{"id":8181,"date":"2026-10-12T05:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:46:18","slug":"track-of-the-day-natural-wonders-every-child-should-know-pet-shop-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/track-of-the-day-natural-wonders-every-child-should-know-pet-shop-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Of The Day: Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know &#8211; Pet Shop Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6951.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6951.jpeg 581w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6951-295x300.jpeg 295w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6951-59x60.jpeg 59w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0PX8AC95bySVK7BpU2XgG6?utm_source=generator&#038;si=3e0842a48ced41ce\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pet Shop Boys released an album which is pretty much a biography of Alan Turing, the computing genius that helped develop the code and the machine BOMBE to crack Germany\u2019s ENIGMA during World War II. The whole album is an autobiography first performed in 2014 but a new version has been recorded for release this year and for me sees Pet Shop Boys go old school to 1988by combining lush orchestration with spoken word &#8211; narrated by Juliet Stevenson, it also reminds me a little of the gravitas carried when Richard Burton narrated War Of The Worlds. It\u2019s poetic and tells a sad story which ends in redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woven in this track is morse code in the beginning, it\u2019s very sneakily hidden in there, and the builds to the first narration line makes it sounds like an audiobook not to mention a Netflix special &#8211; the PSB\u2019s certainly know how to put together a score because that\u2019s certainly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This track explores Alan\u2019s fascination with science specifically the natural order of things and how the body can be looked at as a machine. When you think about how his life was later that probably fed into his knowledge of coding and how the mind feeds into it and how his future relationships developed. All in all this is worth a listen even if it is to understand who he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pet Shop Boys released an album which is pretty much a biography of Alan Turing, the computing genius that helped develop the code and the machine BOMBE to crack Germany\u2019s ENIGMA during World War II. 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