Hey Bro last video i saw a comment saying about a song of brinsley schwarz "the ballad of a has been beauty queen" and ive been requesting that song for a long time bro and i woul like to see your reaction bro
can you react to 2 early Journey songs from their 1st album both are instrumentals this was right after Neal and Gregg had left Santana. "Kohoutek" and "Topaz"
The West End London girls were posh and the East End boys were the working class. This is the English synth-pop version of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl! The Pet Shop Boys were awesome!!
@@roxannemoser I'm not comparing which is the better song, I am comparing the meaning of the songs which was the privileged and unattainable girl who was attracted to the bad boy.
I am married to a very rare specimen...an east end boy who is from a somewhat posh family but was very laddish in his youth...best of both worlds for this girl 😊
Everything about this song is dope. I guarantee you will be never get that line "Oh West End boys a dead end world" out of your head. 33 years later, it's still in my head.
I always love and respected Chris Lowe for being so humble and always quiet and cool in the background. It's almost like he shuns the limelight, so cool in his own skin.
Best part was NO SOCIAL MEDIA🤣🤣🤣!. Thank goodness for that, because my kids think I was an ANGEL as a teen 😇👀🤣. Little do they know. One of my absolute FAVORITE memories was partying backstage with the groups INXS and PIL. My mom's cousin was the bass player for PIL, and I got to meet/see them in SF when they toured together. The experience lived up to many a teen idea about what happens backstage. Again that goodness there wasn't social media 🤣🤣
Including the pervasive classism in the U.K... I always got the vibe that it was a longing for something that you can’t have, and the music reflects that as well.
@@MichaelScheele Yes, but look at Canary Wharf, Canning Town, even Deptford. Not that way at all. Mile End, Barking, & Bethnal Green are exceptions, at least the last time I was in London.
@@TuckertonRR In the USA we call the up-scaling of a neighborhood "gentrification." Eventually the immiserated or their landlords sell out to new money, resulting in further displacement of the underclass. Ones satisfaction with this process is determined by which side of it one is on.
Couple of other 80's suggestions of this type: "It's My Life" - Talk Talk "Send Me an Angel" - Real Life "Wild Wild West" - Escape Club "You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record)" - Dead or Alive "I've Been Thinking About You" - Londonbeat
Pet Shop Boys: "Opportunities" "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Suburbia" and more... No, the other guy doesn't say anything. They are the Pen & Teller of music.
When i was in the Navy in the mid 80's we would port all over Europe, and no matter where we were you would hear this track ( malls, clubs,bars it did not matter) this track was HUGE back then in EUROPE!
"What Have I Done To Deserve This" featuring the late great Dusty Springfield, "Rent", "Love Comes Quickly", "Opportunities", "It's A Sin", "Domino Dancing", "Suburbia", "Left To My Own Devices" and many other great hits by The Pet Shop Boys, brings back so many memories for me. Thanks for reacting to "West End Girls".
And “Talk Talk” is a favorite. And “Such a Shame” and “Living in Another World”. “Live at Montreux 1986” was such a great show. I watch that often. Mark Hollis was genius. RIP 💜💜💜
Their style is called kitchen sink realism, a style that originated in England depicting every day life usually focusing on the working class. PSB have a rich catalog. Bigger in The UK than America, but well known in the dance club circuit in the States. Reminiscent of another English band that came before them, Soft Cell who had one hit in America- Tainted Love (but more in the UK).
PSB refer to Soft Cell in their lyrics. Speaking of kitchen sink, "I want to wake up" has these lines: I stood at the kitchen-sink, my radio played Songs like "Tainted Love" and "Love Is Strange" As I listened and the words hit my ears I cried sudden tears
@@rogerlie4176 I didn’t realize they had five top ten singles in the States. Still they were huge in the UK, and revered there till this day while being mostly forgotten about in the US.
Neil Tennant is the singer. Chris Lowe the musician. For years he was like Teller to Penn, never speaking. The Eastenders are working class. The West End is London's Broadway. Posh, cultured, expensive. I was in London a year before this song was released. Every time I hear it is a sense memory flashback to London. Blondie did Rapture in 1979-80. This song was 1985.
A song that could have been number one except for its long instrumental introduction. It's still the one of the best young love songs ever. But its really about a married man a few years out still as strongly in love as he was when he was young and dumb.
This song brings tears of joy to me EVERY TIME I hear it!! The 80s for me were EPICALLY OUTSTANDING!!❤❤❤😊😊😊 All of the 80s groups and bands and Especially the English bands!!!❤❤
Love the song, but strangely enough I've come to prefer the Shiny Toy Guns version. The original is still good too though. Really just depends on my mood which version I listen to.
