I know yesterday (13th March) was the first time a new PSB track had been played in ages, but (as per the long standing forum rules) in future all public requests for copies of any new track, PSB or otherwise, will be deleted and/or threads containing requests closed. We will officially...
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Ta,
Dave :D
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PSB were featured in a uk show called the nation’s favourite 80’s hits. Each week they feature a year and this week it was 1987. There were “celebrities” talking about them and it was quite good, Some great music and not so great music featured. There was a trailer at the end for next week and they...
I used to put a watershed mark on 1992, PSB before and after but now I rather think it's 1994. Then Pete died, they went on their party tour in S Am and let it all loose. 10 years later the rebirth of PSB with Potemkin soundtrack. 5 years after that they became legacy and that's where we are now....
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Could there be anything that would return them to the top, the talk of the day?
They’re never going to top the charts again. They’ll get a brief mention on the TV news when one or both of them dies.
Perhaps a longer mention if they both died in some spectacular way. Lol I know this is kind of...
Im living in Denmark and experiencing that both parcels from digital stores (Live DVD + Annually) where supposed to be sent by UPS (got the tracking codes from customer service) but are apparently never handed over to UPS.
Are anyone else...
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Nothing for me in Spain, yet... :( What a disaster.
If you go to the YOUTUBE section and go watch the SAVE video, you can find many coments saying in Spanish venimos por Pasapalabra :
The other day in a show called Pasapalabra (similar to The Alphabet Game) on an Argentinian TV, there was a guest called Iván de Pineda. He appeared on that PSB...
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Oh haha..I use to see this TV show on many days...but missed that one apparently! In fact he´s the presenter/moderator of show, not a guest. A very clever man who did a career from modeling to TV host more because of his wide culture than for his appearance (an unusual case!). But on the Se A Vida...
What would you class as their saddest or most moving songs? I appreciate this is subjective but it would be interesting to see if there some common choices.
I have always found the chorus of Dreaming of the Queen pretty heartbreaking. The death of love itself, then suddenly made personal:
'There...
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Thanks for this. :( 8) :cry:
Can I suggest Birthday Boy if it's not there already?
Added! Thank you.
First half is actual (not for early in the morning) remixes, second half is more subtle extended mixes of the best songs off his recent Today album (and if you haven't heard that, you should probably have a listen to those songs here).
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Agreed, the Personal Shopper mix is great. I’m The Face This World Alone remix and Gordon Tennant’s caught my attention too. And of course River of Lies extended mix is pure class. Nice work Mr Cicero.
Browsing in a bookshop today, I came across this “Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them”
book, edited by Tom Gatti. Turns out it was actually published today.
There’s a chapter from Neil in the book about Kraftwerk’s 1978 album The Man-Machine. It’s only a couple of pages. He talks...
Hi! Hope you are well! Please could anyone let me know what the font is called on the Mcmlxxxix black t shirt with rainbow coloured letters? Sorry, this reply is not very good as I am using my phone. :)
I was really disappointed today to find I could no longer play many PSB albums on Amazon Music. Please, Actually, introspective and One More Chance 12” got significant airtime at home but today none of these were available. Has anyone else noticed this or know of a reason (dispute)?
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Not keeping a CD/LP set up at home seems a bit naive.
Using online services instead of your own mp3/wav/flac-library on a hard drive is not exactly the way where you don't have yourself to blame.
What about while in a car, my car doesn’t have a CD it’s either DAB or streaming / car play so my...
New drama from Russell T Davis for Channel 4 staring Alexandra Olly. Teaser trailer features THAT slightly famous PSB tune
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It was released on DVD here in Australia in April, I think. I only bought it last week. I've just binge watched the whole series in one go! I loved it, but it was very sad & summed up how I remember AIDS in the 80's to 90's. Loved the acting & what a very sad ending.
One of the things I couldn't wait to ask you about was Domino Dancing, the classic single you produced for the Pet Shop Boys in 1988. They are in my Top 3 favorite groups of all time, and I think that is one of their best tracks.
I was a huge fan of...
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They recorded the demo version in Los Angeles.And straight after they went to Miami to record it, because they were so excited by the track.
