Pet Shop Boys: Always on My Mind (Music Video 1987) Poster

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7/10
Loved the song
safenoe13 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Pet Shop Boys do justice to Elvis's Always on My Mind, although the video was kind of meandering which was a shame. But still, that doesn't detract from the song that's for sure and the energy that the Pet Shop Boys give it.
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10/10
Unforgettable in all possible ways. It stays on your mind
Rodrigo_Amaro27 April 2022
When the remake is way better than the original and I'm talking about the everlasting song famous in the voice of the great Elvis Presley. Not sure if he ever did a music video for it but Pet Shop Boys did in a great spectacular way, making one of their greatest hits and one of my favorite musical moments of all time.

Here, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe attend the request of an eccentric passenger (veteran character actor Joss Ackland) who wants them to take him to whatever place he wants to go, and the radio stereo plays this amazing song shifting the "storyline" to strange artistic images of a plane flying, the band duo appearing in eccentric situations and that's pretty much it all played out in the usual 1980's style.

Mr. Ackland is a true fun as the passenger, I always think he's in a deep state of drunkness which makes his incoherent rambling the more fun - and at the ending he sings a portion of another Pet Shop Boys song. He's the real bonus of this nice clip; the real deal comes from the vibration, the rhythm, the melody of the music which never ceases to amaze me. I think about happy times despite the melancholic ways of its lyrics. It feels like a song that can be played on world sports events such as the World Cup, it's just a feeling that I get. And for bringing me joy and peace all over the years it gets the highest possible praise from me, a perfect 10 out 10!
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