Customer Rating: 
Summary: Pet Shop Boys find their best grooves in years and years!!
Comment: I really enjoy these new songs especially "The Resurrectionist"
this is one of there best songs since the 80's, great dance
beat and quirky lyrics about body snatching for medical use during the 1800's, this should have been on the new cd??
but if their on a roll can't wait to hear more from these synth
wizards, its a nice flashback to the 80's, this should get the
PSB's some much needed airplay, a video would be icing on the
cake. Time to bring back the B-52s's and really get the party
started!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Far from stupid
Comment: Pet Shop Boys' first single from their fantastic CD, "Fundamental," is a catchy bit of dance music called "I'm with Stupid." On the surface, the song is about being in a relationship with someone everyone else regards as being bright as a sack of rocks. However, one doesn't need to look deep to discern that the joke is really about Tony Blair's puzzling friendship with G. W. Bush. Of course, PSB manage to write clever lyrics for the most mundane topics; among the better lines here is "See you on the TV/ Call you every day/ Fly across the ocean/ Just to let you get your way." Fortunately, the song's political overtones don't prevent "I'm with Stupid" from being one of the most fun pieces of dance fluff that they've released in ages. The single peaked at #8 on the U.K. chart, making it their biggest single since "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" also hit #8 in 2000.
The b-side is even more intriguing. "The Resurrectionist" is about body-snatchers in the early 1800s; they would dig up bodies from graveyards and sell them to anatomists and medical schools ("Our goods are dear but they're never shoddy/ Tell me: anybody need a body"). Apparently, body-snatching was quite a problem in London during this period, which is the kind of arcane trivia that PSB so often impart to their loyal listeners. The lyrics are incredibly witty ("I met a man down Thieving Lane/ He told me he was in the same game/ We both talked the same body language). Despite the rather grim topic matter, the song is remarkably danceable with a pounding synth line that sounds like an Italian disco masterpiece crossed with a cheesy reject from "Chariots of Fire." Given the darkness of the lyrics and the Eurotrashy sound of the music, the song ends up sounding quite skuzzy in the best possible way - something only Chris and Neil can accomplish on a seemingly throwaway b-side. Overall, "The Resurrectionist" is the best b-side PSB have released in years, making this single a must-have.
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