Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls • TopPop
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2015
- "West End Girls" is a song by the English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song's lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.
In 1987, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of The Decade between the years 1985 and 1994 by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. A critic's poll in 2020 by The Guardian selected "West End Girls" as number one of the 100 greatest UK number one singles.
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, formed in London in 1981.
Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.
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Broadcast date: 24 January 1986
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One of the many things I love about this song is his accent...he sounds so English...it's really special.
Thats cos he is English!
@@kevinlongman007r/woosh
@@md4111 ?
@@kevinlongman007that means it went over that guys head
Hes from the north east of england.
I'm 50 years old and was 16 years old when this sing was out. Its seems like yesterday. I still know the lyrics and still jam it.. 80s 4ver
MITZI THOMPSON right never forget the lyrics I so love the 80 s too I’m 51 what I grew up on
the same here...I'm 50 too and I still remember this old times...never came the same time....without smartphone, ppl speaking to each other normally...no Internet...and so on...the times were much quieter than today...
"I've crossed the seas of eternity to understand that the notion of time is nothing but an illusion.":)
I'm 45 and these songs never got old.
Iove your play list it's dope!!
It's 2024 and the UK has given us some amazing music 🎉
this song represents a time that will never be duplicated
Fascinating. How so - go on? I was a very young kid in the 80s and was definitely inside the age of innocence.
Generally, the 80s will never be surpassed by its melodiuosness. PSB one my top fave band of all time.
I miss the 80s
I was 19yrs old and just moved to Atl. and will never ever forget the lady's that I met.
Sam Moss amen
One of the best and most iconic songs of the 80s and still sounds so good
this song is one of the reasons i love the 80s so much
2023 y 2024 y esta cancion sigue siendo una joya de 1986👍😎
Magic. I turn 43 this year and I grew up on this music. I still have listened to this for the last 35+ years. Anyone else the same?
Historic song of the '80's.
Wow
Yes 😁 😃 😄 😎
not historic. timeless.
One of the best of the 80s
Love the 80s fashion 😊
I've lived through 6 decades of music and this song is one of my favorites. Visited the UK a few times when I was in the Air Force. These kinda tracks take me back.❤
What an absolute classic
Neil Tennant a master lyricist.
Chris Lowe a musical genius
Love this song. Super hypnotic. Just sounds like it's playing eternaly somewhere.
True. It's like it doesn't come from them. They borrowed it from cosmic records
Los escuché por primera vez en 1982, pero ellos nacieron en 1981, hoy estamos en 2023 y aún los escucho, siendo mis favoritos, Neil conserva casi el mismo timbre de voz de su juventud, próximo año cumple 70 años, y Chriss, sigue asombrando con sus musicalizaciones, el próximo año tendrá 64 años, y la gente joven, que los sigue es realmente mucha, eso es la vigencia de Pet Shop Boys, los chicos del peluche, a pesar de los años , 43 de trayectoria musical
This song still is rockin in 2020👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
50 goid nomber ♥️🙇♥️🌏
This song makes me sway around the room with my eyes closed.
Me too rs
Você é linda demais abraço Brasil
😍😍😍
As a gen Z, i can whole hearted say that this music is 100% better than music nowadays, so much more into the music.
I'm also a gen-z, surprise, surprise. And I *also* think that music back then was just better.
I am from Russia and have been listening to Pet Shop Boys for over 30 years!
алексей давыдов так и живем...
Life Rusia.
Go West! Joking, love you comrade!
😊
matthew wells lol staysafe
If I had a Time Machine I would go back to 80’s in a heartbeat 🚀
ME TOO!!!
I'd love to go back to the 80's, unfortunately, can't leave the house.
If you go, don't wear masks, you'd look silly.
After the 1st 15 minutes you would end up having to use a pay phone with a roll of quarters
Fire up the hot tub..
Same
Who’s still listening to this in 2020
This song never gets old 💋Wow I need the 80’s in these troubling times of this crazy coronavirus ~ This shall too pass
A special time for music 😁. So many classics from that era 🎧 Atb.
