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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.
I've had very little luck finding any sort of visual record of the original London production of Closer to Heaven. Does anyone know of any links online, or any pics they can post? (the website for it now links to a larger Really Useful Co. website (Lloyd Webber's production company) with no listing...
yay! finally released
it's beautiful, the arrangement is so moving, and it's better with this faster beat
in overall, it's much much improved and better than demo
ending is the best, when he says ''bright young thing'' line at the end, you think it will go in fade-out but then he adds ''nightingale...
Since I'll probably have to buy some PSB product to see the Boys @ next Thursday's LA signing, I figure I'd pick up the US edition of PopArt - to support the Boys with domestic sales but also because I recall an earlier thread that says there are some differences between the 2.
Can someone please...
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Which version of DJ Culture is it? The original 7"/Discography version or the UKPopArt version with the later fade?
I wish the US Pop Art had the 7" of Suburbia (as opposed to the video edit) and Was It Worth It? but they've already done some good things to it, so I'm not going to complain....
But imagine my delight today when during an ordinary TV show here (Nigella?) there was a tasteful, cool commercial pumping "Minimal", advertising their show on Tuesday here.
Imagine my delight on Saturday when my local pub played "Being Boring". With...
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I hear you, my sentiments exactly! I am counting down the hours until the show tomorrow. I'm just bummed I missed them at Border's today.
There is a small Preview in The Los Angeles Times calendar section, it first appeard in Thursdays Weekend Edition and then again in Sundays Paper, the Preview has an asterick * for Recommended Shows:
" Pet Shop Boys - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe don't tour often, so this career-spanding panorama...
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Cool! Have fun and take plenty of pictures of Neil for me! :D
Fundamental has gone up this week from 31 to 14 in the chart. Hoorah!
(Perhaps the HMV sale has helped)
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not really, Release has done 750,000 apparently and Nightlife did 1.2 million. Fundamental chart life is over, barring any unlikely revival, so it's gonna struggle to reach those figures
Release has sold 950.000 acording to Niel. Nightlife did sell 1.2 Million copies.
looks like quite a good collection,could be good for a new fan maybe, I couldn't bring myself to sell my collection
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Only £166? What a bummer.
Told you vinyl is on its way out...
Would have liked some of those, though broke...
I missed this one...
Liza Minnelli – Love Pains – Rare UK 12” remix, features ‘Rent’.
I didn't realise it were out. Quite liked the LM era. They went on Wogan with LMM.
This is what EMI Canada sent me today. So should also be in the shops here in Canada on the 14th as well, but you can order from shopemi link below as well:
"As you requested on 10/3/2006 at 10:55:01 AM please be advised that Pet
Shop Boys "A Life in Pop" (UPC: 094637858493) is now available for...
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I saw the NTSC region zero version of A Life In Pop in HMV here in Japan today. There wasn't a word of Japanese on the box, so I think it may have been the North American release. There was a list of the subtitled languages on the back of the box too - I can't remember which languages in particular...
According to posts on UKMix.org, there are new singles chart rules effective including:
Downloads can now count even if there is no physical single release .. including any song downloaded from an album
Maybe I'm with stupid was there last top ten then?
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In my opinion the charts will become a total farce with, potentially, a top 40 with 40 songs completely different from the previous week. It will also make the charts pointless because people won't be able to keep up with such rapid changes week-in, week-out. As well as that, it doesn't give...
Just a reminder that the PSB exhibition opens today, at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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I went today, and they have the PopArt DVD on loop, so it was even nicer with the music tinkling in the background... bizarrely saw someone from work in there!
It's a small but nice exhibition, and it's great to see the photos frames and in high quality print.
Does anyone have info on the PSB signing of Catalogue on Monday?...
Cheers
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Does anyone have info on the PSB signing of Catalogue on Monday?...
