Canonical

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Pet Shop Boys canon.



Thirteen picks please.


[Poll #798661]


Give those men a knighthood.

Comments

Re: Tennant as lyricist

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Also he can write songs that are happy and very sad at the same time, "Being Boring" obviously.

Yeah that song is in the Grand European Tradition of Songs About teh Life or something isn't it? I keep kicking myself for not digging into French chansonnerie -- like for you lot (I guess), this has only been Present for us up here through Eng-language sometimes but not always clumsy translations (hello Terry Jacks etc) except for perceived one-off oddities by people like Gainsbourg.

(The connotation Interesting (In This Way) Songs = French Songs is in itself dubitable though -- hows about German stuff? Dunno.)

("Three Wars" by M*m*s is also a brill lyric, I think, abt years and age and history and stuff.)