my first record
hamburgian magazine szene hamburg asked me to do an article on “my first record”. you can find it in their recent issue. of course it’s in german, so now here we go with an english version:
my first record: pet shop boys, actually (1987)
the product range in the record section of our local department store was small and awful and even the nastiest weather on earth didn’t hold me back from buying this record. speaking of the weather, this was some kind of omen, cause my life with this record and with the pet shop boys has often been not that easy. we didn’t go through dramas in my family (some conservative dads worried about their sons’ heterosexuality), however i had my first love at that “actually” time and my girlfriend found the pet shop boys totally uncool. neil tennant and chris lowe really weren’t the popidol prototypes: they weren’t manic (like prince), they weren’t obsessed with provocation (like madonna) and they weren’t stunning dancers (like michael). it’s been easy to hate the pet shop boys. many people said: they got a singer that can’t really sing, they got banal lyrics, their music sounds calculated. over the years all the naggers seem to have finally disappeared, maybe cause there are other artists they can jump at. i love this album to date and also think of it as the bands’ best work. the band and their producers seem to have worked hard, not stopping until having achieved the best possible arrangement. moreover, it contains my alltime fave “rent” - a great reflection of banality combined with forward-thought italo-disco. Hit music.
my first record: pet shop boys, actually (1987)
the product range in the record section of our local department store was small and awful and even the nastiest weather on earth didn’t hold me back from buying this record. speaking of the weather, this was some kind of omen, cause my life with this record and with the pet shop boys has often been not that easy. we didn’t go through dramas in my family (some conservative dads worried about their sons’ heterosexuality), however i had my first love at that “actually” time and my girlfriend found the pet shop boys totally uncool. neil tennant and chris lowe really weren’t the popidol prototypes: they weren’t manic (like prince), they weren’t obsessed with provocation (like madonna) and they weren’t stunning dancers (like michael). it’s been easy to hate the pet shop boys. many people said: they got a singer that can’t really sing, they got banal lyrics, their music sounds calculated. over the years all the naggers seem to have finally disappeared, maybe cause there are other artists they can jump at. i love this album to date and also think of it as the bands’ best work. the band and their producers seem to have worked hard, not stopping until having achieved the best possible arrangement. moreover, it contains my alltime fave “rent” - a great reflection of banality combined with forward-thought italo-disco. Hit music.
