#gavyn wright

Released: April 6, 1992

God is in the House by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the album No More Shall We Part

While Pet Shop Boys reached the elder statesmen phase, that doesn't mean their music released at this point of their career sucks. Actually, their albums since Nightlife reflect their wish to stop chasing the charts and that apparently energized them musically. Fundamental is another case of that, since it presents them working with Trevor Horn, the producer who helmed the most colossal sounding 80's records. He brings his bombast to Pet Shop Boys, although it does not drown them. While their detached amusements suits the sonic hurricanes of Mr. Horn, it must be stated their collaboration also allows us to glimpse into what Frankie Goes To Hollywood could have been had they remained. Seriously, there's something about Fundamental that reminds me of that 80's Liverpool group. It's probably the combination of the politics and the dance that Frankie Goes to Hollywood achieved.

Little Things by Bush from the album Sixteen Stone - Directed by Matt Mahurin

Bryan Ferry's As Time Goes By seems like a betrayal of his debut These Foolish Things at first. It is a stereotypical Great American Songbook disc with a tasteful orchestra and a karaoke interpretation in the vein of insert a musician who only did this type of a record to show off the credentials, while inadvertently presenting the lack of them. As Time Goes By is not like that. Yes, we can debate about the players' apparent fear of being off-kilter (I think that the orchestral crew could afford to go wild occasionally) on this album, but we will probably disagree about Mr. Ferry’s aural appearance. He is vocally in a fine form here, yet he is doing it in a different style. Mr. Ferry stopped ending up in the centre of the parties, he became a weary witness of human follies and foolishness since this LP (or even earlier). These old songs are therefore a great way to introduce a change of both his singing voice and his perspective. He is basically saying that the things are as they have always been and these tunes from the past are the best cases for that.

"my father has this album. it's very strange but is fantastic for me . i'm 12 and other boys like me listen lady gaga, shakira , rihanna........the world is end."