Pet Shop Boys

[jdrobbo]

Happy Friday everyone.

Home and Dry (turn the volume up!)

https://youtu.be/ossii9Ipiv4

[karatekid]

Can you forgive her

[ElectroClaret]

Rent.

[jdrobbo]

Can you forgive her

Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact

[Aclaret]

Pet Shop Boys......A Poor mans Depeche Mode.

[dougcollins]

Not a big Pet Shop Boys fan, but this is absolute quality - 'I want a Dog':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3NhS9dQP0

[ClaretTony]

Pet Shop Boys - brilliant

But maybe It’s a sin

https://youtu.be/dRHetRTOD1Q

[jdrobbo]

Fabulous.

[ClaretTony]

Just dug this out from the Brits - didn't realise it was 12 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3K-TIg__TI

[Herts Clarets]

Done very well for a bloke who can't sing....

[conyoviejo]

Like them,but prefer Erasure mesen .

[Zom Zom]

Pet Shop Boys......A Poor mans Depeche Mode.

Hmm, I see nothing to compare them with Depeche Mode if I'm honest apart from the use of synths. They've always struck me as quite cheesy and have more in common with The Human League for me.

Mode have always been quite sleazy and dark lyrically. That said, since Alan Wilder left they have lost their 'edge'.

[ClaretTony]

Hmm, I see nothing to compare them with Depeche Mode if I'm honest apart from the use of synths. They've always struck me as quite cheesy and have more in common with The Human League for me.

Mode have always been quite sleazy and dark lyrically. That said, since Alan Wilder left they have lost their 'edge'.

Don't compare them to Depeche Mode - both brilliant but in different ways. PSB cheesy? Probably. Cheesy and camp.

Seen both PSB & DM live more than once. Totally different but both, in my view, brilliant.

[ClaretTony]

Like them,but prefer Erasure mesen .

Again, won't put one against the other, love both of them.

[jdrobbo]

Don’t even go there with Erasure (a new thread would be required). They’re my all-time favourite group. I’ve even sung ‘A Little Respect’ at a good friend’s wedding.

[jdrobbo]

Heart

https://youtu.be/wTkfK2g4pKI

[Zom Zom]

Don't compare them to Depeche Mode - both brilliant but in different ways. PSB cheesy? Probably. Cheesy and camp.

Seen both PSB & DM live more than once. Totally different but both, in my view, brilliant.

Not seen PSB live, but seen Mode a couple of times. I'm not saying they're not a good act, they are, I have a number of their earlier albums, and they are spun now and again, especially Introspective and Disco. The same for Erasure, I have Wild! and The Innocents, but I found their earlier material a bit 'twee' for my liking, bar the odd single.

There's nothing wrong with being a bit 'cheesy', I absolutely love early Human League pre-Dare!, and they had more cheese than the deli counter at Morrisons.

[Papabendi]

New Order always number one for me in that genre. But the Pet Shop Boys really don't get the credit they deserve as songwriters. Very clever.