Sep 23, 2023
Watching old Top of the Pops and this is the most joyful performance on the show ever, by a considerable margin. RIP Darryl Pandy.
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Watching old Top of the Pops and this is the most joyful performance on the show ever, by a considerable margin. RIP Darryl Pandy.
Extraordinary, joyous, life-giving house music, equal parts angelic and devilish (the glimmering production is heavenly, but those horns are just filthy). If you want to know where to find all the tricks in the Pet Shop Boys toolbox, start here. Chris Lowe loved this song (he listed it in a couple fave-tunes-of-1986 articles), and traces of it can be found in many of his own sonic landscapes. Off the top of my head, I hear bits and pieces of this song in “Opportunities” (the heavily processed percussion), “Hit Music” (the aforementioned horns), “Domino Dancing” (those dramatic synth stabs). And of course it’s all over the rest of Introspective.
But regardless of what it spawned, “Love Can’t Turn Around” is a marvel unto itself. More and more, I’m finding myself wanting to listen to music that’s exciting, dense, packed with layers and fueled by energy, and if this track’s got anything, it’s fire. And that’s thanks not just to the amazing musical panorama, but to vocalist Darryl Pandy, who turns in a performance that’s so over-the-top one can only behold in awe. As SPIN magazine writer Barry Walters put it, “He begins ‘Love Can't Turn Around’ with all the hypermasculinity of an ill-fated Wagnerian baritone, to come back in the third verse as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. His dynamics are so ridiculously wrong by contemporary R&B standards that they become absolutely right for house.”
This is one of my favourite songs ever. It never fails to pick me up. Go, give it a listen!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtbXxemnPw)
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