MTV classic video on now
I need a time machine back to the 80s and 90s.
Whenever I want to feel happy , I always play this song with the 3 subs in the back of my 56 Chevy bel air :)
I use to laugh at 80’s people wanting to go back to the 1980’s in a Time Machine !
With this COVID-19 pandemic, I’m not laughing at them now !!
when this hit the charts, old London town was still great.
The keyboard player has insane stage presence...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅😅😅
One hand is you need..
These shows all used backing tracks, not live. Nothing is synced at all. The keyboard player doesn't even need to play really besides to pretend he is playing.
That was priceless.
Tocava muito nas festas dos anos 80.
My favorite song from the 80s. Just perfect!
Yes 😁 😃 😄 😎
I am so in love with Niel in this video. I just love his look, stylish and he's very cute in it.
Same. Looks like a total doll.
The coolest keyboard player ever
It sounds very much of it's time which makes this song timeless... That's perfection
Chris Lowe is the like the Queen’s Guard; not allowed to crack a smile or break rank under any circumstance! Even so, the Pet Shop Boys would not be the same without him.
Neil isn't smiling either.
I would love to tickle him to see if he cracks under pressure! x
In the video for heart he smiles and it looks strange haha
Yes! Now I know where Victoria Beckham got her signiture look!
Who’s listening to this during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, wishing they could escape and go back to the 80’s? 🙋🏼♀️😔
Still listening 30 plus years later!
I never left the 80s. 😎
Always want to go back to the 80's. See ya there.
reversing time is not feasible but time travel into future is possible . I hurt with you for I am to older now 64 but I am revisiting many songs from my life. Keep Safe. Randall
I’m listening to this and would Gladly go back to the 80’s with a gorgeous girl like you 😍
Eu não sei como explicar, eu não vivi os anos 80.. Mas as musícas, e o que ouço sobre esse tempo me tiram o folêgo literalmente, que década incrível... I hope that every people feel the same feelings, this feelings call love, empathy and peace.
The zoom-out of the flashing logo feels very retro weekend ❤
This was 35 years ago??? Looks like yesterday...
It was.
I first heard this on one of those import Hi-Nrg Mix albums that never used to sell.
£2.99 and when I heard it on the radio the words were different in one bit.
Amen! Gen X 👍🤘
never seen this version before still remember this on radio as a kid ;)
@@calif1mc🚫 these guys were Baby Boomers guy.....😂🤣
This song definitely moved music on a few years when it was released.
Первый раз я услышала их когда мне было десять лет конец 80 х и сразу полюбила этот голос,песни ❤
So young and blessed with beautiful music❤
Yup the 80s and 90s forever in my heart
I am 50 years old, I come from the island of Malta never would I have thought that I would be living a pandemic that might finish the world as we know it, this was something that I only viewed on discovery channel... Now we are all living this night mare.... Long live the 80s...
Stephen Camilleri Finish the world as you know it? Not even close. It will all calm down as it always has.
@@sarabelleimaginary
It sure will.
Yoh yoh I'm 50 aswell I'm still going to gigs here's some I've been to in last year's Pet shop boys Erasure Depeche mode Heaven 17 Blamongue Kraftwerk New order Sparks Tears for fears Adam Ant loads more the ones I missed out on Mike Jackson George Michael Prince anyway sisters of mercy was the last gig I did I'll be gigging until death takes me
In Netherlands some 500.000 people have anti-bodies in blood and (only) elderly or weak persons died. Like with influenza.
Dude on the keyboard just looks so done with life
Historic song of the '80's.
I remember being 5 hearing this song in the car , resinates till this day
Me encanta, ideal para bailar solo en tu casa, en esos momentos donde no pensamos tanto ❤
I agree love this
They're lit so beautifully! Pink light from above, aqua from below? I'm not sure but it sure worked! And so wonderfully 80s!
