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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One for geowayne here - What Are We Going to Do About the Rich? gets played at 14:58 before an interview with Dr Marvin Monroe on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.
I was searching for the performance of Hallo Spaceboy at the Brit Awards (found it at Youtube eventually) and came across this page:
Wedged into an elegant sofa by the telly, they suck on their the first beers of the night and revert to classic Cure cattiness. David Bowie and the Pet Shop...
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More like Blobert Smith by the look of it.
He's been called Fat Bob for quite a while now. I'm not going to get on anyone for their looks.
Still enjoying Hotspot here and love Hoping for a Miracle , but what on earth is that synthesized voice saying at the start and at intervals through the song? It's clearly saying some sort of words. Perhaps it's completely obvious and I'm the only other person in the world who doesn't get it, but...
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It does sound like that, but I’d love to know how you’re so sure.
This photo is interesting to me. Siouxsie Sioux is such a pioneering artist. Punk will never die. I met her once in NYC. She was fierce. Anyway, I didn't see this photo posted in the forum with both Siouxsie Sioux and Neil supposedly in London in December 2019 according to the twitter post below....
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I’m still waiting for the Tracy Thorn collaboration......
This videO is on Youtube'S thread but as you know, I sometimes pick up some videos with its proper thread when I consider there is something peculiar on it. I think this is the case, many of you probably hadn't watched this video before.
Pet Shop Boys on Formel Eins (1986):
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ah now I understand why the giggles
that band was pretty hilarious, wonder if N&T had a in-joke about comparing them to themselves. Pretty much opposites - wonder if this also influenced them to go understated
What have i done to deserve this? (You Left Me With Nothing DEMO Mix)
Let me know what do you think about it? I stil think about intro, but anyway...
Thank you.
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Man, such a great sound you have.
I love your mix of Winner.
Simple, almost stripped down, but layered nicely with some great samples. Much more electronic, but this sort of downbeat feel.
I’d love to hear what you’d to to Here. I always found the album synth too jarring and the Disco 3 version too...
Imagine if Cardi B had teamed up with Neil on WAP rather than Megan Thee Stallion.....
But come on, it can only be a matter of time. Nailed-on fifth number one single.
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Even if they both died simultaneously, they won’t get a number one. Michael Jackson, Prince,George Michael Bowie and Whitney have all died and didn’t get posthumous UK number one singles.
Damn what a loss George Michael is. I still remember being at the movie theater to take the family to see...
Pet Shop Boys are delighted to confirm that they will be performing at the @electricballroomcamden, London, in 2021 as part of the @passportgigs: Back to Our Roots event series supporting the UK’s grassroots live music scene. The final date of the show will be revealed as soon as social distancing...
Next Friday, 27th November, will see the release of Now Thats What I Call Music Volume 7 on CD for the first time.
When originally released it included the hard to find “matrix” edit of Opportunities, maybe as an error.
So hopefully, it’ll be the same mix that’s included on this re release next...
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also..as far as I know (maybe somebody can confirm if I´m right) the matrix version was included junt on vinyl, but not on the cassette edition of Now 7 ...
I have the cassette version and it is the matrix mix.
Oh, good to know!!. It seems that somebody gave me wrong info years ago!! :up:
I happen to agree with this list (apart from that I would put Super ahead of Yes, which Simon Cowell ruined for me by mauling it.)
However, I suspect that this is a list for a wider electronic/electro music fan BASE than just the PSB ballad maniacs, which is not to say I don't...
You have maybe heard this and discussed this before in another thread, but I just want to say that the songs in which Robbie has got help from Pet Shop Boys are really great songs. One of the best is No Regrets and of course Robbie's song We're the Pet Shop Boys is great. That was all i wanted to...
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I like a few of his singles but was always repelled by his persona. He always seemed over-needy and desperate to appeal to the lowest common denominator - so for every Feel, there's a Rock DJ.
I can't argue with that, but it's worth pointing out that in the Rock DJ video he doesn't appeal -...
I've been reading other posts talking about this track, so we are going to create a post for it and free another posts related to the new stuff.
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After 4 years, I voted at last :D This shows how quick and responsive I am. :lol:
The original poster of the poll is really a kind soul; I would not call it embrassing but awful, terrible, repellent and so on. Until Winner, I thought there were no bad PSB songs but only the ones I did not like...
As we head into another lockdown, I hope everyone is O.K. here in the Forum?
Does anyone know of other forums or 'opportunities' to chat about similar interests, to keep us from feeling isolated over the next few weeks?
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I'm on a couple PSB Facebook communities but I find the content can get a bit tiresome. I can be assured of some good info, and debate, right here, so long as it doesn't get nasty.
Thank you for your reply Gabby. :D I will stay here. :up:
No problem. I dont necessarily want to stop anyone...
