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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Singularly Hitting Their Mark, September 10, 2005
As if emerging from a swanky beach house, The Boys hit a smooth and consistently rich stride on their sixth album. "Discoteca" and "Single" accompany a sophisticated pleasure traveler with Spanish rhythm, "Metamorphosis" recapitulates an introverted man's growing up, while the beautiful "It Always Comes As A Surprise" seems to capture the northerner's amazement at his first night in tropical paradise. The self-referential "Electricity" and proud stances of "Up Against It" and "To Step Aside" show an artistry and intellectual cleverness that never falls out of rhythm, while "Se A Vida E," "Before," and "Saturday Night" celebrate sweetness in life without running aground, as happy anthems so often do, on shallow bromides, cliches, or repetitiveness. The Pet Shop Boys have given us a library of fine albums, and often, even finer remixes, and this inventive and pleasurable album perhaps shows them at their best so far.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hay una Discoteca por acqui?, February 16, 2000
PSB once opined about a band's "Imperial" phase, where basically one can do no wrong. This album belongs in that phase. Many fans didn't like it all that much, but four years later it still ranks as one of my favorites. It sways, it crackles, it dances, it has attitude: it is a pop album that had no real competition for its time and can still hold itself against the pop stars of today. I mean, if "Electricity" doesn't make you want to do some down and dirty moving around, then brother, check your pulse. What really surprises me though is how happy and without pretense the album really is. Remember, Grunge, Industrial and Gansta rap were kings in 1996. "The Survivors" sums it all up. For someone to come out and say "That Life is worth living; Its still worth a damn" during that time was actually taking what could be called a radical stand against the common thought. My favorite somg though is the Bossa Nova inspired "It always comes as a surprise". Close your eyes, and relax. You might wake up on a beach in Rio along the way.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
brilliant album, May 30, 1999
By A Customer
After purchasing several other PSB albums first, it took me a while before Bilingual started to grow on me and I began to realize how good it really is. The boys manage to maintain their disco sound while bringing in new music and rhythms that are unlike anything else they have done. This is a truly great album, not my favorite (Very, of course), but consistently entertaining, fresh, and at times, absolutely brilliant. Like some other reviewers, I too could care less if the Boys are gay or what their politics are--they can just plain make great music, and that should be all that counts.
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