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...
Last post
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.
Sorry if this has been thrashed out here before. But as a new-ish fan I had no idea it existed until a few days ago. That cover, the story. The key in Neil’s hand. I know not technically a PSB album…
BUT had to have.
Imo it’s GORGEOUS!!
Last post
Must be due a vinyl reissue - plenty of other Back To Mine compilations have had the treatment.
Viewers of the new movie 'Tetris' on AppleTV Plus are in for a treat as the movie closes with a new version of Opportunities!
Last post
Relistened to this "mix" on YouTube recently and it's not as good as I remembered it the first time around. The Tetris music isn't as prominent as I remembered, and I think it more or less feels like it's just "Opportunities" with that tacked on behind it, rather than it becoming an integral piece...
I’m making a list of all PSB studio recordings that feature real strings or orchestra. Anything missing from the below?
Left to my own devices
This must be the place I waited years to leave
Only the wind
My October symphony
Jealousy (single version)
Overture to Performance
Liberation
Dreaming of...
Last post
Battleship Potemkin:
Comrades!
Men and Maggots
Our Daily Bread
Drama in the Harbour
Nyet
To the Shore
Odessa
No Time for Tears
To the Battleship
After All (The Odessa Staircase)
Stormy Meetings
Night Falls
Full Steam Ahead
The Squardon
For Freedom
I thought I'd Google Pet Shop Boys with Philip Guston as I have just seen his retrospective at Tate Modern and I ended up with this interesting interview. The Sam Macinbes show was called "Pet Shop Biyz ?" I think, not "Pet Shop Biys"
V.B Where has the title ‘Pet Shop Biys’ come from?
S.M The work...
Rank your favourite lead singles from each album! I’ve considered Domino dancing the lead single from Introspective rather than Always on my mind, and Vocal the lead single from Electric rather than Axis, but feel free to tweak for your list
1. I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it any...
Last post
01 Can You Forgive Her?
02 It's A Sin
03 West End Girls (why do some of you leave this off your list?)
04 Domino Dancng
05 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore
06 So Hard
07 The Pop Kids
08 Before
09 I'm With Stupid
10 Loneliness
12 Axis
13 Love ETC.
14 Home and Dry
15 Winner
16...
I have a ROH mosh pit spot for the Saturday night.
My first time in the pit. Although I know(ish) one other person going in there, I will mostly be han solo - please tell me everything I need to know. The good, the not so good. Can’t find any footage online. Is it REALLY the best place to be?
I...
Last post
I’m very jealous of all you guys. Was trying for ages and kept crashing and couldn’t get anything.
Having been to the previous shows I think it’s safe to say it’s the least moshy mosh pit I’ve ever been in. People will definitely be dancing and enjoying it, but you’ve got absolutely nothing to...
According to David Cavanagh's Creation records book, 'My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize', Chris voiced this opinion - or words to the effect of this thread's title - during a Smash Hits feature on whether the monarchy should remain, or otherwise. I can't find the actual quote online anywhere....
Last post
"You can't ask us that! We should do away with the Royal Family. They should be publicly executed. Non-violently, of course!"
Thank you! I've wanted to see this for years, as it's mentioned in David Cavenagh's amazing Creation Records book. Apparently Creation's Alan McGee was disappointed in how...
Neil and Chris have commented on virtually every song they've ever written, between Literally/Annually releases and the liner notes for the re-issues. But there are a few exceptions:
Relentless tracks
Living in the Past
Have they ever commented on these songs?
Last post
In terms of "Relentless", they've never really commented on its specific tracks over the years, but rather of spoken of it in terms of its general concept or mood. Back in 1993 Neil said when they were writing the songs that would become "Very", they found they were also writing songs similar to...
So far no PSB related stuff (as far as I can see the closest thing is The Other Two's "Tasty Fish" 12")
Quite thankful actually. Hopefully they're too focused on shifting the new album. It did occur to me though that it would be an outlet for a vinyl 7", 10" or 12"of Loneliness. I'm not...
"Radio Edit","order":1,"title":"Loneliness"
"Album Version"
"PO Intro Edit - Clean"
"PO Quick Edit - Clean
Last post
All it is is the intro and outro has the beat behind it so it can be mixed into and out of easier. It's the album version. You're not missing anything amazing. The 30 second outro on the album version is reduced to about ten seconds with the beat behind it
I'm not talking about the song, I'm talking about the video.
To be honest the video is crap. The only thing they know is to put young boys naked or seminaked on the video again and again. There is lack of ideas. The beginning is similar to I Get Along. It's like a soft porn gay video and is really...
Last post
As we're, IMHO, opinioned out and into personal insults and graphic sexual images, both against forum rules, the time has come to close this thread.
You've already heard it, nickname. Nothing on it is as good as It's a Sin or Always on my Mind. Nothing on it will appeal to ver kidz. Nothing on it will get a billion hits on YouTube.
Hopefully there will be great album tracks or b-sides that match their imperial time output. It has been so since...
A legendary Pet Shop Boys album is released on CD, digital and limited-edition vinyl, celebrating the 30th anniversary of "Very Relentless". The limited-edition yellow vinyl version, exclusive to the PSB Store, and the CD will be released on 20th October.
Last post
It's also the reason I still haven't ordered the Nonetheless Deluxe LP + Bonus 12" from the official store. As much as I would like to own that release, the exact thing will happen
Anybody baffled by the fact that Chris is without headwear? Both on the single and album covers as well as in the video for Loneliness. What does this signal?
Last post
A new era. I like it.
Quite unusual for Chris to be without headwear.
