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It’s kind of a symphonic remix, in three movements. “Well, actually Chris did it, and I sang some vocals on it. They’ve done a real twelve minute monster mix,” though when interviewed by his former Smash Hits colleagues Mark Ellen and David Hepworth on their A Word In Your Ear podcast, Tennant was at pains to point out that the music was all done by ‘ The Other One’. So what do you do when you’re invited to put your stamp on the shortest track in this illustrious list of commissions? With delicious perversity you elongate it into the longest re-version you’ve ever done, which Weller described as “Great. It may have come as a surprise to some, but the seeds of this collaboration date back to 2010, when Neil Tennant revealed Weller had surprised him by sending him a copy of his latest album Wake Up The Nation, of which the frontman was particularly taken with No Tears To Cry, which emphasised the new disconnect between album and singles sales for so-called ‘heritage’ acts by becoming Weller’s last single to crack the Top 40. In other words, the Modfather of prolificacy is back-back-BACK! And (gasp) he‘s rocking a bit of a Jimmy Savile look.

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Surrey’s most searching son has initiated a full on reimagining of Cosmic Fringes, the “bolshy… funny little camp song” about “a little keyboard warrior, getting angry and fierce at the world” that kicked off his recent album Fat Pop (Volume 1), which shot straight to No.1 in May. And though he’s regarded to be more in the realms of rock than pop, Paul Weller has no such concerns. “It’s like giving someone your dog to take out for a walk, and they bring back a different dog”, remarked bassist Alex James at the time.Įither way, PSB’s overhaul of Girls And Boys gave Blur their biggest hit to date and kicked off a spate of remix commissions for the esteemed funny uncles of the British music scene. an act they hadn’t already produced*) but the release also marked the debut of the Britpop band allowing one of their singles to be handed over to outside remixers. In one of those great pop gestalt things, Girls And Boys, Blur’s irresistibly louche Bowie-down-the-disco strut from 1994, was not only the first time the Pet Shop Boys agreed to remodel a track for a third party (i.e. I mean, with Pet Shop Boys, we do that in the realm of commercial pop.” – Neil Tennant, The Quietus, 2009 If you look at Bob Dylan, he doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

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Paul Weller is still a mod and I think that those are the artists that survive. We’ve created something of our own and we all still have our integrity.

“We have little in common with Paul Weller but we’re all fucking awkward! And we all do things our own way… because we’re all punk rockers, really.

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