Although you can appreciate how great this song is, you can't know how FRESH this was at the time. This stood out as something new. Another 80's gem that's similar in how fresh and unique it was at the time is "Life in a Northern Town" by The Dream Academy. Check it. Peace from SF
Gen X'er here. The 80s were the soundtrack of my teenage years. Gotta love the synth-pop coming out of the UK in the 80s. So much goodness in there -- The Human League (Don't You Want Me), Depeche Mode (Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth, Personal Jesus), Soft Cell (Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go THE EXTENDED 12-INCH VERSION), Tears for Fears (Shout, Everyone Wants to Rule the World, Head Over Heels), Duran Duran (Hungry Like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio), and anything by The Cure, but their album Disintegration is a solid 10, so take your pick.
I'd add Naked Eyes to that list. Their song, "Promises, Promises", is way underrated, but remains one of my top favorites from the decade. "Always Something There To Remind Me", is another great track from them.
i am soooo grateful to have grown up when the greatest music was being released... born in 1959... heard plenty of great music from the 60s... was a teenager in the 70s... and was in my 20s during the 1980s..
Born in '54. Man,we had it best. NOTHING will ever equal,never mind better the 60's 70's & 80's. It was one long party with the best music in history as our soundtrack. No phones,just proper fun and enjoyment and,get this kids......out every night,not vegetating in our bedrooms pretending to be cool. You cant be cool on your own so get out and support live music.
The 80's was such a magical era to grow up in, no wonder we're all so nostalgic. It wasn't just the great songs that made the 80's so special, we miss the mood and the vibe that the music made us feel back then. I used to hate my parents' music when I was a kid but I grew to appreciate it as I got older. I made a playlist for my 78 year-old dad with songs from his generation and I actually added his playlist to mine. So my playlist has songs from the 40's to the present. His playlist also brings me back memories of my mom who died 13 years ago.
If you want a secret 80s gem that isn't superior, as such, but it is SO EIGHTIES it kinda hurts: "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry. It is kind of jokey but the hook is solid and the bass and beat make it a good dance tune. I bet you you will never hear this song recommended to you ever again. It is a weird one, but it was a hit for a minute around 86.
Pet Shop Boys were and still are one of my very favorite bands. Their current stuff is still very good. I'd recommend checking out the extended version of the song, It's Alright. It's incredible. The music goes on and on and on...
This song is about London, posh West End and the working class East End, with wordplay on dead end world. East 17 did a good cover on this around ten years later. But please believe me, there was quite a lot of dross back in the 80's too. Some songs will stand the test of time some are quickly (almost) forgotten. Perhaps the difference is that with all the then new gadgets, people still controlled and played them and used them as an expressive tool. Nowadays they trust too much on machines instead of having people to nail it while recording. E.g this song is mostly done with then new and relatively affordable sampler E-mu Emulator II. As for song of that period, please react to Pointer Sisters - "Dare Me". Bit earlier might be Shakatak - "Dark Is The Night" or ABC - "The Look Of Love". :)
@@loreleimorphee5162 While the young urban professionals appeared in the 80's the history of the division is back in the at least 18th century. The division still exists with some of the worst poverty ridden areas located within The East End.
@@loreleimorphee5162 Yuppies used to be called the young people who earned lots of money, particularly those working in "The City" (The old part of London where the banks and big companies are) regardless whether they were posh or not.
Love it! Haha your face at the beginning said it all. Such a cool funky groovy catchy 80’s hit. One of the best. 👍🏼. Haha you talked about a good mood... but these lyrics start off with there’s a gun in your hand it’s pointed at your head. Lol. But yeah I get ya. Good music puts you in a good mood. That’s the 80’s for you!!
I can always tell when you really get into a song. Great band, great music. Try Suburbia, It's A Sin, Love Comes Quickly. So many bands from the 80s and early 90s that you have yet to try. ERASURE, THE CURE, MEN AT WORK, LIVE, SMASHING PUMPKINS.
Man, let me tell you, I was almost 15 when this hit stateside & it stopped me in my tracks. I had never heard anything like it before. The cool thing about the 80's was the evolution of electronic instruments. We were constantly not only getting new music, but sounds in the songs we had never heard before. It's almost as if the songs started out as a new piece of gear in the studio, then musicians / producers would have a play around with them, get creative & from that came the hit. Inspiration is cool like that. Rarely can I say that I'm hearing an instrument I've never heard, or even an instrument used in a way I've never heard in the last 25-ish years. THAT was a huge part of the magic of the 80's
BTW this Pet Shop Boys song is unique in the regard that it was originally produced by Bobby Orlando in NYC. The early version of this song is on Bobcat Records. I LOVE the EMI treatment of this song. The 1984 original is worth a listen, if for no other reason than to illustrate how quickly a sound & vibe could change in less than 2 years back then.
Absolutely agree on how much music can set where you are… where I want to be some days I decide by putting on a music style/artist playlist that gets my headspace going where I want. Glad you’re exploring and finding so much grab for you. Regarding how much sometimes some hit…. The Cure was my favorite band since around 12 when I liked their songs before I knew who they were. At 19 in AIT for the Army four of us illegally (due to distance limitations, not illegal for going out) drove to another state during a weekend to see a concert by them. It was my first *real* concert, you know outside of a small or local band playing at a county fair or something, I’d ever gone to…. And it was them. I loved it…. Happy-crying the whole time while singing and dancing with the crowd lol.