20 years ago today the first six albums were re-released. To put that in perspective, 20 years before that Neil and Chris hadn't met.
That makes perfect sense mathematically but none emotionally.
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Time flies indeed!
They’re no different from other legacy acts though: the ‘hits’ or critical acclaim happens in the first 5-10 years, then there is a period of consolidation if you’re lucky (PSB are masters at this) or decline and/or line up changes. Then after x years there is a reunion of the...
So we finally have a bit of sunshine and would love to wear some PSB t shirts from back in the day but they are faded and possibly shrunk although it might be me!
Do you think it’s a good idea to have tour t shirts reprinted and sold on the PSB website?
Personally I’d buy most of the 89 tour...
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Is there anywhere out there a list of all the official T Shirts with pictures?
Revisiting old collabs is cool, we've discussed what if they do more work with Bobby O, or Stuart Price, or Trevor Horn.
But who do you think they should mix with, what names come to mind.
Personally I'm surprised they've never collabed with Tiesto. Big trance superstar.
How about Giorgio Morode,...
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My daughter would be all over a PSB and CardiB collaboration. She was really hyped up about her tweets about the Boys.
With anticipation I opened the new Annually, what a nice gift I gave myself, I heard myself thinking. Took it to bed to read it before entering ‘dreamland’ :wink:
My enthusiasm was tempered quickly ... because I was unable to read this book. The print (font) size is sooo small, it is not normal....
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Same here. PSB must assume that as they´re getting older, also their fans.... Their attitude about aging was no photos ...our is just biiger fonts on Annually please . I think it´s a fair thing... :P
Just picked up the 2013 expanded version of Electronic's debut album. The 2-CD collection comes with a long text about the birth of Electronic and the band's first years.
The text, written in that annoying language of english music critics, consistently describes Electronic's collaboration with...
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Has there ever been a good quality recording of electronic live? Everything I've found has pretty much been very bad audience bootlegs.
The car that Classic Car Auctions will offer is an example finished in Dream Black metallic over a dark grey nubuck interior, and is a left-hand drive originally supplied to the U.K., as BMW did not make right-hand drive examples. Among other things, this means the odometer display is in miles,...
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I remember being on my way to the Performance show in Wembley in 1991 and as me and my friend were walking past a gated area we had to stop as a car drove up to the gate which opened. It was a BMW Z1. It went through and the gates closed. We watched it pull up and park and Chris got out of the...
West End girls recently surpassed 100 million views on YouTube. And It's A Sin will do so in a few days. I thought it would be interesting to see how their videos rank in terms of YouTube views. This only counts views from the official Pet Shop Boys YouTube account. Rent, Absolutely Fabulous and...
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By the way, Actually is very popular in Nepal (number one for a few days and top three for a few weeks). There must be a reason for it. Maybe Buddha priests blessed it publicly?
Neil has spoken before about how he likes Miles Davis.
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I was lucky enough to see Miles twice live. I remember at the Festival Hall trying to peer under his shades from my place in the front stalls to see his eyes! The other occasion was at the Wembley Conference Centre, which without looking it up may have been the site of the old ice rink.
For those of you who are interested, I've taken my first crack at interpreting this complex, challenging new PSB song. You can read what I have to say about it on my Commentary website, specifically at . SPOILER ALERT! If you'd rather not read anything about it before you've received your copy and...
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Better than Legacy by a country mile but I can see the similarity.
I've literally only just heard it (once) and it is a challenging listen but I kind of liked it. Could see a contemporary dance piece being done with it that tells the story behind the lyric.
Been listening to a lot of Stock Aitken & Waterman instrumentals and to look back and to see them rely so much on computer programming & sequencing, my question is this ;
What would a collaboration between Pet Shop Boys & the Hit team had soundedlike ?
Also I think it was a missed opportunity for...
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Don't forget Phil Harding and Ian Curnow produced Always On My Mind/In My House on Introspective.
They also produced I’m not scared. In my humble opinion, in the top 5 PSB tracks of all time. The song AND the production are just spot on. If the boys ever did accept the challenge to produce the...
