{"id":249,"date":"2006-05-30T20:21:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=249"},"modified":"2006-05-30T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T19:21:37","slug":"pet-shop-boys-fundamental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a full album review, track by track, but I&#8217;ve now decided that I can&#8217;t be arsed and will do a quickie review instead.  Suffice to say that the album is excellent.  Highlights are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimal: the next single (July\/August probably).  Very bouncy and catchy, although the chorus is a little uninspired<\/li>\n<li>Integral: politics!  This is an anti-ID-cards track and an all-round over-the-top stomping song it is too: <em>If you&#8217;ve done nothing wrong, you&#8217;ve got nothing to fear; If you&#8217;ve something to hide, you shouldn&#8217;t even be here&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Fugitive.  This would be such a big hit as a single, although it probably won&#8217;t be released as one, given that it&#8217;s not on the album proper, but on the &#8216;bonus CD&#8217; of extra remixes\/demoes etc.  The track is remixed by Richard X and is fantastic.  It&#8217;s also about suicide bombing, sung from the point of view of the bomber (although it takes a couple of listens to the lyrics to figure that out) and might be considered too controversial to release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a full album review, track by track, but I&#8217;ve now decided that I can&#8217;t be arsed and will do a quickie review instead. Suffice to say that the album is excellent. Highlights are: Minimal: the next single (July\/August probably). Very bouncy and catchy, although the chorus is a little uninspired&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=249\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}