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glennjridge · #31 Post by **glennjridge** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 12:17 am

vampires and drunk is all I ever listen to from nightlife.

IMO footsteps and the only one are very weak PSB ballads,and closer to heaven is one of the few times when I think they should have stayed away from an orchestra arrangement as it made the song sound too cluttered and dark.

Hillbilly · #32 Post by **Hillbilly** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 7:48 am

"Radiophonic" - sort of the worst song from the worst PSB album.

so heart · #33 Post by **so heart** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 1:51 pm

to my ears, radiophonic only worked as an instrumental. or: chris should have sung, or better rapped it!

just zapping through nightlife... i love "boy strage", but this distorted refrain.... good songs, but still i have difficulties with the sounds of nightlife. I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more i like best.

( btw: "drunk" always reminded me of a b-side of erasure: "waiting for sex", there is the same dominat synthsound and i still have the idea, erasure did it better on that song....

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dVTB · #34 Post by **dVTB** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 2:44 pm

I consider Radiophonic an 'average' song on Nightlife. I like about half of the album better, half of the album worse.

My Top 12 rom Nightlife is:

01: For Your Own Good
02: Happiness Is An Option
03: You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
04: Boy Strange
05: Footsteps
06: Closer To Heaven
07: Radiophonic
08: New York City Boy
09: In Denial
10: I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
11: Vampires
12: The Only One

Danger · #35 Post by **Danger** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 7:25 pm

My Nightlife Top12 is instead:
1. For Your Own Good
2. I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more
3. Drunk
4. NYC Boy
5. Closer To Heaven
6. Radiophonic
7. Happiness Is An Option
8. The Only One
9. Footsteps
10. Vampires
11. Boy Strane
12. In Denial (better the demo version with only Neil singing)

Janet Street-Porter · Mon 19 Mar 2007, 8:02 pm

Danger wrote:I love to the point of madness NYC Boy and Footsteps will be not a masterpiece but for me is a good ballad the right ending to For Your Own Good. Totally agree with you for In Denial and Boy Strange (that someone -maybe durnk in my humble opinion- in Italy said to be a tribute to the first Bowie ). Maybe if they had worked only on Nightlife and not on the musical (that it seems to is not so loved by PSB' fans) we could have a great album like you've said even if Closer To Heaven -a song thought for the musical- is a really good song while Vampires -another musical song- is a quite weak (I love only the piano by Craig Armstrong)

I like Footsteps too - it's quite sweet. Nightlife is just too damn inconsistent for my liking and there's no sense of it actually being an album rather than just a random set of songs. Neil said that there was a nocturnal theme but that always seemed tenuous to me. Radiophonic's awesome - very clubby sounding and druggy.

Frequency · #37 Post by **Frequency** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 8:43 pm

Its an album I really liked at the time, I played it to death and thought it was brilliant. However, now I find it to be the only album out of their back catalogue that I could happily live out the rest of my life never hearing again.

There are a couple of really good songs on it that I'll usually stick in play-list of sorts, but every so often I'll have a 'Very' phase, a '80's PSB phase' or a 'Bilingual' phase etc. I've never really had that similar kind of urge with Nightlife.

Its the least PSB sounding album in their canon in my opinion; a collection of well produced songs lacking any of the trademark idiosyncrasies and hooks that define a great PSB record. Its a shame actually as, for the most part, the songs themselves are pretty good, I just think they lost sight of how to produce a PSB record and how to get the most from their songs in terms of the production. Release suffered from a similar fate, though for slightly different reasons.

For me, Fundamental, is essentially the same style of album, just much more realised and richer than Nightlife. I feel I can now judge Fundamental, having listened to it for the best of a year, and it still feels like a great record, whereas Nightlife lost its sparkle after the initial euphoria of its release had faded.

glennjridge · #38 Post by **glennjridge** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 8:52 pm

I also think fundamental is nightlife part 2

DJAMIX · #39 Post by **DJAMIX** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 9:06 pm

glennjridge wrote:I also think fundamental is nightlife part 2

Interestin thought.

jasonjohn · #40 Post by **jasonjohn** » Sun 25 Mar 2007, 12:30 pm

funny, but ive always loved the ballads on nightlife

spose you cant please all the people all of the time!

TheMatrix · #41 Post by **TheMatrix** » Sun 25 Mar 2007, 6:41 pm

I liked Radiophonic when I first head the album and like it to this day. Not the best track on there but better than most.

transforce · #42 Post by **transforce** » Sun 25 Mar 2007, 7:01 pm

I am shocked there are people here who don't like Radiophonic. It is one of the most catchy, club friendly songs PSB have ever done. Rollo's mix of it it perfect. I agree with Eldritch the trance synth hook is the highlight of the track to me.

Drunk though it is a sweet song could've been replaced by Radiophonic and as a single. I couldn't believe that a with a relatively weak album such as Nightlife, the two best songs 'For your own good' and Radiophonic' weren't singles. Even 'In Denial' despite it's potentially controversial subject matter was an excellent song and a better choice.