Good New For People Who Like Good Pop

Via POPJUSTICE:

5. There’s a Pet Shop Boys album due at the start of next year. Songs include ‘Casanova in Hell’ and ‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show’ and Neil & Chris describe the sound as "electronic and quite epic".

For the vast majority of you, I realize that this is about as interesting as the news that Bananarama have just released a single. But to those of us who count ourselves PetHeads (and there is not a single other pop group or musician that I could ever be compelled to allow them to label my head), the sun is shining brighter, the air is slightly cooler, and the humidity has all but disappeared. They are by far my favorite pop group, and have written some of the best pop songs. EVER. Like, Cole Porter pop songs, Lennon/Mccartney pop songs. Pop songs that have coherant lyrics and a beautiful melody. They don't get the recognition they deserve because they have been consigned to the pink ghetto of synthesizers and "dance music"; if they performed their songs with only an acoustic guitar, and occasionally brushes on a snare drum, I'm sure all the indie kids would be creaming themselves over the new album. Although Neil Tennant would still be singing like a big British fairy.

That said, I'm really curious to hear "Casanova in Hell" and "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show". How can lyrics live up to titles like that? Although it does promise to be their gayest album since Nightlife.

Also, evdently the next volume of that vile advertising juggernaut Kid's Bop will include Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out". Because lyrics such as

And if you leave here
You leave me broken
Shattered I lie
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot then we can die

are just what I think the kids need to hear. I thought it was a joke, but then apparently, it really isn't.

I never really understood why the songs on Kid's Bop were deemed suitable for children, but only if sung by an insipid gaggle of brats.