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Here are a bunch of MP3s, hope they all work.

Pet Shop Boys - A Red Letter Day (Motiv8 12" Mix) - Motiv8, who have some connection with Xenomania, re-edit the clunking 1996 single into a magnificent dancefloor love song and allow Neil Tennant's wise words to shine. The climax - "Like Christmas morning when you're a kid / Admit you love me and you always did" - is one of the happiest moments in pop.

Blur - Girls And Boys (PSB Radio Mix) - more Pet Shop work, this is their remix of Blur's Girls and Boys, as mentioned on my own LJ last week. Their own cover uses this backing music with Tennant's vocals, so it may sound familiar. It's great, though.

Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe - the new Rachel Stevens single reminds me of this. Adam gets brassy.

Act - Snobbery And Decay (12") - extended mix of post-Propaganda project's finest moment (apparently, I never heard any of their other ones). As the title suggests, reeks of faded grandeur. Most of you probably have it already but I uploaded it on a whim. I think it's a Trevor Horn job.

Maxx - Get A Way - and also on a whim, this frantic Eurodance stomper, with some amazing non-rapping and very odd lyrics.

I also downloaded the Tatu album, which sounds brilliant (and also has a song called "Friend Or Foe"! Not a cover, sadly).

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IN YOUR FACE, BRANE!

I've realised it's "Goody Two Shoes" that I was thinking of, even tho "Friend Or Foe" is even better. I think it was the Nipper who pointed this out to me.

I have never heard an Adam Ant song. I'm ever so young.

the ACT 12" might be Steve Lipsom (who wz Horn's actual real knobs-man anyway) --- not sure where my copy has got to to check)

No 10-minute 'Left To My Own Devices' :(

but hurrah for MAXX!

Check your gmail!

The best/strangest bit of the Maxx song is where he suddenly yells "I'm a white man! I'm a white man!" Erm...

Thanks!

Where might one be able to acquire a copy of this tATu album in the event of eg full hard drives, cantankerous computers and other such TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS?

If my CD drive is ok (it failed to make Cis' birthday CD this morning so who knows) I can do you one.

I can do a copy of the taTu..erm...too. Should anyone need one.

Haha I just listened to Maxx again. "I'm a white man I'm a white man" wtfwtf! I'd forgotten about that bit. Also the weird car alarm noises = GRIME before its time.

It's just after he's gone on about "inna rubadub stylee". MOST CURIOUS. I think we could have hazarded a guess as to his whiteness, tbh.

snobbery and decay was my uncle's fave horn/ztt region song evah. i just aboutremember it - doesn't it have lots of moonlighting samples on it? i will download soon

I'd heard the two PSB tracks before, but thee rest of these are totally great. The Adam Ant was not what I expected at all [it's, well, WEIRD] but totally un-Rachel, and the Maxx is awesome as noted above. What great taste you all have!

Is the 10 min "Left to My Devices", the Introspective version? Or am I, noted PSB obsessive, missing something here!!!

I ask 'cos the Introspective version is only about 8 mins?

It's the "Disco mix", longer and stringy-er than the Introspective version, it was on one of the 12"s and the CASSINGLE!!!!

Ah I see. I don't have this after all! *disappointing* I don't actually have any of the Introspective 12"s

Something to search for though, yay!

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