I hear you. I was born in 1976. So i was 8-9 when this came out. So i grew up thru the the great electronic 80s music. It helped me have a great foundation of music. Thus i dont listen to pop.music for rhe past 30 years at least.
To set the stage, we were immersed in the guitar pop and rock of the 70s and early 80s and then BOOM, synthesizers and drum machines hit the scene and opened the door to SO much freakin creativity in music. Songs like this that when you heard them on the radio for the very first time, your mind was blown and you made a bee line for the record store.
Music truly is the soundtrack of our lives. You hear a song you haven’t heard in over a decade, and suddenly you are transported in time to a moment in your past. Music is magic, music is nostalgia. Music is joy, passion and art. Music is LIFE!
WEG is the eternal banger. Never gets old. More PSB: - Love Comes Quickly - Rent (PSB's Neil Tennant live at the Roundhouse 1996 with the band *Suede* 🔥 - audio, easy to find on RUclips)
Definetly an outstanding 80s band. But unfortunately very underrated. "Such a shame", "Life's what you make it", "It's my Life" and many more great songs. Mark Hollis had a great voice. R.I.P. Mark
I was expecting the usual Official accompanying video which showed the Train Station in London I was at last Saturday and THe Number 42 Bus that was one of 18 that used to go down my old High Street where I lived until 1983 and I still miss 38 years later. Some good shots of London while The Pet Shop Boys are walking around. Maybe next time...
Also, they have a song called, IT'S A SIN that is another great hit! Pet Shop Boys are a great 1980's British group that made a big splash during the 80's BRIT MUSIC INVASION! I am a huge fan of theirs!
I am sure you will be intrigued by Pet Shop Boys - Left to my own Devices Wembley 2004 remastered HD. After your introduction to this wonderful group's first hit West End Girls, your journey has just begun and will continue. Thanks for taking time to check them out.
Great reaction Chod! Check out the Pet Shop Boys songs - What Have I Done To Deserve This (with the legendary Dusty Springfield) and Heart (the Vampire video).
What was great about the 70s and 80s is that hundreds of bands would almost imitate the original bands and play their music in bars and night clubs to almost perfection. It was a really a fun time to be there.
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Pet Shop boys are amazing. New York City Boy and Go West were two of my favourite songs by them. Both were released in the 90's. Erasure was another band that I listened too. They are also fantastic and I recommend you check them out too. A Little Respect, Oh L'Amour, Blue Savannah or Drama! would be all great to start with. They have so many, it would be tough to choose.
Get a chance to watch the video for this it really sets the mood of the song . Not a 80s pop fan but this song sets a time and place. Another to check out is the fine young cannibals
I recently re-watched Night at the Roxbury. The music on there is more 90's what I beleive is called house music, which I also like. Glad you like this genre of music. Synth-Pop. New Wave. The second British Invasion in the 80's. So much more for you to discover.
Chod: I was a '70s and '80s kid. I used to try to (literally) "get away from": synth-pop and stuff "like" the Pet Shop Boys IN the '80s! [b.t.w.: This is 100% '80s! 1984] NOW?: It, just, reminds me of better times! I am not a huge fan of this band, but atmospheric synth stuff: it's killer. [B.T.W.: I believe his delivery is more of a "conversational delivery" One where the vocalist sounds as if he's conversing with you ...or telling you/reading you a story. It gives a certain "looseness," but, also: 'intimacy' to things. Tell me if you think I'm right (please!). 👍👍] This was "the meat of" the 1980s. Most other styles would be qualified as something more "underground," (at least during portions of the decade.). The 1970s are the MOST diverse, adventurous and prolific decade for music, but, despite the "dismissals" many of us offered, at the time: the 1980s run a close second. -It's kind-of funny: I never knew SHIT about this band or any of the members. For whatever reason (well, no: not 'whatever reason." The reason was: because THAT is where MY mind went and where my thinking was, probably, concentrated (in a lot of instances!) 😛🙄), I, at the time 9andLONG afterwards!) thought/felt that: the "West end Girls" he was describing were/had to be "West German Girls" [Remember: at the time, there was an "east"and a "West" "Germany." One [the east] occupied by the russians and one free and friendly with the western world.] ...and the "East-End Biys "had to be" some East German guys, wanting to escape to freedom (or something.). Sadly: it's about some insane, meaningless class-warfare/-differentiation ...whatever "thing"/"social climate" in London. Not *nearly* as interesting or relevant. ...but the song is, still, excellent. 🤘🤘👍😜😁😉👍 There are plenty of bands and songs in relation to this period and these sorts of sounds. Depeche Mode (darer and "heavier" - in their BEST work) than this, for sure. maybe O.M.D. [Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark -one of depeche mode's big influences (along with the, legendary: Kraftwerk!)!] "Secret" [NOT "moody" like this one ...but really good.] Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy" Yaz (or: Yazoo - as originally intended) [Their debut: Upstairs At Eric's is a necessity for anyone with a good music collection.]: "Bring Your Love Down (, Didn't I)"; "Situation"; "Don't Go"; "Goodbye '70s".... New Order - "Blue Monday" Talk Talk - "Talk Talk": "It's My Life" "Life's What You Make It" "Dum Dum Girl" "Mirror Man" "Candy" Howard Jones - "What Is Love?" "You Know I Love You ...Don't You?" "Like To Get To Know You Well" "Things Can Only Get Better" "No-One Is To Blame" "Life In One Day" "Look, Mama" Thompson Twins - "In The Name Of Love" "Doctor! Doctor!" "Hold Me Now" "King For A Day" "Love On Your Side" "Lies" (really, from a different headspace, but:) Thomas Dolby: "She Blinded Me With Science" (Extended Version) [massive hit] "Hyperactive!" "Airwaves" ...I guess you could throw in, say: "Relax" and "Two Tribes" by: Frankie Goes To Hollywood [although their sophomore album: Liverpool, is, definitely, the superior outing, from them!!] .... SO much stuff!....
