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The West End London girls were posh and the East End boys were the working class. This is the English synth-pop version of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl! The Pet Shop Boys were awesome!!

80's new wave is a highly underrated genre, awesome classic. On a great set of speakers this is some of the best music around.

They made a fantastic song with Dusty Springfield called “What Have I Done to Deserve This.” It’s really worth checking out!

The low profile “secret service agent”😂 is keyboardist Chris Lowe. It’s him playing all the keys, including the synth bass.

Can't deny this song has a dope beat.

The “West End” is a posh area district while the “East End” is the much rougher area of London, so the song has many levels of meaning...

"MOM! I'm leaving to go shoot my video." - "Take your brother with you."

Depeche Mode “enjoy the silence” the groove will get you brother

Growing up in the 80's was AWESOME.

“In a big country” by Big Country is a great song!

Couple of other 80's suggestions of this type: "It's My Life" - Talk Talk "Send Me an Angel" - Real Life "Wild Wild West" - Escape Club "You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record)" - Dead or Alive "I've Been Thinking About You" - Londonbeat

One of the most recognizable voices in music history.

This song is so 80s my mullet has grown back.

Neil Tennant is the singer. Chris Lowe the musician. For years he was like Teller to Penn, never speaking. The Eastenders are working class. The West End is London's Broadway. Posh, cultured, expensive. I was in London a year before this song was released. Every time I hear it is a sense memory flashback to London. Blondie did Rapture in 1979-80. This song was 1985.

"What Have I Done To Deserve This" featuring the late great Dusty Springfield, "Rent", "Love Comes Quickly", "Opportunities", "It's A Sin", "Domino Dancing", "Suburbia", "Left To My Own Devices" and many other great hits by The Pet Shop Boys, brings back so many memories for me. Thanks for reacting to "West End Girls".

You can also check their “Suburbia”, “It’s a sin”, “Rent”. Pet Shop Boys have many great songs.

When i was in the Navy in the mid 80's we would port all over Europe, and no matter where we were you would hear this track ( malls, clubs,bars it did not matter) this track was HUGE back then in EUROPE!

Man... it's just something about 80's music that just does it for me.

More Pet Shop Boys “Suburbia” “What have I done to deserve this” “Opportunities (Let’s make lots of Money)

This song brings tears of joy to me EVERY TIME I hear it!! The 80s for me were EPICALLY OUTSTANDING!!❤❤❤😊😊😊 All of the 80s groups and bands and Especially the English bands!!!❤❤

There wasn’t a boombox on the beach that wasn’t playing this in the summer of ‘84.

I love this song. It was HUGE in the’80’s.

His diction is so clear the songs were used to teach spoken English!

FYI- this is regarded as one of the greatest debut singles in pop music history. It's also regarded as one of the defining songs of the decade (80s)

Pet Shop Boys: "Opportunities" "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Suburbia" and more... No, the other guy doesn't say anything. They are the Pen & Teller of music.

"What Have I Done To Deserve This?" (with Dusty Springfield) and thier version of "Always on My Mind" should be next.

I feel like this song, even nowadays would sound perfectly in a fashion show in Soho, New York, just so classy and perfect.

The Styling and Music was ahead of its time.

Wish we could go back...wasn’t perfect then but better than today.

The singer, Neil Tennant, was a staff writer/editor for a pop music magazine called Smash Hits around the time this was recorded (and in the US, that magazine had all the lyrics to the top 40 songs; I think the UK version had more substantial content). If anyone should know how to put a hit together, it'd be a guy like him.

Their style is called kitchen sink realism, a style that originated in England depicting every day life usually focusing on the working class. PSB have a rich catalog. Bigger in The UK than America, but well known in the dance club circuit in the States. Reminiscent of another English band that came before them, Soft Cell who had one hit in America- Tainted Love (but more in the UK).

Pet Shop Boys: "It's a Sin", "Domino Dancing", "In Denial"

They had a great song called Opportunities . Worth a reaction

Check out "It's a Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys.

This song came out the week my papaw died. I was 9 years old. Everytime i hear it i go back to that night i was awakened from my sleep by my Moma telling me my papaw had just died. I had seen him that night at his home. He was sick. The last thing he told me was “I love you!”. RIP Papaw. I love you!

