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Harry Shearer records "Pet Shop Boys like" song....agree?
VinnyM227
PostPosted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 9:19 pm 
Harry Shearer is a pretty funny guy. He might not be a household name to most, but his work in "Spinal Tap" as well as the Chirstopher Guest movies (appearing in "For Your Consideration" and "A Mighty Wind"). Most famously he does the voices for a lot of the Springfield residents in "The Simpsons" (Mr. Burns, etc.). Anyway, he is kind of a Renaissance man and recently recorded a musical comedy concept album called "Greed and Fear". He was on the Howard Stern show (talking very insightfully about his past as well as his current complications with "The Simpsons"). Anyway, he told Howard that one of his favorite songs on the album was "A Pet Shop Boys like song called "Mr. Goldman and Mr. Sachs"). He said this with a lisp (you know....because Neil sings and talks with one?) and said it was sung like that. Well I was on my laptop and I had to go to Itunes to listen to a sample. Sadly, he does do it like that. Kind of an insult to call it a PSB like song although musically, sounds similar to something from their past (probably during the 80s....even though there is some weird country fiddle in there...not very PSB and I suppose maybe more of his style of music, which makes for an odd "genre" type song). I'm not gay and I don't think Harry (sort of famously liberal, I thought) is a homophobe but honestly to do this lipsy type thing does not help get his point across and is insulting. The worst insult, it doesn't help the comedy. It's frankly a bit too literal to even be all that funny. I only heard the full song because I still have a Napster subscription. You could pretty much get the jist listening to a sample. What do you think?


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Final results on whether your opinion of "Yes" has changed
geowayne
PostPosted: Sun 07 Mar 2010, 7:16 am 
The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitors whether their opinion of the Pet Shop Boys' most recent studio album Yes had changed in the year since its release. And the response that received the most votes was:

* "My positive opinion of Yes has stayed about the same," chosen by 57.7% of the voters.

To see the complete results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click the "Past Survey Results" button in the left navigation bar.

I almost feel cruel asking my new poll question for the week ahead. I'm afraid many of you will find it very difficult to choose; I know I certainly did. I'm wondering, if you could pick only one of various possible items to be released on DVD, which would you most like to see released? It Couldn't Happen Here? DiscoVery? Closer to Heaven? Battleship Potemkin (with the Tennant/Lowe score, naturally)? Of one of the other items listed? So please check out the list now posted on my home page, think it over, and make your choice. And please don't hate me for imposing such a difficult choice. :angel:

Meanwhile, thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey! And I hope you all have a not-at-all-difficult week ahead!


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Don't like PSB
Den
PostPosted: Fri 05 Mar 2010, 2:17 pm 
came across this facebook group and it seems that the ENTIRE Erasure fan base has joined!

Don't like Pet Shop Boys:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1 ... 7839167..1


sorry if its already been posted...


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Pet Shop Boys
FirthofForth
PostPosted: Fri 05 Mar 2010, 7:27 am 
Does it embarrass you at all to just say the name "Pet Shop Boys"? It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And as they are my favorite band, I end up saying the name a lot, and it starts sounds ridiculous to me. I quite like the name, but it's a bit of a joke, and doesn't hold up to many repetitions. On the other hand, I do like that song that goes "Pet Shop Pet Shop Pet Shop Boys" and it sounds fine in "We're The Pet Shop Boys". How different would their career been if they called themselves something else, "Stoners" or "Japanese Release" or "Maudlin Airlines" or what have you. They generally have not shortened their name, as both ELO and OMD did officially at given points. Should they? Should they pull a Mimo? Or maybe do a Tennant/Lowe a la Battleship P? I sometimes call them Notorious PSB. I guess you can just call them the "Pets" for short. Or P Swizzle for the young crowd.


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Poll ends soon on whether your opinion of "Yes" has changed
geowayne
PostPosted: Fri 05 Mar 2010, 6:34 am 
Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current Pet Shop Boys poll, which asks whether your opinion of their most recent studio album Yes has changed since it was released about a year ago. If you haven't voted yet, please take a moment to visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and cast your vote right there on the home page.

On Sunday I will end this poll, post the final results, and launch a new survey for the week ahead. (And, as a bit of a warning -- and a tease -- I fear that some of you may think this next one is downright sadistic. :twisted: )

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who has already voted! And I hope you all have a delightful weekend!


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OMG I SO OLD
morethanadream
PostPosted: Fri 05 Mar 2010, 2:05 am 
I cant believe Neil is 56 this year OH MY GOD WHAT DOES THAT MAKE ME!!!!!!


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If PSB was a rock band...
nickname
PostPosted: Fri 05 Mar 2010, 12:24 am 
it would be something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whTQh8HV ... re=related


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Disco series
maxboyd
PostPosted: Thu 04 Mar 2010, 1:27 pm 
Have any of the Disco series (Disco 1,2,3 or 4) been released in double CD or special edition 2 CD format?


