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Home | Theme Song: "Left to My Own Devices"

Apr 27, 2009

"Left to My Own Devices" was the second single on the Pet Shop Boys' third album, Introspective. Its Richard Niles orchestra arrangement and pounding disco beat made it one of my favorite songs of the day. ("Devices" was released in 1988.)

It also contains one of my favorite Pet Shop Boys lines, "But in the back of my head I heard distant feet/Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat," with Neil Tennant unashamedly mispronouncing the French composer's name.

Click on the forward-arrow icon below to listen to "Left to My Own Devices" by the Pet Shop Boys:

Great song ... It's amazing how it still sounds fairly fresh, even now. 1988 also brought us, for example, Billy Ocean's "Get Out of My Dreams," a song that sounds dated, tired and just horrible in comparison. And "Get Out of My Dreams" was a huge hit!

-- Aaron | Link