This song takes me to the middle of the new 80s. To a fantastic new car, a second old T - bird, and my early thirties. It was a time that I could reminisce the past and look to the future at the same time. What a decade!
It Beats Rap!! I'm A West End Girl Still Waitin For Her East End Boy!! 💝
I want my MTV , back the way it was in the 70’s & 80’s no commercials and no stupid shows, just 24 hrs. Of music .
🇺🇸👩🚀🌖
Johnny Bushman there was no MTV in the 70’s 😎
Hi well I use to listen to mtv in the UK it was a great show today' there are no shows of music just stupid date shows there is one called nackid attraction were they have four men no clothes on bit by bit the lady has to pick a male date and then vice verse then the person who picks there date has to strip of Google it it's a real sad programe
Fr tho
Amo esta música!!! Fez parte da minha adolescência.
Relembrando em 31/03/2020
🤗❤🇧🇷🌎
que bom Suzete somos duas
Great era of music!
Love pet shop boys aving a drink listing to this grt song
Keyboard player's best day ever ....
This song makes me sway around the room with my eyes closed.
Historic song of the '80's.
Great 80s Hit. Fantastic. For a years ago I remembered to listening this song when I was with my girl in a station train of Paris. A lonely day in Paris.
Wow the 80s what an era for music Pet Shop Boys one of the all time greats I'm still listening May 2020🌎🎀
How cute they look: both a little shy and trying to be very cool...
How bizarre, I've never seen so many comments on a PSB hit where people don't seem to realise who they are!
Biggest musical duo in history, massive 30+ year career that's still going strong, won nearly every major award possible and are seen as music royalty. How on earth do people not recognise Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe?!! Yes, Chris still plays like that and is famous for it.
Huntress it is bizarre. And sad. Nearly all my fav bands were from the UK. Music today won't be played decades later. Long live PSB!!!
I do recognized them since my youth, big big big!!! 👍👍👍
Bigger than Simon and Garfunkel?
@@CorpusChristi-j8x Yes Simon and Garfunkel have sold 35 million copies total and PSB have sold 100 million.
True late night clubs in the 80s played this late at night
Sophisticated and cool
Voz maravilhosa, sou fã dessa banda desde dos anos 80 90.
👏👏👏👍👍
The best pop duo in history, i love them.
Guapísimo el vocalista Neil Tennant 😘😍 aún ahora a su edad se ve igual de hermoso ❤ y la canción ni que hablar es de mis preferidas.
A love 💕 Rock clásico.
This has popped up again on my RUclips and I cant get enough of it! 😆 must admit that London looks a lot different these days! At least we have memories of how it was in the passed and have memories to cling onto! Thank god! 🙏
they both look cute back then.
dibs on the synth player with a cap that says BOY yet.
YAS they were.....👱♀️🦄🍧🎡🏳🌈🥰 !!!
Essa dupla é demais, me amarro em suas músicas.
Grande cantor admiro muito, lindas canções 😍😍❤❤
2019 and still listening to the Pet Shop Boy
My partner and I went to see the pet shop boys every time they were in town. Love them.!
Ouvindo esse clássico em 2020, meus Deus, 35 anos voaram. Bons tempos aqueles, só saudades
Uno de los mejores grupos de esa época su música nunca dejará de existir por generaciones arriba los 80
Idem
Que de bons souvenirs en écoutant ce morceau. Toute mon adolescence. Même à 53 ans
And the paper said back in the 80s that they were going to be a one-hit wonder and they're still around now in 2020
jack Watsonepic 100 M records sold yeah they still around ❤️❤️
I don't want to start a polemic but I don't quiete agree. Their first album was a success as a whole, with many other great hits such as Suburbia, Opportunities, Love Comes Quickly. I'd bought that album all the way in Istanbul :)
Those were best of time such a Sophisticated song think of London every time I hear it
Pet Shop Boys! Great sound of 80's! Love it
I love forever PSB 💖💓💓💓💓💓💖🥰🥰
Forever,this guys!!!!
