On this Day: Pet Shop Boys perform Love Comes Quickly on TOTP

It's just as the title says really, I just thought I'd share it because firstly I'm a huge fan of Pet Shop Boys. Secondly because I feel Love comes Quickly is one of their great forgotten singles. It's from their first album, Please. Sadly it didn't do as well as other singles from the album like Suburbia and the classic West End Girls in the charts. I'd actually regard it as the first truly classic Pet Shop Boys song along with West End Girls: it has such a beautiful atmosphere with some of my favourite lyrics Neil Tennat has ever wrote. I think I may even prefer to West End Girls by a fraction really. A brilliant track.

Some little TOTP Clips

So I was watching TOTP2 with my family earlier which is always an enjoyable way to spend an hour on a Sunday afternoon, as usual it had some good performances and others that were just bizarre, particularly some of the older ones from the 70's. This week featured X-Ray Spex funnily enough, which is a little ironic considering the earlier post I made on them today (judging by my my families reaction they are definitely an acquired taste as my parents and brother couldn't stand their sound). They also had other songs that I like such as Give It Up by KC and The Sunshine Band and Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. My two favourites have to be these little gems though which I thought I'd share. The first one is Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears and the second is This Town Ain't Big Enough For Two Of Us by Sparks. The Sparks one is particularly quirky but in a rather brilliant way I think!