Thanks Matt, for the reaction of this song! One of my favorites of the album, and of PSB too! Is it really great. The guitar you hear there, is played by Johnny Marr. He was the guitarist of "The smiths". He also participate on "Electronic", where he met Neil Tennant. So then PSB has been calling him for several collaborations. This was the first one. That is PSB way. They are a synth pop group, but they use other kind of music and rhythms in their albums. Including acoustic, rock, Latin music - Domino Dancing was an example, but you will se more on Bilingual one. On this album you will also will notice really beautiful soft / slow / romantic songs. Like "To face the truth" and "It's only the wind" "My October Symphony" is another great song I really likes too!
Matt...another detail of this great song is, if you pay attention,... from the beginning up to the end,... you will listen "Everybody E-E-Everybody Everybody E-E-Everybody". Another detail of PSB.
It‘s so great to experience this with you as a first time listener. I think I was propably 10 years old, when i sat in front of my dad‘s Stereo System and listened to this for the first time. It totally blew me away.
When you're finished listening to all the Results/Behaviour tracks & mixes, I HIGHLY recommend you watch their insane early 90ies live concert called 'Performance'. You'll know all the tracks in their setlist, and it was staged like a bizarre musical experience, (I saw PSB live in Brussels with this show when I was 15 and it was awesome and impressive!).
Apart they performed this song on "Performance" tour, - being the one who opened the show , as was mentieond below by other comments -, they also do it, on a very special and very important show: The Teenage Cancer Trust one, at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 in London.. That one was a less "electronic" one, as they do it with the London Royal Phlharmonic Orchestra! Furthermore there was a special guest: Johnny Marr! Then you can see him playing his guitar there live!. Also a opera singer, was there too, for the "Left of my own devices" song. I recommend to see that video here on RUclips, which is a different from other ones, showing how PSB can change and not use full synth pop instruments.
This was the first song they played live on the “Performance “ tour in 1991. Fantastic. There is an extended version also of this song that you should also play Matt. Great review bud
I think this song is about his school days, at a private all-boys school, the first of two songs on this album about this period in his life, the second being on side 2 called "Nervously"
Now that you've said that, these lyrics seem like a more detailed version of It's a Sin. "Living a law just short of delusion. When we fall in love there's confusion." They tried to teach him "how to be, so pure in thought and word and deed. They didn't quite succeed." I thank you, too, Izzy!
This song was originally meant to be a James Bond tune They were ask to send in a track for The Living Daylights (1987) but the company thought it was "to slow" to be a hit en send it back to the PSB and ask to re-write it In the meantime they also ask A-ha to give it a shot We all know how it ends...
Not my favorite on the album but a good song. I feel the best is yet to come. Just a sidenote the next album very absolutely rivals this album! Enjoy love you
Probably the BEST song among the infinite PSB catalogue. It reminds me to my mother, her story.
It’s actually one of my top favorites
Thanks Matt, for the reaction of this song!
One of my favorites of the album, and of PSB too!
Is it really great.
The guitar you hear there, is played by Johnny Marr.
He was the guitarist of "The smiths". He also participate on "Electronic", where he met Neil Tennant.
So then PSB has been calling him for several collaborations. This was the first one.
That is PSB way. They are a synth pop group, but they use other kind of music and rhythms in their albums. Including acoustic, rock, Latin music - Domino Dancing was an example, but you will se more on Bilingual one.
On this album you will also will notice really beautiful soft / slow / romantic songs. Like "To face the truth" and "It's only the wind"
"My October Symphony" is another great song I really likes too!
This song spoke to so many of us....growing up and being different. It just encapsulated that longing to belong somewhere.
Johnny Marr on guitar. What a melodic tune
Matt...another detail of this great song is, if you pay attention,... from the beginning up to the end,... you will listen "Everybody E-E-Everybody Everybody E-E-Everybody". Another detail of PSB.
It‘s so great to experience this with you as a first time listener. I think I was propably 10 years old, when i sat in front of my dad‘s Stereo System and listened to this for the first time. It totally blew me away.
Ha, if you were 10, then we're the same age! I was born in 1980 (though as you say, I never followed PSB until I started this deep-dive last year).
It's a richly layered track. A little electronic opera by itself.
When you're finished listening to all the Results/Behaviour tracks & mixes, I HIGHLY recommend you watch their insane early 90ies live concert called 'Performance'. You'll know all the tracks in their setlist, and it was staged like a bizarre musical experience, (I saw PSB live in Brussels with this show when I was 15 and it was awesome and impressive!).
A fantastic track again.
Apart they performed this song on "Performance" tour, - being the one who opened the show , as was mentieond below by other comments -, they also do it, on a very special and very important show:
The Teenage Cancer Trust one, at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 in London..
That one was a less "electronic" one, as they do it with the London Royal Phlharmonic Orchestra!
Furthermore there was a special guest: Johnny Marr!
Then you can see him playing his guitar there live!.
Also a opera singer, was there too, for the "Left of my own devices" song.
I recommend to see that video here on RUclips, which is a different from other ones, showing how PSB can change and not use full synth pop instruments.
There is like a 9 min extended version of this that is just epic
This was the first song they played live on the “Performance “ tour in 1991. Fantastic.
There is an extended version also of this song that you should also play Matt.
Great review bud
Yes, when they came on stage dressed as school boys. 😊
There’s even an extended extended version. The Japanese extended version!
I think this song is about his school days, at a private all-boys school, the first of two songs on this album about this period in his life, the second being on side 2 called "Nervously"
Gotcha, cheers for clarifying, Izzy. :)
Now that you've said that, these lyrics seem like a more detailed version of It's a Sin. "Living a law just short of delusion. When we fall in love there's confusion." They tried to teach him "how to be, so pure in thought and word and deed. They didn't quite succeed." I thank you, too, Izzy!
Behaviour has to be my all time favourite PSB album. Neil has said that Depeche Modes Violator qas a big influence
Great, powerful track and another “tribute” to Neil’s time at Catholic school.
This song was originally meant to be a James Bond tune
They were ask to send in a track for The Living Daylights (1987) but the company thought it was "to slow" to be a hit en send it back to the PSB and ask to re-write it
In the meantime they also ask A-ha to give it a shot
We all know how it ends...
Terribly
Originally the music was composed for the James Bond movie, instead a- ha’s “Living daylights” was chosen! So PSB have created this in the end.😉
Glad it wasn't. The film sucked and this is way more epic.
@@clivesimpson-xb7zb I also love the way it turned out! Even though talking about the a- ha’s song - it’s one of their worst songs for me.
@@clivesimpson-xb7zbit's the best bond, but would have been better with the psb song.
Would love to hear your reaction of: Love is a bourgeois construct (blade remix), by pet shop boys.
Cheers, Seb has made all the remix material available to me. PSB are so prolific!
@@mattsnider2667 Yet Chris & Neil..lamented their lack of being prolific.
Not my favorite on the album but a good song. I feel the best is yet to come. Just a sidenote the next album very absolutely rivals this album! Enjoy love you