I shave my head too so I don't mind seeing him like this.
Looks pretty cool with the shades.
reminds me of the System 01/Effective Force > Johnny Klimek (composer 'Run Lola Run' soundtrack) look...:
Clearly they have the technical skills, because I know they did with Release, but that wasn't a massive success, so is it to do with not trusting their own instincts in commercial terms, eg picking the tracks and doing the arranging?
Last post
Didn't Neil talk about old age and maintaining one's curiousity in the interview in The Guardian? Could be something about that, just wanting to keep exploring.
For no particular reason I made a simple list of the major side projects between album releases. If it had only been these side projects I believe I'd still be a major fan and they'd be my favourite musical act anyway. Hey, merely AlternativeFormat is enough.
West End girls
Oppor
86
Disco
87
Always on my mind
ICHH Film...
Last post
I'm sorry for the confusion. By "major side projects" I actually meant projects (as in musical endevours) aside from albums, between album releases.
I'd definately say though that the Disco series is a side project in its own right.
SMASH with it's artwork, booklet and videos as well.
“The title of this work—JUST WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT—is an excerpt from the lyrics of ‘Love Comes Quickly’ by the Pet Shop Boys,” Gibson explained. “That song is about love and loving relationships, I wanted to use those words to speak about the times we’re living in and how unpredictable they...
I initially placed this in the Billie Trix thread, but incase some don't see it..
Jonathan Harvey posted on his Instagram regarding meeting up recently with a very cold looking Chris (minus shades) and Neil, presumably to discuss future Musik or other projects..
Last post
I wonder if "Through you" is a track from "Naked"? After all, they first dropped "No boundaries" a track from "My Beautiful Launderette" as a b-side to the "Dreamland" single.
“What we’ve got is a whole stage show called Naked, based on The Emperor’s New Clothes,” says Tennant. “It’s tune-central!” (Why Am I Dancing? rewrites a ballad from the show.)
From The Guardian
Wow - can't wait!!!
Last post
I wonder if "Through you" is a track from "Naked"? After all, they first dropped "No boundaries" a track from "My Beautiful Launderette" as a b-side to the "Dreamland" single.
Seems they are releasing their new LP on Parlophone. x2 seems to have been abandoned now.
Last post
It's funny how they've gone back to parlophone and they're using orchestras again, maybe they get paid more money per album now? 🤔
Neil has said that the amount they received per album sold was vastly higher, when they went independent, than what Parlophone paid them. But it could be that...
Wednesday is clearly going to be a key Pet Shop Boys day. It’s the first cinema showing of Dreamworld, and we now know they are also appearing on the Radio 2 breakfast show.
An appearance on the UK’s biggest radio show therefore means it is likely that they will be debuting their new single. If...
Last post
Was I close?
A source close to the band...
Great predictions...
Purely guesswork.
Unsure if there's other shows at this stage... I just learnt of this one via a Facebook advertisement.
Retro. :)
Last post
I didn't want to start a new thread, but Jonathan Harvey has just posted a photo meeting up with a very cold looking Chris and Neil. "Plotting n planning.."
Pet Shop Boys’ once-a-year publication Annually will be published on May 10th 2024 and is available to pre-order now. A brand new exclusive Annually 2024 T-shirt is also available to pre-order at the link below.
The new 64-page, hard-backed book will include:
• An in-depth look at the new album...
Last post
It’s still available to order. I ordered one yesterday as I had a blind panic when I accessed the store and couldn’t find it in my order history. Although the store is a mess as when I ordered annually the order for Loneliness and nonetheless had disappeared.
Not yet a Pet Shop Boys but Smash Hits magazine’s latest scribe, Neil Tennant’s first trip to the US saw him interview Phil Collins & Genesis AND review Blondie, Elvis Costello & A Flock Of Seagulls.
But as he said himself, “a lot of it isn’t...
Sorry if this has been covered before. I was giving Very a fresh listen today and despite having listened to it many, many times, today I heard it in a totally different way.
It holds together as a concept album of a man's lived journey of sexual discovery, love, loss, health scare, insecurity,...
I just made a transcription of probably the first radio interview PSB did for Dutch radio, on Countdown Cafe, January 1986 as documented in Annually. Afterwards they played Shep Pettibone's Mastermix of West End girls.
There's probably some typos in it, I gave it to an AI who transcribed it and...
Last post
So by January 1986 they had already half of the album made.
As always I come to think about the possibilities for a 1985 album. This could've been one with lots of different producers. Something like this (disregarding rights issues but based on what's been releases and what was, as we know,...
Here we are, out here in the far future in 2024, and it is very exciting to think we are only weeks away from a new PSB 'era' beginning. It is also hard to imagine that Hotspot came out nearly four years ago. With the pandemic changing everyone's life in so many ways, early 2020 seems like a...
Last post
And there it is for all you debaters, yesterday I finally got excited over the prospect of soon getting to hear the new single. I'm sorry it took so long.
I can't believe it will be a slow song. I'm hoping for something political.
I happen to really like this album, and also love the Musik EP.
Anyway, I finally decided to ask around here, why the last track "Positive Role Model (Straight)" has such a low volume? The transition from the previous track to this is so obvious, you must raise the volume.
Is this present on all...
Last post
Just back from watching Jonathan Pie on his uk tour. His “coming on” music was Positive Role Model! Jonathan Pie is a fictional news reporter played by Tom Walker.
Tom Walker played Mile-end Lee in the original 2001 run of Closer To Heaven
I never knew Jonathan Pie was Tom Walker! :shock:...
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