I was a tiny girl when I first heard this song on an episode of Moonlighting way back in the 80s. I fell in love with it then and I still love this little odd song today. 💚💚💚
This song came out the week my papaw died. I was 9 years old. Everytime i hear it i go back to that night i was awakened from my sleep by my Moma telling me my papaw had just died. I had seen him that night at his home. He was sick. The last thing he told me was “I love you!”. RIP Papaw. I love you!
The singer, Neil Tennant, was a staff writer/editor for a pop music magazine called Smash Hits around the time this was recorded (and in the US, that magazine had all the lyrics to the top 40 songs; I think the UK version had more substantial content). If anyone should know how to put a hit together, it'd be a guy like him.
I love Laid Back! White Horse would indeed be a great reaction song. Toby Laid Back recorded the beat & guitar for another song the same day as White Horse. Years later they found the 8-track tape and added lyrics written by Arthur Stander to create this little known gem of a song: th-cam.com/video/r95ub7GSm5k/w-d-xo.html Even if it isn't your kind of music you'll probably find it COOL. 😎
The Laid Back song is my kind of music. 80's Italian Disco was the best. The songs were basically all in English and sounded incredible. Love C.C. Catch and Fancy, that was his stage name.
You'll never run out of music but just in case: Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian. She's in Parties by Bauhaus Chaos Said the Captain by Stump Wax and Wane by Cocteau Twins Big Hollow Man by Danielle Dax. I got more if you run low.
Gentleman Take Polaroids, Visions of China, Ghosts, and Adolescent Sex by Japan... totally underrated band (and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran totally stole David Sylvian's look LOL!).
@@elosoguapo8137 How you gonna learn to rap in 1979 when you're white, female, coked up, and you're Blondie? Sugarhill was IT, not much else to learn from.
@@MrRezRising the downtown art scean in NYC had a unique mixing of art, urban music, punk/hardcore, art music, graffiti, clubs like CBGB, The Fever, The Kitchen, Max's Kansas City. Artists like Keith Hearing, Jean Michael Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Madonna, TV soon to be Talking Head's, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains the list goes on and on. It was a mixing pot of culture.
Jamel, back then when this came out I didn’t even realise it was a Cowbell that made that sound! But because of you, lately I listen out for it in every song! 😂 Blondie’s Rap was about 3 or 4 years earlier.
So funny, I hear as "rapping" now too... But not when it was new. It was so different and seductive... Would love to drive around listening to it over and over...
This song has more renditions and makeovers than Shirley McClain. Remixed more than any cake you’ve ever eaten. This version was the THIRD and most commercially successful. They went on to be 80s Icons in the Dance Scene.
We are not old! We are older. We still know great music and appreciate the fact that we grew up in a time with some of the greatest music ever made. Imagine, some of us can still remember when John Lennon and Elvis were still alive! We know there will never be another Michael Jackson, Elton John, Freddy Mercury, Madonna, George Michael or PRINCE just to name a few. No matter how hard they may try. I’m happy that I’m older now, because I got to experience the greatest music from the beginning of modern rock through my mother with the 50’s & 60’s, then the first songs I remember in the 70’s until today and beyond.
We are not old. We get better and better with time. We were lucky enough to have been around during ba glorious time. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Rock on Boomer's Gen Xers Rock on 🤘 🤘
It's like "You got the brawn i got the looks...let's make lots of money", Chris Lowe is the brawn, the DJ and Neil Tennant is the looks, the singer and lyrics...and they are doing it!
@@shahfacekillah I understand. If I remember right Jamel was born in 1980, and he has mentioned before, when he was young, he primarily listened to those other genres. It's just a possible reason why he hasn't heard this before.
The actor David Tennant (Dr Who, Harry Potter etc) is actually called David Mcdonald and chose his stage name as Tennant after Neil Tennant from The Pet Shop Boys
And here we are on the 80s new wave club culture music. A deep dive into this genre would be very welcomed and worthwhile. I was around when a lot of this music came out and I still find myself intrigued by it. Truly, this is where great music lives.
Pet Shop Boys, though forming in 1981, have been consistently been making great dance music with thought provoking lyrics ever since. Last year they released "Hot Spot" which was their 14th studio album. That is an impressive catalog and doesn't even touch a lot of their work released as EPs and singles. Please check out "Adgena" which was released in 2019 and was a biting commentary of the events of our times. Great stuff by PSB already and looking forward to more. Thanks Jamel, for reacting to them and introducing them to a new generation!
