Please take extreme care on emails from administration @ petshopboys-forum .com !!!!!!!!!!!
In the last days I recognise some emails about Tickets for PSB@ROH which I THINK could be a money trap. After we have to hold this email open for user requests and alerts via the contact link (at the...
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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Thank you for the link leesmapman. I was already aware of them and found the last one does not include the first song they played (the Blur song Girls and Boys (PSB Remix)). For some reason it has been omitted from the youtube recording hence why I asked if anyone has their own recording.
''I hope you don't mind if I go on at some length about this one. This gentle midtempo song evolved from a number that the Boys had previously been working on called "How Lucky I Am." It's written from the viewpoint of an imaginary 18-year-old boy who goes to a rock concert, meets the male star...
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"Meanwhile, me and Dre are tryin' to conversate
Just tryin' to find a reason for the constant hate
And tryin' to figure out what happened to 'Germaine Propane'
"He couldn't have fell off that hard." Ain't no way!
What happened to the way you was rappin' when you was scandalous?
That Canibus turned...
Legendary PWL producer/remixer Phil Harding chats about his work with PSB during the Tom Watkins era in the latest 80sography episode (first 20 mins), including the song he didn’t get a credit for, why Pete Waterman turned down West End girls (thank god he did), and how Neil caved in to house....
The Hidden Cameras return with their long-awaited, anthemic new single, "How Do You Love?" Over a pumping bassline, soulful piano chords, and melancholic string arrangements (played and arranged by longtime musical partner Owen Pallett), Joel Gibb hits the precise...
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Second single off the Hidden Cameras upcoming album is out today, Undertow (no, not that one!) - another fantastic song. Vince Clark remix to be released in July! I like it, too! Liking "How do you love" as well, I'm getting more and more interested in the album ("Bronto"), coming Sept 12,...
« We are starting work early this year on the 2025 edition of "Annually", which, as always, will include a selection of your letters answered by Chris and Neil.
So if you have a question for them, email it to info@beckerbrown.com with "Annually letters" in the subject line by next Monday, 7th...
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Ooh lovely, thank you very much! Yup, I think I'm gonna have to add that one to the wish list. :mrgreen:
Pet Shop Boys are happy to announce a special PSB-themed tea set, which will be released on 20th November and is available to pre-order now.
The products are the first to be launched as part of a new "Pet Shop Boys since 1984" range to commemorate 40 years since the release of the duo’s debut...
I was listening to some of the KLF’s tracks (they are back on YouTube with a brand new page) and I noticed some of the voices of “Last train to Trancentral” sound like the dialogue on “We came from outer space”... so I was thinking about “Relentless” being the PSB doing the KLF. What do you think...
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Twas in the recent Annually, p48 in the 6 Music diary. They play the Morales remix of So Hard and digress on to The KLF.
Brilliant, thank you… I’d flicked through but forgotten that feature. Appreciated.
So Scissor Sisters had guest Jessie Ware in Glasgow and Olly Alexander in Cardiff.... the press for London 02 (this Friday) says another special guest..... anyone got any intel on if it could be Neil??
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We got a video of Sir Ian, but you got the real thing, amazing! Sorry it wasn't Arr Neil but I'm sure that made up for it.
I thought PSB had said that Chris came up with the idea of covering Dark end of the street, only to notice that Neil’s friend Joel Gibb did the same song in 2016….coincidence?
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There's no doubt in my mind that they should have released this instead of the risible Dudes - does anyone love that song?
Dark end is maybe their third best cover version in the mould of Always on my mind rather than Somewhere . It's a another missed opportunity letting it languish on the...
So, excluding the remakes of old tracks and demos we have the following original or cover versions:
1. Party in the blitz
2.Through you
3. Sense of time
4. If Jesus had a sister
5. It's not a crime
6. I've got plans (involving you)
7. Everybody will dance
8. All the young Dudes
9. Beauty has...
Saw this the other day, does anyone know what the track list is?
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A lot of the stuff included on the compilations from that site are downloaded from youtube... if you´re a long time collector, you´ll hardly find something really "unique" there...
So we're a little over a month away from the relaunch of the Dreamworld concerts.
The BlueRay was pushed back, and what releases we've seen this year could largely have been completed or produced before we even got to 2025. What little we have seen has been around Naked, and the unexpected "Hymn"...
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As been mentioned there’s been plenty already and when I contacted Mark Farrow a few months ago he said there would be more since 1984 items available sometime this year so guess we need to wait until it’s announced. My guess there may be some available at the upcoming concerts this summer.
There is another thread about Loneliness but it's more oriented about the song but I think is better to have another thread about the b-sides. Well, they are two proper songs.
I think Party in the Blitz is a good song, not with the typical sound from PSB but If like it. :D
Through You is better...
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Interesting article about partying in the Blitz...
