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I doubt that this will interest many people here, but my favorite band The Spill Canvas release their new album, Conduit.

If there are any other EMO fans out there give it a listen.


If not, carry on...
 
N7RobBob said:
I doubt that this will interest many people here, but my favorite band The Spill Canvas release their new album, Conduit.

If there are any other EMO fans out there give it a listen.


If not, carry on...
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My daughter is a huge emo fan, but her favorite band is MCR.
 
Sebastian said:
I love it when old songs make it back in the charts, much less claim the top spot on a chart most known for music beloved by 20somethings.

Thanks to an AllState commercial spreading the truth that some music never gets old, Pet Shop Boys are charting on both sides of the pond (though in the UK and EU they've had no problems charting).

Also, "West End Girls" is #9 on the same Billboard Dance/Electronic chart. Now they got paid a handsome sum to license their song for the AllState commercial. And now making lots of money as other songs are charting again, namely "Its a Sin."

Brilliant move on their part. They've got the brains. No one can claim they are being boring.

Who is an older group you'd like to see charting again (Disclaimer: PSB has charted at #1 on the Dance/Electro charts in the US as recently as 2016, and frequently, so I guess they really don't count in this question)?

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Opportunities No. 1 for three straight weeks now.

West End Girls at No. 6.

Its as if people like good music once they are aware it exists.
 
Sebastian said:
Opportunities No. 1 for three straight weeks now.

West End Girls at No. 6.

Its as if people like good music once they are aware it exists.
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I was going to post this last time we discussed Pet Shop Boys. They have been very influential:

8 perhaps surprising influences by the Pet Shop Boys on others

www.geowayne.com www.geowayne.com

Just one example from it:

1. Guns n' Roses' "November Rain"

In what is probably the most surprising influence of the Pet Shop Boys on another artist, Axl Rose—lead singer of this notorious hard-rock group of the late eighties and early nineties—is an avowed PSB fan who has affirmed that his band's big 1991 hit "November Rain" (from the album Use Your Illusion I) was influenced by the Boys' "My October Symphony" and "Being Boring."
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I've heard new music every few years that sounds like a Pet Shop Boys song.
 
Arketebel said:
I was going to post this last time we discussed Pet Shop Boys. They have been very influential:

8 perhaps surprising influences by the Pet Shop Boys on others

www.geowayne.com www.geowayne.com

Just one example from it:

1. Guns n' Roses' "November Rain"



I've heard new music every few years that sounds like a Pet Shop Boys song.
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PSB are not as well known in the US, and more for their 80s stuff, but they are probably the most influential synth-pop/dance duo over the past 40 years.

They have had countless collaborations with artists old (Dusty Springfield) and new (most recently with Years and Years) and are immensely respected. Their remix skills are highly sought after. They are the doyens of electronic music.

They inhabit a very unique space as an act from the 80s still making relevant and popular music. Even their older songs have a timeless quality; indeed, contemporary music borrows so heavily from their Imperial Phase era that songs 35 years old fit in the current soundscape.

And they have been everywhere lately. The Allstate commercial, the Its a Sin miniseries, I heard the same song as the intro track for the acclaimed Bruce Springsteen devotee film Blinded by the Light.

Springsteen has covered them, and vice versa. PSB cover of The Last to Die is pretty good.

 
Arketebel said:
I was going to post this last time we discussed Pet Shop Boys. They have been very influential:

8 perhaps surprising influences by the Pet Shop Boys on others

www.geowayne.com www.geowayne.com

Just one example from it:

1. Guns n' Roses' "November Rain"



I've heard new music every few years that sounds like a Pet Shop Boys song.
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For @KI4MVP

3. The Bee Gees' "Fallen Angel"

While the Pet Shop Boys have acknowledged the Bee Gees' influence on them, Maurice and Robin Gibb readily acknowledged the "return influence" of PSB on this song from their 1993 album Size Isn't Everything. As Maurice stated simply, "I like the Pet Shop Boys," to which Robin added, "Although they are traditional dance grooves, there's something about Pet Shop Boys that American groups don't use in their grooves." Groovy!
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The PSB cover of "I Started a Joke" is rather amazing. Their covers are often legendary, in many cases improving on the song. I personally like this cover better than the original, but comparisons are tough because it is almost a completely different song... which is what they do best in covers, they don't mimic the original; they strip them down to the foundations and reconstruct them.

Often considered the greatest covers of all time, their renditions of "Always on My Mind," "Go West," and "Where the Streets Have no Name," all hilariously performed better on the charts than the originals. And while I am not going to make the argument that their Always on My Mind is better than the original, or the Elvis version, I will say that their ability to completely deconstruct a song, and to give it new meaning, and make it a toe-tapping joy of song, is unrivaled.

Now, there is a camp that is going to say the demolishing of a U2 song, and turning it into a dance track is sacrilege... but that is only the case if one thinks rock is different from other genres.

The Village People original of Go West is, to quote Neil Tennant, "ghastly and God awful." The PSB version changes everything, adds a verse, and the result is one of the great songs of the 90s.




 
Sebastian said:
For @KI4MVP

3. The Bee Gees' "Fallen Angel"



The PSB cover of "I Started a Joke" is rather amazing. Their covers are often legendary, in many cases improving on the song. I personally like this cover better than the original, but comparisons are tough because it is almost a completely different song... which is what they do best in covers, they don't mimic the original; they strip them down to the foundations and reconstruct them.

Often considered the greatest covers of all time, their renditions of "Always on My Mind," "Go West," and "Where the Streets Have no Name," all hilariously performed better on the charts than the originals. And while I am not going to make the argument that their Always on My Mind is better than the original, or the Elvis version, I will say that their ability to completely deconstruct a song, and to give it new meaning, and make it a toe-tapping joy of song, is unrivaled.

Now, there is a camp that is going to say the demolishing of a U2 song, and turning it into a dance track is sacrilege... but that is only the case if one thinks rock is different from other genres.

The Village People original of Go West is, to quote Neil Tennant, "ghastly and God awful." The PSB version changes everything, adds a verse, and the result is one of the great songs of the 90s.




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you forgot to include the song

 
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