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** [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: "Go West", released in 1993, added another layer of meaning to the original--the video makes it clear that it's also addressed to the former USSR.
** Also, their cover version of "Always On My Mind" ends with the line "Maybe I didn't love you.", completely changing the original song's meaning.
** [[The Cover Changes the Gender]]: notably averted in "Try it (I'm in love with a married man)", "If love were all" and "In private" (the version they made in 2006 with Elton John), giving the three of them a heaping helping of [[Ho Yay]].
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Neil hates "Was that what it was", as he stated once. And Chris dislikes "Hit and miss".
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: "Love Is A Catastrophe", about a particularly awful breakup; "It's A Sin" and "This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave" about the horrible time Neil had in Catholic school.
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* [[Deconstruction]]: The covers of "Go West", "Where The Streets Have No Name" and "Always On My Mind", as well as deconstructing an entire genre with "How I Learned To Hate Rock And Roll".
* [[Dark Reprise]]: "Dreaming Of The Queen"-- The chorus starts off as Her Majesty and Lady Diana discussing how fleeting love is. It ends with the narrator waking up alone in a cold sweat and realizing he has AIDS.
* [[Distinct Double Album]]: The [[Greatest Hits]] album ''PopArt'' was structured in this style; one disc called ''Pop'' with the more poppy stuff and one disc more experimental and arty, called ''Art''. The limited edition version carried a third disc called ''Mix'' - no prizes for guessing what that consisted of.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: The entirety of ''Introspective'', especially "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apkXKEEwms Always On My Mind/In My House]"(9:05) and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8ccKv2M98 It's Alright]"(9:23). Also, some of the ''Disco'' remixes, eg "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzbqk0zG6s It's A Sin]"(7:40).
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: "In the Night", "Legacy", and the French version of "New York City Boy", retitled "Paris City Boy". A lot of songs on ''Bilingual'' have Spanish or Portuguese.
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* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Many PSB songs are a good example of this. They are well-known for their upbeat, hi-nrg music populated with sad, melancholic or pessimistic lyrics.
** "The End of the World" is a really upbeat song, despite all the interpretations of the lyrics.
** "It's a Sin" is also quite upbeat, with lyrics about the repeated sins he has committed in his life.
** "What have I Done To Deserve This" is about acquiring a job and falling in love with someone there, then getting dumped and losing his money.
** "Go West" sounds so poppy and optimistic. But it's about AIDS, dead friends, lost gay utopia, and the fall of the communist dream.
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* [[Oop North]]: Chris is from Lancashire, Blackpool, and Neil is from Newcastle. Also the subject of "Sexy Northerner"--"Don't you dare imply/that it's grim up North"...
* [[Pachelbel's Canon Progression]]: "Go West", in which the progression is more prominent than it was in the [[Village People]] original.
* [[Protest Song]]: "Shopping" is about Thatcherism. "This Used To Be The Future" is about Iran and nukes. A lot on ''Fundamental'' is meant to protest the Iraq War and Tony Blair, especially "Integral", which is about the proposed national ID cards in the UK. It's the only song they've ever done where Neil sounds genuinely pissed off, and one of their very few songs where the video correlates to the message of the song. See [[Surreal Music Video]] below. Not to mention "I'm With Stupid," which is a satire of the relationship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush done as a [[Ho Yay|gay]] [[Crack Pairing|love song]].
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Real Life Writes The Song]]: The exuberance of ''Very'' is a direct result of Neil being in love at the time. "Your Funny Uncle", "Being Boring", and "Postscript" were all inspired by and dedicated to friends who had died of AIDS. "So hard" is about an unfaithful couple they knew at the time.
* [[Red October]]: "My October Symphony" is all about the parade held in remembrance, and is the story of a Russian composer wondering whether it will be canceled since the Soviet Union fell. See also [[Cold War]].
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* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: "[[Captain Obvious|Suburbia"]] which discusses the endless boredom and consequent potential for trouble inherent in suburban life.
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* [[Surreal Music Video]]: Several of theirs, but most so, the video to "Can You Forgive Her?". The song is about a guy with a [[The Beard|girlfriend who knows more about his sexuality than he does]]. The video? Two guys in traffic cone hats and orange jumpsuits riding tandem bicycles, feeding geese, playing psychic air hockey with a spiky blue potato, turning into human drills, walking on a miniature Earth with a couple of emus, and burping orange bubbles. And no, [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|they don't do drugs]].
** The video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ossii9Ipiv4&ob=av2n Home and Dry] also has to be seen to be believed...
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