I bet your dad id very proud of you. I hope he listens in on your channel, at least every once in a while. You know, this reflects on him too, not because it's always true that a parent is supposed to raise you a "certain way" but because you expressed your admiration and appreciation of his craft and that you were brought up with music in your life. He made an impact on you, and that shows that he was doing what he was supposed to do ... teach you things, spending time and interacting with you. You're both doing it right 👍😎
These guys have some great songs: Theirs: What Have I Done to Deserve This ft. Dusty Springfield It's A Sin Opportunities (currently made popular by a commercial) Covers: Always on My Mind Go West
The '80s was a big fitness decade... aerobics, jogging etc. This song and various club songs like it, were great to exercise to. Either turned up in a packed aerobics class with everyone jumping and moving to the beat, or in your earphones running along your favorite jogging path. These songs were just great to move to and gain energy and sustainability from.
Perhaps not the greatest music as pure music but creates a fantastic atmosphere, decadent & weirdly nostalgic.. For me it's about being at that age when you feel disillusioned & empty, but deep down you know there's a future out there, you've just got to go out & live it.
Man, I envy you beginning your Pet Shop Boys education - while I heard quite a bit of their work in the late 80s, I really got into them in the mid 90s, and what a thrill it was. They’ve got so much great stuff - Suburbia, It’s a Sin, Left to My Own Devices, Being Boring, Can You Forgive Her, Rent, Go West, and on and on. You’re in for a real treat - even their “throwaway” songs often measure up to the masterworks of other artists.
They were pop royalty right from the get-go. Their first 5 albums (including the remix album, Disco) are just end to end brilliance. Please, Disco, Actually, Introspective and Behaviour. A perfect body of work. They’re still going today. This was their first hit and a number 1 in the UK. Neil Tenant, the singer, had been a journalist for a music magazine called Smash Hits so he had the advantage of hearing any and every pop release before they even started. Their production and songwriting is brilliant. The lyrics very easy to relate to. Some great storytelling and some great comedy in there too. I play those 5 albums I mentioned pretty much every week.
I used to see them hanging out at Heaven Ultra Disco back in the mid 80's. I loved their music then. Gay life was fantastic. Music was amazing. We had it made back then.
I can see GOD in the beginning creating the mystery musical cords. And then saying here they are ,discover them. Music is beyond time and space ! How can it come from a big bang!
I had this vinyl single. I was a huge prog fanatic in the 70s, and with that kind of music starting to die out in the 80s, this is the sort of music (i.e., New Wave Techno-Pop and the like) that helped get me through the decade. So much great music. I hope you will also get into Naked Eyes and Missing Persons.
Love this myself, have on download. The only one of theirs I ever liked really, nothing after could match it. I love the ladies' footsteps at the beginning and the haunting urban quality to it. Some great sounds in there and always love playing it.
You can’t listen to PSB and stop at this one song. You should definitely go into the rabbit hole- it’s a sin, heart, domino dancing, suburbia, rent, the list goes on and on
The "Demo" of this song is on RUclips (type in "Bobby Orlando Mix") and it was quite dreadful. They were pushing it as a "dance song" until they finally got signed to a major record label and the producer said Let's slow the song down. Thank God or else we may have never heard of this song when it was in it's original state.
Never forget the music scene (well, practically every scene - real estate, finance, motor trade) in much of the '70s and throughout the '80s was absolutely riddled with cocaine. Even the smallest players in obscure places were obsessed with it. I lived through it, and the challenge was to find people to work with who weren't screwed up from it. From an engineering POV, the rise of digital audio and devices in the '80s played into that (cocaine dulls your ears' HF response, so we have the Ultra bright '80s sound.) Wasn't as fun to live through as you might imagine it to be.
Okay, melodramatics aside, I think you would like their song "DJ Culture" and "Disappointed"…...."We were never being boring" is great if you are in a nostalgic mood about your party days.
I am still trying to deal with the fact that they are currently using a Pet Shop Boys song for an automobile ad....it makes me want to put head in an oven....
Best of all was Rory on stage (with half the crowd !) in Paris while performing Bullfrog Blues but I think it has gone from here now. Rory was THE one I SHOULD have gone to that got away !
@@Isleofskye hi I never saw him live but a good friend saw him twice and said he was amazing, there is an international festival everyear in Ballyshannon Donegal Ireland (birthplace) for Rory and it is an amazing weekend of music.
