Meanwhile in the Singles Chart...

[Patrick Bateman]

Chasing Cars has some of the most banal lyrics it has ever been my misfortune to hear and Snore Patrol, like many of the post-Radiohead acts, display all the lyrical acumen of the Vengaboys on a particularly uninspired day in Vengaland. The likes of them and Coldplay create nursery rhyme melodies for the bedwetting generation.

[DJ_Couture]

Apparently Chasing Cars has spent an atonishing 115 weeks on the UK singles chart; the downside to the inclusion of download sales in the singles chart brilliantly illustrated there.

I am not any kind of music snob at all but if Run really is a contender for the single of the year it's been an awful year. (And I kind of liked the original at the time)

[Patrick Bateman]

Run's just endemic of the karaoke pop culture that has been propagated by the likes of Cowell, and even more egregiously, by Zelda Pumpkinhead and her Live Lounge: "Ooh, I'm a cool indie kid and guess what, I'm going to do an ironic cover of a bubblegum pop song. I like pop, I really do (but I've got a guitar and a nice fringe too)."

DON'T PEOPLE HAVE ORIGINAL IDEAS ANYMORE? Oh Ziggy, et in Arcadia ego.

[Fugitive1979]

Snow Patrol and Coldplay are both over-rated, boring, turd manufacturers.

I hate Kings Of Leon as well.

Thank God that The Verve are back.

[Dipso]

Madonna's last single entered the UK charts at number 39. Thirty-bloody-nine! I fear Drico may well be right when he says that the Pets have already had their last Top 20 UK hit. *lights candle*

[Drico One]

Oh, don't worry about me. The last prediction I got right was Drunk going Top 10 in 2000. BlueSwan will remember that one.

Actually, Dipso, if the new PSB single, say Love, etc. (with the comma), goes in at 39 to crash and burn, watch this forum go into complete gladitorial meltdown. Then, regardless of the quality of the record, sit back and enjoy numerous hugely supercilious pronouncements on how rubbish the track was, how poor the image, how embarrassing the video, and how lamentable the cover art.

Few will point out the simple truth: The Pets are old hat. That, some of us know. But even so, they're interesting, thought-provoking old hats that get swapped at the interval and for numerous costume changes during the crass cabaret that is the cynical, vacuous, modern day, tarted-up checkout-girl-obsessed puppet-infested hit parade.

Drico.

[Undertaker]

Don't think it's so much age, it's the availaibility of the cd. Fans of groups like PSB (or any artist thats been going years) pride themselves on buying the physical format. There is just zero interest in a 79p download and rightly so.

[Fugitive1979]

Madonna's last single entered the UK charts at number 39. Thirty-bloody-nine!

To enter at #39 is a bit harsh, but it was a poor third single from a poor album.

[Drico One]

A comment about Madonna from a teenager on one of the Popjustice boards:

And I do think Madonna's brilliant. So in an effort to appreciate some of her old stuff, I borrwed all the albums from a friend, and listened through all of them. And i think I have the same reaction to The Pet Shop Boys, it is good music. However I just dont think I was around in the right era to appreciate it.

Old hats. Past their sell-by date. Out of fashion. But quality material, nonetheless.

Drico.

[Dipso]

Craig David's comeback single has just missed the Top 40 too. Oh, the times they are a-changing. Still, quite a bit of that could be Avid Merrion's fault...

I think the Pets are pulling out all the stops for this release though - a new album produced and co-written by Xenomania, the Outstanding Contribution Brit and a rumoured new management team. It will be very interesting to see just how hard Parlophone push the single and album come next spring.

Downloads have changed everything for a group like the Pets. No wonder they spend so much time touring.

[BlueSwan]

Chasing Cars has some of the most banal lyrics

Maybe, but so what? It's a moving tune and that's all that matters to me (and millions of others it would seem).

[Blogo]

Snow Patrol are boring. I hate them.

[kimphilby]

Madonna's last single entered the UK charts at number 39. Thirty-bloody-nine!

To enter at #39 is a bit harsh, but it was a poor third single from a poor album.

I like that song.

[Vince]

Madonna's last single entered the UK charts at number 39. Thirty-bloody-nine!

To enter at #39 is a bit harsh, but it was a poor third single from a poor album.

I like that song.

Miles Away? i like it a lot!