What's the WORST Pet Shop Boys single?

Picking Single-Bilingual. IMO, those failed attempts at latino on that album were even worse than the singles from "Release". Also not too impressed by "New York City Boy", "Always On My Mind" works best as a ballad and "It's Alright" would have been my pick in its original horrible house version.

one of these:

Liberation
Absolutely Fabulous
Single-Bilingual
New York City Boy
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
Home And Dry

i've heard perhaps 2 of the last fifteen of these so i can't really say if it's any of those, but i'd be willing to wager none are worse than 'absolutely fabulous'

Liberation for breaking the amazing run

"Absolutely Fabulous," which I wouldn't even say I particularly hate, it's just really so-what.

"Liberation" is a great album track, not single.

The only dud on that list (which ranges to just-as-great to ok) is "Numb."

I'm With Stupid

HI DERE and I guarantee at least 2 votes for "Domino Dancing", but hopefully there will be more.

Vote for "DJ Culture" and I will break your kneecaps. Or possibly I will frown at you through the computer so hard that you will feel it, perhaps in the form of an embarrassing rash or itch you cannot reach.

paninaro. it's fucking annoying.

HI DERE and I guarantee at least 2 votes for "Domino Dancing"

fuck you guys.

I might vote for "Go West."

can't believe it won't be Numb in a cakewalk!

Ab Fab doesn't count, not credited to PSB

also Integral not included, probably the best off the last album (though Minimal was awesome live)

"Integral" was only released as a downloads only, in the version from the "Disco 3" album. I felt it didn't count as a single. Plus it (at least the original) is great anyway, so. :)

Too many to choose from. Anything after "Being Boring" qualifies.

Absolutely Fabulous, obv

Absolutely Fabulous. Was it an example of that nadir of Western music, the Comic Relief single?

I'm voting "Minimal", because they criminally chopped off the best bit for the single edit.

too many to choose from really. it's not like you hear 'absolutely fabulous' too often (ie ever!) whereas 'opportunities' or 'it's a sin', you still do after two long decades.

Worst off Discography would have been better poll.

that would be Was It Worth It (as with TIC, final track syndrome - as if they agreed "we've put a mediocre one out at last, better release a hits comp in case this trend continues")

I always found "Domino Dancing" a bit boring.

i think they're all pretty bad up to What Have I Done To Deserve This? and again after I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing.

you don't need me to tell u 'u maaad' so i won't

Paninaro

one of these:

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk

Eh, that's one of the great PSB songs, and one of the best from their 'mature' (i.e dull) period.

Dunno. The title is great at least. One of the best songtitles ever.

best more like worst.

"Red Letter Day" - pop stars endorsing politicians = dud

i get along. awful

"I Get Along" is okay. This is really a cage match between "Domino Dancing" and "Absolutely Fabulous".

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I guess I should have left "Absolutely Fabulous" off the poll, but happy to see that I am not alone in my "Single-Bilingual" hatred :)

AbFab is a worthy winner. Single/Bilingual is however GREBT, 2nd place is nonsense. (OK I don't really know the single version, but I think it's a wonderful one-two on the album.)

Being Boring 1

u crazy ^^

I AM NOT CRAZY.

Also, Absolutely Fabulous were awesome. Once I played it so many times in a row that the neighbours asked me to play something else.

that would be Was It Worth It (as with TIC, final track syndrome - as if they agreed "we've put a mediocre one out at last, better release a hits comp in case this trend continues")

Christ on a crutch, are you LISTENING?

mmm?

Can one of the three mentalist haters please explain what is so bad about Domino Dancing? It's great.

I can't believe "Single Bilingual" was actually released as a single. It sounds so incomplete without "Discoteca" preceding it.

Aha fuck that explains my otherwise meaningless post above, what I meant was that Discoteca -> Single is a great one-two on the album. Thanks snrub. Can see that "Single" alone loses loads.

We have a Winner

Haha OTM

lol

Ha! It's so true. Before Winner came out I'd struggle to think what would be their weakest single. I've never been that keen on Before, Was it Worth it ? and I Get Along but none of those are that terrible. Winner is their first truly awful single. What were they thinking putting that out as a single?

Before is OK but it was an odd choice for a first single. Se a vida é was the obvious choice from Bilingual, but I guess as 'summer smash', it was considered too early to release in April.

It's a weird album as it suddenly gets more commericial from Se a vida é onwards, opening with a string of atypical Pet Shop Boys songs.

I love the Deep Dish remix of "Se A Vida E" so much

Meanwhile "Love Etc" felt like a worst in 2009 but now it's one of their very best. There isn't a week when I'm singing "I belieeeeeeve that we can achieeeeeeve the love that we need"

Being Boring 1
u crazy ^^

― stephen, Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:47 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

"Love Etc" never felt like the worst PSB single, wtf

i think they're all pretty bad up to What Have I Done To Deserve This?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, December 13, 2007 6

Admittedly that is an insane statement

I'll never understand why they realeased "Numb" as a single. It's so boring I deleted it from my copy of Fundamental. The version of "Integral" they released as a single was a weird choice. And why they kept "Fugitive" off the album is a mystery to me.

'Leaving is rather quite good in a 'Before 2' kind of way

I think I kind of hate the new album though.

yeah the new album is not the best

I am weirdly compelled by by "Ego Music" though

Have been putting off listening to the album after the "Winner" single. First two tracks were great, maybe my doubts were wrong. If they must do wistful autumnal melancholia then that's the way to do it. Then we get "Winner" and then it's downhill, alternating between the bland and the bitter. Maybe he wouldn't need to rail against those who prefer their early stuff if the new work had something approaching a pulse. I'll give it another go for old times sake but maybe it's time to move on.

but maybe it's time to move on.

;_; i'm reading this in neal's voice.

I thought Love Etc was a mess the first time I heard it but it grew on me so much and now I kind of love it. They have one great single per album these days, Leaving from the new one one, Love Etc from Yes and Minimal from Fundamental, which is a great album they just picked the wrong singles.

I have mentioned some of this in the Elysium thread, new album is a huge grower. Winner remains the worst song ever, Give it a go has an annoying chorus and Hold on should have been a B-side but the rest is solid. Nine really good tracks isn't bad going for them these days, it's certainly better than the two good songs on Release (Home & Dry and The Samurai in Autumn)

LeRooLeRoo is OTM about Fugitive, it might just be their best song in the last ten years or so.

Purely where sound is concerned, it's quite possibly that the two 'winners' here are my two favourite PSB singles. Ab Fab goes straight to my eurodance pleasure centres, a showy moody melody as frenetic high camp, all it's missing is a gothic vocal drone (too on the nose maybe?) And Single-Bilingual is fantastic through and through but then it's off my fav PSB studio album anyways. One of these is Cappella and the other is The Goodmen.

I was just thinking that the version of "Absolutely Fabulous" in my head is great, don't give a fuck about the show, can't be sure my memory of yhe song is accurate but it's a loop of lushness afair

I'm wondering if Single-Bilingual just did not work as a single, as it is great in the context of the album. But perhaps was one big WTF coming from the radio

I played it myself on radio a few months ago, separate from Discoteca, although James' Honest Joe was the track I played right before so it still framed by heavy drums. It's probably strange as a PSB single, placing its premium on energy rather than hooks.