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The Pet Shop Boys are an English pop duo: keyboarder Chris
Lowe and singer Neil Tennant. Neil and Chris first met in
1981 by accident in an electronics shop on the London Kings
Road. They discovered their common interest in electronic
music and started to write songs together. First they
called themselves West End but soon changed the name into
Pet Shop Boys - inspired by friends who worked in a pet
shop.

Their first single West End Girls was first released in
1984. But it wasn't successful. The record company wanted
to make a new More...




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Love the rhythm since the very first time I heard it | Reviewer: tycll
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

I've heard this song long time ago but never got to know its name until recently. Just dont understand why the song is gay related.

In addition, I dont think the rhythm has anthing to do with Pachelbel's canon.


masz racje :) | Reviewer: artie
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

to PolishGirl1990 | 5/8/09

>Am I the only one who thinks that this song is an irony of West Europe and USA?

masz racje! :)
yep, you might be right! at least, I want to think so. not because I dislike western culture or something (I actually do appreciate western ideology, mindset and way of living. I've been to USA and Canada and REALLY enjoyed being there, and dream of coming back someday), but because irony is a good thing as it helps to stay unprejudiced. there are no just "good" or "bad" things or regimes. even so called "communism" had some advantages (although not so many of them :)) before capitalism. so, this song might really be a good and smart joke about all the political stereotypes...

with best wishes,
Artie, ukraine.

against communism | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

arturoabraham, you're stupid! have you watched the video? You haven't understood anything. This song was just against the communism in the eastern Europe. And it was right and true to go west to the freedom and hope, for a best future.

sou eu mesmo | Reviewer: Rayymundo Santos
    ------ About the song You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk performed by Pet Shop Boys

Nunca tinha ouvido, quando ouvi pela 1ª vez, fiquei um pouco pensativo, é e verdade a letra diz tudo, quando você as vezes fala por falar é a pessoa entende que é verdadeiro, isso acaba machucando quando não é verdade.

It's interesting how many people are trying to obscure the facts here. | Reviewer: fact check
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

The title comes from a quote attributed to newspaper man and politician Horace Greeley: "Go West, young man, go West, and grow up with the country." Greeley used the phrase in an 1865 editorial in support of his very liberal ideas about colonization of the western frontier of the United States of America where one could take whatever he wanted and make his own rules. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

The song lyrics were written by Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, and Victor Willis as a Village People original. (Willis was the policeman/lead vocalist of the group.) The song spoke of leaving the uptight, fast-paced, religiously conservative, impersonal east coast of the US and moving to the west coast, specifically San Francisco where gay men from all of the country were flocking to be free and easy and laid back and make their own rules. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

The original performance of "Go West" by Pet Shop Boys was at a 1992 AIDS Benefit concert organized by filmmaker Derek Jarman. In typical fashion, Chris Lowe chose the song because of the ironic and bittersweet nature of such a bold anthem of personal expression and potential hedonism being recorded and celebrated at the very moment that HIV/AIDS was spreading throughout the gay community of the very same San Francisco (and other cities), completely unknown. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

Pet Shop Boys later decided to record their wistful version of the song and produce the much discussed video, acknowledging the facts that had occurred in the 15 years since the original. The video incorporated Soviet imagery, but not as other have described here. The point being made was similar to all the gay men flocking to San Francisco where they would encounter HIV/AIDS -- the Soviet Union had, rather than making its own rules, fallen apart almost immediately leaving the people, at least for the moment, in a worse situation than they had been before.

One note: Saying that "Go West" is a gay-themed song is not homophobic. The song IS a gay-themed song. It was always a gay-themed song. I realize most of the people who write crap like that are fourteen years old and have never left southern Indiana, but come on guys.

Be carefull This song is about suicide!! | Reviewer: arturoabraham
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

Hey! dont you guys know that this song s about suicide! about kill your self.. is not about America or West Countries..

Go West is an English Idiom which means Die, Suicide, or kill your self!..
In English you can sayfor instance..
THe last year my Grand Mother Went west! it means.. she died!

review the song.. it makes sense!

and please Study more English please!


Irony? | Reviewer: PolishGirl1990
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

Am I the only one who thinks that this song is an irony of West Europe and USA? Of course in 80's people from East and Centre Europe thought that life in the 'West" is a paradise because of Communism. People couldn't buy toys for children, fashion clothes and even sweets or fruit, so when they compared both cultures, 'West' seemed to be so colorful. But I think this song shows that this stereotype about USA isn't true and living in USA isn't as 'peaceful' and perfect as those people believed. Sorry for my poor english (I'm Polish)

backup | Reviewer: Baski
    ------ About the song IT'S A SIN performed by Pet Shop Boys

I heard this song on my friend's caller tune in his mobile. till now, I thought the lyrics started as backup of my life.Now, after checking this site for the entire lyrics, the songs conveys a different meaning altogether:-)

Thanks,
Baski

It's about being Gay | Reviewer: Zed
    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

...or they could be refering to the fact that San Francisco (on the West Coast of the USA)is the most openly gay city in the world, where the two people in the song can feel free about openly loving each other, y'think?

Can You Forgive Her | Reviewer: Lucy Harrison-Millan
    ------ About the song CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? performed by Pet Shop Boys

I thought this song was very dramatic espeailly the music ties in the whole theme it's fast and angry which I think is grea. Wowwww..... Can You Forgive Her is the perfect song for anyone whose in an unfair situation,Sometimes people do things to annoy and don't listen. 'That's childish, so childish explained their excesses and selfishness was showing how extremely childish and not well brought up they were. Good for anger and frustion . It's fun to dance to.


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