The other guy: only does everything else: keyboards, synthesizers, programming

You gotta react to Talk Talk- It's my life

My brother you have to watch the Pet Shop Boys song “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” next. It’s great!

Please do The Cure, "Just like Heaven".

We all done any Depeche Mode yet? The Fixx? "One Thing Leads To Another" ?? The groove! Jamel will love!!

This song was a huge hit in the 80's and was also big hit on black radio back in 80's too. Straight up classic!

Love this song! Old school new wave rapping!!

I was a tiny girl when I first heard this song on an episode of Moonlighting way back in the 80s. I fell in love with it then and I still love this little odd song today. 💚💚💚

Man Jamel it’s been a while since I’ve heard this. The ‘80’s really had some great music. 😎❤️🇺🇸

Do “Always on my mind” by Pet Shop Boys since it’s a cover by Elvis Presley. Willie Nelson also covered it.

You might want to check out "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" by the PSB, another one of their big hits.

Now explore Swing Out Sister’s “Breakout”

Oh, my brother! You have shot down a rabbit hole here! So many good songs by this duo out there. “Domino Dancing”, “Go West”, “It’s A Sin”, “Opportunities”, “What Have I Done To Deserve This” with Dusty Springfield, and many more.

"I Can Dream About You" ~ Dan Heartman.

"Being Boring" is a work of art.

"What Have I Done To Deserve This?" is also one of their classics you should review with The Late Great Dusty Springfield, R.I.P.

The actor David Tennant (Dr Who, Harry Potter etc) is actually called David Mcdonald and chose his stage name as Tennant after Neil Tennant from The Pet Shop Boys

And here we are on the 80s new wave club culture music. A deep dive into this genre would be very welcomed and worthwhile. I was around when a lot of this music came out and I still find myself intrigued by it. Truly, this is where great music lives.

"Major Tom - Coming Home" by Peter Schilling

Chris Lowe without a synthesizer, doesn't have much to do, does he. lol

The KINGS of 80s new wave dance! Many many classic songs - epitomize the era but are still badass today!

Stank face on that bass is absolutely CORRECT. Such a smooth beat. West. End. Giiiirrrrls...

So funny, I hear as "rapping" now too... But not when it was new. It was so different and seductive... Would love to drive around listening to it over and over...

Pet Shop Boys, though forming in 1981, have been consistently been making great dance music with thought provoking lyrics ever since. Last year they released "Hot Spot" which was their 14th studio album. That is an impressive catalog and doesn't even touch a lot of their work released as EPs and singles. Please check out "Adgena" which was released in 2019 and was a biting commentary of the events of our times. Great stuff by PSB already and looking forward to more. Thanks Jamel, for reacting to them and introducing them to a new generation!

This song is 37 years old this year! Now that's legendary and scary both at the same time if you remember it when it was released!

Fun fact, one of the two guys in Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, used to be the editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics UK and presided over the creation of a lot of their original characters like Captain Britain and X-Men's Psylocke.

Chris Lowe (the one not saying anything) is the keyboardist for the duo, while Neil Tennant was the singer. Neil was also a journalist (and I think still is when he is not touring). The West End of London is the glamour area including the theater district like Broadway is for New York City. An interesting story...A young actor from Scotland who grew up loving this band had to change his name to join Equity (the actor's union) when he decided to become a professional actor because he was born David MacDonald. Since no two actors may have the same name in Equity, young David changed his last name professionally to Tennant after Neil Tennant...he became David Tennant. If you don't know who David Tennant is...he is best known and loved for his portrayal of The Tenth Doctor on the BBC science fiction series 'Doctor Who'. The best songs by The Pet Shop Boys are: "It's A Sin", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money), and "Go West" (a cover of the Village People hit).

You'll never run out of music but just in case: Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian. She's in Parties by Bauhaus Chaos Said the Captain by Stump Wax and Wane by Cocteau Twins Big Hollow Man by Danielle Dax. I got more if you run low.

New Wave in the 80s was/is everything! Whenever I am doing something around the house, cleaning, baking, etc., I put on my 80s playlist and it gets me moving every single time!

Not gonna lie Pet Shop Boys is a huge rabbit hole you're gonna dive into.

