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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.
Please note - to keep it fair, we're comparing the "single" versions of the A-sides here - in other words, the versions that would have appeared on Smash, if it extended into 2024. We're not assessing the entire "single package" with its b-sides and mixes.
Feel free to comment and...
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I love both tracks. Loneliness is magnificent in its full glory, sweeping ominously across the psychological wreckage of a dysfunctional relationship. Dancing star, by contrast, is joyous. As I get older, I tend to prefer my PSB "up". I loved Electric and Super. I adore Will-o-the-wisp. So, I tend...
So on their Radio 2 chat a few weeks' ago, Neil revealed that Ringo was not actually walking by a canal. Is he including deliberate mistakes on every track on Nonetheless? My research suggests that Nureyev jumped the barrier at Le Bourget Airport, not Orly.
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That it's a river, not a canal is particularly galling to me as I just bought a narrow boat on the basis of hearing the lyric as a good omen!
:lol: :lol: :lol: And I'm canceling my flight to Paris!
God, we're terrible, aren't we. I bet the former editor is always thrilled to be pulled up by...
Like a little game, I think is a good time to guess about which one is going to be the main single of "Nonetheless". Some people could think "Loneliness" is the main one but I think you can consider the second one like the main one just because it looks obvious there is a new single to be released...
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Yes there is, we (the forum) have in this thread reanalysed the PSB single vs album history and concluded that there is indeed some kind of evidence for the "main single" concept.
Oh I do feel oh so foolish, someone's written on the internet so it must be true, how dare I have an opinion against...
Well, I wanted to ask you if there is someone who has requested the refund and how long it took. I'm still waiting for the Annually 2023 refund, so don't even think about Smash.
Has anyone received it? How long has it taken? In an email they told me it would take, but they did not specify how long.
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Yes, I completed it myself on 29 february, I got a refund on my paypal account on 26 march.
Hi people, I haven't seen this one here so I'm sharing it.
Published April 2nd, 2024 in Diario da Manha (Brazil)
Link:
Translation
Pet Shop Boys release new album of ironic ballads
The album was produced by James Ford, who has worked with Arctic Monkeys and Depeche Mode. The singer talks in...
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I find this part fascinating:
Tennant says that the Pet Shop Boys' working method hasn't changed in decades. He and Lowe work on samples of the songs, which are recorded and sent to the producer. Ford worked alone for two or three weeks, listening to the tapes and writing down suggestions, and...
Steve is a hige PSB fan and knows everything. I think he used to hang out with them. A thoroughly good chap.
And a great writer. This is his recent blog on Paninaro, Lies, One of the crowd...
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From Facebook:
“Dancing to Roxy and Bowie”: Reviewing the Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless
EXCLUSIVE: It’s the Steve Pafford album review, innit.
As the Pet Shop Boys unveil their long-awaited fifteenth studio set, it might be too much to expect Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to define our times as...
@BBCRadio2’s “Rylan On Saturday” this weekend will start with an hour of Pet Shop Boys music and a chat with
@Rylan. Tune in tomorrow, 6th April from 3pm BST at the link below.
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For the record: Neil sound less croaky on the latest podcast hosted by Smash hits colleagues (Which was apparently recorded in a warehouse...)
Lol that reverb.
We can use this thread for the other songs of the single and let the other one for the song itself, "Dancing Star" and the mixed songs.
If Jesus had a sister:
Sense of time
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I am thinking we have gotten to the point where they have released as B-sides most of the missing in action tracks talked about in the various literallys.
one by one over the course of the last few years they have seemingly emptied the vaults, and now to hear possibly "Clean air hybrid bus" thats...
Pet Shop Boys 'Aside' ... an album of tracks that have been cast aside by the boys.
Sparked by the recent debate in the Nonetheless album thread, I thought it would be interesting to get the Community's take on their top 12 tracks that could sit on such an album. So ignoring studio album tracks...
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The 12 first songs of Alternative is pretty much it, saved for a proper album that album could've been one of their best.
I thought I'd start a new thread in case anyone missed the link I've put up on Mixcloud. As part of episode 2 of our podcast we briefly discuss Pet Shop Boys Day on Radio 1 in September 1993 to promote Go West & Very.
I claimed to have no memory of this, so imagine my surprise when I...
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Excellent. Glad you found the tape.
I recorded them all at the time but they disappeared long ago.
Just had a listen to the extended mix of It's Alright. The Trevor Horn remix that is, not the Julian extended dance mix.
It's 8:45 long and to me unfortunately proves that not all extended mixes from the 80's were good. The 7'' mix of It's Alright is such an improvement from the album version, at...
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The Album version fits perfectly within the Introspective canon.
I was surprised, that they released an 12" Extended Version, as the Album version is so Extended.
Loved the time, when they released so many formats with different versions.
Although released under the Eighth Wonder banner, I’m Not Scared is a solo single by singer Patsy Kensit or more accurately, a Pet Shop Boys single + guest vocalist. For this was the first time Tennant/Lowe gave away a song to another act, and it’s a thing of untouchable...