Maybe it's already been up for discussion but here's a guy doing a 2 hr analysis of West End girls.
He starts with an anecdote of ending up at Advision studios as a kid when PSB were recording It's a sin. And he's got a cool software splitting the track into drums, harmonies and vocal. First time I fully...
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thank you, i really enjoyed watching and listening to this.
funny thing is, i don't actually like the song 'west end girls'.
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as a remixer, and dj, this actually wasn't a breakdown of the song.
it was basically him fiddling around with libraries and sounds for 2 hours trying
to...
Stumbled on this excellent podcast episode centred around It's A Sin released earlier in the year.
British music critic Edward Russell does a great job revisiting its early 80s NY demo origins and uncovers some little known production facts .. where Julian Mendelsohn recorded the Catholic mass for...
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very nicely done. enjoyed it.
i've mentioned in other threads, you can download the 48 track(?) multitracks
yourself, and remix it, and check out the parts.
Mixing all the rumours and information. Singles in a reverse chronological order, including singles of Hotspot (except Burning the Heather) and then all the Top 10 in UK's chart (including songs performed by other artists).
Looks like the set-list of Dreamworld Tour could be like this (28 songs)....
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It is possible though for them to tick all of these boxes and still deliver something new and exciting for fans and casuals alike. There are plenty of rarely performed hits, however you define one. The hints they have dropped suggests this will be a great setlist with lots of under played gems:...
Not sure this warrants an actual topic etc but randomly decided to play my Promo CD of A Red Letter Day (CDRDJ 6460)
The last ten seconds or so of The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On has sleigh bells on it! No other release including the commercial cd single that has the original version on...
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I got a vinyl promo (bought in an obscure record shop in Islington, London some time late in 2003) with the On stage at Twilo-remix. It's a weird mix. Anybody knows who did it? Was it Tenaglia?
Yes it was Tenaglia ( I got the vinyl promo in London too...I think at Music and Video Exchange in...
What could the new fan club 2021 Annually issue hold? How each of them shopped with masks at Tescos or Sainsburys in 2020? Maybe an update on the product development of the Funko Dolls ??? Goodbye 2020...hello 2021.
1 December 2020
Letters
Work is underway for the 2021 issue of Annually and...
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It doesn't matter how far you are from the distribution point, I'm waiting foor the book in the Netherlands too.
I always like to use the Annually diaries to order my own Further Listening style playlists. From studying the new edition, does anyone have any builds or tweaks to the following?
1. New boy
2. The forgotten child
3. What are we going to do about the rich?
4. Give stupidity a chance
5. On social...
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You already want to bury an album that have just been released. Let the album breath a bit before talking about these atrocious reissues.
I don't think the poster has any plans or power to make these albums come out.
Incidentally Yes and Elysium FLs came out 8 and 5 years respectively after...
Slightly random question, but I thought I'd ask it...
The punters at my local venue are big on all of David Guetta (One Love / Nothing But The Beat era) and Calvin Harris's (18 Months / Motion era) big tracks from about a decade or so ago. These songs had a typical over-saturated sound...
We've been discussing the wealth of material that's still in the vaults and that should've ended up on FL discs or in single boxset. But I've just realised there are whole albums of material that could be released. I don't think they count as demoes. I'm talking about f i the Behaviour material...
Tomorrow I'm joining well-known Pethead, DJ Boy, for a 10 hour PSB livestream celebration on Twitch. You guys probably know of him as he runs the very popular Pet Shop Boys Please fanpage on Facebook. Here's the link to event there too.
He's doing a radio-style show from 12 pm to 5...
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Just wanted to say that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to your mega mixes. As someone who spends far too much on long journeys, the 5 hour mix just flies by. Many thanks
Aww thank you so much! It was so fun to throw this wonderful livestream together! DJ Boy and I might be doing another in...
Lovely little cover of It’s A Sin by Years & Years ahead of the series premiere tonight.
I saw all five episodes just before Christmas. It’s an amazing piece of work. The PSB track is featured briefly in one episode when the main character chooses it on a jukebox in a gay bar.
