Much has been made by other writers of the fact that the final words that Neil sings in the Introspective album version of this song are "Maybe I didn't love you" without the qualifying "quite as often as I could have" used earlier in the lyrics, which to them suggests a subversion of the feelings of love that the narrator otherwise seems to express for the person he's addressing.It's even been incorporated into the 2006 "jukebox musical" Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – The Musical (which, incidentally but surely not accidentally, also includes " Go West"). Having become something of a standard, it has been recorded by numerous other artists as well, with perhaps the most notable recent version being by Michael Bublé in 2007. Thomas recorded the song before any of them, in 1970, but his version remained unreleased until 1996, so it doesn't count as the "original.") Willie Nelson's Grammy Award-winning hit version came in 1982. "Always on My Mind" was first released by Gwen McCrea and then by Brenda Lee in 1972, but it was made more famous by Elvis Presley in his own rendition later that.Original titled "In My House," punning on the pronounced influence of house music The extended Introspective mix melded it into a brief PSB It was a brilliant rendition and proved to be one of the Boys' all-time It’s a completely tactless song." Selfishness, self-obsession, and tactlessness aside, It's "sung from the point of view of a selfish and self-obsessed man, who is possibly incapable of love, and who is now drinking whiskey and feeling sorry for himself. More than two decades later, in a 2010 interview with Mike Atkinson of the Nottingham Evening Post, Neil himself neatly summarized his and Chris's take on the song. Perhaps this song even expresses his sense of guilt over thisįactan interesting and quite tenable hypothesis. Suggesting a final realization by the narrator that he has indeed never really loved the person to whom he's singing, despite his efforts to convince himself The Introspective version is "Maybe I didn't love you ," Pig who treats you like dirt, but you should be pleased that at least I thinkĪbout you a lot." One site visitor has noted that the last line sung by Neil in In essence, the narrator is saying, "Yeah, I know I've been a rotten When you pay close attention to the lyrics, it really comes across as a somewhat One writer even described it as "singularly mean-spirited." In fact, Transformed what had previously sounded tender (as in Willie Nelson's hit versionįrom a few years before) into something that seemed rather callous, at least to So our heroes obligedtheir very first cover song.Ĭritics quickly commented on the almost mechanical, icy-cold performance, which The fans essentially demanded it as a single. Public reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Although Neil and Chris considered it a one-off, Of the reasons they picked it was because, as Chris has put it, the song was fromĮlvis's "bloated Vegas period," which Chris professes to prefer to his fifties TheyĬhose to perform "Always on My Mind," one of Presley's latter-day successes. Rendition of a song made famous by "The King." Not particular fans of Elvis, theīoys were initially cool to the idea, but ultimately decided in favor of it. Tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Number of artists who were invited onto a 1987 British TV show commemorating the Pet Shop Boys, then in the full flush of their early popularity, were among a Other releases - single (UK #1, US #4, US Dance #8) live bonus track with single "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" Subsequent albums - Discography, PopArt, Pandemonium, Ultimate, Inner Sanctum Producer - Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys, David Jacob, Ian Curnow, Phil Harding Writers - Thompson/James/Christopher - Tennant/Lowe Nelson also won a Grammys trophy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male.Home > Introspective > Always on My Mind / In My House The Always on My Mind album, meanwhile, earned Nelson Album of the Year at both the ACM Awards and CMA Awards, and the song took home trophies for Single of the Year as well. "Always on My Mind" stayed on top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart for two weeks, before Nelson's duet with Waylon Jennings, "Just to Satisfy You," claimed the top spot instead. It was just magic that it was so simple and so right on the button." "In this case, "Always on My Mind" happens to be one of those things that, universally, everybody on the planet has been there, you know. If the melody is singable, the words are not far away. "I’ll think of the melody or the chord structure or something I’ll come up with, and I’ll make - I’ll see if that doesn’t fit the words or anything like that. "I wrote those two verses living in Springfield, Mo.," Carson recalls.
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