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My favourite Patsy Kensit memory is from 18 years ago when she was out-acted by an exploding, collapsing house in Emmerdale:
A quick update on why the forum has been inaccessible over the past 24 hours. Apparently, we have experienced a DDoS attack. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the...
What is - Songs In The Attic?
It is a Billy Joel live album. Why I am mentioning it? It is not the standard live album. For those who do not know, it is a compilation or greatest hits live album. A selection of live tracks from different concerts, all on a CD.
Of cause the PSB version would have a...
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I'd certainly concentrate on rare stuff to make it something different. We've already got all those suggestions on DVD at least, and in some cases CD. Firstly, live performances don't have to be in front of an audience, so maybe a 2CD with Disc 1 from a concert hall, Disc 2 studio bound.
Do we have a list of every track with Chris's vocals?
The only ones I know of is Paninaro (obviously) and that little bit in Building A Wall.
I would be interested to know if he sang/spoke on any other tracks.
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Wayne's got you covered.
Thank you.
This is only Chris as the lead or equal significance to Neil. It's not every song he's sung/spoken on.
Looking through his site and this comes up
This along with your list would mist likely be the definitive answer.
It was Number 1 and it proves that (MTV European Top 20 chart):
Some people could know that but others don't. So I suppose it made someone happy 31 years later. :mrgreen:
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Back to Go West: clever to cover an unknown Village People song and make it their own. But after 30 years they may put it to rest in their live shows imo. I don’t hate it and I know thr casual audience likes it, but I hardly play that song anymore.
I just bought the remastered vinyl of Very (let's not get into why the heck I haven't had that in my collection for 30 years :oops: ) but was struck - as I was when I spotted it the first time on yhe CD inlay - by the little faces of Neil and Chris dotted across the sleeve, and how one in...
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It was quite annoying back in the day as I’d be wanting to stick “Go West” on the jukebox in my local pub but never did after I realised there would be 4 or 5 mins of silence before the next track..!
I think you’d have been OK. It probably would have been the single version on the jukebox.
Does anyone have info on the following version of " Close My Eyes "?
Why is this version special and interesting?
Because it is the only version of "Close My Eyes" with NEIL singing "We're the Pet Shop Boys" !
It happens at 05:25.
Why is it mysterious?
Because I can not find any CD containing...
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Wikipedia says it is real:
hmm.. i think the mix were talking about here is not mentioned on Wikipedia. The "Original Club Mix" mentioned there, included on the CD singles, is a different version. It´s actually the "Club Mix", the word "original" is not present on the releases. A mistake on...
Did a search and don't think it's been mentioned here before
Very sweet!
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Or maybe we are all just old and spoiled by so much choice 🙃
Maybe your first entry point into PSB land is amazing no matter what album it is?
Maybe we love the early stuff because that's what we first heard. A bit like old Star Wars fans dismissing Jar Jar as childish while defending their...
Although it won’t be available for another month PSB will be featured in the May edition of Record Collector magazine.
“We’re already hard at work on the fifth issue of 2024. Pet Shop Boys discuss their new album and 40 years as high priests of pristine woe. We also celebrate 1984 in all its...
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Although it won’t be available for another month PSB will be featured in the May edition of Record Collector magazine.
“We’re already hard at work on the fifth issue of 2024. Pet Shop Boys discuss their new album and 40 years as high priests of pristine woe. We also celebrate 1984 in all its...
Pet Shop Boys now HAVE to do a double album called 'Chemistry // Antagonism' ... following up on Chris Lowe's jokingly delivered reply to presenter Vernon Kay's question in the 'Piano Room' session on BBC Radio 2, 23rd of February 2024.
Kay asked about, what kind of chemistry Neil Tennant and...
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I have nothing to say about Chris's so called humour. I find it all dull, both of their personalities are actually, to me, almost completely uninteresting to me. All I want is music.
Yet you previously said you weren’t excited by the new album.
The question in that thread was about "excitement"....
Well, a new album from PSB is going to be released as everybody knows. A new baby for the long catalogue of studio albums from Neil and Chris. No compilations, no album of remixes, it's a new album and a new era.
This new album tell stories that describe human feelings. So we can make a tribute to...
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I didn't like Hotspot and I don't think I'll like Nonetheless. I had a good time with Super I guess. I suppose they might still make good music. Maybe I'm wrong about ageing ruining music-making ability.
Many of PSB's singles mixes are different to their parent album versions. I'm interested to know which versions you guys prefer. My list below (with my preferences stated) excludes singles that were exactly the same as the album versions, plus a couple with hardly any differences (2nd version of...
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Thursday is a real conundrum. They fixed the crappy inaudible vocal for the single, then cut it to shreds for the radio friendly length.
The legendary late 80s girl group Fuzzbox are back Back BACK etc and according to their press release, their new album features a collaboration with Pet Shop Boys! I’ve asked Maggie about it but had a reply yet....
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It was Mark Refoy contributing (played on the Release tour) not PSB. I think.