It was posted on Youtube section but I think it's interesting to put a thread about it because it's a quite high profile video many people could enjoy here, talking about something more or less we know but very interesting to be watched.
David Bowie and Neil talking about Hello Spaceboy:
Pet Shop Boys today announce that they are releasing on YouTube a collection of their BBC TV performances recorded between 1985 and 2012. The first volume features ten classic PSB performances on Top of the Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test from 1985 and 1986, all of which are now available to...
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Is it just me or have Neil's vocals been polished in some of the live performances? In the Can you forgive her? TOTP performance his live vocal genuinely sounds like it has been replaced by that in the song itself. Same with the live performance of Opportunities in the Whistle Test.
Funko vinyl Pops ( Bobble head figures from stage and screen and anything else they can get the rights to!) have done many music artists from Elvis,Beatles , Elton john Etc so do you think they would do Neil and Chris (pointy hat era would be the most iconic imho) as many on here would buy them i...
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Is there a definitive release date on these?
PSB site touted Feb 2021 and Funko now shows Dec 2020. I also seem to recall some placed it at Nov 2020.
I suspect I'd trust Funko more than anyone. Be nice to have in time for Chrimble.
This was posted in youtube, and it suggests again that It comes like a surprised was planned as a single release in 2007. I think it is actually an official unreleased version, not a fan made. At least, my impression is that it is necessary to access to the multitrack to made this remix single...
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To my untrained ears, this does not sound magnificient , that is , different from the album version. If anything,the album version sounds better. Anyway, this is one of the songs I stubbornly skip in Bilingual (which I love). It is too syrupy musically in the same vein of Liberation, a style that...
We’ve had Top Ten tracks, opening lines, lyric, artwork etc but what are among your favourite single seconds of PSB output? For me it’s that first base sound and kick drum at 56 seconds in on Left To My Own Devices. Fist time hearing it and after nearly one minute of an orchestral intro you wonder...
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Just after the second plane flies by on the intro of Fugitive... and then all hell breaks loose.
PSB are my favourite music artists.
I reckon they have been very consistent through the years.
The nearest I got to not enjoying the music was ‘Release’ or ‘Elysium’, where there were 2 or 3 tracks I wasn’t keen on, but they always then come back with something better. They seem to be unique in...
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I’ll be honest in that it’s been tough going for me after the Bilingual b-sides. Behavior, Introspective and Very seemed like pinnacle for writing a killer tune and been more miss than hit since then. Love is a bourgeois construct was the last high point song for me, but just not consistent enough...
Now that I got you attention... (enough of Integral btw)
For all these years I could never understand what was said at the very end of Somewhere... I've always heard:
I feel pussy .. .Oh pussy :shock:
... LOL... And I knew it was not possible!! LOL...
But everytime I heard the song I was at...
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Call me weird, but at 4:40-4:41 after Mia culpla, mia culpa , I keep hearing Baby, am so sorry I called you that (a very faint and not really distinguishable that )
Anyone else hear this or am I losing the plot?
It's just a delay on the ..mea maxima culpa part. For a moment I thought I heard...
I'm not Scared (Eight Wonder) #7
Losing my Mind (Liza Minelli) #6
Disappointed (Electronic) #6
The Loving Kind (Girls Aloud) #10
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There are some things have been said more or less (playing songs from the new album, top 10 hits in UK, some songs sang by other artists included, all of it played in reverse chronological order).
Will-o-the-wisp (I think they will plan a new version of it like single material for the concerts,...
What a track! We need this released as fourth single, with extended version and good 12 remixes. Period.
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An extended mix or dub of this would be great.
(Side note: The Yes, etc dubs are one of my favourite things they’ve done.)
You're damn right. Remember sitting in a shit hole apartment with no windows back in 2009 right after getting the bonus disc and just marveling in the dub mixes. The whole...
Just watching highlights of Kilmarnock FC V Rangers FC from Sunday and lo and behold there is a big banner behind the goals of Chris under Paninaro, is this a common thing in football or it some kind of ultras thing associated with certain clubs. I seem to remember the clothing company Weekend...
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Normally i’d make disparaging comments about the quality of Scottish football (or fitba) but it’s gone up an awful lot in my estimations after seeing this !!! :lol:
Good evening!
Somebody is selling a set of amazing demos of the Actually era for 3000 Euros (!) in ebay. I could listen to some snippets and the quality is stunning. They are not the same that those demos included in some bootlegs some decades ago (e.g. the Sarm West demos tapes). It looks like a...
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Is there a complete record anywhere of all the recording sessions done by the Pets over the years with details of songs attempted/mixed/scrapped etc.?
Not a complete record....but all the fan club back issues of the Literally and now Annually as well as the interview CDs from Bilingual (entitled...