Cheers
As stated on the official PSB website (and also earlier in this forum):
"Next Monday, November 6th, Pet Shop Boys will be at Borders Union Square, 400 Post Street, San Francisco, from 6 pm to sign copies of Fundamental ,...
Is it just me, or is Go West a bit tired now. I mean I loved it when it came out, but when playing live I'd say bring back 'It's Alright' as the finale. It's celebratory and would send people out on a high. I wish they'd finished with this at Bestival. It's a dance festival after all.
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personally for me,I would retire both those AND always on my mind.
I'm not a good fan
I will take that personally...No one disses Always on my mind!!!
Next Monday, November 6th, Pet Shop Boys will be at Borders Union Square, 400 Post Street, San Francisco, from 6 pm to sign copies of Fundamental, the just-released-in-the-USA greatest hits CD, PopArt, and the new book, Catalogue.
On Thursday, November 9th, at 5 pm,...
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Wow, awesome news for my fellow LA petheads. They were great here in NYC so you won't be disappointed. They're gentlemen through and through. They were nice back at Tower Sunset in 99 and they're still very nice now.
An "Integral" Reality
From the final song "Integral" on PSB's album, Fundamental:
"Everyone has their own number in the system that we operate under/We're moving to a situation where your lives exist as information"
The British government's information commissioner has just confirmed that fears...
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INTEGRAL MUST BE RELEASED! Let's keep our spirits high!
I have been feeling a bit nostalgic recently & to get away from the DVD genere i have been viewing the classic video's of TELEVISION, SHOWBUISNESS, PROMOTION & VARIOUS. What great compilations these were, especially TELEVISION with all the excerpts from the tv performances the boys done back then....
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I still have VHS. Got an old video player that can't record off a timer cos the calander stopped on 31/12/99. It chews tapes now & again, Waterworld was the last one it ate.
So I use DVD for the important stuff. (Wish they would release It Could'nt Happen Here on DVD),
There have been many highs. A few lows too, well one real Lowe! Boom boom.
Here are some of my favourite PSB moments:
Performance Tour - June 2nd, 1991, Birmingham NEC. Me and my brother stood, gawped, danced and cheered. The bass went through my chest and This Must Be The Place I've waited Years...
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Fav. moments seeing West End Girls on TOTP, seeing them live for the first time in Birmingham NEC, hearing DJ Culture first time back in Oct 91, Battleship Potemkin & what a fantastic year 2006 has been for the boys. (In terms of stuff released).
i have always thought how the entire discography of our lovable Pet Shop Boys would look in a picture......all singles and cds and promos and everything...all one next to another.....if you have your collection in a pic.....please let us see and smile....
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I would've to move two 'showcases' together,
so no showing all items on one picture possible
for me, I regret. :mrgreen:
Hey all,
I just received my massive $150 Pet Shop Boys order from Amazon.co.uk and four CDs cases are cracked or even smashed. One disc is damaged so badly that it skips. Most of the rest of the cases are moderately to badly scuffed. This order was very poorly packaged. The things I order from...
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Got my amazon order today. Very poor package.
package broken and was opened but some post terminal
hade tried to repair it but it was still half open. Luckily
the items was there and not damaged...
I was wondering if anyone can name the PSB track that the percussion on the above track has been sampled from. It s been niggling me for days. It's sort of got Neil's vocal dubbed over the top err if that makes sense and it is more prominent near the beginning.
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Hm, can you give a time when this sequence starts? Haven't heard anything familiar yet.
I am trying to collect some newspaper articles about PSB's current tour (got the Toronto Star review of the TO show), so I was wondering if there's anything in the New York Times or any other NY publication about last night's concert and signing?
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Toronto Sun (Friday, October 13th, 2006)
Just wait until they really get warmed up ...
They've already had their warm-ups. In Europe ... :mrgreen:
I quite like this, but is very much like the b-side, sorry, bonus track.
Might get them some publicity - but who is My Robot Friend and why would he write a song called 'We're the Pet Shop Boys'.
