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dibdav · #1 Post by **dibdav** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 5:04 am

http://www.4thegame.com/features/featur ... dtime.html

However, while we've all had lots to complain about with regards to the punditry during the World Cup, there was one area where the BBC did surprisingly well - the "we're out" montage at the end of the England game. With the perfectly-chosen Pet Shop Boys song Numb, it was a classy summing up of all the trials and tribulations of England's World Cup, as well as describing how most of the fans were feeling at that point.

To illustrate my point, later on in the evening, I overheard a conversation between two girls in the queue at a chippy (how better to recover from an England defeat than with some good honest fish 'n' chips?) where one was telling the other how her father just went to bed as soon as Ronaldo (boo! hiss!) scored his penalty, leaving the TV on, his beer half-drunk and the living room in disarray. It's a hard life being a football fan you know...

"Don't wanna hear the news
What's going on
What's coming through
I don't wanna know
Don't wanna know
Just wanna hide away
Make my my escape
I want the world
To leave me alone
Feels like I feel too much
I've seen too much
For a little while
I want to forget

I wanna be numb
I don't wanna feel this pain no more
Wanna lose touch
I just wanna go and lock the door
I don't wanna think
I don't wanna feel nothing
I wanna be numb"
Numb by the Pet Shop Boys

See, don't you feel much better now?

joncool5 · #2 Post by **joncool5** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 9:12 am

Another thread?

Shelton · #3 Post by **Shelton** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 9:43 am

looks like it.

Burj · #4 Post by **Burj** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 10:19 am

The first post here is a cut and paste from another thread.

joncool5 · #5 Post by **joncool5** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 10:23 am

Dibdav seems to do this all the time and then never responds to his own thread. It's a little self indulgent.

Burj · #6 Post by **Burj** » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 12:54 pm

Why do so many people have to start almost identical threads? It's easier to read and more informative when they're all collected together.

That's 22 threads about Numb, for instance, on the first page. Perhaps someone was trying to make a point?

mantooth · #7 Post by **mantooth** » Wed 05 Jul 2006, 6:21 pm

I think it would be better if a lot of these Numb threads were segued together. It gets untidy and distracting when there are so many threads with a similar subject matter.

! · #8 Post by ! » Wed 05 Jul 2006, 6:37 pm

mantooth wrote:I think it would be better if a lot of these Numb threads were segued together. It gets untidy and distracting when there are so many threads with a similar subject matter.

Blame Burj for bumping them all

a powerful friend · Wed 05 Jul 2006, 6:46 pm

Burj wrote: Perhaps someone was trying to make a point?

You aren't Diane Warren, her parrot or one of her agents, are you?

alig · #10 Post by **alig** » Wed 05 Jul 2006, 7:14 pm

it's had about 15,000 views in total on youtube so far. no matter if it's releases as a single or not, the psb have been part of an historic moment.

Burj · #11 Post by **Burj** » Thu 06 Jul 2006, 12:30 am

a powerful friend wrote:
You aren't Diane Warren, her parrot or one of her agents, are you?

No, but I did stumble across this:

From Aviation Weekly, 31.06.01

Neil Tennant, greying but surprisingly unwrinkly late 40-something, plays us a demo of a song foxy MOR hitsville vamp Diana Warren has written for the Boys. "We like the fact that our fans will be stunnned that we could ask someone like Diana to write a song for us, but that's our legendary perverse and contrary nature shining through, I suppose. She basically wrote it down the phone to us as I was doing the ironing. Well, Ricardo, my 15-year old houseboy was..."

"I mean, who on earth would predict two ageing old queens singing a song about someone's parrot dying on a plane hijacked by 9/11 suicide bombers? Not only that but they put him in cargo as well. It's such a sad tale that we knew the song was perfect for our melancholic miserablism. No one even realised the parrot was already battling cancer until his remains were found outside Soho House in Manhattan. Of course, Chris and I have had dinner there many times."

Talking of miserable sods with moodswings, is there any truth to the somewhat surprising rumour that former labelmate Morrissey turned the song down for being too 'up'? "Absolutely not!" counters Tennant. "He burst into tears when he first heard it. The real reason he rejected it was that he was making a four on the floor dance album at the time, actually. I don't think the fact he's more of a fan of budgies helped either."

copyright Fugitive Publications, 2001