Canonical

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Pet Shop Boys canon.



Thirteen picks please.


[Poll #798661]


Give those men a knighthood.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's also how I feel about 'Miracles' (the only song in the last bit I ticked and a real overlooked gem), except whereas 'Heart' is a prime-of-life roar of first love, 'Miracles' is...the same relationship 40 years on? Straightforward and romantic in a completely different way.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Do you know "The Ghost Of Myself"? Late period B Side with Tennant lacerating himself over the break-up of a relationship with a much younger man. It uses Max Martin style production to underscore the youth of the lover and the huge distance between him and Tennant. It is really brilliant and I have no idea why it wasn't on Nightlife.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Actually *all* Tennant's good late period songs are about getting old, aren't they?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Was It Worth It?' as well! Such boundless POSITIVITY.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't, no - in fact I don't own ANY PSB album proper (ahem except the new one which is rub), and I've only heard two PSB non-singles ('how I learned to hate rock'n'roll' and 'we're the pet shop boys' - both b-sides I believe).

I don't know why I haven't rushed out to buy all their albums seeing how much I love them, but it just kind of feels as if Discography and PopArt are so perfect that it's enough.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OMG I really should do a CD-R of the best non-single tracks!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

YES!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

YesYes!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I listened to 'The Sound Of The Atom Splitting' yesterday and it was so unnverving. Is there a darker PSBs moment? Or is the darkness undermined by some sort of 'comic' aspect?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Kings Cross" is surely darker, though less GOTH.