@@Isleofskye hi ,So many gigs we miss out on , I suppose we can be lucky for the great bands / singers we have seen and heard , a small glimpse can be seen in Rory,s power and showmanship in the playing of his song - shadow play- in 1979 in Montreux jazz festival , exceptional stage presence . what a show.!!!!!
Hah!,..in this moment you're an adult,..to me your just a kid,..but totally understand what your saying,..my dad God love him,..is totally the one who turned me onto jazz,..now huh granted,.at the time I wasn't having it,..I mean we shared some music taste like Earth Wind and Fire,..,.Al Green,..Aretha,..but I didn't get Thelonious Monk,..flew right over my head,.I thought Dave Brubeck was old timey,(timey wimey for you Dr. Who fans,.😉),.Benny Goodman,.Duke Ellington,...the only one at the time I liked when I was a kid was Sun Goddess by Ramsey Lewis,..and even after that it wasn't until I was an adult,..and Dalton Lee,(from Falcon and the Snowman soundtrack), by Pat Metheny, first song I heard from him,.didn't know he existed, that,..that hooked me clean,..I was godsmacked,..after that caught onto David Sanborn,. Stanley Jordan,..Jonathan Butler,..Ronny Jordan,..Hiroshima,..ohh God some I can't remember,..Kenny G,..listening to my dad's music,..led me to that,..listening to mom's made me later appreciate Stephanie Mills,..Cheryl Lynne, etc...you hardly find young people who start right off liking their parents music,..even now,..rap and hip hop,..not every single little kid will just right away get into,..its not till you get a quite a few years in you that you then appreciate the older music,..I pray the young people catch onto these oldies,..we were exposed to the New Wave,..Punk,.in the 80's,..considered more updated,.but they too would use horn sections,..did you hear it?,..in this song,..the Our House,..by Madness,..all kinds of horns,..Dixie's Midnight Runners,..the 80's bands still appreciated horns, using them,..and look how this song has that dance club groove,..like Psychedelic Furs,..Love My Way(ohhh that was played in every club on the planet),..Forever Now,..you might get a kick out of Ultravox,."The Thin Wall", really weird beat,..electronic,..very,..just like Gary Numan "Cars",..the 80's really tweaked out brains,..we couldn't ever look at music the same,..it wasn't just one hook,..its like Edgar Winter using the moog,..he used every lever, dial,.button,..got sounds out of it no one thought possible,..keep going young person,..enjoy,.Godspeed, Peace ✌
Btw let me break some wrongly concieved notion that everything was bright colors and everyone was wearing pink and yellow. This was not rhe case. Thats nowadays media selling 80s as a commodity..the cool people were wearing black and grey. And if there was crazy colors it was 8n a deisgn. Nobody i hung out had bright yellow jackets,pink pants , blue socks and all that bs. Thats the Vice City version of everytthing looked like miami vice and stuff. Just wanted to point that out
Although you can appreciate how great this song is, you can't know how FRESH this was at the time. This stood out as something new. Another 80's gem that's similar in how fresh and unique it was at the time is "Life in a Northern Town" by The Dream Academy. Check it.
Peace from SF
Gen X'er here. The 80s were the soundtrack of my teenage years. Gotta love the synth-pop coming out of the UK in the 80s. So much goodness in there -- The Human League (Don't You Want Me), Depeche Mode (Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth, Personal Jesus), Soft Cell (Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go THE EXTENDED 12-INCH VERSION), Tears for Fears (Shout, Everyone Wants to Rule the World, Head Over Heels), Duran Duran (Hungry Like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio), and anything by The Cure, but their album Disintegration is a solid 10, so take your pick.
I'd add Naked Eyes to that list. Their song, "Promises, Promises", is way underrated, but remains one of my top favorites from the decade. "Always Something There To Remind Me", is another great track from them.
Don't forget the Eurythmics! Here Comes The Rain Again, There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart), Thorn In My Side, When Tomorrow Comes ...
i am soooo grateful to have grown up when the greatest music was being released... born in 1959... heard plenty of great music from the 60s... was a teenager in the 70s... and was in my 20s during the 1980s..
Me too! Born in 59, we really timed it right, didn't we?
@@lindamosley922 i'd be happy to not have a 61-year old body right now...!!!!!
Me too Mark. I was born in 1959 also
Born in '54.
Man,we had it best.
NOTHING will ever equal,never mind better the 60's 70's & 80's.
It was one long party with the best music in history as our soundtrack.
No phones,just proper fun and enjoyment and,get this kids......out every night,not vegetating in our bedrooms pretending to be cool.
You cant be cool on your own so get out and support live music.
I agree from the mid 60's to about the late 90's was when pop music hit its peak.
That Minimoog on the bassline...superb.
They had so many hits. And they are still making music.
One of my favorite song of them is „It’s alright“ great dance track.
I love that song. That is regularly in my rotation along with West End Girls. I also love the song Home and Dry.
It's Alright is incredible. The extended mix not the video. So good!!!
Nice reaction - the Pet Shop Boys were a huge band in England in the 1980s.
This is one of those songs that epitomizes its era.
The 80's was such a magical era to grow up in, no wonder we're all so nostalgic. It wasn't just the great songs that made the 80's so special, we miss the mood and the vibe that the music made us feel back then.
I used to hate my parents' music when I was a kid but I grew to appreciate it as I got older. I made a playlist for my 78 year-old dad with songs from his generation and I actually added his playlist to mine. So my playlist has songs from the 40's to the present. His playlist also brings me back memories of my mom who died 13 years ago.
