Your thoughts about PSB before being a fan?

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Marisan · #31 Post by **Marisan** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 1:19 pm

My fandom of PSB waxed and waned but I've always liked their music. Recently, it rekindled when I heard Fundamental and saw them in the US tour. I think they aged very gracefully, and I prolly love them now than then.

so heart · #32 Post by **so heart** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 2:11 pm

please passed me without effect. i remember some early parties where opportunities and Love comes quickly were played and that kind of forbidden-mystery-of-sex-aura of that parties...

then i heard "its a sin" and that was it really. that great sounds! and the voice! is it a man or a woman? or a computer singing?? this perfect-ego-melancholy was hyper! after actually i started to have an regular eye on them. my only all-time favourite since 1987...

Dreamcatcher2003 · Mon 19 Mar 2007, 5:06 pm

I first heard West End girls and simply hated the song and those too smart guys behind it, thinking it was another cool rapper wannabees from some forgotten realms to another forgotten realm...whenever the radio announced PSB I heartily changed the channel. I couldn't believe my eyes when they topped both sides of Atlantic.

One day a DJ announced now a new single by PSB that is called Suburbia and I was to jump to the search button but at that time phone rang and the song started to play. I remember I talked to telephone but my mind was on the song, was that really Boys, the creators of absymally bad West End girls?

Suburbia was love at first sight, It's a sin and Actually sealed the deal and when Always On My Mind was released, I happily married them

shamelessbehave · #34 Post by **shamelessbehave** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 6:53 pm

They gave me the image of being a very mysterious group(maybe because their 2 first video were a bit dark). Then "Suburbia" came and I loved both song and video, where they appeared so gorgeous on it!!!!!!!

psb-freak · #35 Post by **psb-freak** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 6:56 pm

I only heard Very before I became fan but that was all and I wasn´t really paying attention.

As someone named Chris Lowe said in an interview.
When I first saw Ab fab on tv I nearly ignored it but the name of the band was in my mind when I saw the video for the second time and I became fan.

Issey Miyake · #36 Post by **Issey Miyake** » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 7:11 pm

I remember seeing west end girls on a cassette compilation Hits 4 i think, and i wasn't sure if it was pet shop boys by west end girls or west end girls by pet shop boys; now of course it could be either. The song that got me into them was Suburbia.

i probably would · Mon 19 Mar 2007, 7:47 pm

For me it was when I saw them on Wogan (dodgy uk chat show) and they performed west end girls. I thought chris looked so cool - ive never got over this! and neils voice was unique. My sister was into duran and spandau ballet at the time and that was all we heard around our house until the pet shop boys took over. She even went to the BOY shop in london to get me a hat in 1986 and i remember being slightly upset because it was a black cap with white writing and i wanted one exactly like chris wore with yellow writing. But i was thrilled and no one had one and i even charged people to try it on!
There is something epic about them and they have some many qualities and they are the only music i buy. I know you can download anyrhing these days but there is nothing better than having a new pet shop boys cd or dvd.

Ive still got the boy cap somewhere along with my stussy, mambo and michiko koshino coat - not the one chris wore but it had the name on the back!

I hope that they go on forever because the original music they produce is like nothing else.

psblogan · #38 Post by **psblogan** » Tue 20 Mar 2007, 1:03 pm

I always had a rule that if a music act had 4 great singles I would buy their album.
Suburbia came along and I was hooked.

TheMatrix · #39 Post by **TheMatrix** » Tue 20 Mar 2007, 2:58 pm

I've been a fan ever since West End Girls came out way back when...Man I'm getting old. Never looked back since

Actually · #40 Post by **Actually** » Tue 20 Mar 2007, 9:02 pm

This takes me back. It ACTUALLY takes me back to my days in the classroom when me & a group of friends (whilst doing maths) were discussing "Last nights performance of West End girls on TOTP".We all agreed we hadn't seen or heard anything like that before. From then on it was a regular discussion on who has the biggest PSB collection. Back then you could go into a record store, look under the P's selection and come across a whole variety of 12" vinyls remixes & imports of the boys. So, getting back to the question i fell in love with the Pet Shop Boys from the very start.

My sister was a Five St*r fan & remember back in 1987 when she used to say all the PSB's music sounded the same (she had a point; couldn't get her to understand in terms of Fairlights & Sequencers) & claimed Five St*r will be around longer than the boys....end of story!!!

"When i look back upon my life it's always with a sense of....."

13thJoerg · #41 Post by **13thJoerg** » Tue 20 Mar 2007, 10:02 pm

I wanted to borrow a roxette tape off a friend and he insisted to give me a PSB record too (1992). I said, no not these skinhead-guys (i think I recalled having seen the discography-cover as a poster and that was it, no music I would have connected to them). I listened to it anyway and was startled with 'One more chance'. But when there was 'It's a sun' (that was a misread letter on the tape) that blew me away and it's still my favourite song (It's a sin, I mean).

Janet Street-Porter · Tue 20 Mar 2007, 10:54 pm

I was in the audience for a Belgian TV show in 1984 when I saw them for the first time. As they came on stage I remember thinking that they were very enigmatic looking and wondered what kind of music they would play. I was struck by their distinctive hauteur and how still they looked. I recalled my days following Kraftwerk around Germany and whispered the words Et in Arcadia ego to nobody in particular.....

heilgrl · #43 Post by **heilgrl** » Wed 21 Mar 2007, 1:05 am

Janet Street-Porter wrote:I was in the audience for a Belgian TV show in 1984 when I saw them for the first time. As they came on stage I remember thinking that they were very enigmatic looking and wondered what kind of music they would play. I was struck by their distinctive hauteur and how still they looked. I recalled my days following Kraftwerk around Germany and whispered the words Et in Arcadia ego to nobody in particular.....

Gosh man, you are old

le petit corbusier · Wed 21 Mar 2007, 2:29 am

Oh, well, I remember changing channel when they announced the Before video by the Pet Shop Boys... I have no psb memories before that. I bought Bilingual after listening to Se a vida e. Then they released Single-Bilingual. I just loved the video, it was so much unlike anything you could see on tv (and there was a flash of Barcelona on it ; D)! After that I needed more and bought Very, Behaviour, Discography and Disco 2 (which really confused me) in a very short time, let's say 2 months. Those were special times for me. I was developing my musical taste, and it wasn't as easy as downloading a complete discography zip from emule, so every record I got turned into a precious gemm for me.

DJAMIX · #45 Post by **DJAMIX** » Wed 21 Mar 2007, 3:08 am

First song I've heard from PSb was Suburbia and I just loved it! I didn't know them before.
The rest is history.