I strongly disagree they sound dated.
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[Music] Pet Shop Boys
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My kids, I love them even more for this, are so open minded on music. I hadn’t realised, they said it was from listening to my wide tastes.
People sometimes have very narrow contemporary likes, that’s always been the way e.g. the unwashed who spent their teens and 20’s at The Hungry Years, only admiring heavy metal, loathing other genre. Then some opened their ears to dance, synths, hip-hop, trance, pop, new wave, proving it’s never too late
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- Apr 5, 2014
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I think I made my point badly. They don't sound dated at all to me. I just think that, mostly, they would pass by the Generation Z on.
Fair enough.
Couldn’t you say that about every music artist born in the 50’s? It’s natural.
Variously Tupac, Lana Del Rey, Swift, Oliver Alexander, Megan TS, Beyonce, would tick their main musical passions.
papachris
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Went to see them at the Brighton Centre. A great show 
HangletonGull
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- Apr 10, 2023
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That was bloody brilliant 90mins flew by didt want it to end
And inevitably capped with You Were Always On My Mind …. goosebumps here.
Another fan.
It’s a Sin prob my favourite tune although I like most of their stuff.
Left to my own devices
Rent
Opportunites
Great back catalogue
It’s a Sin prob my favourite tune although I like most of their stuff.
Left to my own devices
Rent
Opportunites
Great back catalogue
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
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I think they are/were under rated.
I think there’s a bit of a thing where they’re thought of a bit of a novelty act and cheesy 80’s band amongst a lot of people. Whilst they undoubtedly captured a lot of the 80’s perfectly in their music, they’re just brilliant songwriters and social commentators and I don’t think they get as much credit as they deserve for that.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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For me The Pet Shop Boys owned that space between Live Aid '85 and the Stones Roses / Madchester era. Quintessential peak Thatcher era pop. I loved listening to Please / Actually / Introspective on my Sony Walkman at night, walking around London or on the tube.
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HangletonGull
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- Apr 10, 2023
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There’s 3 national treasures in my opinion and when these 3 go it will be a sad day in the hangleton house hold neil tennent,elton and paul heaton those 3 are my Mount Rushmore
Pevenseagull
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- Jul 20, 2003
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1) Rent
2) Being Boring
3 Love Comes Quickly
2) Being Boring
3 Love Comes Quickly
hart's shirt
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My favourite PSB song is Paninaro.
It was the time of C4's Football Italia where British kids growing up were given a weekly education in football and style.
PSB were always living in the spirit of the times regarding fashion. Their tribute to the Milanese Paninaro, the uber-stylish, moped-riding cafe kids who embodied cool and flaunted wealth with their choice of Best Company, Stone Island, CP Company, Moncler, Levi's and Timberland.
Much like Opportunities, it's an homage to 80s base consumerism with Lowe reeling off a list with zero description:
"Passion and love and sex and money
Violence, religion, injustice and death..
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
Food, cars, travel
New York, New York, New York, New York
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani, Versace..."
But as empty, hollow and materialistic as those things are, he does love them and loves them passionately.
Just like the Paninaro do.
It was the time of C4's Football Italia where British kids growing up were given a weekly education in football and style.
PSB were always living in the spirit of the times regarding fashion. Their tribute to the Milanese Paninaro, the uber-stylish, moped-riding cafe kids who embodied cool and flaunted wealth with their choice of Best Company, Stone Island, CP Company, Moncler, Levi's and Timberland.
Much like Opportunities, it's an homage to 80s base consumerism with Lowe reeling off a list with zero description:
"Passion and love and sex and money
Violence, religion, injustice and death..
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
Food, cars, travel
New York, New York, New York, New York
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani, Versace..."
But as empty, hollow and materialistic as those things are, he does love them and loves them passionately.
Just like the Paninaro do.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Loved them from the first single West End Girls, which I basically had on a loop on my Walkman (bit of a pain to keep rewinding it, but you do what you have to do).
How can anyone dislike the band that gifted us that eternal chant - "you're SHIT and you know you are"
How can anyone dislike the band that gifted us that eternal chant - "you're SHIT and you know you are"
Soton Seagull
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Always enjoyed them and part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. The genre swapping between pop and 'very relentless' dance style stuff kept them interesting.
Many classic tracks but being boring always struck me as a very clever and hard hitting track. Suburbia was great based purely on tune catchments.
Many classic tracks but being boring always struck me as a very clever and hard hitting track. Suburbia was great based purely on tune catchments.
- Oct 17, 2008
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One of the best live acts I’ve seen - seen them three times and they are superb. My favourite songs are Opportunities, Suburbia and It’s a Sin. But there are some really good deep cuts they bring out at live gigs occasionally.
Also, I really like “She’s Madonna” by Robbie Williams which they produced, with Tennant’s backing vocals and co-wrote. Very underrated track and pure PSB.
Also, I really like “She’s Madonna” by Robbie Williams which they produced, with Tennant’s backing vocals and co-wrote. Very underrated track and pure PSB.