Original video located here. Accessed 20th May 2020
Song title: My October Symphony
Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Year: 1990
Why I like this song:
I am currently doing more explorations with the Pet Shop Boys. It seems their three best albums are Actually, Behaviour and Very. And yet, for a quintessentially eighties act only one of them was realised in the eighties
So Behaviour: It is a moody album to be sure - clearly the eighties were done, the party was over, and the ills of the world can't be ignored. But this album works as a document of it's era: The Cold War was over and a new bunch of concerns have emerged. And it certainly fits in with the dance music of it's time - and with the passage of time, perhaps has even aged better.
Behaviour may be a downer of an album, compared to Actually, but it's the quite the beautiful one.
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