Pet Shop Boys

Dear god I can't stop playing the new single "Did You See Me Coming?" Its just so damn catchy and has "feel good hit of the summer" written all over it. It is with some delight that I come of the realization that I have been listening to them for nearly their entire career in music(and as an aging Smash Hits reader, even earlier in Neil's former one as a music journalist). While I wasn't surprised to find out they were gay, I am rather proud of saying that I like their music. They set the bar incredibly high in asking their audience to be intelligent, witty pop and dance music fans. When so much of dance music is vapid, meaningless trash, the Pet Shop Boys were referencing Wittgenstein, making great dance-pop wrapped in great sleeves. Their work as a whole is pretty substantial for what is "throw away" music. They have rarely misfired and other than the fact that the video for the new single sux, I can live with the fact that they are still making great music and that I am still tapping my feet to their music, sitting here at nearly 37. Go Neil and Chris. Whew!