[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
Right, after 72 polls and a squidillion votes it's come down to this. In one corner the Pet Shop Boys, in the other Pulp.

I would do pictures of them but we all know what they look like.

[Poll #806433]

Please answer both questions!

Date: 2006-08-25 02:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] koganbot
Though I ticked "Always On My Mind" in the semis, I think that the PSBs are disco dulled down so as to accommodate bohemian sensibilities and sidestep disco's outrageousness and glamour and intensity; alternately, they're Europop dulled down for people who can't take Europop's bread-and-butter immediacy and catchiness. In other words, PSB too PBS. (But to qualify this opinion, in general I think a little bit of PBS is better than no PBS, and I think a lot of disco and Europop may not be PBS enough, that at least some of it could gain energy from a smattering of social ambition; I just find PSB's ambitiousness too placid; I mean, sounds like R.E.M. Depeche Mode are better. [Pet Shop Boys are the R.E.M. of disco; Depeche Mode are the Simon & Garfunkel of disco.])

Date: 2006-08-25 02:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] koganbot
Oh, and could someone who speaks British as a first language translate PBS into British, as I don't feel qualified to?

Date: 2006-08-25 02:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] koganbot
people who can't take Europop's bread-and-butter immediacy and catchiness

Or who can take it but won't vote it up in polls.

Date: 2006-08-25 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
pbs = open university late-night bbc2 programming

??? :\

Date: 2006-08-25 02:53 pm (UTC)
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This makes sense.

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