This brings back memories. When MTV still had music videos. I was a young women just getting my life started. It was so much easier back then. Miss those days. Thanks for playing part of my soundtrack.
New Wave in the 80s was/is everything! Whenever I am doing something around the house, cleaning, baking, etc., I put on my 80s playlist and it gets me moving every single time!
The guy who doesn’t say anything is responsible for most of the keyboard sounds you hear. Blonde was first; Rapture was recorded in 1980 after Debbie Harry met Fab 5 Freddy and others in the then underground hip hop scene.
You just don't know how glad am that I'm you reacted to the Pet Shop Boys. These guys have the most amazing songs even to this day. I have listened to their music since I was 8 years old, in the 80's, in a >800 populated town in West Texas. This is saying a lot about how influential they were and still are. I visited London in 2018 and I was just searching for them everywhere I went. One of my favorite all time bands. Queen, Depeche Mode, OMD....oh so many amazing bands of the 80's, who still are making music today. Thank you for reacting to Pet Shop Boys. It says so much about your character and open-mindedness.
I love this song. It is epic and still as popular as it was in 80's. Great choice. I miss the 80's music. Best decade in my opinion. Loved living it...
Fun fact, one of the two guys in Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, used to be the editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics UK and presided over the creation of a lot of their original characters like Captain Britain and X-Men's Psylocke.
When I watch these reaction vids I almost feel like I'm hearing the song with fresh ears. I start noticing details that I've overlooked for most of my life and taken for granted.
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Hey Bro last video i saw a comment saying about a song of brinsley schwarz "the ballad of a has been beauty queen" and ive been requesting that song for a long time bro and i woul like to see your reaction bro
My Jam 1985 ...verrry 😎 COOL
can you react to 2 early Journey songs from their 1st album both are instrumentals this was right after Neal and Gregg had left Santana. "Kohoutek" and "Topaz"
Please react to sweet freedom by Michael McDonald.
Please do a reaction video to El Cuervos -El Pastor- thanks!! th-cam.com/video/wPE7t7P5kSM/w-d-xo.html
The West End London girls were posh and the East End boys were the working class. This is the English synth-pop version of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl! The Pet Shop Boys were awesome!!
This is much better than Uptown Girl
@@roxannemoser I'm not comparing which is the better song, I am comparing the meaning of the songs which was the privileged and unattainable girl who was attracted to the bad boy.
@@roxannemoser no lie. I can't with BJ and Uptown Gril
I am married to a very rare specimen...an east end boy who is from a somewhat posh family but was very laddish in his youth...best of both worlds for this girl 😊
I love your take - you nailed it!
Can't deny this song has a dope beat.
agreed. if Jamel's shoulders are movin', its got a dope beat!!
Everything about this song is dope. I guarantee you will be never get that line "Oh West End boys a dead end world" out of your head. 33 years later, it's still in my head.
It was a great clubbing song in my college days!
That it does.
This was on one of my workout cassettes I made back in the 80s.
They made a fantastic song with Dusty Springfield called “What Have I Done to Deserve This.” It’s really worth checking out!
I second this!
Totally. Amazing duet and the video is gorgeous.
Yes!! 😍
I agree - this one is my favorite by them.
YES! Dusty's vocals on that track are everything!
The low profile “secret service agent”😂 is keyboardist Chris Lowe. It’s him playing all the keys, including the synth bass.
And programming the drums I believe (could be wrong).
Yah, but unless they show it, those not in the know won't get it. 🤣
Yep. He is the mastermind. Neil Tennant just sings.
I always love and respected Chris Lowe for being so humble and always quiet and cool in the background. It's almost like he shuns the limelight, so cool in his own skin.
@@mindislife Totally agree, it was him who put the cool in them all those years ago, and what a synth wizard he was too! one on the best.
80's new wave is a highly underrated genre, awesome classic. On a great set of speakers this is some of the best music around.
I agree.
We did It justice on the mega watt dance floor booth!
ABSOLUTELY!
So true💝🇦🇺
So many good artists
Growing up in the 80's was AWESOME.
It sure was! We could use some 80’s now.
Understatement right there!
