Song of the Day: 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct' by Pet Shop Boys

  I must confess, I'm a lackadaisical Pet Shop Boys fan. I'll buy an album and love-love-love it, then completely forget when they have a new one. Case in point "Yes," which I adored and blogged about heavily in 2009. Even went to see them at Radio City Music Hall. Then I guess they had a new album last year -- news to me -- and now "Electric." I only heard about this one because I heard they bought real estate on my blog through the advertising network I'm a member of, but I still didn't act on the information. Then my friend Dishy put his foot down and sent me the thing, which I promptly ignored for a week or two. Finally got off my keister last night and played it and what a treat it was! Really sounds like it could have come out after the group's first two albums, yet doesn't sound dated at all.  I was concerned after hearing the first song, "Axis," which I later learned was the first single -- who decides these things? -- but then it just kept getting better and better. The latest single is "Love Is a Bourgeois Construct," a vintage PSB composition.

I've been taking my time for a long time
 Putting my feet up a lot
 Speaking English as a foreign language
 Any words that I haven't forgot

 I've been thinking how I can't be bothered
 To wash the dishes or remake the bed
 What's the point when I could dust instead?

 I've been hanging out with various riffraff
 Somewhere on the Goldhawke Road I don't think it's gonna be much longer
 Till I'm mugging up on the penal codes

 The album is available now HERE. Oh, and don't worry. "Elysium" arrived today. Thanks, Dishy!