Yes,
''This is gem of a record and illustrates the prowess of a very under-rated band. It has all the hits but on this cataclysmically amazing occasion is gifted with guest slots by the likes of legendary soul queen...
There's a slowly progressing discussion in the off topic section about OMD and I wonder if any of you know about any connection between PSB and OMD? And I mean by persons not the fact they are british pop duos which emerged in the 80's and still are active.
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Sorry, very juvenile and waaaaay off topic but it may refer to the self described, collective onanistic tendencies of everyone’s favourite be-denimed 3-chord boogie purveyors. See the Chart Music Podcast A-Z wiki:
Polish, Having A: The post-gig relaxation technique deployed by Status Quo,...
Imagine PSB not as a duo but a group (of at least three members). What would the timeline look like?
The group must include people who've made large contributions over a longer period. Timeline does only include music work (not artwork etc)
1981-1983 N&C + Ray Roberts
1983-1985 N&C + Bobby O...
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Faltermeyer ftw!
Nope, they just gave some tracks for him to work on, then they went back to UK to finish them with Mendelsohn (who, according to my theory, was part of the group).
I'd really like to hear that Munich mix of Behaviour.
I wondered if any of you, as I have before, had a time when you became a bit disappointed with PSB and felt the need to look elsewhere for some similar musical inspiration?
For me it was around the time of Release - it just didn't scratch the itch I needed from PSB at the time. As a result I ended...
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Definitely!! The wilderness years started with Very for me. I remember hearing Can You Forgive Her and I loved it! :up: But then the whole album came out and I was very disappointed, as I liked only Can you forgive her?, The Theatre and Dreaming of the Queen, but the rest of the album sounded cheap...
Since it's International Womens Day today it seemed apropos to pose the question of whether there are (in anyone opinion) any female producers out there who could add something new and exciting to the PSB sound?
I'm not super "up" on producers but fairly sure it's quite male dominated, and PSB, to...
I know the Boys are playing soon at the Royal Opera House, but I was thinking how I would love to see them tour such a performance. It would be such a fitting event for their music, in regards to their latest album, and a nice change of pace from the “lasers” shows over the past few years.
I wound...
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I would love this too as a tour or a residency. I know touring with an orchestra is really expensive. I was at the RAH in 2017 and it was great despite the sound/acoustic not being great.
I can have 4 speakers plugged into my old Sony CD player, and my multichanger that got stuck had a central fifth speaker as well as rear speakers. Some tracks work better than others, but for some it is almost like climbing into the track and rather amazing. One more chance from the reissues is...
I was thinking back to how when we last only got a "long version" of a b-side on the opening single ("The Way Through The Woods" on "Winner") that the shorter version appeared exclusively on the Japanese edition of the album.
Which led me to wonder if there'd be a Japanese version of...
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CD Japan have told me that they are not allowed to list it as the record label have blocked it from being sold overseas.
It looks like we will need to use third parties.
As long as it is made in Japan and it includes as well some bonuses, that will be fine. The "Japanese Smash" was made in...
On Radio 1 in the early 90s there used to be a regular ‘skit’ called at home with the pet shop boys. They were only a minute or so long and were played on steve wright’s show I believe. It was basically 2 actors voicing Neil and Chris in stereotypical style (Neil talkative, chris grumpy). As I...
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The Spitting Image song and video is quite amusing, but like so many of the parodies, the crap production and songwriting only serves to underscore how superb PSB's production and songwriting is. The only thing these parodies really seem to achieve is to demonstrate their inability to recreate the...
CASISDEAD will release their debut studio album entitled Famous Last Words, on October 27th via XL Recordings. The LP features collaborators including Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, Connie Constance, Kamio and Desire.
The vocalists are immersed in CASISDEAD’s hallmark 80’s-inspired synthpop...
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That's cool to hear. I will admit I did not pick up the whole album, but I like "Skydive" and think Neil's contribution is exceptional.
For anyone interested I’ve just been sent information about this forthcoming magazine
Classic Pop Presents Pet Shop Boys
In this special edition 132-page magazine, we survey Pet Shop Boys' incredible career thus far from their early pioneering work with Bobby Orlando that led to debut...
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Just something that I discovered recently (factual errors and all)...
For anyone who hasn't acquired the physical publication (or whose copy is not conveniently within reach), and especially for newer fans:
Can anyone please tell me the name of the dancer wearing the purple dress and the two girls who have water poured on them at the start?
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Sorry to resurrect this thread. I was mostly interested in the dancer in the purple dress. I always thought she was gorgeous and had a big crush on her when I was a boy.
Don't remember her being in the Jealousy video. Will need to watch to check.
Interesting that this hasn't become a subject (or has really been covered in the Lost thread).
The QR code suggests that by 'mining it' (clicking & activating it) Annually 2023 is the first of a digital Pet Shop Boys digital collection.
I hope all the collectors / completists out there are...
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The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows:
Yes that's gone very quiet. Only reupping this thread because the new Annually is imminent. I suspect though we may never understand what the heck this was all about.
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