just one of those quasi sort of short throwback things at random, look you see. so as to remember pop charts of years gone by, since there shall be none of consequence in the futures after they completely ruined the way they do the "singles" chart.
it was so that twenty five years ago today (being the date of publication for this) was 30 July 1995. this was a time of great mutual benefit to musicians and music fans. broadly, it was so that they still made music actually worth buying then, and so it was that people bought it. even if, as was the case on this specific date, there was a very good chance of having purchased it previously.
yes, that is indeed both New Order and Pet Shop Boys. both are most commonly associated with some of the greatest electronic based dance groove tunes to have been made in the 80s. also, though, they had some hits in the 90s with new stuff, and via successfully re-releasing songs. or, in the case of one of them, re-re-re-releasing a tune.
here we are, or here they were, then, at numbers 17 and 18 in the chart on this day (30 July 2020) some 25 years ago (1995). well, when i say some, on the day that this is shown for the first time on the internet, exactly. do bear in mind that they would have had to sell a great many actual, physical copies of each single (or signal) to get to these respective positions.
part of me wishes to, but in all honesty i cannot be bothered to google which variation of Blue Monday this was. the original came out in 1983, and there was a really awesome remixed version of it what came out in 1988. i think that there might have been one in-between 88 and 95, but also i could be mistaken and it was a re-imagining (or similar) of True Faith that they did so with. strictly speaking it matters not, for it (actually both songs mentioned) are smart.
whereas i really quite like Pet Shop Boys, this Paninaro was one that i never liked in any version. it just always struck me as dull and monotonous. that the boys came up with the lyrics "paninaro.....paninanro....wooahooo oh" for it suggests they may have found it rather tiresome, if not dull, too, yet some seemed to like it and went right ahead and paid for a copy.
right, well, that's that. no doubt there shall be more poptastic memories in the future, since the creation of new ones seems unlikely. no, i certainly did not purchase the Pet Shop Boys one, but i think i did the New Order one. which is why, maybe, it charted a bit higher.
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