The Pet Shop Boys Apparently Survived The 80's

It has been one of those good years for English electronic dance freaks the Pet Shop Boys. Members Neil Tennant (a former Marvel Comics Editor which happens to makes my nerd sense tingle) and keyboard player Chris Lowe have just recently unleashed a new album upon the masses entitled “Yes” and they were recently honored at the 2009 BRIT Awards with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The album “Yes” is definitely a Pet Shop Boys album. With songs like “Love Etc” and “All Over The World” they create a trippy world of electronically generated beats, lyrics, and atmospheres that sound like a soundtrack for a 1980's scandalous affair fuck-montage on a late night Cinemax not-quite-porn movie...and I do mean that in a good way! You know the Cinemax shows I’m talking about right? The movies where the sex is way too graceful to be real and you see boobies, and some dude’s ass gyrating in an unnatural manner doing all the classic positions with a skankified actress who, now is most likely having serious problems just trying to get her picture in one of Hustler’s run off eastern European spank magazines. As bad as that might sound the music is vastly superior to a lot of the swill that has infected the mainstream, so sit back and don’t write it off just yet.

At the 2009 BRIT Awards, after being honored they did a live performance where they came out looking like two apocalyptic reality-of-the-future dwelling gay detectives ready to save the world from some human enslaving alien tyrant dictator! It was a truly explosive, bad ass entrance, which totally did not coincide with the music. They have upcoming summer European tour dates in Germany and Sweden and are expected to be announcing shortly, concerts in Finland and The Netherlands. I will sum up The Pet Shop Boys’ live experience for you, in case you were gonna go on some crazy Pet Shop Boys European extravaganza, but weren’t quite sure yet whether or not you should spend the money. On stage they are about as charismatic as 2 high school algebra teachers, but luckily the light show is pretty brain-tickling so as long as you eat enough ecstacy and/or antidepressants you will have a fine time. You could probably also save a lot of time and money while getting the same effect by popping an Ambien, then staying awake and watching b-grade porn.