It's like "You got the brawn i got the looks...let's make lots of money", Chris Lowe is the brawn, the DJ and Neil Tennant is the looks, the singer and lyrics...and they are doing it!

This is my absolute all, time favorite song! ~Steph

This has been my fav song since it was released, yes, I’m old

Blondie was rapping in Rapture before West End Girls

The Pet Shop Boys were brilliant, I loved watching them when I was younger.Just ADORE this song. I was in my 20's then believe it or not!! The other guy played on keyboard always.

As a Londoner I grew up on this tune, always loved it.

Talk talk "its my life" is another jam too. Dig it! The Pet shop boys first five albums are stone cold jams too. The quiet one writes all the music.

Ooh this is a classic! And “What in The Flowers in the Attic is going on here?” 🤣🤣🤣

This is one of those defining songs of the 80's.

This song was big in the '80s. The long cashmere coat, short hair was 'a look'. Blondie released Rapture in 1981 and Pet Shop Boys,West End,Girls in 1984. 😊

Check out (Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax)

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! Next: Life in a Northern Town

This brings back memories. When MTV still had music videos. I was a young women just getting my life started. It was so much easier back then. Miss those days. Thanks for playing part of my soundtrack.

Hey Jamal get their 1st 2 albums PLEASE and ACTUALLY they were and still are phenomenol pieces of work digital sound mid to late 80s way ahead of their time I love this band I'm 52 now so was an 80s teen and Pet Shop Boys are a huge part of me growing up romancing clubbing etc god I wish we could go back and do it again the best song for me on the 2 albums is called HEART give it a play it'll make you want to dance cheers from David in England

This song and "Go West" are my favorites from them.

The guy who doesn’t say anything is responsible for most of the keyboard sounds you hear. Blonde was first; Rapture was recorded in 1980 after Debbie Harry met Fab 5 Freddy and others in the then underground hip hop scene.

Another great Pet Shop Boys song - "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"

1984 was the best year of my young adulthood. Went to Germany for 2 years in 85 and would have given just about anything to have lived in London in that time frame. Any song from that era brings back so many memories.

Takes me back to my high school days.

“Come On Eileen” next please...

This song has more renditions and makeovers than Shirley McClain. Remixed more than any cake you’ve ever eaten. This version was the THIRD and most commercially successful. They went on to be 80s Icons in the Dance Scene.

We have tickets to see Pet Shop next October in the Columbia River Gorge, USA! OMG! I just realized it's been 40 years since the '80's!😱

From the same time period you’ll probably like Level 42 - Something About You and Go West - We Close Our Eyes

Pet shop boys cover of “always on my mind”

Jamel, back then when this came out I didn’t even realise it was a Cowbell that made that sound! But because of you, lately I listen out for it in every song! 😂 Blondie’s Rap was about 3 or 4 years earlier.

One of the pop radio stations in Chicago used to have "No Pet Shop Boys Weekends."

Virtual Satyr recommends "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House

Try What Have I Done To Deserve This with Dusty Springfield. Their best and her great comeback.

This song was on heavy rotation on R&B stations in Chicago in the 80s, along with early George Michael.

You may also enjoy...”My Ever Changing Moods” by The Style Council, another British blue eyed funky groove from the same era.

How about a "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson - reaction?

So many great songs. Check out these by them: Opportunities, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Suburbia, It's A Sin, Heart... they even did a cool mashup covering U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name" and Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You". I've seen Pet Shop Boys live a few times and they are fantastic. Over the top, but so much fun. Fun fact: The singer, Neil Tenant, originally was a writer for the British pop music magazine Smash Hits... he left there to start Pet Shop Boys.

You just don't know how glad am that I'm you reacted to the Pet Shop Boys. These guys have the most amazing songs even to this day. I have listened to their music since I was 8 years old, in the 80's, in a >800 populated town in West Texas. This is saying a lot about how influential they were and still are. I visited London in 2018 and I was just searching for them everywhere I went. One of my favorite all time bands. Queen, Depeche Mode, OMD....oh so many amazing bands of the 80's, who still are making music today. Thank you for reacting to Pet Shop Boys. It says so much about your character and open-mindedness.

Ya gotta admit, that's some fine music.