Everybody will Dance was released in August this year. It's the 1980s all over again
I first
listened to the Pet Shop Boys sometime in the late-1980s when their second
album, Actually, was released. The album cover – whimsy and eccentric –
was what attracted me in first place and I guess I must have paid something
like Rs 35-40 for the cassette, which I must have then played on repeat dozens
of times over the next few months. I especially loved the songs It's a Sin,
What Have I Done to Deserve This? and Rent – all of which I still
listen to, to this day, 35 years after I first heard them. The Pet Shop Boys, Neil
Tennant and Chris Lowe, sure did have one hell of a talent for creating
electronica-disco. And the best part is, the duo are still at it, still
rocking, still creating music that has the power to move fans of 1980s-style
disco. Just listen to Everybody will Dance, which was released in August
this year as part of a five-track digital bundle.
Everything about music itself and the ways in which people buy (or not) and
listen to music has changed in the last 3-4 decades and the 1980s seems like a
faraway place in a distant time, on a distant planet, at least in the context
of music. And yet there’s Pet Shop Boys, still making music their way,
still weaving their old magic, still making people dance. Making everybodydance. More power to them – may their music never stop.
From left: That's the cover image from Actually, Pet Shop Boys' second album. The image to the right is more recent and the PSB are clearly older and with less hair on their heads. But that old magic, that talent for making great dance music, is still there!
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