Does liking this make me gay? It's just so incredibly catchy.
>>129818123No, they are pop geniuses. But there is even better (and gayer sounding) new wave gold out there too.
>>129818123https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=setkn6jzHIs
I've been listening to nothing but PSB for a fortnight. help.https://youtu.be/L_LTWhNF7uI?si=FNTOAu7OWhGZo40t>>129818455Holy fucking BASED. love that tune.
>>129818376>But there is even better (and gayer sounding) new wave gold out there too.Liiiike?
>>129818829https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2YF05iX2whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpk8ym8iqWU
https://youtu.be/uduy2mebnOk?si=BqZ4bXUyZaGaFtUWI love these fagiolis like you wouldn't believe
PSB is pure fuckin unfiltered kino
>>129818867like a lot of my fav 80s electro/synthpop artists, they kinda lost me from the mid-90s on (I fucking hate the 90s). but when they were peak they were peakhttps://youtu.be/RZqJDdMd-kU?si=2_04wIOA7tU9cJALhttps://youtu.be/9enKmxNGaZ8?si=AOutrHhC73Pl0D0Qhttps://youtu.be/GxJq1IXk0BA?si=AlKUHyrQwUVxahbH
I LOVE YOUYOU PAY MY RENT
https://youtu.be/mT58mvfq4oo?si=rccjObbOOFgOkLca
>>129818860bronski beat soft cell
>>129819446Ah yeah, I know them. I think SC fell off after their first album though, unforch. Memorabilia is a slapper. Was never that into BB
https://youtu.be/yWu3jUrEBXA?si=xFbBZmE8mAoVNhNa
>>129818123>Does liking this make me gay? It's just so incredibly catchy.Obviously yes.
>>129819623(but here's why that's a good thing!)
>https://youtu.be/PyeWRd7ZEBs?si=OmuL_RW1ZQc5ZYlv
>>129818123Just because its camp doesn't mean shit. PSB from 86-93 is peak electro pop genius.
>>129819315What did he mean by this?
interesting how they never made anything else like west end girls, which is obviously their biggest song. i enjoy all the albums of theirs that i've heard, but nothing else has the same eerie vibe, or is even the same genre really, as it's not much of a synthpop song. i could see how someone who likes that song wouldn't like anything else by them.
we keep it in there for profilin purposes
>>129822162relationships in a capitalist society are driven by egoism and convenience
>>129818984Many are saying this
>>129818123Depends. Does it make your cock hard?
>>129822162Rent is codeword for gay sex in british
>>129822892>I love you you pay my gay sex?
>>129818123no but you NEED to be gay to fully appreciate their art, so please, for deepen your kino music taste, your must proceed asap to the closest gloryhole: moisturize and douche your bussy in advance. It's a rite of passage for west end girls
>>129819315RELATABLE>>129822892
>>129822977*for
>>129818123No. It's sucking all the cocks that makes you gay. Was that the US sleeve? What an abortion. Here's the classy minimalist original design.
>>129819990sigma grindset anthem
>>129822892It's not. It's slang for male prostitution. A rentboy is a young gay who "rents" out his body.
Are their albums post-Very worth listening too?
WHEN I LOOK BACK UPON MY LIFE
>>129818860frankie goes to Hollywood? not better though.
>>129824747luv frankie but they're three singles and a t-shirt. psb's discography cd mogs them (and pretty much everyone else) into oblivion
>>129823912IT'S ALWAY WITH A SENSE OF SHAME
>>129823912>>129825451his nasally intonation is fun to imitate
>>129825466A lot of people rag on his voice, but I think it's great. Then again I've always enjoyed androgynous vocals in music. Distinctive voices in general are just so much more soulful. But yeah I have to admit, no one's ever sounded so simultaneously mega-gay and mega-British, it's pretty funny.
https://youtu.be/prntbdZiJSg?si=-XKesrkUODmLmuYthttps://youtu.be/LJTzCxcBLZk?si=W_pt4qRM87g2Vgd7https://youtu.be/BLAyPWGTjyA?si=JtWFlrdEI3JRCZwO
>>129818860>But there is even better (and gayer sounding) new wave gold out there too.culture club, yazoo, depeche mode, spandau ballet
>>129818123Pet Shop Boys is gay but also British and mega-popular with normies and they're kind of ambiguous about that over there, so it doesn't necessarily make you gay, no. >>129819446Yes, Bronski Beat, that's like a really gay band for gay guyshttps://youtu.be/H3LbzjFJdSA
>>129818123gay? nah; youre just an east end boy.
>>129826643>Bronski Beat, that's like a really gay band for gay guysdepends... depends on when you hear these songs/groups. if you are really young you dont get the meaning of the songs or understand gay. i heard smalltown boy as a little kid and didnt even know a dude was singing it i thought it was a girl singer. obviously bronski beat are mega-gay since two members died from AIDShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-aPzPvj4ys&t=2s
>>129826742>didnt even know a dude was singing it i thought it was a girl Sh'yeah... that's true>obviously bronski beat are mega-gay since two members died from AIDSWell they were all gay yeah but I think Bronski Beat really came out of the gay subculture more? And then a few of their songs leaped into the mainstream in the 1980s. Felt that the gay side was more incidental to the Pet Shop Boys. Jimmy Somerville is a household name for older gay guys. Also HIV/AIDS activism.