The nostalgia is real. ♡
Best part was NO SOCIAL MEDIA🤣🤣🤣!. Thank goodness for that, because my kids think I was an ANGEL as a teen 😇👀🤣. Little do they know. One of my absolute FAVORITE memories was partying backstage with the groups INXS and PIL. My mom's cousin was the bass player for PIL, and I got to meet/see them in SF when they toured together. The experience lived up to many a teen idea about what happens backstage. Again that goodness there wasn't social media 🤣🤣
So true! No Covid, no masks, didn’t have to wonder if someone was smiling at me, no vaccinations, plenty of toilet paper.........
"MOM! I'm leaving to go shoot my video." - "Take your brother with you."
Can’t be a Pet Shop boy...
🤣🤣🤣 I love it!
That's funny! 😂
🤣🤣🤣
For real🤣🤣
One of the most recognizable voices in music history.
He sounds an awful lot like Al Stewart to me.
This song is so 80s my mullet has grown back.
😂 I’ve witnessed some others as well-
🤣
Best music EVER made. My opinion of course.😂
Fantastic! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
The joys of a COVID lockdown
The “West End” is a posh area district while the “East End” is the much rougher area of London, so the song has many levels of meaning...
That was true in the 80's....not so much in 2021
Including the pervasive classism in the U.K... I always got the vibe that it was a longing for something that you can’t have, and the music reflects that as well.
Jack the Ripper's murders were in the East End of London. It had been a rougher section for a long time.
@@MichaelScheele Yes, but look at Canary Wharf, Canning Town, even Deptford. Not that way at all. Mile End, Barking, & Bethnal Green are exceptions, at least the last time I was in London.
@@TuckertonRR In the USA we call the up-scaling of a neighborhood "gentrification." Eventually the immiserated or their landlords sell out to new money, resulting in further displacement of the underclass. Ones satisfaction with this process is determined by which side of it one is on.
Depeche Mode “enjoy the silence” the groove will get you brother
He reacted to 'Enjoy the Silence' already. Great song...
@@loritajohnson5664 yes. I did find it. I can listen to that song in repeat.
Couple of other 80's suggestions of this type:
"It's My Life" - Talk Talk
"Send Me an Angel" - Real Life
"Wild Wild West" - Escape Club
"You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record)" - Dead or Alive
"I've Been Thinking About You" - Londonbeat
Great tunes!!
19 by Paul Hardcastle
One Night in Banghok by Murray Head
Let the Day Begin by the Call
Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield , " What have I done to deserve this?"
U just listed my college music and takes me back!!!!
My teenage years in a list.
“In a big country” by Big Country is a great song!
I remember a friend at work would always say " I love Big Country".
I'd ask him who sang it
"Big Country"
What's the name of the album
"Big Country"
Yes. Imo the best song ever to come from my wee Country.
Ships is my fave BC song.
Yes!!! I forgot about Big Country. Going on my playlist. Man the 80’s were awesome
Think I already requested this one after someone suggested "Run Runaway."
There wasn’t a boombox on the beach that wasn’t playing this in the summer of ‘84.
1985, not 84
More likely 86 as it didn't come out until the very end of 85
Ughh. Not many listened to them where I was living..lol
In 1984 Frankie said play your boombox on the beach...
I wasn’t but 8-9 yr old. But this was my fav for so long. Lyrically I didn’t understand but the beat was awesome
More Pet Shop Boys
“Suburbia”
“What have I done to deserve this”
“Opportunities (Let’s make lots of Money)
NO! BEST CLIP AND SOUND " HEART"! russian copy XD th-cam.com/video/9N6OqXoPtKU/w-d-xo.html
You forgot "Being Boring" and "Domino Dancing".
SO HARD
"LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES"
"Love comes quickly"
His diction is so clear the songs were used to teach spoken English!
Man... it's just something about 80's music that just does it for me.
Pet Shop Boys: "Opportunities" "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Suburbia" and more... No, the other guy doesn't say anything. They are the Pen & Teller of music.
Opportunities
What he said!
Yes, all good songs
"It's A Sin"
I also like "Can You Forgive Her" but that might just be me.
Domino Dancing
You can also check their “Suburbia”, “It’s a sin”, “Rent”. Pet Shop Boys have many great songs.
"Rent" is so underrated, I love that song!
@@coralinos7544 yes!🙌🏼 I also love their “Being Boring”, especially the video. It’s a masterpiece!
FYI- this is regarded as one of the greatest debut singles in pop music history. It's also regarded as one of the defining songs of the decade (80s)
TOTALLY 80's!!!!!!
And that's never a bad thing.
66 yrs old...............by the way!
When i was in the Navy in the mid 80's we would port all over Europe, and no matter where we were you would hear this track ( malls, clubs,bars it did not matter) this track was HUGE back then in EUROPE!
