It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys (HD, 320kbps)

A friend that lives in Canada was asking me for music by the Pet Shop Boys, so here it is, Adrián, enjoy! :

"It's a Sin" is a song recorded by English synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in 1987, and was their third top ten in the USA when it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, released in June 1987, it became the duo's second UK number one single. It was also a massive hit across Europe, supposedly the best-selling European single of 1987. In the United States it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the duo's third Top 10 hit there.
A demo of the track had been first cut in 1984 with Bobby O, and the song's form in the demo remained intact to the final version, although the released production is far more dramatic.

Originally, the band wanted to approach the songwriting team of "Stock, Aitken and Waterman" to record this for Please, but Waterman declined.

At several points in the song you can hear recordings taken in the Brompton Oratory, including general ambiance, a preacher, and a choir singing 'amen'. The '20 seconds and counting' was taken from one of the Apollo missions.

The song is a description of Tennant's Catholic upbringing and education at St Cuthbert's High School in Newcastle upon Tyne, implying that everything that is perceived to be pleasurable in life is regarded as sinful.
The song uses extensive samples from Latin masses (specifically, Tennant reciting a part of the Confiteor, and other sounds recorded at locations such as Westminster Cathedral) and religious imagery throughout to reinforce the feel of the song. Tennant has said that he wrote the lyrics in 15 minutes, purging his emotions in a moment of frustration and anger.

The Latin passage near the end translates as, "I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, act and omission, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault".

The latin passage is the Confiteor, a Catholic prayer, and reads:

"Confiteor Deo omnipotenti,
et vobis fratres,
quia peccavi nimis
cogitatione, verbo,
opere et omissione:
mea culpa, mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa."

The bridge which goes 'Father forgive me / I tried not to do it...' was taken from a completely different song Chris had written.

The dramatic, overblown production style of the song, loaded with synthesizers, orchestra hits and bookended by a non sequitur sample of a NASA countdown, has come to exemplify the most theatrical extremes of the Pet Shop Boys' musical style. To date, it remains a concert staple, being one of only two songs (alongside "West End Girls") that has been played during every Pet Shop Boys tour.
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A lossless "WAV" was file extracted from the CD and then processed with BBE Sonic Maximizer and the levels normalized.
A 485kbps AAC file was uploaded to Youtube.

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