If Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel Мы was ever adapted for a motion picture I insist that the Pet Shop Boys will be responsible for the soundtrack. Their concerts are how I imagine a baroque mass to render homage to Taylorism. There is nobody else making pop music with such mathematical precision.
This is one of my favourite songs with a fabulous video by Bruce Weber:
We have been participating in such a mass yesterday evening. And did I mention that their stage design reminded me somehow of a la La Fura dels Baus' show I saw years ago? And Chris Lowe, the coolest person in pop, wore a mirror-ball hoodie :)
Originelle Eingangsbemerkung, du veröffentlichst nicht zufällig irgendwo Musikkritiken? Abgesehen davon bin ich auch ein alter Fan (inzwischen muß ja bald sagen, und zwar wörtlich) von denen.
ReplyDeleteMartin, I glaube das war der einzige Ausrutscher in diese Richtung. Ah, und ich habe Blinking Lights And Other Revelations von Eels umschrieben mit "It's like standing in a rain of diamonds - painful yet wonderful".
ReplyDeleteHahah, ich huste noch, wörtlich.
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