We were stationed in England in the late 70's and then again in the mid-80's. Loved that time, with new wave and pirate radio stations.
When I visited the UK in 1998, I kept hearing the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" everywhere I went in London.
I spent the mid 80s stationed in Wales and 89-90 in Scotland, great times.
I'm in Australia. This song was huge all over the world. The Pet Shop Boys had hit after hit in Australia.
Was in Europe for the 80’s and can confirm this statement. PSB was HUGE.
Wish we could go back...wasn’t perfect then but better than today.
Man I miss the 80's/90's
you probably didn't even live in that time so you have no right to assume it was better
@@broskiez2641 yes I did live in that time.
@@broskiez2641 sorry kid. I was quite aware by the time of fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin wall. Why would you say something like that anyway?
Don't worry, Shawney, Jamel-AKA-Jamal is gonna take us all back there again. Looking forward to seeing him try to make sense of Boy George - HA!
The Styling and Music was ahead of its time.
"What Have I Done To Deserve This" featuring the late great Dusty Springfield, "Rent", "Love Comes Quickly", "Opportunities", "It's A Sin", "Domino Dancing", "Suburbia", "Left To My Own Devices" and many other great hits by The Pet Shop Boys, brings back so many memories for me. Thanks for reacting to "West End Girls".
I love this song. It was HUGE in the’80’s.
You gotta react to Talk Talk- It's my life
Please!
The remake is great, but this one...I 🥰
I love them. "Happiness is Easy"
And “Talk Talk” is a favorite. And “Such a Shame” and “Living in Another World”. “Live at Montreux 1986” was such a great show. I watch that often. Mark Hollis was genius. RIP
💜💜💜
Love's what you make it is a great song too
I feel like this song, even nowadays would sound perfectly in a fashion show in Soho, New York, just so classy and perfect.
Their style is called kitchen sink realism, a style that originated in England depicting every day life usually focusing on the working class. PSB have a rich catalog. Bigger in The UK than America, but well known in the dance club circuit in the States. Reminiscent of another English band that came before them, Soft Cell who had one hit in America- Tainted Love (but more in the UK).
PSB refer to Soft Cell in their lyrics. Speaking of kitchen sink, "I want to wake up" has these lines:
I stood at the kitchen-sink, my radio played
Songs like "Tainted Love" and "Love Is Strange"
As I listened and the words hit my ears
I cried sudden tears
@@Ramiiam You're so right!
West End Girls reached billboard #1 and they had four other top ten hits, so they still did pretty good in the states.
@@rogerlie4176 I didn’t realize they had five top ten singles in the States. Still they were huge in the UK, and revered there till this day while being mostly forgotten about in the US.
Neil Tennant is the singer. Chris Lowe the musician. For years he was like Teller to Penn, never speaking.
The Eastenders are working class. The West End is London's Broadway. Posh, cultured, expensive.
I was in London a year before this song was released. Every time I hear it is a sense memory flashback to London.
Blondie did Rapture in 1979-80. This song was 1985.
also hard or soft option: work or go on the dole
"What Have I Done To Deserve This?" (with Dusty Springfield) and thier version of "Always on My Mind" should be next.
Please do The Cure, "Just like Heaven".
The Cure From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea.
Lullaby from Cure
A song that could have been number one except for its long instrumental introduction. It's still the one of the best young love songs ever. But its really about a married man a few years out still as strongly in love as he was when he was young and dumb.
Or Love Song, Pictures Of You, Hot Hot Hot, The Lovecats, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Boys Don't Cry, Friday I'm In Love...
Prayers for rain
Pet Shop Boys: "It's a Sin", "Domino Dancing", "In Denial"
Don't forget Opportunities
What's the name of the song with the hook "what have I done to deserve this?" That's a good one too.
@@ecj17cel lol That's the name of it.
"Being Boring" is a work of art.
Yes. It's my absolute favourite PSB track.
Nail on head Hugo! Such a sophisticated pop song.
Incredible song
Great lyrics too - Never being boring...
My brother you have to watch the Pet Shop Boys song “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” next. It’s great!
With the incomparable Dusty Springfield. Oh yeah!
💖💖
And then we can go into a Dusty Springfield odyssey! Hurrah!
@@clairebarnett4994 Dusty singing "The Look of Love" is the most sensuous and sultry song of all time.
@@clairebarnett4994 Gladly! She's fantastic.
