[HN Gopher] Interpretation and analysis of songs written or perf...
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Interpretation and analysis of songs written or performed by Pet
Shop Boys
Author : lstamour
Score : 86 points
Date : 2023-09-18 05:27 UTC (17 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.geowayne.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.geowayne.com)
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I admire the guy's dedication in doing the analysis for each and
| every song in the band's discography. Despite music's enduring
| popularity, music "scholarship" seems pretty rare outside of the
| odd coffee-table book.
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| I remember in the web 1.0 days, I used to browse similar sites
| where fans would submit interpretations of lyrics from artists
| like Tool or System of a Down. I miss those sites. Lyrics are
| easier than ever to find online now, but not so much if you want
| to figure out what the song actually means.
| [deleted]
| jeppester wrote:
| I've had good success with https://songmeanings.com/
| Moomoomoo309 wrote:
| They Might Be Giants has a fan wiki with all of that stuff,
| aptly named "This Might Be a Wiki", which makes sense given the
| kind of fans the band has.
| pvaldes wrote:
| Another super nerd, super original group, but in this case
| with a much minor fanbase. Basically a minoritary cult group.
| The TMBG wiki will deserve a look. Thanks
| OfSanguineFire wrote:
| Most lyric sites were ultimately supplanted by Genius, which
| does allow users to annotate lyrics and explain what is meant.
| Originally Genius was focused on hip-hop and its often arcane
| lyrics, but it has long since expanded to every popular-music
| genre. And before Genius there was songmeanings.com, which
| contains a great deal of commentary on rock and pop which has
| still not found its way to Genius.
|
| With regard to music scholarship dealing with popular music
| genres, there are popular book series like 33-1/3, scholarly
| monograph series like Ashgate's Popular and Folk Music Series
| and Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics, and articles in the various
| musicological journals. Obviously the more erudite the artist,
| the more likely he/she will draw attention from scholars (which
| is why David Bowie and Kate Bush, for example, have been
| researched more than most pop musicians). But still, there may
| be more out there on your own favourite artists than you think.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| That's a pity. It's easy for a smart firm to take over a
| space like this, but in doing so it kills all the lesser fan-
| driven versions. The latter are labors of love and vary
| widely in quality, but I'm not sure that a homogenized
| platform-product is superior.
| quercusa wrote:
| Somebody found the source disks that PSB used in their Fairlight
| CMI synthesizer:
|
| https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/
| dewclin wrote:
| ... and here's the Fairlight in action:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0mF9soHA8M
| ano-ther wrote:
| Which one is it? I see a Yamaha DX1, an EMU emulator II and
| Technics PX.
|
| There are some screens that look like Fairlight control
| screens. Is the Fairlight used for the background drums and
| base etc?
| brianzelip wrote:
| Surely there have been (lots) more than 800 visits to this site
| since March 2001! Love the counter though!
| m348e912 wrote:
| Really the only review that matters for most of us casuals:
| http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/please/westendgirls.htm
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Surely you meant
| http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/very/gowest.htm ?
| omarhaneef wrote:
| This should not be a debate.
|
| Take a note from the pet shop boys: they never argue.
|
| They also never calculate the currency they spend.
| geoelectric wrote:
| I feel honor-bound to correct your typo where you meant to
| post http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/actually/sin.htm
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Not in the US (as is even mentioned on that page).
| nocoiner wrote:
| This song is transcendent in so many ways.
| nuxi wrote:
| Actually, what matters is "Rent". Pun intended and all... :)
| pavlov wrote:
| Wow, I remember reading this site over twenty years ago. It's
| neat that both PSB and this fan site are still going strong.
|
| There was a time around 1994-96 when almost every website was
| like this: dense, tightly focused, produced by someone with an
| amateur passion for the topic.
|
| Today it seems that content in that mold is much more likely to
| be walled inside social media sites, shared with relatively small
| like-minded groups.
| pvaldes wrote:
| > It's neat that both PSB and this fan site are still going
| strong.
|
| As legit bearers of the "great white-nerd hope" crown, Pet shop
| boys never where small in Europe, but they were clearly too
| much for US. not only gay, but (their worse sin) too much
| focused in politics and history (socialist history) to be
| accepted.
|
| In the game of writing catchy songs that are well crafted and
| don't feel stupid, still can beat most of the current pop stars
| with both hands tied back. They still show the cool factor here
| and there.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIWFjD-Y84
|
| Or even better: the magnificient Love Comes Quickly
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuS9iJsdRw
| jacobgorm wrote:
| I've seen them live both in the US and several times in
| Europe. In Europe they are completely mainstream playing
| large venues in front of evenly mixed gender audiences,
| whereas when I saw them in the US the venue was much smaller
| and the audience seemed to consist mostly of men.
| pvaldes wrote:
| Is sad that they are tagged as a "gay group" now, when the
| first three albums were simply two nerds doing insanely
| catchy, state-of-the-art, electronic pop that everybody
| loved. This ruins the experience a little probably.
| OfSanguineFire wrote:
| I talked to a straight house DJ two decades ago who said
| that he felt compelled to throw in the occasional PSB
| remix, among a few other artists, just to maintain the gay
| following without which no DJ's career would flourish in
| clubland. At a time when house music still had this
| "underground", "play the music you love" aura, it
| definitely showed how mercenary set programming could be.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Today, the info would be in wikia packed with ads/autplaying
| videos, or maybe a discord that is impossible to find.
|
| I searched "Pet shop boys go west" in google, and this page was
| below the fold, despite me having just visited it. Ahead of it
| was a bunch of videos (ok), lyrics pages (I only need one), a
| wikia page, a few ways to buy the album, two (!) different
| links to quora, and a bunch of ways to stream the song.
|
| I dunno if this site has poor SEO or these other sites are
| gamifying it. The quora links really baffled me, and I'm
| surprised at just how many different streaming/lyrics sites
| popped up before I got to a different type of useful info.
| [deleted]
| tommek4077 wrote:
| Those sites are still being made. You just do not find them
| with google. Maybe it is time to bring back curated lists and
| web rings.
| Baeocystin wrote:
| Along the same vein: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
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