Music is "serious" because it is passion. Gotta love music, Music Is.
If you want a secret 80s gem that isn't superior, as such, but it is SO EIGHTIES it kinda hurts: "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry. It is kind of jokey but the hook is solid and the bass and beat make it a good dance tune. I bet you you will never hear this song recommended to you ever again. It is a weird one, but it was a hit for a minute around 86.
Damn the baseline is insane.
Loooovvvved this song back in the day and it still rocks today in 2022!!!!!!!!!!! Love the bass line and the horns!
I was a 16 when this song hit in 1984 and it was magical, what a time to be alive.
Pet Shop Boys were and still are one of my very favorite bands. Their current stuff is still very good. I'd recommend checking out the extended version of the song, It's Alright. It's incredible. The music goes on and on and on...
this is how to make spoken word work with music.......
This song is about London, posh West End and the working class East End, with wordplay on dead end world.
East 17 did a good cover on this around ten years later. But please believe me, there was quite a lot of dross back in the 80's too. Some songs will stand the test of time some are quickly (almost) forgotten. Perhaps the difference is that with all the then new gadgets, people still controlled and played them and used them as an expressive tool. Nowadays they trust too much on machines instead of having people to nail it while recording. E.g this song is mostly done with then new and relatively affordable sampler E-mu Emulator II.
As for song of that period, please react to Pointer Sisters - "Dare Me". Bit earlier might be Shakatak - "Dark Is The Night" or ABC - "The Look Of Love". :)
The posh West end used to be called yuppies, in the 80's
@@loreleimorphee5162 While the young urban professionals appeared in the 80's
the history of the division is back in the at least 18th century. The division still exists with some of the worst poverty ridden areas located within The East End.
Oh good grief, I'd forgotten about East 17 Lolol
The amount of parents who thought you were saying E17 Bwahahahaha
@@loreleimorphee5162 Yuppies used to be called the young people who earned lots of money, particularly those working in "The City" (The old part of London where the banks and big companies are) regardless whether they were posh or not.
Love it! Haha your face at the beginning said it all. Such a cool funky groovy catchy 80’s hit. One of the best. 👍🏼. Haha you talked about a good mood... but these lyrics start off with there’s a gun in your hand it’s pointed at your head. Lol. But yeah I get ya. Good music puts you in a good mood. That’s the 80’s for you!!
I can always tell when you really get into a song. Great band, great music. Try Suburbia, It's A Sin, Love Comes Quickly. So many bands from the 80s and early 90s that you have yet to try. ERASURE, THE CURE, MEN AT WORK, LIVE, SMASHING PUMPKINS.
What Have I Done to Deserve this is a must listen!
Absolutely
Man, let me tell you, I was almost 15 when this hit stateside & it stopped me in my tracks. I had never heard anything like it before. The cool thing about the 80's was the evolution of electronic instruments. We were constantly not only getting new music, but sounds in the songs we had never heard before. It's almost as if the songs started out as a new piece of gear in the studio, then musicians / producers would have a play around with them, get creative & from that came the hit. Inspiration is cool like that. Rarely can I say that I'm hearing an instrument I've never heard, or even an instrument used in a way I've never heard in the last 25-ish years. THAT was a huge part of the magic of the 80's
BTW this Pet Shop Boys song is unique in the regard that it was originally produced by Bobby Orlando in NYC. The early version of this song is on Bobcat Records. I LOVE the EMI treatment of this song. The 1984 original is worth a listen, if for no other reason than to illustrate how quickly a sound & vibe could change in less than 2 years back then.
Every track from the Pet shop boys is brilliant
Absolutely agree on how much music can set where you are… where I want to be some days I decide by putting on a music style/artist playlist that gets my headspace going where I want.
Glad you’re exploring and finding so much grab for you.
Regarding how much sometimes some hit…. The Cure was my favorite band since around 12 when I liked their songs before I knew who they were. At 19 in AIT for the Army four of us illegally (due to distance limitations, not illegal for going out) drove to another state during a weekend to see a concert by them. It was my first *real* concert, you know outside of a small or local band playing at a county fair or something, I’d ever gone to…. And it was them.
I loved it…. Happy-crying the whole time while singing and dancing with the crowd lol.
I hear you. I was born in 1976. So i was 8-9 when this came out. So i grew up thru the the great electronic 80s music.
It helped me have a great foundation of music. Thus i dont listen to pop.music for rhe past 30 years at least.
I was in my 20’s in the 80’s. What a great time to be alive.
To set the stage, we were immersed in the guitar pop and rock of the 70s and early 80s and then BOOM, synthesizers and drum machines hit the scene and opened the door to SO much freakin creativity in music. Songs like this that when you heard them on the radio for the very first time, your mind was blown and you made a bee line for the record store.
I knew you liked it when the drums hit!
Music truly is the soundtrack of our lives. You hear a song you haven’t heard in over a decade, and suddenly you are transported in time to a moment in your past. Music is magic, music is nostalgia. Music is joy, passion and art. Music is LIFE!
WEG is the eternal banger. Never gets old. More PSB:
- Love Comes Quickly
- Rent (PSB's Neil Tennant live at the Roundhouse 1996 with the band *Suede* 🔥 - audio, easy to find on RUclips)
So many great songs. People only hear the hits and are cluless. PSB essentail band.