>>129826903>Bronski Beat really came out of the gay subculture more?never bothered to investigate it. liking them is embarrassing enough not going to think about it that much. but its easy to see why the boomers hated 80s music so much since most of it was so gay. i actually found all their cds at goodwill over the years
I'm completely straight but Pet Shop Boys are absolute mastershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDgxVaWFrY
>>129828040they really went nuts with the early cgi stuff in the 90s. technically bad, but it's pretty charming lmao. imagine society ever feeling as optimistic again.
>>129826643>ring free motor oils
>>129818123No they are the best synth pop band behind Depeche Mode
>>129829835>imagine society ever feeling as optimistic again.it's because society turned straight back, and bullied "fags" and "trannys" into rainbow ghettos...tldr. MSGA! (Make Society Gay Again) YASSSSSS
>>129818123sorry OP yes it does
>>129826903love Jimmy's falsetto vocalsmainstream music needs to be as gay as it was in the 80s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_-Nkc1Zuk7Qhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=94wBYL-SbR0https://youtube.com/watch?v=X9ou8zehFo0
>>129824762Two Tribes is an absolute banger even though it's barely a song
>>129818123>Does liking this make me gay?Does it made uou want to have sex with other men? Yes? Yes. No? No.>It's just so incredibly catchy.Yes.
>>129831847sex with other men isn't necessarily gay though
>>129828040>I'm completely straightAnon, I...
S H O P P I N GWE'RE SHOPPING
>>129831861Howdy! I bet you like to eat burgers.
>>129822206I think the whole Behaviour album has a bit of that vibe.
>>129828040I hated that Go West song for so long that it put me off giving their other stuff a chance (which I regret). Was prob their most popular song when I was a kid. I was relieved when I found out it was just a cover and their own stuff doesn't really sound like that. I have softened to it over the years - don't hate it anymore - but still don't exactly like it
>>129833787Go West is terrible desu
>>129834118It's a Village People cover, so that tracks. But it's so over-the-top cheesy that it reverts back around to being almost endearing imo
Sometimes you're better off deadThere's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your headYou think you're mad, too unstableKicking in chairs and knocking down tablesIn a restaurant in a West End townCall the police, there's a mad man aroundRunning down underground to a dive barIn a West End town
>>129834314I love the song but what the fuck does this gibberish mean
>>129834335kys(i'm only telling you what it's about)
>>129818123Having sex with another man and loving him makes you gay. It aint gay to like synthpop
>>129818123It's per song-based, Go West is turbogay
>>129835388Nothing gay about trve west values, sanjay.
>>129834838>Having sex with another man and loving him makes you gay.what if you have sex with another man but you don't love him?
for me it's the Human League, everyone knows Don't You Want Me but Love Action and Sound of the Crowd are equally catchy
>>129835787fascination is their best song
>>129835447Not gay. Feelings are the gay part.
>>129818123>incredibly catchySo is aids, be careful out there
>>129835447>>129836452It is only gay if you're the bottom. If you are the top and have no feelings for the bottom then it isn't gay
>>129818123>Does liking this make me gay? It's just so incredibly catchy.Yes. Synthpop as a genre is ground-zero gay. This entire thread is cope. If you like any of this stuff you're a flamer.
>>129834335What part is gibberish? Seems pretty straightforward to me, wasting your life away being a fuck-up in the big city.
I ONLY WANTED SOMETHING ELSE TO DOBUT HANG AROOOUND
>watch video for west end girls>get a warning for suicidal content
>>129833787I like only their 00s work: Numb, Minimal, Flameboyant, etc, subtle things. Go West, and It's Sin were some Army of Lovers theatrical type of shit
>>129823298reminder, this fag is being sarcastic
>>129835917I prefer The Lebanon
>>129841810no I'm not. sorry you're a fake fan i guess.
>>129818123>>129823512THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!
Why does "old" synthpop sound so much better than contemporary synthpop? The only new synthpop-adjacent stuff that compares to the 80s shit is goth revival stuff (Drab Majesty, Molchat Doma, Trust, etc), but that's only because they're aping older styles beat for beat. Modern instrumental tech just doesn't have the same feel or whatever.
Here's an underrated batch of tunes>>129844357kek
>>129844513>>129844513Samefag here.I guess what I mean is there's an organic feel that older synthpop has that's missing from newer stuff, whether it went in a colder minimal synth direction or a warmer pop direction. Maybe the diff between analogue and digital, I dunno
I might be the straightest man on /mu/ right now, cuz NONE of the songs posted so far have won me over.I like this tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xBAtCsCTQ as far as synthpop goes>>129844796>Maybe the diff between analogue and digital, I dunnoThat, and also playing most of the synths live instead of sequencing them in a DAW.
I just listened to it and felt a little queer. Bros?
>>129845034it's not even their gayest album, listen to Introspective or Very
>>129845034that's how they get you. the gay is just gonna grow and spread through your system now. it's terminal i'm afraid.
>>129831695>mainstream music needs to be as gay as it was in the 80sYeah, but like in a classy way, like it was back then.>>129835787They fell off so fast after Dare though. Also, they were better when they still did the weirdo minimal synth/industrial stuff before Dare.
>>129846597>Also, they were better when they still did the weirdo minimal synth/industrial stuff before Dare.totally agree
1 Heart2 It's a Sin3 OpportunitiesDid you see me coming? Is that gay?
>>129845018>straightest man>posts a band called trans-x
>>129849637Gays are based; trannoids are cringe.
>>129849362very
>>129853345
>>129853475you walked right into my trap
