Poptimists Swag Bag

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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).

Comments

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

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

IN YOUR FACE, BRANE!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

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

but hurrah for MAXX!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

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

WHoo

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

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!!!