Once it would have been ABC, but actually that's just about a favourite album. It could have been The Beatles, but that would be like saying Brazil are your favourite football team. And I like, especially, that they're not really a band.
Once, many years ago, before West End Girls, when I was in a band, our management showed us a video of PSB doing a record company audition / PA on a stage somewhere and pointing out how hopeless they were live. The inference being "you're much better than this lot, you can play your instruments" - I knew then that they were my favourite band.
And this song is so splendidly them. A brush of pop culture, Chris being Northern and obscure, minimum viable chorus, big drums, clattering synths.
The original paninaro, discovered through the pages of The Face and i-D were a big fashion influence on us at college, a big part of trying not to look like students. I spent all my grant money on Chipie and Chevignon. It became a newspaper club strategy and now it's a slightly odd project.