Check out 'Talk Talk' best 80's band ever-though this is great & I'm a big Prog & blues fan..
Yes yes!! "It's My Life".
Definetly an outstanding 80s band. But unfortunately very underrated. "Such a shame", "Life's what you make it", "It's my Life" and many more great songs.
Mark Hollis had a great voice. R.I.P. Mark
Pet Shop Boys resurrected Dusty Springfield’s career when they collaborated with her on “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” and a subsequent album.
gotta love that 80s synth bass bounce lol
Good thing to hear you've matured musically. Better late than never. Pet Shop Boys is one of my favorite groups since late '80s.
I was expecting the usual Official accompanying video which showed the Train Station in London I was at last Saturday and THe Number 42 Bus that was one of 18 that used to go down my old High Street where I lived until 1983 and I still miss 38 years later. Some good shots of London while The Pet Shop Boys are walking around.
Maybe next time...
Also, they have a song called, IT'S A SIN that is another great hit! Pet Shop Boys are a great 1980's British group that made a big splash during the 80's BRIT MUSIC INVASION! I am a huge fan of theirs!
I am sure you will be intrigued by Pet Shop Boys - Left to my own Devices Wembley 2004 remastered HD. After your introduction to this wonderful group's first hit West End Girls, your journey has just begun and will continue. Thanks for taking time to check them out.
I love it, I love it, I love it. Great British music
Great reaction Chod! Check out the Pet Shop Boys songs - What Have I Done To Deserve This (with the legendary Dusty Springfield) and Heart (the Vampire video).
What was great about the 70s and 80s is that hundreds of bands would almost imitate the original bands and play their music in bars and night clubs to almost perfection. It was a really a fun time to be there.
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One night in Bangkok or She Blinded me with Science are fun too.
Other songs to check out by Pet Shop Boys include "What Have I Done to Deserve This", "Go West", and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)".
Pet Shop boys are amazing. New York City Boy and Go West were two of my favourite songs by them. Both were released in the 90's. Erasure was another band that I listened too. They are also fantastic and I recommend you check them out too. A Little Respect, Oh L'Amour, Blue Savannah or Drama! would be all great to start with. They have so many, it would be tough to choose.
Get a chance to watch the video for this it really sets the mood of the song . Not a 80s pop fan but this song sets a time and place. Another to check out is the fine young cannibals
I recently re-watched Night at the Roxbury. The music on there is more 90's what I beleive is called house music, which I also like.
Glad you like this genre of music.
Synth-Pop. New Wave. The second British Invasion in the 80's. So much more for you to discover.
Love that movie lol!!!!
Chod: I was a '70s and '80s kid.
I used to try to (literally) "get away from": synth-pop and stuff "like" the Pet Shop Boys IN the '80s!
[b.t.w.: This is 100% '80s! 1984]
NOW?: It, just, reminds me of better times!
I am not a huge fan of this band, but atmospheric synth stuff: it's killer.
[B.T.W.: I believe his delivery is more of a "conversational delivery" One where the vocalist sounds as if he's conversing with you ...or telling you/reading you a story. It gives a certain "looseness," but, also: 'intimacy' to things.
Tell me if you think I'm right (please!).
👍👍]
This was "the meat of" the 1980s. Most other styles would be qualified as something more "underground," (at least during portions of the decade.).
The 1970s are the MOST diverse, adventurous and prolific decade for music, but, despite the "dismissals" many of us offered, at the time: the 1980s run a close second.
-It's kind-of funny: I never knew SHIT about this band or any of the members.
For whatever reason (well, no: not 'whatever reason." The reason was: because THAT is where MY mind went and where my thinking was, probably, concentrated (in a lot of instances!) 😛🙄), I, at the time 9andLONG afterwards!) thought/felt that: the "West end Girls" he was describing were/had to be "West German Girls" [Remember: at the time, there was an "east"and a "West" "Germany." One [the east] occupied by the russians and one free and friendly with the western world.] ...and the "East-End Biys "had to be" some East German guys, wanting to escape to freedom (or something.).
Sadly: it's about some insane, meaningless class-warfare/-differentiation ...whatever "thing"/"social climate" in London. Not *nearly* as interesting or relevant. ...but the song is, still, excellent. 🤘🤘👍😜😁😉👍
There are plenty of bands and songs in relation to this period and these sorts of sounds.
Depeche Mode (darer and "heavier" - in their BEST work) than this, for sure.
maybe
O.M.D. [Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark -one of depeche mode's big influences (along with the, legendary: Kraftwerk!)!]
"Secret"
[NOT "moody" like this one ...but really good.]
Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy"
Yaz (or: Yazoo - as originally intended) [Their debut: Upstairs At Eric's is a necessity for anyone with a good music collection.]: "Bring Your Love Down (, Didn't I)";
"Situation"; "Don't Go"; "Goodbye '70s"....
New Order - "Blue Monday"
Talk Talk - "Talk Talk":
"It's My Life"
"Life's What You Make It"
"Dum Dum Girl"
"Mirror Man"
"Candy"
Howard Jones - "What Is Love?"
"You Know I Love You ...Don't You?"
