With "A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi" It's times with giant strides back to the roots. That's Bobby Orlando reloaded pur ... the gentleman who for a cheeseburger the first version of subsequent world hit "West End Girls" recorded with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and for countless HI NRG productions in the 80s is characterized (Flirts, Divine, Oh Romeo). He also produced the original version of "Opportunties" and "One More Chance" and some B-sides from the early phase of the Pet Shop Boys. So it comes stomping afloat by "Winner" continue in the best HI NRG style, stomping beats, synth choirs, some guitar riffs ... Disc down or on top ... insert, giving volume full blast and gas ... Only flying is better. Facet 2 ... the unmistakable disco sound of Pets ....
"The Way Through The Woods" shows the experimental facet 3 ... Pet Shop Boys. Weird sounds and effects as we are used to from "Battleship Potemkin" or "The Most Incredible Thing", orchestral and interlaced melodies. The song builds up entirely without the support of Drumcomputer..mit birdsong, downpours .... that you really feel like walking through a forest ... until then but the beat and begins the piece with a chorus as its support climax.
Facet 4 ... the Pet Shop Boys are masters covers (Go West, Always On My Mind, Somewhere, Losing My Mind) and always manage to produce so that it is believed the song was also final by you. Here we are dealing with a tribute to the death of Robin Gibb ... make the Bee Gees classic "I Started A Joke" was simply produced Pet Shop Boys like without major changes to the original. Here you really have to take your hat off. The song is also the same facet 5 ... Pet Shop Boys ballad ... hardly a band is understood to Lennon / McCartney to produce such songs.
Thus we have "Winner" mini Best of the Pets.
Remixes come later as MP3 download and with luck even on 12 "vinyl for the discriminating collector. Because this would have been completely out of place here.
Beautiful match for their upcoming album "Elysium" after the "Yes" production might again in the quiet phase goes as with THE Pet Shop Boys album ever succeeded "Behaviour" at the beginning of the 90s.