Great, and interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Bronski Beat - FORBIDDEN FRUIT - THE AGE OF CONSENT REMIXED
Format: LP and CD
Release date: 11th July 2025
01 Why? (feat. Neil Tennant) 08:18
02 Smalltown Boy (Extended) 06:46
03 Junk (An ElectroGenetic Extended Remix by Gareth Jones) 07:47
04 Love And Money (RSF Metropol Italo...
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Greetings,
Interesting. This "Superchumbo Superextended Mix" was the one originally exclusive to Beatport, if I remember correctly.
Retro. :)
Ooo yes, the one that puts more of the song back in!
By the way I've booked to see the current Jimmy Somerville and Bronski Beat exhibition at ''Queer...
I'm a huge Pet Shop Boys fan since I was 4 years old and I wanted to share something special with you.
I’ve made an accurate instrumental recreation of one of their songs that I love the most, 'Being Boring' and I thought it would be fantastic to share it with this wonderful community...
I think we have to download the performance of PSB with the Olympics ("Winner", "Westend Girls" and "Go West") and upload it on Youtube as soon as we can.
If we put in the title "Olympics parade" or "Olympics celebration" with "Pet Shop Boys", many people will look for it on Youtube, not Pet Shop...
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Neil sounds great in this!
Nice crowd loving it.
Very unique setting for them, in amongst it. No idea why people poo-pooed them getting involved.
Anybody know of any funny videos/clips/interviews of PSB on youtube, or on any other site? I`m making a collection of PSB funny moments... :)
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The very first words uttered by CHris on the PopArt commentary when Neil first appears on screen.. "ooh, there she is!" ;-)
:mrgreen: oh yes that is my favourite PSB funny moment and I missed it the first time I ever heard the commentary. Both this and the Performance commentary are full of funny...
This is the Farrow-designed cover of the "Undertow" three-track CD which will come exclusively with copies of the new Annually book. Go to the Store on this site to pre-order your copy. A four-track vinyl 12-inch will also be commercially released at a later date to be...
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This made me check back and in August it will be 20 years since my first post here, and I suspect I was lurking before that.
Crazy but absolutely brilliant that we’ve all been here for so long.
Just watched episode two of season four of “The Righteous Gemstones”, which is a Max/HBO comedy series about a family of corrupt televangelists.
The climactic scene of this episode prominently features “It’s a sin.” The success of PSB syncs since returning to Parlophone continues. I’m sure it also...
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I am waiting for a flood of the first-time listeners on Youtube, who are eager to ask "who came here after watching "The Righteous Gemstones”.
Today is a busy day for PSB world, with three new releases:
Mark Springer, Neil Tennant & Sacconi Quartet - Sleep Of Reason
The Hidden Cameras - How do you love (pet shop boys remix)
Tina Turner - Hot For You Baby (pet shop boys remix)
However, Sleep Of Reason involves Neil without Chris,...
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Is that corrugated iron they're hitting
No no no it's perfectly normal
It's just the sound...of my testicles falling off
I was just listening Twenty something and came up with this question since it happens to me right after the last verse.
I always get goosebumps because I can't process how beautiful is that bit. (From 3:30 to 3:41 on the album version)
But there are other examples:
- The final build up of To step...
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I was born in Husum, Germany, after the second world war, and grew up in a humanities environment characterized by Rudolf Steiner's teachings. The beauty of nature and the architecture of the manor houses, especially the community e.V., Schloss Richthof and Hofgut Sassen, left a lasting impression...
1985
‘West End Girls’
The 68th best-selling single of 1985.
228,701 copies sold.
The top 13 selling singles sold over 500, 000 copies in 1985. By comparison, in 1987 (Pet Shop boys ‘imperial phase’?) only the top 7 singles managed those kinds of...
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I am surprised Never Gonna's sales figure is merely 700,000 + units. It was everywhere and I mean it literally. It was like every Uk citizen had to buy it by the force of law.
By the way, I hate that song (and all SAW tracks- they are so awful that they are not even popular atn those boring and...
Chris once said that after listening to Passion by The Flirts, everything he had heard up to that point was made redundant.
Cast your mind back to when you had that feeling to a Pet Shop Boys song.
Mine has to be Paninaro (Italian Remix) from Disco. Everything about that mix made me feel this is...
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What always impressed me about Paninaro is that it's the bloody other one 'singing' it! How good must you be if a stone-cold classic has the keyboard player on lead vocals?
Even The Beatles only gave Ringo the cheesier songs; it wasn't like he sang Strawberry Fields.
I found some old VHS video cassettes in my loft at the weekend. Every time something PSB related was on the TV, I would stick my cassette in and wait, my fingers hovering over the record button. You may well have done the same. The result is four x three-hour cassettes, some more full than others,...
I'm having a blackout. I have a vague memory of listening to this remix, the full length one, on a CD because it would be on my ipod. I've searched in my many iTunes libraries, discogs, and I've come up empty-handed.
Am I delusional here, I could have sworn it was released on a CD, either a...
For people looking for the 1996 theme of The Noise, which they composed for the ITV show of the same name, someone uploaded the first full episode to youtube yesterday:
And you can hear the musical theme in 30 seconds glorious stereo. A lot better than the version I have.
