the melody of "Boy, it's tough getting on in the world when the sun doesn't shine and a boy needs a girl..."
― daavid, Saturday, 12 March 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
Also the lyrics are not great either.
― daavid, Saturday, 12 March 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
I don't have a problem with that melody at all. In fact, I think 'Love etc.' is perfect as it is and there's literally nothing I'd change about it!
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Saturday, 12 March 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
Melody is great, and a playful leadup to the bass melody of the chorus; lyrics are nothingy
― glandular lansbury (sic), Sunday, 13 March 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
I pretty much like everything on this album apart from 'Say It To Me' ... surely they must be doing some work on the follow-up now?
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
06 Pazzo!07 Inner sanctum08 Undertow
^^ really into these three as a suite
― Eazy, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
I thought this album was very underrated. I like it just as much as Electric. "Say It To Me" > "Burn" > "Into Thin Air" is also a great trio.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Good remix, if not radically changed from the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdjldHlSI8
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 20 August 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
They should have another album out next year, surely?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 20 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link