I feel like I haven't heard "1980s rapping Neil" (as on New London Boy) for a while
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link
This is much better than Hotspot, which I found listless and actively embarrassing in several spots. Best for me since Electric.
― Davey D, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
I quite enjoyed that the bonus disc for "Nonetheless" was "Furthermore".
Saw them play some tracks on a Vernon Kay presented thing a few weeks back and found it a bit cringey.
― djh, Friday, 26 April 2024 18:10 (one month ago) link
The new album sounds like one of those drugstore-dollar-bin "greatest hits" albums where a Sixties act re-records their old songs, and you buy it by mistake and get those uncanny-valley "this is the song I like...but it's not quite right somehow" shivers.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
This happened to me precisely with a George Jones comp.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:05 (one month ago) link
I think the re-records are just the arrangements for the new tour with vocals added
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 April 2024 09:36 (one month ago) link
'I’d love to be in the House of Lords, because it’s a job, isn’t it?'The most successful British pop duo in music history on tantrums, touring when you turn 70, and why it feels unreal to hang out with Liza Minnelli — over Lunch with the FT: https://t.co/ujKxMKGSJW— FT Weekend (@ftweekend) April 26, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:40 (one month ago) link
A producer for an earlier album, Stuart Price, worked with them in Berlin and made them go out for dinner in week two to the same places they’d been to in week one, in the same order. He also made them record all the tracks in alphabetical order. “And we did, didn’t we?” Tennant marvels. “And then we put them on the album in alphabetical order. It’s actually quite a good logic. It worked out quite well.”
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:51 (one month ago) link
They must have cheated a little bit but so close:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_(Pet_Shop_Boys_album)
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
Maybe “Bourgeois Construct” was the working title for track 3…
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link
The first few songs are the weakest for me. Once it gets to New London Boy it gets really good and stays as such. I have a lot of time for the freestyle getup on Dancing Star.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 28 April 2024 12:29 (one month ago) link
yeah I feel like it's missing a really great single up front, something like that would do wonders for this album. it's still quite good I think, especially given the point in their career that they're at. Neil's voice still sounds pretty good to me!
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2024 18:03 (one month ago) link
Hilarious interview.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:18 (four weeks ago) link
Aw, teasing the idea that we could have a George Michael cover of "End of the World" is really too much. I agree it's a hidden gem though - that segue at the end of "Nervously" gets me every time.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:41 (four weeks ago) link
He may dislike it because that's Tennant playing the twang guitar.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:42 (four weeks ago) link