This sound songs like more Pet Shop Boys with Robbie Williams.
First impressions sounds very good....
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I quite like this, but is very much like the b-side, sorry, bonus track.
Might get them some publicity - but who is My Robot Friend and why would he write a song called 'We're the Pet Shop Boys'.
Hi,
The entry for "We're the Pet Shop Boys" on Wayne Studer's excellent site will help answer these...
PET SHOP BOYS have said that their next project might be a ballet according to the band's CHRIS LOWE who is quoted as saying "We've got an idea for one, and we know a ballet dancer in London who wants us to do something, so that might happen..." :shock:
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There is that ballet dancer who danced with Kiki Kokova/Sam Taylor-Wood at the Disco3 launch party. He is probably an associate of the "boys".
I have hardly heard Numb on the radio (Its on Capital's playlist but despite constant listening I'm yet to hear it played) have only seen 1 ad (half a page in yesterday's Observer Music Monthly, promoting the single, Concrete, Life in Pop and Catalogue), the videos not on any of the music channels,...
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oh, you really don't get it, do you
What album was Numb released from? By your logic, Liberation was released to promote Disco 2.
In fact, you don't seem to get Gareth! He claims that Numb was released to promote Concrete, rather than Fundamental. Your comparison proves you didn't get his point....
Just finished viewing the Pet Shop Boys "classic" movie It Couldn't happen here & i still seem to have a love/hate feeling about it. On the good side it has some pure classic Tennant & Lowe performances like Neil cycling on the sea front & giving us a great dialogue in a proper english accent....
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Wasn't it supposed to be 'a surreal voyage with PSB meeting strange characters'? I remember reading this back then, and after having seen the movie I must say there's really not much more to it than that. It's a bit of an arty-farty french-type art-house flick from which you're never sure what the...
fake in my eyes. From what I know, only the following mixes exists from Chris Cox & Barry Harris:
4:18 New York City Boy (the thunderpuss 2000 radio edit)
10:52 New York City Boy (the thunderpuss 2000 club mix)
8:21 New York City Boy (the thunderpuss 2000 dub mix)
8:11 New York City Boy (the...
From official site:
The forthcoming Popjustice complilation album includes a new recording of "It's a sin".
Pet Shop Boys have given their 2004 recording of the "Barfly" version of "It's a sin" for release on the forthcoming "PopJustice: 100% Solid Pop Music" complilation CD which is released in...
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Live at the Camden Barfly (London, UK)
live appearance
Being as I’ve just done my B-sides list, it got me in the mood to do the actual Singles, because: I missed doing it last year, and we’ve got two new singles to add. I’m missing out Seriously and London, as I don’t count them as proper British PSB singles.
1 Left to my own devices
2 Being boring
3...
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If I would redo my list today, Flamboyant would now be in the Top 10, even! The track continues to grow on me.
Numb would enter at the very bottom: #41, thanks to the horrible radio edit. I dislike that edit so much, I don't even play it anymore. I stick with the album or live version.
The Numb release has a great accapella and this inevitably leads to 'unofficial' fan remixes, which I have done myself. With copyright laws etc. prohibiting me to do anything with my re-interpretation using copyrighted material, it begs the question..."what is the point of releasing an accapella"?...
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In the case of Numb, I think the main reason to release the acapella, was to fill a 12-inch... - The track is barely remixable.
Ok, here's a bit of fun. You name six musicians (alive or dead) who you would like to hear/ have heard sing a PSB song and other fans will post what the songs will be, best suited to that musician.
So, for example, if I choose 6 musicians, you have to name what songs are most suited for them to...
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Ok, here's what I think.
Freddie- Left To My Own Devices
Kurt- West End Girls
George Michael - Sexy Northerner LOL
Axl Rose - Sodom and Gamorrah Show (that'd be awesome)
Lennon/McCartney- I Get Along
Meat Loaf - It Couldn't Happen Here
Just got back from a week-long trip where my friend Corey and I followed the Pet Shop Boys down the east coast of the USA. We started in NYC, then worked our way down to Miami, up to Orlando, and then Atlanta.