Oh, they look so young! I've loved them for 35 years¡!
TEMPO PASSA MAS ESSAS MUSICAS CONTINUAM SENDO AS MELHORES
Verdade
@@marciooliveira6368 É verdade nunca mais teremos música lindas como essa e outras nossas músicas do passado são todas lindas 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎺🎺🎸🎸🎻🎻👋👋👋👋👋
Essa aí é jóia
Com certeza
oi belinha boa noite concordo com você
great song. 🥰🥰🥰❤❤👏👏👍👍👍
Was in my early 30...60 now..can still remember word for word...this group n depechmode were great then and still relevant now..atleast for me
that guys jacket is back in style....
the pants too lol
Tiempos buenos música curada,regreso mi vida a esos años 80..
Pfffft...it never went out.
This is a classic, bro)
Flyers jacket rules...
Lindos recuerdos, unos de mis grupos favoritos. Saludos desde Uruguay
Que dupla maravilhosa! 😍❤️
I love love love this song! 1985 was a great year
Totally awesome!
Blessed to be getting older and remembering these type of songs. Puts me in such a vibe move. Music like this transcended time, location and race. I'm black and from the US and this song was my jam, still is. I love introducing young ones to this song!
Keyboard player's best day ever ....
Historic song of the '80's.
This sing is everything. 80's forever young ... this is another sing :)
Keyboard player's best day ever ....
Haha can you imagine his expression when he has a bad day
knows how to spell boredom, for sure
2000$ key board piano
The keyboard was prob not even on. Most instruments were not on during these performances along with the lip sync
@@leighthomas8474Yes, a Yamaha DX7, 200 bucks used on Ebay right now.
That drum solo in the middle of the song is mind blowing!
Drum Solo? You mean the choir & brass pad solos?
one voice and one synthbass...
can you imagine the playback exchanged to the real sound of this performance?
...
wonderful what the technology of the 1980s brought us.
people with synths could easily create popmusic
Fue es y seguira siendo una joya de Pet Shop Boys...2024
Grew up to this song in my household 💙💙 when he start singing that chorus 😩🤩😍
Nostalgia!!!
I am 47 and remember loving this song. Nice.
Still listening to this song. Was fortunate to live through the 70's and 80's as a teen young adult. Fantastic time. Wish we could go back. 😊
Me encanta, ideal para bailar solo en tu casa, en esos momentos donde no pensamos tanto ❤
Me encantó esa respuesta!!
@Naranja Mecanica
En los 80's, siempre la ponían en las discotecas o en las fiestas y si se bailaban pero pasos suaves y lentos, como baila George Michael en el video murmullo indiscreto.
♡
Mida,
Faccia Bella
MOMENTOS DE CUARENTENA
Au ''Garage'' à Montréal en 1986! Les magnifiques années de ma jeunesse...
Listening to Pet Shop Boys is always welcome!
What could! So hard to get Girls!! and Then. They still rock my World!! Soo many! Love Girls!!!
I love the "we do this in our sleep" attitude.
MEU COMO EU CURTIA ESSA MUSICA, GRANDES LEMBRANÇAS, NÃO ME CANSO DE OUVIR, UMA DAS MELHORES..
Time to time our universe are expanding , throuth the dark energy , at the same time these splendid music sorrounding in the espace and time , english heritage , these a simbol of our humanity , human beings , without a doubt ,
The best music ever ......
🌟uma das melhores bandas da época .🌟anos dourados .decadas 70 .80.90.🌟
I love so much about this song, especially the oddness and violence yet sophisticated delivery of that very first verse.
Tenía 16 años cuando inicie a escuchar su musica hoy tengo 50 años y me atrevo a decir que no podrá surgir otro dúo como ellos para mi gusto los mejores sin duda alguna.
Asi es bien dicho
when this sing came out i was 9.
45 now.
time flies.
that synth bass line im never gonna forget it damm 80s forever how much do ya need !!!!!!!!!!