The other guy: only does everything else: keyboards, synthesizers, programming
Chris Lowe sings in
This song brings tears of joy to me EVERY TIME I hear it!! The 80s for me were EPICALLY OUTSTANDING!!❤❤❤😊😊😊 All of the 80s groups and bands and Especially the English bands!!!❤❤
"I Can Dream About You" ~ Dan Heartman.
Great song! Hope he does that one.
Hartman
@@kimbozw1808 Thanks, with an error like that he may have never found the right song....
@@2869may he can now!
@@kimbozw1808 Thank god.. you were here here to make it right.....
They had a great song called Opportunities . Worth a reaction
That was a very brainy thing to suggest.
Now explore Swing Out Sister’s “Breakout”
I still love this song.
YES! Such a great song.
Man Jamel it’s been a while since I’ve heard this. The ‘80’s really had some great music. 😎❤️🇺🇸
"Major Tom - Coming Home" by Peter Schilling
Earth below us drifting falling floating weightless.......great choice
Peter posted a recent version of this song. He still sounds fantastic.
Love the song, but strangely enough I've come to prefer the Shiny Toy Guns version. The original is still good too though. Really just depends on my mood which version I listen to.
Favorite.
Wow, that was my "first song". I got my first radio and that was being played in high rotation here in NYC. WPLJ 🤘🤘
Check out "It's a Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys.
Ohhh yes!!
Their best song 👍
Love that one too!
Fantastic song!
The best!
Chris Lowe without a synthesizer, doesn't have much to do, does he. lol
This is one of those defining songs of the 80's.
Not gonna lie Pet Shop Boys is a huge rabbit hole you're gonna dive into.
Bigger than most would think. Love these boys!
@@susanoneill370 Awesome videos and awesome music who wouldn't love them.
Love them too, ever since the beginning.
They're best known as a singles band, but i personally find 'My October Symphony' to be PSB finest moment!
"The Theatre" is a really moving PSB song--the lyrics are heartbreaking.
This song is 37 years old this year! Now that's legendary and scary both at the same time if you remember it when it was released!
😳OMG!
Ouch! This hurt me bad!🤣 But I still love that song as the first time I heard it, a long, long time ago!
The amazing part, he still sounds the same ..saw the lockdown version on TH-cam
I was a tiny girl when I first heard this song on an episode of Moonlighting way back in the 80s. I fell in love with it then and I still love this little odd song today. 💚💚💚
This song came out the week my papaw died. I was 9 years old. Everytime i hear it i go back to that night i was awakened from my sleep by my Moma telling me my papaw had just died. I had seen him that night at his home. He was sick. The last thing he told me was “I love you!”. RIP Papaw. I love you!
You might want to check out "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" by the PSB, another one of their big hits.
with dusty springfield
Good call!
Love this song! Old school new wave rapping!!
Love these guys so much. My fave is "What have i done to deserve this?"
The singer, Neil Tennant, was a staff writer/editor for a pop music magazine called Smash Hits around the time this was recorded (and in the US, that magazine had all the lyrics to the top 40 songs; I think the UK version had more substantial content). If anyone should know how to put a hit together, it'd be a guy like him.
Do “Always on my mind” by Pet Shop Boys since it’s a cover by Elvis Presley. Willie Nelson also covered it.
Great track but God Elvis was bloody good!
Performed by Elvis, the writers are: Wayne Carson, Mark James and Johnny Christopher.
Elvis himself wasn’t a songwriter.
@@ezeziel1498 der
My favorite version of the song.
@@ezeziel1498 Damn right. Willie Nelson sure as hell wrote songs though. He provided some great ones,. Generally he never performed them himself.
Laid Back- White Horse, not my kinda music but brings back memories.
I love Laid Back! White Horse would indeed be a great reaction song. Toby Laid Back recorded the beat & guitar for another song the same day as White Horse. Years later they found the 8-track tape and added lyrics written by Arthur Stander to create this little known gem of a song: th-cam.com/video/r95ub7GSm5k/w-d-xo.html Even if it isn't your kind of music you'll probably find it COOL. 😎
The Laid Back song is my kind of music. 80's Italian Disco was the best. The songs were basically all in English and sounded incredible. Love C.C. Catch and Fancy, that was his stage name.
You'll never run out of music but just in case: Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian.
She's in Parties by Bauhaus
Chaos Said the Captain by Stump
Wax and Wane by Cocteau Twins
Big Hollow Man by Danielle Dax.
I got more if you run low.
Nightporter by Japan (David Sylvian) is stunning.
Gentleman Take Polaroids, Visions of China, Ghosts, and Adolescent Sex by Japan... totally underrated band (and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran totally stole David Sylvian's look LOL!).
