| DJ Culture | |
| Cover: | DJculture.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pet Shop Boys |
| B-Side: | Music for Boys |
| Released: | [1] |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 4:13 |
| Label: | Parlophone |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Jealousy |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Dj Culturemix |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
| Dj Culturemix | |
| Cover: | DJculturemix.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pet Shop Boys |
| B-Side: |
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| Released: | 1991 |
| Recorded: | 1991 |
| Genre: |
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| Length: | 5:51 |
| Label: | Parlophone |
| Producer: | Pet Shop Boys |
| Prev Title: | DJ Culture |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Was It Worth It? |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
"DJ Culture" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their first greatest hits album, (1991). It was released on 14 October 1991 as the album's lead single, peaking at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. Another version of the song, remixed by the Grid and entitled "Dj culturemix", was also released as a single and reached number 40 on the UK Singles Chart. The B-side was "Music for Boys".
According to the singer Neil Tennant, the song concerned the insincerity of how President George H. W. Bush's speeches at the time of the First Gulf War utilised Winston Churchill's wartime rhetoric, in a manner similar to how artists sample music from other artists.[3] The music video alternately features Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as a pair of doctors, a pair of soldiers in desert combat dress, a judge presiding over Oscar Wilde (the line "And I my lord, may I say nothing?" is a close paraphrase of Wilde's comment after being sentenced to hard labour for homosexual practices) and a football referee and fan.
The French sample in the song is taken from the 1950 Jean Cocteau film Orphée: in it coded and poetic messages are sent over the radio.
Upon its release, Paul Mathur, writing for Melody Maker, felt "DJ Culture" "recall[s] PSB's earliest work" as "Tennant intones rigorously over the usual unabashed keyboard surge, like an indoor version of 'West End Girls'."[4] Simon Dudfield of NME felt it was "sub-standard Pet Shop Boys" with "no surprises". He stated, "Please could they deliver another chorus? There needs to be some proof of pop elegance if Tennant's irony and aloofness is going to sound anything other than smarmy, sickly and sad. A plastic veneer smothers the disco beat, the strings from their last single remain and the 'Suburbia'-style shock of keyboards that sets up the tawdry chorus suggests ideas are running dry."[5]
Track 2 is a remix by Altern-8.
Track 3 is an orchestra medley featuring "It's a Sin", "Being Boring", "Opportunities", "So Hard ", "Jealousy", "Suburbia", "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", "What Have I Done To Deserve This?", and "West End Girls".
| Peak position | |
| Australia (ARIA)[6] | 130 |
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| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100 Singles)[7] | 25 |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[8] | 6 |
