More 1. Outside Notes
Nov. 15th, 2003 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe song "Strangers When We Meet" is, as epanastatis pointed out, a powerful song. It was originally taken from the soundtrack album to Buddha of Suburbia, a film based on the Anglo-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi's text of the same name. As it turns out, he has a short story called "Strangers When We Meet"; it happens to be on-line. Go, read.
"Hallo Spaceboy" exists in two major forms, firstly the verison on the album, secondly the version that was remixed and produced by the Pet Shop Boys and released as a single in the UK in 1996. (That one reached #6 on the charts, I believe.) The two songs are different, of course. The Pet Shop Boys remix version sounds complete in and of itself, almost like it meets the Aristotlean unities (time, space, action) in four and a half minutes. It's a very catchy pop song. The original version, however, is much more jagged and irregular, with a definite undertone of threat to it. ("If I fall, moondust will cover me" has never sounded more like a threat of impending danger.) I believe I like the album version better.
"Hallo Spaceboy" exists in two major forms, firstly the verison on the album, secondly the version that was remixed and produced by the Pet Shop Boys and released as a single in the UK in 1996. (That one reached #6 on the charts, I believe.) The two songs are different, of course. The Pet Shop Boys remix version sounds complete in and of itself, almost like it meets the Aristotlean unities (time, space, action) in four and a half minutes. It's a very catchy pop song. The original version, however, is much more jagged and irregular, with a definite undertone of threat to it. ("If I fall, moondust will cover me" has never sounded more like a threat of impending danger.) I believe I like the album version better.