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Moderator Comment : We've spent the evening cutting the filth and ugliness out of this thread. A few innocent or on-topic posts have had to be sacrificed in the process. It was impossible to excise the poison cleanly without taking another week, so apologies for the imperfect thread surgery. I have...
This performance of It's alright is perfection. And so uplifting, the message of the song really gets through. Heaps of musicians and singers. It's going to be alright as long as the music plays.
I would like to see something like this on the next PSB tour. A bunch of singers, an orchestra,...
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I was reading the Discovery booklet just a few minutes ago and I didn’t remember how Neil explained the previous tours. He said MCMLXXXIX was an attempt to do a film multi-media show while Performance was a theatrical performance. From this perspective, Discovery seems to be the stage version of a...
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They’d first thought about touring in 1986 with a “scratch video” multimedia component. They decided against it. (From the sound of it, it might have been like U2’s ZooTV some five or six years later.)
I agree with those who see MCMLXXXIX as a precursor to Performance. The point of Discovery was...
The Pets were big users of the Emulator II and arturia have just released a soft synth version of it. Some lovely person has uploaded all the original sample files here ->
Having great fun going through them and discovering the original samples as used by the...
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In such geeky mood, musicradar discusses West End girls synths and recreates the synth bass with current software.
Kicking off (no pun intended) with the instantly recognisable Oberheim DMX drum machine and layered string samples from both E-mu Emulator I and Emulator II, the...
Gets a mention in the latest David Squires cartoon. :lol:
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I wonder if Chris and Ian are still in touch..? I recall Wrighty had his own chat show in the late '90's/early 00's and was surprised PSB didn't make an appearance at some point..
Pet Shop Boys announce the release on DVD and 2-CD of their “Discovery: Live in Rio 1994” concert, recorded towards the end of their 1994 tour of Singapore, Australia and Latin America. Release date is April 23rd. The DVD and CDs package is available for pre-order from today at the link below....
I do not wish to be negative in such exciting times, but the phrase from the article on the iTunes release, ' it's release date ' is bad grammar, and I am certain, just a slip from the person who wrote the piece. This slip, (or possibly a lack of awareness of the rules and reasons behind...
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As the asker of the previous question, I noticed this too.
A very good question Dog. or can I call you Chris!?
Of course. We have met a couple of times
Did anyone in the US see the post Super Bowl commercial for Allstate Insurance? It features Opportunities! Not sure if this was it's premiere or if it's been on for a while now but it took me by surprise! I don't see it online yet but I assume it will hit their YouTube channel soon.
In the 30...
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Has the commercial been discontinued? Within one week, Opportunities spiralled down in the chart very fast.
Nope, it is still on every hour.
I think it just reached a certain saturation point. It has been overplayed.
From Youtube:
jetteboy
PLEASE STOP PLAYING THIS! Every five minutes on...
Prince had his famous vault with some 8000 songs (enough material for a millenium of albums).
Where is the PSB vault? and what's in it? and does it exist? will we ever get something more out of it than the FL-editions? and if N&C don't open it in the future, who will?
There are least a dozen...
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in a weird sort of way box sets with loads of unreleased songs and mixes/alternate versions are kind of sad. I feel like the artist has then given totally of everything they have, and they have no more surprises. but I still want one!
A few 'Heart' facts - the single reached #1 in the @officialcharts, was going to be offered to @Madonna and features vocals from Pavarotti.
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while I am not a huge fan of madonna, I would have to say heart is tailor made for her. its totally the type of tune she would do, and do really good in the 80's.
Hallo. I wasn't very active in the forum now, but I would like to change that. This is also because a lot of people have always said to me that I can't do anything, that I'm nothing and that I'm not worth too much. I want to prove that these people are mistaken with these Soundcloud and You Tube...
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New things on Soundcloud and You Tube
The Single-Bilingual Baby Doc Edit (2:21) and the Young Offender Tobias Offence Mix (2:13) can now be found on both platforms.
Also on You Tube the next mixes in the ZYX series. West End Girls Acid House Edit (4:10), West End Girls James Brown Edit (4:21)...
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