Can you forgive her?
I've already spent some time with the first disc of the Pet Shop Boys' PopArt, but today is the first time I've had the second disc in at work. I liked the first disc, but the opening run here (at least through "West End Girls", possibly further once I get used to the songs I didn't already know) is just heartbreaking. I've read reviews that questioned the apparently arbitrary assigning of songs to either side, but I think they weren't listening properly. It could practically be called IronySincerity, although that's oversimplifying things a bit.
I think I listen to the Pop half more (or rather listened, since I haven't got it out for a while after buying most of their albums in a frenzy after getting into them through it)
Your alterative title does fit it at least as well as the real one though, with just a few outliers (A Red Letter Day, Home And Dry, Paninaro, Opportunities)
Posted by
if |
5:32 PM
I agree with you about the outliers, with the exception of "Opportunities". I always think of that song as deadly serious, if you're living in Thatcher England (or maybe even Blair England?).
Posted by
Ian |
5:42 PM
I can't wait for the new album, which sounds like it's gonna be "faster."
Posted by
Alfred Soto |
5:44 PM
I'm not sure that's what I want from them. To be clear, because re-reading my original post I'm not sure it is, when I say that sequence is heartbreaking I mean it as the highest possible praise.
Of course, my favourite PSB track is and probably always be "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk".
Posted by
Ian |
5:47 PM