The last year and a half they have become one of my favorite groups, with many great track's!

What are some of your favorite tracks by the duo?

Mine Are

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- Rent (best song they ever did)

- Surburbia (video mix, the full horror is good too)

- West & girls (so many remixes, but i still prefer the original)

- To speak is a sin (for the lyrics)

- Paninaro (you! you're my lover! my sex! )

- So hard (Morales remix)

- Wouldn't normally do (love the whole Very album actually)

"Love Comes Quickly" and this little diddy:

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"West End Girls".

I love a lot of their own songs but I think they've done genius covers

I hated their version of Always On My Mind when it came out because I thought it was 'disrespectful' to Elvis or some bullshit like that but quite a bit later I heard it again and just thought "Wow that's so clever and bold"

"Go West" is totally brilliant.

Same with Where the Streets Have No Name/I Can't Take My Eyes Off You - apparently Bono was pissed and U2 released a statement saying "What have we done to deserve this?"

I love their version of "Somewhere" as well.

Here's an orchestral version

WEST END GIRLS

WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?

OPPORTUNITIES

To be honest, I always liked the visual side to the band, their artwork, video and stage show to the actual music.

Two divided by zero

Violence

Rent

Was that want it was?

Paninaro

Left to my own devices

Being Boring

Jealousy

You only tell me you love me when you're drunk

Red letter day

I get along

London

The Sodom and Gomorrah show

I Want a Dog

It's Alright

Being Boring

My October Symphony

So Hard

The End of the World

Before

Dreaming of the Queen

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing

They're fantastic. I'll mention some of my favorite tunes in chronological order:

- Rent

- It Couldn't Happen Here

- King's Cross

- Being Boring

- My October Symphony

- Dreaming Of The Queen

- London

- I'm In Love With A German Film Star

- Love, etc

- Vulnerable

My all-time fave is Being Boring. The lyrics, the melancholy, the video. It's really difficult to be more meaningful in a pop song, in my opinion. Perhaps Prefab Sprout is the only "recent" band able to do it.

mynameisnotsusan said:

I love a lot of their own songs but I think they've done genius covers

I hated their version of Always On My Mind when it came out because I thought it was 'disrespectful' to Elvis or some bullshit like that but quite a bit later I heard it again and just thought "Wow that's so clever and bold"

"Go West" is totally brilliant.

Same with Where the Streets Have No Name/I Can't Take My Eyes Off You - apparently Bono was pissed and U2 released a statement saying "What have we done to deserve this?"

I love their version of "Somewhere" as well.

Here's an orchestral version

There version of Always On My Mind was different... it isn't as somber as Elvis or Tragic sounding like Willies. It's more upbeat and i love every version and there's just sounds so grand and epic. Like it's a joy to be alive epic , Go West dominates the Village Peoples imo and as a huge U2 fan there version of Where The Streets Have No Name isn't amazing but i do like it

ANYTHING off the 2CD anthology

but I specially enjoy their 90-96 stuff, Being Boring is, by far, my fav track...

curiously, It's a Sin is my least fav track...

I love the melancholy of many of their songs. I've just remembered the wonderful "Luna Park", of the "Fundamental" album.

Neil's voice, intelligence and wit makes him one of my favorite pop stars.

Javi said:

I love the melancholy of many of their songs. I've just remembered the wonderful "Luna Park", of the "Fundamental" album.

Neil's voice, intelligence and wit makes him one of my favorite pop stars.

same here

"West End Girls" and "It's a Sin"

AlexdeParis said:

"West End Girls" and "It's a Sin"

Those are the first 2 i heard by the boys

Too many to name...

but some of my top favorites:

Dreaming of the Queen

It Couldn't Happen Here

Being Boring

Birthday Boy

I Don't What What You Want But I Can't Give it Anymore

Discoteca

Home and Dry

Left To My Own Devices

Don Juan

Miserablism

After the Event

Minimal

I Didn't Get Where I Am Today

just the tip for me. They have an endless # of killer tunes.

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This list is only (1) the tunes that I have heard (maybe 20% of all their stuff) and (2) the most easily recalled report card grade A tunes.

From 1987 and subsequently, "Left to My Own Devices" and "Always on My Mind."

Also, several Pet Shop Boys tunes prove that they definitely were and are one of the best

blue-eyed soul composer-performers, group or soloists, of the electrofunk/boogie era in R&B music. "West End Girls", the remix particularly, "We Can't We Live Together"-particularly the NY Remix, "Divided by Zero" "Love Comes Quickly" "Jack the Lad" and "Opportunities". What their singing may have lacked due to their deadpan European vocal style the music and how they performed it more than compensated for the vocals. For example, "Divided by Zero" is solidly compatible to the Dazz Band's "Let It All Blow" and the BarKays "She Talks to Me with Her Body."

"Jack the Lad" is compatible to "The Medicine Song" by Stephanie Mills.

In the early/mid 80s there was a lot of funk-ish music crossing from the R&B chart to the US and, more frequently,the UK pop charts and vice-versa.

David Bowie's "Lets Dance" got to # 14 on the US R&B chart in 1983.

U.S. R&B/Funk diva Melba Moore had her "Love's Comin At Ya" reached #15 on the UK pop chart in 1982 while it did not appear on the US pop chart. These examples are only few of dozens of examples. A few more examples, the US R&B Chart: "Shock the Monkey", "She Blinded Me with Science" "Out of Touch."

You may find that it is worth the time to take a look and listen at the song lists thathave been posted to Itunes Ping that meld together rhythmically & stylisticallycompatible early/mid 80s R&B/funk songs and early/mid 80s synth pop/new wavesongs. Lots of music that was either forgotten or not ever learned of but was very enjoyable or would be very enjoyable if it was rediscovered or discovered for the 1st time by people that enjoy this type of music.

People like you?

I have researched these music categories for the past 9 yearsand I have rediscovered tunes I had forgotten about or I discoverednew tunes that totally deserved the time it took to discover them.In Itunes Store or Itunes Ping if you use the search terms "electrofunk" (as a single word) or "80s funk" the search result shall produce several lists that have "electrofunk" or "80s funk" in the playlist name in the "Playlist" category at the low left corner of the search result.

Click on the "more" link and once you have opened the next page that hasall of the Playlist search results for "electrofunk" or "80s funk",you'll quickly find a bunch of lists that use the title "Ebony & Ivory Electrofunk".

These lists have songs that (1) you may have heard before and enjoyed but forgotten or (2) songs that you may enjoy now but you have not heard before. These lists also include album cuts that were not released as singles and songs from lesser known artists such as Fatback, Kashif, Laid Back, D Train, Boys Don't Cry, and Dynasty.

West End Girls is what resonates for me.