Sorry if this post comes out too long, but I just wanted to point out...
Gary Graff, Detroit
It may not be their very next project, but Pet Shop Boys have a different kind of dance music in mind for a future endeavor. "I think we'd quite like to write a ballet," says keyboardist Chris Lowe, who formed the group in 1991 with...
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It may not be their very next project
Phew! Hopefully their next project is a new album or EP...
This could be interesting, as long as the music is more Battleship Potemkin and less Closer to Heaven then I'm sure it'll be great. 8)
Are there any known differences between separate releases of Concrete? For example, both Amazon.co.uk and CD-WOW.com list two separate releases, one with a higher price and later release date, but I can't figure out if there are any real differences in terms of content or packaging.
/Galex
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Thanks for the info - do they all have the same clear sticker too (about guest stars)?
It's the same with Depeche Mode that are also under EMI these days, the last few releases were the same all over Europe. Now let's hope they drop DRM protection from downloads and lower the prices and people...
is the video on a life in pop ?
ive bought it but not home yet and in booklet no mention of flamboyant only miracles and the last 3 videos
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On the official site it says that there is a mistake on the tracklisting and that Flamboyant is actually on the DVD. Not that I have it yet myself.
What with the cover of A life in Pop failing to state Flamboyant & the incorrect order of tracks on the CD2 of single Numb....EMI or even Mark Farrow,...
Does anyone know where to download the Fundamental Font (preferably for free)? Not necessarily "neon tubes" but instead the one used for the text in all printed Fundamental materials (CD sleeves, tour book, etc.)
Thanks!
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Yeah, but as he wrote Not necessarily "neon tubes" the word necessarily confused me a bit, as if it actually was some kind of 3D font.
I can't believe noone has mentioned the "mini-max" discs a la "It doesn't often snow on Christmas"? So nice, suits the minimal theme just perfect... :D
The O.S. is offering the chance for advance booking. Can't understand it tho as the info said the tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am and the O.S. is saying you can get them early by goin to a link at 10am tomorrow?? Checked the link and it took me to a search point that didnt find pet shop boys????
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booked mines, i hear paulo nutella is supposed to be quite good :lol:
The Swedish hit list Trackslistan played "Numb" today.
If you haven't heard the single edit before you can listen to it here:
Odd but interesting to hear the "middle-eight" section twice, especially the second time where they have added some female backing vocals! I guess that bit is lifted from...
What a treat Concrete is. I never heard the Radio 2 broadcast so was looking forward to the album. Great orchestration, Neil in fine voice and also very funny. He is so likeable, don't you think? Before ILTR when he says "the start sounds like the Hovis 'ad", I had a laugh. All in all confirms that...
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Oh come on, 'The Great Gig In The Sky', surely?!
I can see the Autechre thing. Maybe the PSB one's a bit more... delicate, with the typesetting and stuff. But definitely. Didn't they actually do an opaque case a while ago too? I'm not sure if that was the same set of designers, though.
Just curious who will be at the Chicago show? I am going with a group and we are all sitting in the 7th row and will all have the same T-shirts on (cant miss us) I wanted to upload what the image of the T-shirt is but the image is not on a website just on my pc and did not see a feature on here to...
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Were you the ones weraring those w/ the Sodom & Gomorrah on the back?
Very nice view from everywhere at the Chicago Theater. Apparently it wasn't sold out, but it looked totally full to me, anyways, I was sitting like 10 rows from the stage, and there was this great friendly crowd (80% guys). So, after Psychological, I tell my partner, take care of my...
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*waiting to see pics* :D Nice exprience you´ve had. It´s always marvellous to meet PSB. So Neil must be something like 172,5 cm tall ???? :shock:
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