There are only two PSB albums where there are only Tennant/Lowe song writing credits: Behaviour and Relentless although Elysium (it's doubtful if Händel should be credited after 300 years) and Bilingual come close.
Now the task is to replace the songs with external songwriting with proper...
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I would have added Time On My Hands to Release
Why not. Neil has stated himself that as far as the 01-04 era goes one is free to mix an album of choice from the massive amount of songs recorded and released. I would prefer Between 2 Islands (one of their best songs ever) but it has external song...
With the 30th anniversary of the release of Behaviour this week, it's 30 years since I first heard Being boring and it has remained my all time favourite song ever for all this time. I still listen to it fairly frequently and still see it as the high point of PSB's output. I still get the odd...
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Great reading some personal stories about the song..
It’s a beautiful track.. I’ve always loved it. I’ve always liked the TOTP performance too.. Neil looks cool in the hat & specs. It’s the perfect opening for Behaviour, it introduces the mood of the album well. And.. I’ve always liked the...
Not many things to say about PSB these days, so I want to share with you this pic from a very young Neil Tennant. Funny photo:
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I didn't want to put a photo of him if I knew if was para of his prive life. It's not obviously a studio photo but I don't know if I should consider this photo like something private. It's difficul to know that, isn't it?. Anyway, it's a not a photo that could make any kind of harm to Neil Tennat....
Hey there! I'm not running a new poll, but I have posted on my Commentary website a temporary new feature that I hope you'll like: a Pet Shop Boys Trivia Game ! And it's a pretty tough one, if I do say so myself. It consists of 25 questions, most of the answers for which can NOT be found on my...
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I bought Please in 1986 and bought and read everything since. I think I might have known one of these. I'm clearly the weakest link. Goodbye :-)
Would you vote for PSB? Is the West End Girls – Intro synth progression, bass the best choice for a PSB track? I may have gone with the stab of Always on my mind.
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I've had to vote for the I Feel Love bassline, even if this was made by accident, it's an iconic bit of synth. Shame we can't have a 2nd and 3rd place vote as I'd have gone for Blue Monday bassline second followed by West End Girls.
It Couldn’t Happen Here finally gets a DVD and Blu-ray release in June 2020
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After 2 UK Online Shops let me down (yes, I ordered in time), and both admitted later to having listed it on their sites for sale without having it in stock or having been offered the product by the producer in advance of release, I am now looking for someone selling it privat 2 private. Any...
The modern sound of PSB...
The problem is LAYERS. To many layers of musical ideas on top of eachother. That's why New Order's latest album is so great, they don't do that layers stuff, they let the listener get acquainted with the ideas separately and then bring together and separate them again...
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I agree fully with the fact Andrew Dawson was perfect for them.
I like most of Elysium, (ignoring Hold on) , but songs aside, the production is amazing.
I do like the layers, but recently, on Hotspot, it felt as though the songs could have been stretched longer, the ideas were there, they needed...
I wonder what songs from Hotspot Neil would have included is his book of lyrics had it been published now? Am I right that no co-writes (beyond Tennant/Lowe) were included in the book? If so, that would excluded Monkey Business and Dreamland.
I think Will-o-the-Wisp would be the most obvious...
What are your favourite remixes from 2013 to 2020? I’m not sure it’s been a great period for remixes but I’d love to be convinced otherwise. If a Disco 5 were to be made up of the best remixes from these years, what would you put on it?
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Surely a passing mention for the Twenty Something (Nissim Godfather Remix) - one of the most interesting remixes in their career. Reminds me of the old Frankie Goes To Hollywood remixes of the 80's i.e ridiculous, camp and over the top.
G.
This is the unreleased one, isn’t it? Do we know why it...
After the lockdown. I really believe there is a new Disco on the way. Something has been told before over there and I really believe Stuart wants to do that, he is a big fan of the first Disco . I've been thinking it could be a remix album of the whole triology but two first albums, Electric and...
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A single of some sort would be good. An album made through lockdown would be even better! :D Even more better would be a mini concert on Youtube.
I would love a Disco 5 album consisting of remixes of Price trilogy tracks, but not necessarily remixed by Price and not necessarily the singles....
Hi everyone, when I was living at home many many years ago I bought a massive poster from the fan club.It was a shot of the cast of the Being Boring video and it was more than twice the usual poster size. Black and white and by Bruce Webber.
Does anyone have one? Or have a photo of one?
Cheers...
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thumbnail_IMG_20201006_220154.jpg I've got the image in newspaper form framed on my wall. It was used in the Discography campaign. NME Issue dated 9th November 1991. Had it originally at the time but it went brown so went on ebay recently and found it again. There are some copies on ebay still.
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