"Like To Get To Know You Well"
"Things Can Only Get Better"
"No-One Is To Blame"
"Life In One Day"
"Look, Mama"
Thompson Twins - "In The Name Of Love"
"Doctor! Doctor!"
"Hold Me Now"
"King For A Day"
"Love On Your Side"
"Lies"
(really, from a different headspace, but:) Thomas Dolby:
"She Blinded Me With Science" (Extended Version) [massive hit]
"Hyperactive!"
"Airwaves"
...I guess you could throw in, say: "Relax" and "Two Tribes" by: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
[although their sophomore album: Liverpool, is, definitely, the superior outing, from them!!]
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SO much stuff!....
I bet your dad id very proud of you. I hope he listens in on your channel, at least every once in a while. You know, this reflects on him too, not because it's always true that a parent is supposed to raise you a "certain way" but because you expressed your admiration and appreciation of his craft and that you were brought up with music in your life. He made an impact on you, and that shows that he was doing what he was supposed to do ... teach you things, spending time and interacting with you. You're both doing it right 👍😎
I love this song
These guys have some great songs:
Theirs:
What Have I Done to Deserve This ft. Dusty Springfield
It's A Sin
Opportunities (currently made popular by a commercial)
Covers:
Always on My Mind
Go West
Oh man, blast from the past !!!!Had fun to this song in my 20s !!!
They did a brilliant collaboration with Dusty Springfield from the film scandal called " nothing has been proved " worthy of a reaction ❤️
The '80s was a big fitness decade... aerobics, jogging etc. This song and various club songs like it, were great to exercise to. Either turned up in a packed aerobics class with everyone jumping and moving to the beat, or in your earphones running along your favorite jogging path. These songs were just great to move to and gain energy and sustainability from.
Perhaps not the greatest music as pure music but creates a fantastic atmosphere, decadent & weirdly nostalgic.. For me it's about being at that age when you feel disillusioned & empty, but deep down you know there's a future out there, you've just got to go out & live it.
Man, I envy you beginning your Pet Shop Boys education - while I heard quite a bit of their work in the late 80s, I really got into them in the mid 90s, and what a thrill it was. They’ve got so much great stuff - Suburbia, It’s a Sin, Left to My Own Devices, Being Boring, Can You Forgive Her, Rent, Go West, and on and on. You’re in for a real treat - even their “throwaway” songs often measure up to the masterworks of other artists.
I have been a fan of them since when this song came out.PSB,Depeche Mode and Rammstein forever for me
so many beautiful elements in this..........haunting and evocative.....we inhabit this place with them....
They were pop royalty right from the get-go. Their first 5 albums (including the remix album, Disco) are just end to end brilliance. Please, Disco, Actually, Introspective and Behaviour. A perfect body of work. They’re still going today. This was their first hit and a number 1 in the UK. Neil Tenant, the singer, had been a journalist for a music magazine called Smash Hits so he had the advantage of hearing any and every pop release before they even started. Their production and songwriting is brilliant. The lyrics very easy to relate to. Some great storytelling and some great comedy in there too. I play those 5 albums I mentioned pretty much every week.
Awwwwwww love this reaction. Thanks Chod xx
Airhead by Thomas Dolby is 80's greatness with one of the tightest,funkiest basslines.
Yet another British musical genius.
Another geat song is the Live Aid version of 'Go West'. It was controversial because they were playing in Berlin, close to the wall.
I remember dancing to this in the clubs back in the day ! Fri/Sat night, everyone dressed to the nines, out dancing......those were the days!!
I used to see them hanging out at Heaven Ultra Disco back in the mid 80's. I loved their music then. Gay life was fantastic. Music was amazing. We had it made back then.
When In Rome “The Promise”
Loved your reaction 👏
Good song from the second British Invasion!
Excellent and brilliant reaction! 👏🏽👏🏽
I can see GOD in the beginning creating the mystery musical cords. And then saying here they are ,discover them. Music is beyond time and space ! How can it come from a big bang!
Lol... love it so much watching it again!
Hi Chod, Anything from Pet Shop Boys, can't go wrong.
Great song from a great era. Glad I was around to hear this when it came out.
I had this vinyl single. I was a huge prog fanatic in the 70s, and with that kind of music starting to die out in the 80s, this is the sort of music (i.e., New Wave Techno-Pop and the like) that helped get me through the decade. So much great music. I hope you will also get into Naked Eyes and Missing Persons.
Love this myself, have on download. The only one of theirs I ever liked really, nothing after could match it. I love the ladies' footsteps at the beginning and the haunting urban quality to it. Some great sounds in there and always love playing it.
This isnt just 80's it's ultra 80's, but I always found it funny that two gay guys would be singing about girls.
A staple among the dancers' line-up of tunes in gentlemen's clubs of the late '80's. Don't ask how I know that...
Glad I'm a 80's baby haha
A banging fun tune and. hit back in the Eighties
You can’t listen to PSB and stop at this one song. You should definitely go into the rabbit hole- it’s a sin, heart, domino dancing, suburbia, rent, the list goes on and on
The "Demo" of this song is on RUclips (type in "Bobby Orlando Mix") and it was quite dreadful. They were pushing it as a "dance song" until they finally got signed to a major record label and the producer said Let's slow the song down. Thank God or else we may have never heard of this song when it was in it's original state.
