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Re: Undertow to be released as next single

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andmaste wrote: Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:52 am 'Positive Role Model' could be a good single choice, no?
No
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rashomon wrote:
tottenhammattspurs wrote: Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:51 am Integral, along with For All Of Us and The Way It Used To Be are, for me, the biggest ever mistakes for not being singles in their whol career.
Matt - you are on my wavelength here. Totally agree with all of these. For All Of Us especially - that demo that was released on their website for a short while back in the late 90s still gives me shivers.
Pretty sure that's a full studio version. Fantastic track.
Woof.

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retrofuturist wrote: Fri 17 Feb 2017, 12:58 am
andmaste wrote: Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:52 am 'Positive Role Model' could be a good single choice, no?
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Even if, at one point, (if I remember well) they were close to release it as one-off single.
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"Positive role model", along with "Somebody else's business", was one of candidates for planned but nonmaterialized 2000's Greatest Hits compilation, I think. Therefore they played it at Glastonbury and on 2000 festival tour, but it sounded quite weak and unfinished at the time.
"I think it’s an amazingly good album, I’ve got to be honest with you. It’s one of the albums I feel most proud of. But for people who don’t really know us, and have a sort of an idea about us, ‘Electric’ is more what the Pet Shop Boys are meant to be."
(Neil Tennant, speaking about "Elysium" on the eve of "Electric" release.)

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Greetings,
andmaste wrote: Fri 17 Feb 2017, 7:30 am
retrofuturist wrote: Fri 17 Feb 2017, 12:58 am
andmaste wrote: Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:52 am 'Positive Role Model' could be a good single choice, no?
No
Even if, at one point, (if I remember well) they were close to release it as one-off single.
Yes. Not as bad as In Private (with Elton) would have been, but nearly as cringy.

Retro. :)
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https://twitter.com/ClareMcCreesh/statu ... 0489963520

Personally I think it's placeholder tracklist... because, I mean, where's the exclusiveness of this CDS then?
"I think it’s an amazingly good album, I’ve got to be honest with you. It’s one of the albums I feel most proud of. But for people who don’t really know us, and have a sort of an idea about us, ‘Electric’ is more what the Pet Shop Boys are meant to be."
(Neil Tennant, speaking about "Elysium" on the eve of "Electric" release.)

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And release date 21 April.
This date was supposed to be as reissues release date...

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Drem wrote: Sat 11 Mar 2017, 1:37 pm https://twitter.com/ClareMcCreesh/statu ... 0489963520

Personally I think it's placeholder tracklist... because, I mean, where's the exclusiveness of this CDS then?
According to that the 12" has an exclusive 4th track which is Undertow (Tuff city kids dub) so will make it worth buying at least, not that I wouldn't have anyway to be honest.

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#69 Post by tottenhammattspurs »

If this 12" ends up being an RSD only release, i will personally mail the boys a box of my sh1t.
is is and isnt isnt

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tottenhammattspurs wrote: Sat 11 Mar 2017, 5:31 pm If this 12" ends up being an RSD only release, i will personally mail the boys a box of my sh1t.
Try and squeeze it into an envelope so you can save on postage.

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Hol' up, hol' up.... I'm the one around here that makes broad negative proclamations about PSB!
I sincerely *love* Disco 2 and listen to it straight through regularly.

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#72 Post by Wish »

I guess we can relax now.
Amazon pre-order means it's not RSD release

https://www.amazon.de/Undertow-Vinyl-Ma ... B06XDP3B7R

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Wish wrote: Sun 12 Mar 2017, 9:10 am I guess we can relax now.
Amazon pre-order means it's not RSD release

https://www.amazon.de/Undertow-Vinyl-Ma ... B06XDP3B7R
Thank goodness for that! :clap:

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Wish wrote: Sun 12 Mar 2017, 9:10 am I guess we can relax now.
Amazon pre-order means it's not RSD release

https://www.amazon.de/Undertow-Vinyl-Ma ... B06XDP3B7R
What doesn RSD mean?

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nickname wrote: Sun 12 Mar 2017, 5:24 pm
Wish wrote: Sun 12 Mar 2017, 9:10 am I guess we can relax now.
Amazon pre-order means it's not RSD release

https://www.amazon.de/Undertow-Vinyl-Ma ... B06XDP3B7R
What doesn RSD mean?

Record Store Day - Only some stores in London (+other UK cities?) will sell it.
Which means us from rest of the world will only have a chance to catch it from Ebay or if we have friends living near a store.

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