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Samplography
FirthofForth
PostPosted: Tue 02 Mar 2010, 11:54 pm 
I thought Samplography was going to have an interesting host of sounds from Very era PSB, but it really didn't. :(


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PSB Complex
FirthofForth
PostPosted: Mon 01 Mar 2010, 11:29 pm 
What is the most complex song the Pets have done, in terms of production, chord structure, song structure, lyrical density, etc. This song very well might not be one of your favorite tracks.


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PSB to play V festival
agent doris
PostPosted: Mon 01 Mar 2010, 4:15 pm 
Being announced at 6 today


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Neil's boots in the Pandemonium Tour
CTHTM
PostPosted: Mon 01 Mar 2010, 1:54 am 
hi

Does anyone know where the boots that Neil wears in the Pandemonium Tour are from?


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The woman in me shouts out...
Docoboy
PostPosted: Mon 01 Mar 2010, 12:48 am 
"The woman in me shouts out / The man in me just smiles."

I've been wondering for 21 years what this means. Please discuss :)


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Is it true? (about WHIDTDT? and Tina Turner)
nickname
PostPosted: Sun 28 Feb 2010, 4:02 pm 
Taken from: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 041113.ece


Some may well suggest Neil Tennant doesn’t have a great voice, so bringing in Dusty Springfield for What Have I Done to Deserve This? made perfect sense — and, as with the Eurythmics track, Pet Shop Boys swapped soul for sales, resurrecting Springfield’s career. The duo had spent a year resisting their record company’s urging to use Tina Turner (then at her commercial peak), holding out until the much lower-profile Springfield finally agreed. So the track was a triumph of integrity over cynical marketing logic.

:shock:


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Final results of poll on PSB boxed set contents
geowayne
PostPosted: Sun 28 Feb 2010, 7:22 am 
The final results are in for my poll this past week, in which I asked my site visitors what they would choose as the breakdown of contents, in terms of percentages of various categories, of an imaginary five-CD Pet Shop Boys "definitive career retrospective" boxed set. And the average percentage figures derived from those votes were:

31.0% singles
16.1% non-single album tracks
14.0% b-sides/non-album tracks
12.1% previously unreleased songs
5.6% unreleased remixes
4.8% previously released remixes
4.7% live recordings
4.3% demos of released songs
3.6% pre-fame demos
3.0% BBC/other radio broadcasts
0.9% "other" (anything that doesn't fit in the other categories)

To more information about these results, please visit my "Commentary" site at http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm and click the "Past Survey Results" button in the left navigation bar.

My new poll for the week ahead is inspired by comments I had read online some time ago—and even a couple of emails that I received—regarding the praise that many fans had been heaping on the Boys' most recent album Yes. Some were suggesting that opinions of the album would surely decline over time, after the initial flush of enthusiasm over new music. Now that Yes is nearly a year old (it was released in March 2009), I'm wondering whether this is indeed the case. Has your opinion of the album changed? Do you have a lower opinion of it now than shortly after it was released? Or maybe you have a higher opinion of it. Then again, maybe your opinion hasn't changed at all. So please take a moment to make your choice right there on my home page.

Meanwhile, thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey! And I hope you all have a superb week ahead!


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Your PSB claim to fame!
Janeway
PostPosted: Sun 28 Feb 2010, 3:02 am 
Having never met either Neil or Chris, I was wondering if anyone had a specific PSB claim to fame.

I do have a tiny little PSB claim to fame in that I was born on Neil Tennant's 18th Birthday :D


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Chris and his box
Actually
PostPosted: Sat 27 Feb 2010, 1:02 am 
Come on then all you keyboard wizards....What's in Chris' cubicle on the Pandemonium tour ?

I mean, on past tours all we see Chris playing is one keyboard (ok,apart from the Release Tour).

I love the idea of adding the electric drums.

What is Chris actually playing live on the Keyboard. I love the idea of all them computers belting out the sounds and wish they were on view a little more just like they were on the 1989 tour.


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Shopping question
PSBme
PostPosted: Fri 26 Feb 2010, 11:52 pm 
Hi, I'm currently making a remix of Shopping by PSB and was wondering @ 2.45 in the track there's some really distorted words if anyone knew what was being said there?
Would be a great help! ;)


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Girls Dont Cry
stoo
PostPosted: Fri 26 Feb 2010, 11:52 pm 
can i ask a favour, can someone please upload girls dont cry onto you tube, I am often out at friends having drinks where we take turns to play songs on you tube, i have yet to find this as its one of my all time psb songs, my laptop doesnt have an optical drive or i would

thanks in advance

Stoo


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'Pandemonium' enters the European Album Chart at.....
XTZ1969
PostPosted: Fri 26 Feb 2010, 6:07 pm 
#26.
Not band, considering the album still hasn't been released in several european countries.
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/europ ... =relcharts


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