The songs are excellently produced for me mostly (thanks, Mr Dawson!) - Listen to the plate on nem times good sound system or high-quality headphones on. Incredibly partly this deep (sub-) bass and the warm atmosphere, the spread of this album. From the pure production ago, this could be the best technical Pet Shop Boys album of all time.
Also lyrically there on Elysium really find great. "Leaving" is wonderfully melancholic and sad at the same time and spread a sense of security and hope ("Our love is dead / but the dead do not go away / They made us what we are / they're with us every day / Our love is dead / but the dead are still alive / in memory and thought / and the context They Provide "). Singer Neil Tennant has said that it is on the album a lot about death and if one considers that it has lost in recent years, both his father and his mother, then get those lines of text a very different level.
"Invisible" sings the life of a pop band long after their commercial peak, but equally the human aging process in general. Only the youth is attractive and in demand - the age you will be "Invisible". The song floats elegiac ahead without stress and pace. If the song can embody something like Altersweiheit, then this track is doing exceptionally well.
With "Winner" follows an only average midtempo number that musically somehow not really want to fit on the album and also in terms of lyrics not just projects. Here the Andrew Dawson happysad mix of Winner at the same place would have been much nicer, as this rather represents the mood of the album, but seis drum.
Also "Your early stuff" is nice and no longer. Very short fall with only 2:33 minutes, it goes into the song to a hodgepodge of phrases that need to hear Mr. Tennant as about his band when umherkutschiert of London taxi drivers ("You've been around / but you do not look too rough / And I still quite like some of your early stuff "). It gnaws apparently because when one is reduced from the crowd on the exploits of the 80's, is not it Mr. Tennant? Schmnunzeln must be anyway, even if the song is not much more than the hergibt.
"A face like that" then sounds ironically following exactly as old classics between 1987 and 1990. PSB falls into the category superhit, who is never published with security and if they do ... no one will;) Great production, an ingenious long intro before the first lyrics - so sound the PSB if they are in shape.
"Breathing Space" sounds like from her 2002 album "Release" to arise. A gorgeous, easy guitars sheathed ballad, which is about the escape from the daily routine of the modern world - back to a private place of peace and relaxation. Beautiful text.
"Ego Music" comes after electronically twitching and somewhat confused playful and therefore with a lot of biting Tennant'schem chanting. Here are the latest pop stars get pretty neat off their fat ("And of course I've always had the humanitarian vision / I think everyone knows fact / My commitment is to my career / And then giving something back"). Modern produced but not particularly melodic and the chorus, so you want to call it so, is not particularly convincing. In the long run probably more annoying.
"Hold On" sounds kind to Broadway, the big stage of showtunes. Bit sticky Background chanting. Ich finds now not really bad (Mr. Tennant calls it their "recession anthem" ... well). As Album Track ok. Does the diversity of the album certainly good, but a huge fan of the song I will no longer probable.
"Give it a go" is great again. In places like this (and which are relatively rare sown) to recognize the "American" sound of the long player produced in LA. Neil sings beautifully and even the melody is truly enchanting. A secret favorite of the album. Oh yes, and what creates pop band already the words "opaque", "bereft" and "bouquet" to pack in such a lofty number? ;)
"Memory of the Future": world-class production, quite modern again, a cross between "The way it used to be" of "Yes" and "Fugitive" by "fundamentals" could be. Is certainly one of the favorite songs of the fans. Slightly slower than the two aforementioned songs, but the pace of the album holds nunmal increasingly limited.
"Everything Means Something": Gloomy verses and a dark production, the merge phases reminiscent of Depeche Mode to ever-aufbauendem whole complex. The song is not immediately available, but no less interesting.
"Requiem in denim and leopardskin" ultimately closes the album and encompasses everything that the PSB has made large in her long career. At nearly 6 minutes, has a great text ("Johnny's wearing brothel-creepers / Malcolm's round the block / Adam's in a Jarman film / The look is" Let It Rock "/ A Johnson's leather jacket / Hair by Keith at Smile / All you Need to make it big / is sex and style "). Here drums, trumpets and fanfares are ascended proverbial.
"This is our last chance for good-bye / Let the music begin," - in this sense: not the best of Pet Shop Boys plates, but a damn good and demanding Pop Album, with which one has to deal and grow the must ( like probably. Behaviour in 1990). Not to mention the second CD with the brilliant instrumental versions of the songs. Way to go, Pet Shop Boys!
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