#64 BWO, "Lay Your Love On Me"

We can dance all night with the bourgeoisie
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Lay your love on me

A return to form for BWO after a run of singles not up to the group's usual excellent high standard, "Lay Your Love On Me" was the Swedish version of Madonna's "Hung Up"...which sampled ABBA, so it all cycles back in the end. "Lay Your Love On Me" is pop group BWO doing what they do best, and as a result has all the quality, catchiness, drama, slightly confusing ridiculous but "deep"-sounding lyrics, and even the "woah"s and "oh-oh"s we've come to love from the group. Why doesn't the song come a little higher up in the countdown? In part, that's a result of a fact that didn't hurt the song when performed live but that is a bit of a drawback when you listen to it on its own: the climax of the song is just...silence. This made sense when they debuted the song at Melodifestivalen--that moment of musical silence was when a bunch of pyrotechnics went off--but it leaves me feeling a little cheated when I listen to "Lay Your Love On Me" without watching the Elizabethan-style performance. Still, "Lay Your Love On Me" really is an excellent track, much better than #64 makes it look, and it succeeded in getting me excited about BWO's future all over again; music like this is worthy of them.

Find it on: Pandemonium: The Singles Collection