Canonical

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Pet Shop Boys canon.



Thirteen picks please.


[Poll #798661]


Give those men a knighthood.

Comments

[mippy.livejournal.com]

The later stuff is all depressingly OK, except for Minimal which might end up being one of my singles of the year, somehow.

Left to My Own Devices I think I like 50% because of the production, 40% because it reminds me of my brother, and 10% because I knew who Debussy was when I was a kid but not Che Guevara, so used to sing 'Jaco Vara and Debussy to a disco beat...' I thought Jaco Vara was a Spanish composer.

Damn, It's A Sin should maybe have been my favourite. Catholic school guilt and that.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'It's A Sin' + 'Like A Prayer' = Holy Trinity of Catholic guilt. Even though there are only two of them.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

There must be another! Christian Girls by Hefner? Tho' that's a bit indie...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My personal one would be 'Crucify' by Tori Amos but surely there's been another Big Pop Hit which would complete this trinity?

Brian McFadden's effort is definitely not it, though. I think Chaz Church is the obvious choice to make a storming Catholic guilt single but she hasn't done it yet; Xtina's skirted the subject but never as overtly as Madge or PSB.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

It;s going to drive me mad trying to come up with one now. I can't think of many about Christianity, to be honest, but then my mind's slow today. Obv. Belle and Sebastian did a few, like If You're Feeling Sinister, but that';s not very pop at all.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Left To My Own Devices is my fave. It's definitely a musical highpoint from late 88, which in poptimist terms is no meant feat, considering the competition from the last few months of that particular year.