Top 10 Favorite 80's Synth-Pop Songs #7 - "Two Divided by Zero"
@teamfreak16 (43576)
Denver, Colorado
May 19, 2016 4:44pm CST
#7 in my Top 10 Favorite 80's Synth-Pop Songs series returns to England for three-time Brit Award-winning Pet Shop Boys.
Pet Shop Boys are a synth-pop duo consisting of vocalist-keyboardist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, formed in 1981.
(Fun Fact: Tennant served time as a music journalist. A quote from his review of "Blasphemous Rumours" appears in the liner notes of the compilation Catching Up with Depeche Mode. "He called the song a "slab of gloom.")
My favorite Pet Shop Boys tune is "Two Divided by Zero," from their 1986 debut album Please. It was not released as a single, not even as a B-side.
It's a case of "the hits aren't the only good songs on the album." "Two Divided by Zero" is a great non-hit, from a really strong record with four of them.
a re-edit of Two Divided By Zero from the movie It Couldn't Happen Here
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
19 May 16
Aw Scott..such fond memories of the times when the Pet Shop Boys were all the rage. Thanks again dear heart.
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@teamfreak16 (43576)
• Denver, Colorado
20 May 16
You're welcome. They are still going strong all these decades later.
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@teamfreak16 (43576)
• Denver, Colorado
22 May 16
Oh, you're welcome. That's what I'm trying to do, bring up some memories.
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@teamfreak16 (43576)
• Denver, Colorado
20 May 16
So you have it and forgot about it?
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@Ronrybs (21503)
• London, England
21 May 16
@teamfreak16 Couldn't find it in the collection. Will have to do something about that
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@teamfreak16 (43576)
• Denver, Colorado
20 May 16
"West End Girls" is their big hit. You might recognise it if you heard it.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
20 May 16
Dude, we must be on the same wavelength. Guess what I am soon posting.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
20 May 16
@teamfreak16 Could be......
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