Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (1991) FLAC
Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (1991)
Pop | FLAC+CUE+IMG+LOG+SCANS | Rs.Com |96 MB
Pop | FLAC+CUE+IMG+LOG+SCANS | Rs.Com |96 MB
"In 1991, UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys covered "Streets" to accompany "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", the third single from their 1990 album, Behaviour, as a double A-side in the UK (both singles were released separately in the U.S.). The band have said that they thought the guitars in the original sounded similar to a sequencer. In this version, "Streets" is turned into a medley with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", the 1960s single by Frankie Valli, though in an arrangement informed by the 1981 disco version of the song by Boystown Gang rather than the original.
The version has been called by the Pet Shop Boys, in the liner notes for the album Discography, that they wanted to turn "a mythic rock song into a stomping disco record."
The Pet Shop Boys version has been significantly changed in its musical arrangement from the original version. In contrast to the U2 version's instrumental build-up, the Pet Shop Boys version opens abruptly with synthesized and sampled noises and a drum machine. The musical climax of the song is also changed in other elements; a background vocal sample of "burning down love" is played right at the start, and synthesized horns erupt with even higher notes immediately following each chorus. Singer Neil Tennant performs the lyrics with no vocal exertion or stresses, in contrast to Bono's performance. In addition, at the transition between "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Tennant sings the two lines one after the other, with no change in pitch — pointing out the similarities in the two songs.
This version has been paired with "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", a song criticizing the insincere humanitarian messages of a number of pop stars during the 1980s and the institutionalization of rock and roll
The Pet Shop Boys have performed the medley live as recently as during their 2007 Fundamental tour, as well as at the Moscow Live 8 concert of 2005.[17]
"Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" - 5:35
"How can you expect to be taken seriously?" (Extended Mix) - 6:03
"Bet she's not your girlfriend" - 4:28
"How can you expect to be taken seriously?" (Classical reprise) - 3:05
Pass: Lee Harvey Oswald
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The version has been called by the Pet Shop Boys, in the liner notes for the album Discography, that they wanted to turn "a mythic rock song into a stomping disco record."
The Pet Shop Boys version has been significantly changed in its musical arrangement from the original version. In contrast to the U2 version's instrumental build-up, the Pet Shop Boys version opens abruptly with synthesized and sampled noises and a drum machine. The musical climax of the song is also changed in other elements; a background vocal sample of "burning down love" is played right at the start, and synthesized horns erupt with even higher notes immediately following each chorus. Singer Neil Tennant performs the lyrics with no vocal exertion or stresses, in contrast to Bono's performance. In addition, at the transition between "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Tennant sings the two lines one after the other, with no change in pitch — pointing out the similarities in the two songs.
This version has been paired with "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", a song criticizing the insincere humanitarian messages of a number of pop stars during the 1980s and the institutionalization of rock and roll
The Pet Shop Boys have performed the medley live as recently as during their 2007 Fundamental tour, as well as at the Moscow Live 8 concert of 2005.[17]
"Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" - 5:35
"How can you expect to be taken seriously?" (Extended Mix) - 6:03
"Bet she's not your girlfriend" - 4:28
"How can you expect to be taken seriously?" (Classical reprise) - 3:05
Pass: Lee Harvey Oswald
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