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by MikeyC
Mon 25 Mar 2024, 3:38 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless
Replies: 160
Views: 8681

Re: Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless

Greetings, Yes. Speaking of preface, I Want A Lover arguably captured a sense of "nightlife" better than the entire album that would later be dedicated to it. Retro. :) Indeed, it's has the first of 2 occasions of them "driving through the night". Ah yes! The second being their ...
by MikeyC
Sun 24 Mar 2024, 7:18 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: New album Nonetheless
Replies: 361
Views: 37247

Re: New album Nonetheless

My favourite range of PSB merch was the Super and Super Tour set of things. Lovely stuff. The Nonetheless stuff is nice too. Agreed! I’m still trying to find and buy that gorgeous Super mug!!! We picked one up at the show - I probably would have given it a miss myself, but it was my daughter's firs...
by MikeyC
Sun 24 Mar 2024, 7:10 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Very album pics (in particular Chris' head)
Replies: 14
Views: 1364

Re: Very album pics (in particular Chris' head)

Very was the very first Pet Shop Boys LP I ever bought. While listening to the music, teenage me spent hours looking at the cover and the inner sleeve (and cursing the lack of lyrics, I wasn’t remotely fluent in English back then -not that I'm now!-). When I noticed the odd heads, the tilted Chris ...
by MikeyC
Fri 22 Mar 2024, 4:52 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: New album Nonetheless
Replies: 361
Views: 37247

Re: New album Nonetheless

Harry wrote: Fri 22 Mar 2024, 11:18 am

My favourite range of PSB merch was the Super and Super Tour set of things. Lovely stuff. The Nonetheless stuff is nice too.
Agreed! I’m still trying to find and buy that gorgeous Super mug!!!
by MikeyC
Fri 22 Mar 2024, 4:46 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless
Replies: 160
Views: 8681

Re: Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless

Suburbia Take one killer chorus, add a stunning keyboard melody and an awesome baseline, and what do you get? The boys back in the top 10 of the UK charts where they rightly belong ! Unfortunately for Please, the amazing re-work that became the single release isn’t on here, and after the shiny prod...
by MikeyC
Wed 20 Mar 2024, 3:59 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: New single „Dancing star“ (digital April 3rd / CD May 3rd)
Replies: 173
Views: 16937

Re: New single „Dancing star“ (digital April 3rd / CD May 3rd)

Sandy Shaw wrote: Wed 20 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm My guess is Robert Helpmann for the cover art dancer. It could be him (or another dancer in the role of Dr Coppelius in Coppelia.

https://collections.artscentremelbourne ... ogue.22399 (As an example of something similar)
Looks like Nureyev.
by MikeyC
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 8:34 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Your Instant Classics
Replies: 66
Views: 5425

Re: Your Instant Classics

Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend A Different Point of View Yesterday, When I Was Mad Disco Potential Try It (I'm in Love with a Married Man) More Than a Dream The Samurai in Autumn My Head Is Spinning Falling (Demo for Kylie) Miserablism Hooked on Radiation (Pet Shop Boys Orange Alert mix) In His Imag...
by MikeyC
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 8:21 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Try to describre in only one word your first feeling listening to a new PSB album
Replies: 18
Views: 1468

Re: Try to describre in only one word your first feeling listening to a new PSB album

Please - Beginning
Actually - Pop
Introspective - Extended
Behaviour - Deep
Very - Sweet
Bilingual - Latin
Nightlife - Intense
Release - Mellow
Fundamental - Political
Yes - Sheen
Elysium - Lowkey
Electric - Explode
Super - Dance
Hotspot - Intrigue
by MikeyC
Sun 10 Mar 2024, 5:33 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Your Instant Classics
Replies: 66
Views: 5425

Re: Your Instant Classics

Non-single instant classics:

Two divided by zero
The end of the world
Some speculation
Different point of view
Up against it
Closer to heaven
Here
Miracles
Fugitive
Pandemonium
A face like that
Bolshy
Burn
Will-o-the-wisp
Decide
by MikeyC
Sun 10 Mar 2024, 5:26 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Female producer for PSB?
Replies: 14
Views: 1276

Re: Female producer for PSB?

I could see Robyn producing PSB! x
by MikeyC
Fri 08 Mar 2024, 6:42 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Nonetheless - Blu-ray
Replies: 70
Views: 5424

Re: Nonetheless - Blu-ray

Eagerly awaiting the DAT! x
by MikeyC
Mon 04 Mar 2024, 10:50 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: West End Girls [original 7" version] on CD?
Replies: 43
Views: 2303

Re: West End Girls [original 7" version] on CD?

Don't waste your time on this search. The version of the West End girls you need has never been released on CD or digitally. So the 40th anniversary would be perfect to publish West End Girls [original 7" version] on CD or digitally for the very first time! Maybe they don’t want Bobby ‘O to pr...
by MikeyC
Mon 26 Feb 2024, 12:48 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Lead Singles - Commercial Comparison
Replies: 29
Views: 3249

Re: Lead Singles - Commercial Comparison

Nickname wrote: Sat 24 Feb 2024, 11:38 pm I ask myself if it is possible to take all the sales and create a ranking of the best selling singles from PSB in UK.
Ask yourself this question…
by MikeyC
Mon 26 Feb 2024, 12:47 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Piano Room Month - 2024
Replies: 333
Views: 24899

Re: Piano Room Month - 2024

Flaffer wrote: Sun 25 Feb 2024, 10:51 am
stopthecar wrote: Sun 25 Feb 2024, 10:43 am The cover to Nontheless is them regenerating into each other.
some people allege that happened after they met on the Kings Road and Chris went to check out Neil’s synthesiser
Naughty 😎