Re: Pet Shop Boys: Vocal

     This video makes me want to get up and dance. It's vintage Pet Shop Boys. Not everyone will get it today, but twenty years from now someone will remember dancing to this song on the dance floor somewhere in New York, Berlin, or Rio. And that's all that really matters.  The Pet Shop Boys are masters at creating the sense memory, the misty foggy pounding beat, the light and smell of the club.  As time goes on, this memory become nostalgia, and the music elicits a feeling, an emotion. This is the first song from The Boys in a long time that takes me back to Introspective, one of my favorite albums of the eighties.  I remember dancing to Left To My Own Devices in my bedroom at night, home alone.
     I've really missed Neil Tennant's choir boy tenor. He sounds as hopeful and at times joyous as ever. I remember when they first started using the words alternative music back in the eighties on the radio in reference to bands like Depeche Mode, and New Order, Bronski Beat. Other than a few songs that crossed over into pop such as West End Girls, I've always considered The Pets to be the alternative. I prefer the alternative.
     The video for Vocal is a declaration. It says, 'Hey everybody, this is the kind of music I like!'. In today's world of social media where everyone is sharing and uploading, that's a very good message to send.   I'm proud of The Pet Shop Boys, and I'm glad to have survived to hear a new Pet Shop Boys song.

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