Great songs!
Blondie was rapping in Rapture before West End Girls
She was pretty terrible at it
She was rapping in the 70’s.....I had the vinyl album.
@@elosoguapo8137 How you gonna learn to rap in 1979 when you're white, female, coked up, and you're Blondie? Sugarhill was IT, not much else to learn from.
@@MrRezRising True. Rap was in its infancy and there was a lot of coke
@@MrRezRising the downtown art scean in NYC had a unique mixing of art, urban music, punk/hardcore, art music, graffiti, clubs like CBGB, The Fever, The Kitchen, Max's Kansas City. Artists like Keith Hearing, Jean Michael Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Madonna, TV soon to be Talking Head's, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains the list goes on and on. It was a mixing pot of culture.
Takes me back to my high school days.
Jamel, back then when this came out I didn’t even realise it was a Cowbell that made that sound!
But because of you, lately I listen out for it in every song! 😂
Blondie’s Rap was about 3 or 4 years earlier.
When this song came out, Al Stewart's manager called him and asked if he had recorded a new song. 😂
This song was a huge hit in the 80's and was also big hit on black radio back in 80's too. Straight up classic!
So funny, I hear as "rapping" now too... But not when it was new. It was so different and seductive... Would love to drive around listening to it over and over...
This song has more renditions and makeovers than Shirley McClain. Remixed more than any cake you’ve ever eaten. This version was the THIRD and most commercially successful. They went on to be 80s Icons in the Dance Scene.
Third? I thought it was the second after the Bobby O version.
@@HipixOFFICIAL There was a German Remix by Tess also
One of the pop radio stations in Chicago used to have "No Pet Shop Boys Weekends."
This has been my fav song since it was released, yes, I’m old
Paul Marynissen: No, I would say we are well aged........so many great tunes from the 80's, and MTV in its infancy.
We are not old! We are older. We still know great music and appreciate the fact that we grew up in a time with some of the greatest music ever made. Imagine, some of us can still remember when John Lennon and Elvis were still alive! We know there will never be another Michael Jackson, Elton John, Freddy Mercury, Madonna, George Michael or PRINCE just to name a few. No matter how hard they may try. I’m happy that I’m older now, because I got to experience the greatest music from the beginning of modern rock through my mother with the 50’s & 60’s, then the first songs I remember in the 70’s until today and beyond.
We are not old. We get better and better with time. We were lucky enough to have been around during ba glorious time. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Rock on Boomer's Gen Xers Rock on 🤘 🤘
Ooh this is a classic! And “What in The Flowers in the Attic is going on here?” 🤣🤣🤣
Another "Jamelism"
@@Budman_Buds gold! 🤣
Riight?!👍😎
I’ve seen that movie- pretty sad one-good but sad-
I remember Flowers in the Attic.
It's like "You got the brawn i got the looks...let's make lots of money", Chris Lowe is the brawn, the DJ and Neil Tennant is the looks, the singer and lyrics...and they are doing it!
I'm surprised you haven't heard this before. It was a pretty big hit.
in Europe yes, but America rejects almost everything synthy and electronic that came after Funkytown
When this came out he was listening to R&B and rap.
@@SnabbKassa I live in Canada. I'm 43 and I remember this song was huge!!
@@jimyoung1011 I was listening to Van Halen and Def Leppard but that doesn't change the fact this song was all over top 40 radio at the time.
@@shahfacekillah I understand. If I remember right Jamel was born in 1980, and he has mentioned before, when he was young, he primarily listened to those other genres. It's just a possible reason why he hasn't heard this before.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
Next: Life in a Northern Town
That is a magnificent song. Missing home.
Was 15 when this came out. It was like a first kiss. Soooooooo good.
Yes! I’ve been requesting them for a while now-one of my favorite bands and one of their best songs.
@@Rifkinn yeah, Love Parade is my favorite but they’re all good in my opinion
I was thinking the exact same thing. Lol
Virtual Satyr recommends "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House
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Ohhhh yes!!!
Yes! 🌸
Oh yes. Yes. Please do this one. Such a truly beautiful song
OMFG YES!!! And then "Better Be Home Soon". I always forget how much I adore Crowded House. Saw them 10 years ago and it was such a great show.
The actor David Tennant (Dr Who, Harry Potter etc) is actually called David Mcdonald and chose his stage name as Tennant after Neil Tennant from The Pet Shop Boys
As a Londoner I grew up on this tune, always loved it.
