Bell, or Bellend

[Elmyn Noos]

Prompted by some outrageous assertions on the Pet Shop Boys thread, I feel minded to settle this once and for all. For my pink penny, in the world of mano a mano pop, Erasure bent the Pet Shop Boys over and rammed their fat cocks right up Tennant and the other guy's hoops.

 

Who Needs Love Like That

Oh L'Amour

Sometimes

It Doesn't Have To Be

The Circus

A Little Respect

 

Just recalling those few takes me back to some great nights in Bananas in Leeds in the late 80's.

 

Vote away, retro syntho pop lovers.

[Stu Monty]

A little respect is a tune but, for me, the Pet Shop Boys have done more high quality tune making down the years. And also, thinking of the Pet Shop Boys always makes me think of this:

 

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Which is always a good thing.

[LFC Brian]

West End Girls

 

So pets shop boys

[Flying Pig]

Erasure* for me (if I've got to choose). Pet Shop Boys should be rubbed* from the pop history books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**Clever,eh?

[Unrighteous]

I couldn't decide... so I've gone with the third option.

[She Knows It]

Erasure all the way, they had lots of videos with men in hot pants. Though I do like 'Left to my Own Devices'.

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

Erasure all the way, they had lots of videos with men in hot pants. Though I do like 'Left to my Own Devices'.

 

I probably wouldn't

[dave u]

As it's a music poll, just put me down for the opposite of whatever that fool Monty chose.

[WaltonRed]

What Monty said.

 

'Inner City pressure'

[RoboRiise]

As I said in the Brits thread last night, I thought the Pet Shop Boys were once very good at what they did. Erasure were better though.

[Fugitive]

Where is the Right Said Fred option????

[Strontium]

Which of these groups you prefer is a matter of individual taste. However, if we're dealing with who is better, then that's a quality issue, and quality is an objective measure.

 

With that in mind:

 

Only one of these groups is so respected by their fellow artists that they have them queuing up round the block to work with them. Not many groups can say they have collaborated with David Bowie, Elton John, Madonna, Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Kylie, Liza Minelli, Boy George, Blur, Suede, Robbie Williams, Johnny Marr, Pete Burns, The Killers, Rufus Wainwright and Girls Aloud - to name just the ones you've probably heard of.

 

Only one of these groups has such artistic ambition to have made an arthouse movie, written a stage musical with Jonathan Harvey and scored a new soundtrack for the classic silent move Battleship Potemkin. Only one of these groups would be brave enough to commission music videos directed by people like Derek Jarman, Bruce Weber and Wolfgang Tillmans. Only one of these groups has performed at Glastonbury.

 

Only one of these groups has their finger on the pulse of the dance music scene, to have commissioned remixes from so many big name remixers before they were big name. Only one of these groups has worked with producers like Frankie Knuckles, Trevor Horn, Harold Faltermeyer, Angelo Badalamenti, Brothers in Rhythm and Danny Tenaglia. Only one of these groups topped the charts in America.

 

Only one of these groups so transcends the music scene that it's fallacious to even call them a pop group when they're so much more than that. Only one of these groups has the bare-faced cheek to cover Where The Streets Have No Name as a high-energy stomper segued into Can't Take My Eyes Off You, or to accept their lifetime achievement Brit on a video screen while they utter platitudinal cliches in a glorious parody of acceptance speeches.

 

Only one of these groups challenges you and makes you think. Only one of these groups is unique.

[AVEEZ]

I like the PetShop boys tunes - I always hated seeing them on TotP though as they were a bit scary from seeing them last night I feel the same..the remind me of the Youth Club Discos ... ahhhh happy times!

[Elmyn Noos]

Which of these groups you prefer is a matter of individual taste. However, if we're dealing with who is better, then that's a quality issue, and quality is an objective measure.

 

With that in mind:

 

Only one of these groups is so respected by their fellow artists that they have them queuing up round the block to work with them. Not many groups can say they have collaborated with David Bowie, Elton John, Madonna, Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Kylie, Liza Minelli, Boy George, Blur, Suede, Robbie Williams, Johnny Marr, Pete Burns, The Killers, Rufus Wainwright and Girls Aloud - to name just the ones you've probably heard of.

 

Only one of these groups has such artistic ambition to have made an arthouse movie, written a stage musical with Jonathan Harvey and scored a new soundtrack for the classic silent move Battleship Potemkin. Only one of these groups would be brave enough to commission music videos directed by people like Derek Jarman, Bruce Weber and Wolfgang Tillmans. Only one of these groups has performed at Glastonbury.

 

Only one of these groups has their finger on the pulse of the dance music scene, to have commissioned remixes from so many big name remixers before they were big name. Only one of these groups has worked with producers like Frankie Knuckles, Trevor Horn, Harold Faltermeyer, Angelo Badalamenti, Brothers in Rhythm and Danny Tenaglia. Only one of these groups topped the charts in America.

 

Only one of these groups so transcends the music scene that it's fallacious to even call them a pop group when they're so much more than that. Only one of these groups has the bare-faced cheek to cover Where The Streets Have No Name as a high-energy stomper segued into Can't Take My Eyes Off You, or to accept their lifetime achievement Brit on a video screen while they utter platitudinal cliches in a glorious parody of acceptance speeches.

 

Only one of these groups challenges you and makes you think. Only one of these groups is unique.

 

Which one? Is it Erasure? I hope it's Erasure.

[Sugar Ape]

Erasure for me. Stop is a fucking tune!

[Mendoza]

Tune

 

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[Paul]

Which one? Is it Erasure? I hope it's Erasure.

 

Ha, ha, ha!!! Fuckin' Noos.

 

For me it's The Pet Shop Boys by a country mile. They made great pop music with a soulful edge, whereas Erasure sounded like the most cliché-ridden, Euro-pop, gay disco of my worst nightmares.

[razor]

Or a Yazoo tribute band.

 

*Hides copy of The Circus*

[dirty_sanchez]

Erasure are one of the gayest sounding bands ever, but they're still excellent. A Little Respect is possibly the campest song of all time.

 

Both these bands are great.

[Total Longo]

Pet Shop Boys all the way for me, as Erasure are clearly gay.

 

The sweaty, disco, testosterone fuelled version of one of Elvis's most heart wrenching tunes is the clincher for me. So manly, in an un-gay way, though.

 

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[Total Longo]

A little respect is a tune but, for me, the Pet Shop Boys have done more high quality tune making down the years. And also, thinking of the Pet Shop Boys always makes me think of this:

 

7wqfcwgT0Ds

 

Which is always a good thing.

 

"you want to sit down, but you've sold your chair, so....you just stand there"

 

I love this clip, FOTC is brilliant.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

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[Sugar Ape]

This thread cracks me up, I can never believe how serious sd takes the pet shop boys. I'm sure he even negged on a music amnesty thread because someone slagged them off.

[Fugitive]

I'm sticking with Right Said Fred.

[Malarkey]

As soon as they're compared to Wham! I'll vote...

 

...for Wham! of course.