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Yes! After living with the song for a few weeks (well not living, even now I just have the version from Spanish radio) and watching the video and TOTP performance several times, I have to say: It's pretty bloody ace, isn't it? It does have all the ingrediants in the right place; bitterness, humour, wry lyrical satire, a squelchy bit that goes 'wheught! Wheught! Wheught! Bubdumbum' and I love the black clothes the Boys appear to have adopted for the publicity. For the first time in years (and as the Q review points out), PSB appear to be in touch with what made them great and different in the first place.

It might only make number 9 in the chart and then dissapear without a trace and the album can bomb for all I care. They feel more right than they have since Behaviour to my jaded ears and isn't that what matters?

ArseSpanker wrote:
It might only make number 9 in the chart and then dissapear without a trace and the album can bomb for all I care. They feel more right than they have since Behaviour to my jaded ears and isn't that what matters?

100% agreed. Finally, someone who feels the music with their heart rather than with a sales-calculating pocket calculator.

pulse wrote:Finally, someone who feels the music with their heart rather than with a sales-calculating pocket calculator.

Spoken like a true Erasure fan.

Or a PSB 'non-fan'

Janet Street-Porter wrote:

pulse wrote:Finally, someone who feels the music with their heart rather than with a sales-calculating pocket calculator.

Spoken like a true Erasure fan.

Damn right!

It's funny... Erasure comes up more often on this forum than homophobic remarks spoken by a closeted jock with internalised homophobia in a locker room.