And here we are on the 80s new wave club culture music. A deep dive into this genre would be very welcomed and worthwhile. I was around when a lot of this music came out and I still find myself intrigued by it. Truly, this is where great music lives.
Check out (Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax)
Ohhhh fuck yes!
@@belindascott6916 Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a gem
@@cheebawobanu great chose there Sir! Pure genius!
Relax don’t do it!
Pet Shop Boys, though forming in 1981, have been consistently been making great dance music with thought provoking lyrics ever since. Last year they released "Hot Spot" which was their 14th studio album. That is an impressive catalog and doesn't even touch a lot of their work released as EPs and singles. Please check out "Adgena" which was released in 2019 and was a biting commentary of the events of our times. Great stuff by PSB already and looking forward to more. Thanks Jamel, for reacting to them and introducing them to a new generation!
Jammmmm! One of my ALL time favorite songs!
“Come On Eileen” next please...
laura kali oh, yes!
I totally agree
I was going to recommend this!
Dexydrine kept the soul all nighters going from midnight to 8am. Hence Dexys midnight runners.
Oh god no
This song and "Go West" are my favorites from them.
Go west was originally by VILLAGE PEOPLE
Prefer the original of go west
The KINGS of 80s new wave dance! Many many classic songs - epitomize the era but are still badass today!
This is my absolute all, time favorite song!
~Steph
From the same time period you’ll probably like Level 42 - Something About You and Go West - We Close Our Eyes
Lessons In Love is also stellar from Level 42
We Close Our Eyes by Oingo Boingo is better
Definetly Level 42... My favo band all time
@@corkycobon1481 Criminally underrated song!
Something About You was one of my favs!!!
Talk talk "its my life" is another jam too. Dig it! The Pet shop boys first five albums are stone cold jams too. The quiet one writes all the music.
Ship Of Fools by World Party was another good one
Yes, to both! 💜💜💜
Yes I've been waiting for this one 🙌
This brings back memories. When MTV still had music videos. I was a young women just getting my life started. It was so much easier back then. Miss those days. Thanks for playing part of my soundtrack.
Stank face on that bass is absolutely CORRECT. Such a smooth beat.
West. End. Giiiirrrrls...
How I miss those West End girls back in the day in Central London. They were very friendly :)
Pet shop boys cover of “always on my mind”
Jamel, i love watching these videos with u, i feel i have someone to share them with. music, bloopers, all of it. thanks.
This song was on heavy rotation on R&B stations in Chicago in the 80s, along with early George Michael.
New Wave in the 80s was/is everything! Whenever I am doing something around the house, cleaning, baking, etc., I put on my 80s playlist and it gets me moving every single time!
The guy who doesn’t say anything is responsible for most of the keyboard sounds you hear. Blonde was first; Rapture was recorded in 1980 after Debbie Harry met Fab 5 Freddy and others in the then underground hip hop scene.
The Fixx: ‘Saved by Zero’ or ‘One Thing Leads to Another’ next?
2 good ones
I loved them too! 💕💙💜💗
Luv ya Jamel!
Try What Have I Done To Deserve This with Dusty Springfield. Their best and her great comeback.
Still on my play list! I love that song!! 💖💖💖💖
Been singing that a lot over the last year!
This is their best song-by far.
Ya gotta admit, that's some fine music.
You just don't know how glad am that I'm you reacted to the Pet Shop Boys. These guys have the most amazing songs even to this day. I have listened to their music since I was 8 years old, in the 80's, in a >800 populated town in West Texas. This is saying a lot about how influential they were and still are. I visited London in 2018 and I was just searching for them everywhere I went. One of my favorite all time bands. Queen, Depeche Mode, OMD....oh so many amazing bands of the 80's, who still are making music today. Thank you for reacting to Pet Shop Boys. It says so much about your character and open-mindedness.
I love this song. It is epic and still as popular as it was in 80's. Great choice. I miss the 80's music. Best decade in my opinion. Loved living it...
I love this song. Love Comes Quickly is another good one.
Was about to write the same thing...
Fun fact, one of the two guys in Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, used to be the editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics UK and presided over the creation of a lot of their original characters like Captain Britain and X-Men's Psylocke.
Oooh. That is some comics knowledge I lacked!
I never knew it was the SAME Tennant! Wow!
Man, one of my all-time favorite songs. If I hear this on the radio or my ipod it goes full blast.
When I watch these reaction vids I almost feel like I'm hearing the song with fresh ears. I start noticing details that I've overlooked for most of my life and taken for granted.