I quite like this, and The Big Chair which is a similar track that didn’t make the album from the same sessions.
This one feels like Art of Noise, which is a compliment.
I think it’s interesting that, like Simple Minds, there was this side of them that a lot of people didn’t really know about.
You know this one, even if you don’t recognise the name, and here’s why.
Heart of Courage was used in the trailer for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as well as in TV spots for the DVD of Avatar, the trailer for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, the TV shows World War II in HD: The Air War, Camelot, Frozen Planet, The Pacific, and Revolution, and the official launch trailer of the video game Mass Effect 2. It was used as Mascarita Sagrada’s entrance music in Season 1 of Lucha Underground. It was used in the History Channel Documentary, The Universe Season 6, in episode “Crash Landing on Mars”. It is used in the fourth episode of series 17, 18, and 22 of the television show Top Gear. It is also the intro theme for all games of UEFA Euro 2012. It was used in TV commercial for Tod’s. It was also used in the release trailer of Nehrim: At Fate’s Edge, a total conversion mod for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was also used by gymnast Alicia Sacramone as her floor music along with Jorge Quintero’s “300 Violin Orchestra” in 2011 and a promotional video of the Ferrari FF. It serves as the main title theme of the Comedy Central show Nathan For You. This song was also used in an episode of The Innovators: The Men Who Built America and recently for a Discovery Channel advertisement. It has also been used in Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved. This song was also used in the History Channel documentary, History of the World in Two Hours. In 2014, it was featured in the ending credits of America’s Got Talent (season 9) Episode Boot Camp. In 2015, it was used in a commercial for the mobile strategy game Game of War: Fire Age.
Trailer-bait like this feels like a guilty pleasure. I like it a lot, but…part of me feels like it’s cheap and manipulative. Having said that, there has to be a certain skill to it.
Songs from the Big Chair is a classic album.
I can see why that piece of dross didn’t make the final cut.
It is like nothing else in their catalogue.
Why you gotta be so anti?
Listen to Saturnine if you like.
Or just The Big Chair track, as I said.
Fun little covid throwback.
Cool your jets.
I just gave an honest appraisal of the track.
I don’t mind if you don’t like it, but they have other stuff like that.
Not true. While it’s not at all like their albums, a great deal of their B-sides are along these lines. Even those for Seeds of Love era singles, which I reckon is an even better album again than …Big Chair…
Ok…I stand corrected with the excuse that I don’t listen to singles and so have no knowledge of B-Sides.
And it’s still crap! 
It’s certainly not one of their better ones…
I’m with swoodley that song didn’t do it for me.
As for that synth pop style, one band I don’t understand is pet shop boys. Have they got deep cuts, what am I missing?
I really like Rent and Left To My Own Devices, but if you don’t like the deadpan vocal and synth of their bigger hits, then they won’t change your mind.
Suburbia goes alright, too, I reckon.
Skimmed through… still same problem. Too on the nose of being…. Too pretty? If that’s a thing.
I’ll try again across the weekend.
I’m not sure it will be worth it!
Why the interest?
My streaming provider won’t stop shoving it down my throat in daily mixes/ recommendations. It’s also a band associated to bands I do like but I’m yet to have that wow moment with them.
I think they’re pretty indicative of the genre as a whole though. A lot of the 80s synth pop seems to lack balls these days when you go back to it. I worship New Order but never came close to buying any Pet Shop Boys. Hmm… try Electronic!
My first thought on that suburbia song was this would be a lot better with some oomph in the low end.
West End Girls is their best song by a mile.
I did like Trevor Horn’s work on Can You Forgive Her? which is a bit bigger sounding than their usual fare…
I’ve got a Hits compilation of theirs that I bought for $2 from a Salvos. It’s all the PSB I’ll ever need…
Have you heard this one, @mrjez , @Maxx @BAAKKEERRRR ?
I really like it.
Gives me big New Order/Depeche Mode vibes.
And yes, you can say it’s rubbish, swoods. 
I like that, slow crunchy groove. It has elements of stuff I like, but nothing I could feel confident comparing it to.