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!! love the bell........
Try Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes quickly.. 👌
Then Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the pleasure dome 11min version, best bass line ever?
Mid 80's New Wave synthpop.
This is a great track. 👍
Never forget the music scene (well, practically every scene - real estate, finance, motor trade) in much of the '70s and throughout the '80s was absolutely riddled with cocaine. Even the smallest players in obscure places were obsessed with it. I lived through it, and the challenge was to find people to work with who weren't screwed up from it. From an engineering POV, the rise of digital audio and devices in the '80s played into that (cocaine dulls your ears' HF response, so we have the Ultra bright '80s sound.) Wasn't as fun to live through as you might imagine it to be.
Heartbeat is a really good song from them, always got me going at work. Love your opinions and passion for what you do.
You WILL love more of their shit for sure.. please check out opportunities, always on my mind, rent, and way more!
I remember buying this album on Tape. I wore it out.
remembering this in the 80s club days,,, good times.. how bout Berlin's the metro,, or Ministry's work for love, revenge, effigy
Cool British vibe 🇬🇧😎
Okay, melodramatics aside, I think you would like their song "DJ Culture" and "Disappointed"…...."We were never being boring" is great if you are in a nostalgic mood about your party days.
Has a Lou Reed / Velvet Underground feel.
I am still trying to deal with the fact that they are currently using a Pet Shop Boys song for an automobile ad....it makes me want to put head in an oven....
If you ever have the chance, choose the 70’s over the 80’s.
I THINK YOUR REACTION TO THE VIDEO WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU REACT TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF WEST END GIRLS THANKS BRO
You really need to check out the pet shop boys megamix at the Brit awards. Really really good
Romeo Void 'Never Say Never'
Try it's alright or a very recent song like happy people.
Top synth duo
You should look up the 2020 lockdown version
Please react to Rory Gallagher ," tattooed lady" from Irish tour 74 live , great performance and great song .love the channel.
Best of all was Rory on stage (with half the crowd !) in Paris while performing Bullfrog Blues but I think it has gone from here now.
Rory was THE one I SHOULD have gone to that got away !
@@Isleofskye hi I never saw him live but a good friend saw him twice and said he was amazing, there is an international festival everyear in Ballyshannon Donegal Ireland (birthplace) for Rory and it is an amazing weekend of music.
@@patrickmcgrath4837 Yes, My Friend.
Massive regret as it would have, indeed, been amazing and a great guy, as well :)
@@Isleofskye hi ,So many gigs we miss out on , I suppose we can be lucky for the great bands / singers we have seen and heard , a small glimpse can be seen in Rory,s power and showmanship in the playing of his song - shadow play- in 1979 in Montreux jazz festival ,
exceptional stage presence .
what a show.!!!!!
Hah!,..in this moment you're an adult,..to me your just a kid,..but totally understand what your saying,..my dad God love him,..is totally the one who turned me onto jazz,..now huh granted,.at the time I wasn't having it,..I mean we shared some music taste like Earth Wind and Fire,..,.Al Green,..Aretha,..but I didn't get Thelonious Monk,..flew right over my head,.I thought Dave Brubeck was old timey,(timey wimey for you Dr. Who fans,.😉),.Benny Goodman,.Duke Ellington,...the only one at the time I liked when I was a kid was Sun Goddess by Ramsey Lewis,..and even after that it wasn't until I was an adult,..and Dalton Lee,(from Falcon and the Snowman soundtrack), by Pat Metheny, first song I heard from him,.didn't know he existed, that,..that hooked me clean,..I was godsmacked,..after that caught onto David Sanborn,. Stanley Jordan,..Jonathan Butler,..Ronny Jordan,..Hiroshima,..ohh God some I can't remember,..Kenny G,..listening to my dad's music,..led me to that,..listening to mom's made me later appreciate Stephanie Mills,..Cheryl Lynne, etc...you hardly find young people who start right off liking their parents music,..even now,..rap and hip hop,..not every single little kid will just right away get into,..its not till you get a quite a few years in you that you then appreciate the older music,..I pray the young people catch onto these oldies,..we were exposed to the New Wave,..Punk,.in the 80's,..considered more updated,.but they too would use horn sections,..did you hear it?,..in this song,..the Our House,..by Madness,..all kinds of horns,..Dixie's Midnight Runners,..the 80's bands still appreciated horns, using them,..and look how this song has that dance club groove,..like Psychedelic Furs,..Love My Way(ohhh that was played in every club on the planet),..Forever Now,..you might get a kick out of Ultravox,."The Thin Wall",
really weird beat,..electronic,..very,..just like Gary Numan "Cars",..the 80's really tweaked out brains,..we couldn't ever look at music the same,..it wasn't just one hook,..its like Edgar Winter using the moog,..he used every lever, dial,.button,..got sounds out of it no one thought possible,..keep going young person,..enjoy,.Godspeed, Peace ✌
Btw let me break some wrongly concieved notion that everything was bright colors and everyone was wearing pink and yellow.
This was not rhe case. Thats nowadays media selling 80s as a commodity..the cool people were wearing black and grey. And if there was crazy colors it was 8n a deisgn. Nobody i hung out had bright yellow jackets,pink pants , blue socks and all that bs. Thats the Vice City version of everytthing looked like miami vice and stuff.
Just wanted to point that out