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Wow, never heard about this track. It makes me think to a lost tmit track.
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on the lack of any vinyl single releases thus far. One thing about the Kobalt era was the abundance of stuff released on (mainly)12"
Electric era - Axis 10", Vocal 12", Bourgeois 12", Thursday 12", Fluorescent RSD 12"
Super era - The Pop kids 12", Inner...
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Slight tangent but there are thousands upon thousands of vinyl singles/albums in all the charity shops and car boots
As some of you may know, some enthusiasts at the UK Mix forum recently got their hands on the actual chart data used by Gallup to compile the UK singles chart in the 1980s and early 1990s. What's interesting is that it revealed for the first time the estimated weekly sales of each single along with...
I found this on YT
Somebody doing AI versions... supposed to sound like PSB or at least Neil singing. I've listened to a handful of songs. They sound like demoes and weak demoes as well. I compared with a Queen AI channel which was way ahead of this PSB AI channel.
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I'm familiar with the channel. These songs are a guilty pleasure of mine.
These are some bits from Annually which I thought were interesting:
If Jesus had a sister “was potentially down to be on the album originally”.
Everybody will dance was sent to Robbie Williams for his possible use.
Chris’s first choice for their Piano Room cover version was Ivor Novell’s My...
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New London boy was considered as the first single from Nonetheless.
I was actually surprised to learn that it was not , in fact, a single until like the very end! That one BBC article (released right when they were promoting Nonetheless) gave me a false impression :lol:
The general feeling I'm reading of exhaustion over the Dreamworld dates this year and the delayed release of the DVD got me thinking about how things might have played out had COVID never happened.
The Boys must have had some sort of "plan" for the years ahead, even if songs weren't written or...
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Greetings,
As it relates to Dreamworld specifically, I have always envisaged this "greatest hits" tour as their touring swan-song. I think all the pandemic did was delay its commencement, and potentially push out its finale.
1- Kraftwerk
2 - Depeche Mode
3 - New Order
4 - Pet Shop Boys
5 - The Human League
6 - Daft Punk
7 - Erasure
8 - Yazoo (Yaz en USA)
9 - CHVRCHES
10 - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
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Greetings,
Half of the artists wouldn't fit even in a serious top 100 electronic bands of all time.
In his latest social media posting, Rupaul chooses Liza Minelli “Results” as his pick. Wonder why the boys never produce or remix any of Rupaul songs or even appear on Drag Race…
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Yup, even the gay community likes its icons having mass appeal. No artist has ever had success sucking up to the gay community.
In order to make an easy reading of the reviews from the members of this community. I think all os us should use only one thread for all our reviews about Nonetheless. A space we can express our opinion about all the songs from Nonetheless song by...
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It's been a year and I listen to songs from this album all the time. I finally bought the vinyl, I was expecting that they would bring 3 vinyls with bonuses to Russia, but in Russia it costs 150 Euro. I bought the transparent one and listen to it with pleasure.
New London Boy sounds the best in my...
I thought someone would have noted it here but maybe everybody bas a copy. PSB tweeted that BFI had some copies left of the limited edition version of ichh for 19.99 if anyone is still interested. Still in stock right now.
AR
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Yep. You don’t need to drop any frames. It’s well worth doing for my ears and picture remains completely smooth.
I am asking this for myself but possibly others might find the answer to this question useful as well. Helping others out as well who also want a poster.
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Hi everyone,
I am looking for a PSB poster to frame and put on my wall.
I do like the YES artwork and have been looking for that as a...
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I've the same design of poster but for the UK leg of the tour:
Hey hey everybody!
I'm looking for an article or an interview I know I've read somewhere about the changes included in the cover of All the young dudes. I mean lyric subtle changes and omissions on the radio version.
Thanks!
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Wonderful compendium, Wayne! Thanks so much. Added clarity to many lines I've wondered about.
Neil will be appearing as a special guest vocalist for “Great Movie Songs with @annedudleymusic & Friends” at the
@RoundhouseLDN, London on Tuesday, 25th March 2025, as part of the @LDNSoundtrack Festival. Full details at the link below.
Conductor
Anne Dudley
Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic...
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Non paywall version:
Thanks!
Worth it for this gem describing Neil... ''Dressed in the frock coat of a frisky Victorian curate''...
Some PSB items I am just destined not to own, and this is one of them. When it first came out I was on holiday and temporarily incommunicado. Yesterday when these few were available, I was in the dentist having a tooth extraction. C'est la vie!
Hope you all are well!
I wanted to share this new remix with you, as you've given me some nice and useful feedback in the past.
I hope you like it. Any feedback is welcome!
Thanks!
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Missed this the first time around but luckily an undertow drew me to this thread. Good thing too, because this is utterly gorgeous! It's so floaty and trippy and I love the new riff. Thanks for sharing! :clap:
That’s great, thank you so much, really appreciate the feedback :)
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