Dotoar

Now, this is a thread I bet you thought I'd never find reason to write in!

The thing is, when I was a kid and still hadn't developed any particular musical opinion, I for some reason got into Pet Shop Boys and I ended up collecting all of their records up until the 2-CD collection "Alternative" (around 1995, by which time I lost interest in them, discovered Beatles, bought a guitar and totally reset my musical tastes). However, still today I acknowledge at least their early output (up until the early 90's) as being among the best synth-pop to my knowledge. Being a bit more analytical today than when I was 12, I recognize a lot of their songs as being highly profound for being "just" radio-friendly pop and some of them are reaching almost artrock levels, if it wasn't for their utter hate of all things guitar-led. (Okay, that was an exaggeration but I recall them actually saying that they conciously wanted to break out from the guitar pop/rock oriented paradigm from the very beginning). And on top of that they penned some really intelligent lyrics to go with the well-crafted melodies as well.

All in all, maybe not an underrated band as such (they have had like half a gazillion hit singles after all), but I definitely feel they should be regarded as serious artists and musicians just as well if they haven't been already. So, anyone with me on this one?

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