Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
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Regretfully not played last night:
http://therockandrollknife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/pet-shop-boys.html
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#ABCsOfMe B: "Being Boring" opens my favorite album "Behavior" in a blur of synthetic wind and wah guitars providing an appropriate melancholy backdrop for a song that laments lost friends.
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I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be But I thought, in spite of dreams, you'd be sitting somewhere here with me
The "perfect pop song" according to the Guardian- http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/aug/05/pet-shop-boys-being-boring If that doesn't convince you, there's also this 150-page site devoted to the song - http://www.10yearsofbeingboring.com For me, they are simply words to live by - "We were never feeling bored, because we were never being boring." Poor Zelda.
I've always had a soft spot for this song/video. It's one of many songs that remind me of a difficult, soul searching, liberating, thrilling, transitional phase of my life in the early to mid 90's. But the pairing of melancholy with frivolity encapsulated in this video has always moved me.
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