This thread is to talk about the b-sides of Loneliness

[Tom Angel]

Never understood this EP business. All PSB singles these days have 3 tracks - Memory of the Future had 4, which makes them all EPs really.

[Kandu]

I do not really like "Party In The Blitz". I find "Through You" better than "Loneliness".

[joe stalin]

I really like ' through you'. As someone else said, feels like the relation of Decide. Which is no bad thing 8/10

Party in the blitz. Ok 7/10

As for Loneliness

I keep on singing 'searching for a face of Jesus' and 'one way street'. It's ok. Right now Ok is good 7/10.

[telys]

Never understood this EP business. All PSB singles these days have 3 tracks - Memory of the Future had 4, which makes them all EPs really.

That's the benefit of being pethead. We get EPs from all singles. An album's worth of material from all the b-sides + all the mixes. It's been like this since 1986. Remember Suburbia?

[dbaseboy]

Is PITB one of Neil’s lockdown tracks he made on GarageBand? I like it but it’s certainly an oddity.

[dbaseboy]

Through you is just crying to be turned into a 4 on the floor club track. Personally I think they should’ve gone all out and released it as a single. Something completely different from what the public would’ve expected from them.

[telys]

Is PITB one of Neil’s lockdown tracks he made on GarageBand? I like it but it’s certainly an oddity.

I think it is

[Disco.]

Through You is excellent Party in the Blitz is ok.

[Synthrobot]

Through You is amazing. I like it better than Loneliness (which I love).

[Tom Angel]

Party in the blitz is far better than you lot have been suggesting. I real like Neil's vocal and although it could have done with a Chris Lowe list rap it's pretty classic PSB b-side.

It's not as good as an Open mind or Decide, but they were top drawer album tracks that should have been on Hotspot.

[Gary1962]

"Through You" is one of their finest B Sides, it also reminds me of "Decide", both are fabulous, "Party In The Blitz" is ok, nothing really special, I always feel with the Pet Shop Boys, good b sides on singles usually means an excellent album.

[Danimal]

I wonder if "Through you" is a track from "Naked"? After all, they first dropped "No boundaries" a track from "My Beautiful Launderette" as a b-side to the "Dreamland" single.

[telys]

Is Through You their longest b-side?

[donbrae]

Love ‘Through You’. The section from 5:38 is lovely. The track builds nicely and feels short for seven minutes. Probably my favourite B-side after ‘Decide’.

[daveid]

Is Through You their longest b-side?

Yes. Some Speculation is 6:35. Through you is 7:02