17.5.05

Graham is tripping on the Pet Shop Boys:


"I seem to be getting in touch with my gayer side. Purchase of the latest in the admittedly mixed, though occasionally brilliant, Back to Mine series - a 2 disc offering from the Pet Shop Boys - started it. Maybe a bit closer to being an "Under the Influence", there's a distinct PSB feel to a lot of it. As Mojo put it, "Chris Lowe's choices pack in torrid druggy disco then get tired and emotional and puts Dusty on". Neil Tennant's is an altogether more interesting mix of classical, ambient and lounge. One of the better in the series. Not quite up with the Talvin Singh or Death in Vegas mixes, but no complaints.
And caused me to dig out the old Discography compilation for a long drive through France & Belgium this week. Maybe they were too mainstream to ever be cool, but they were out on their own at what they did - West End Girls remains one of the best singles of the 80's; It's a Sin is even better.
Also got the Antony and the Johnsons album; quite unlike anything else around. For Today I'm a Boy is already on my shortlist for the my 2005 mix."

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