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le petit corbusier wrote:It was declined by the same people who asked them, if I remember well, and that song turned to be "this must be the place I waited years to leave".

Correct. And one other demo, often referred to as "The Living Daylights #2" or "James Bond Theme #2" still remains unreleased.

Nothing Has Been Proved was the title track to the film Scandal back in, oooh, 1989. And there was the Crying Game too - not that the Pets wrote the song, of course.

Don't forget Screaming on the Psycho soundtrack. I even remember that the Soundtrack was billed with PSBs on it, like they brought credibility to it, I remember rumors that they might release it as a single... the song reminded me of the sloppy U2 number in that batman movie soundtrack (but didn't make the film, right?) that I recall Bono recalling how bad the song was and became a big hit. Screaming just had the air of the same aesthetic.


That said, the Psycho thing came just when the pSBs switched management in the US, and about the same time I think Go West and either Always on my mind or It's alright were in some car commercials. It seemed like the new management was at least making an effort, and then nothing happened for a long time... (In fact, didn't the Psycho soundtrack announcement coincide with the announcement that they had new management or something like that? Like, we have new management and suddenly we're on a soundtrack...??)

I think the highest grossing movie to feature a PSB song was "leathal weapon 2" which inluded the PSB produced eighth wonder song "I'm not scared", albeit buried in a meaningless scene

NJTom wrote:I think the highest grossing movie to feature a PSB song was "leathal weapon 2" which inluded the PSB produced eighth wonder song "I'm not scared", albeit buried in a meaningless scene

WHERE WHERE WHERE!! I've been trying to find out which scene..

dont tell me it was the love scene between Patsy Kensit and Mel Gibson

It's in the scene where Joe Pesci is cleaning Mel's trailer and talks to him on the phone ... you can barely hear it.

Dipso wrote:Nothing Has Been Proved was the title track to the film Scandal back in, oooh, 1989. And there was the Crying Game too - not that the Pets wrote the song, of course.

Yes NHBP is an all time classic and fits so well into the flow of the movie.

le petit corbusier wrote:It was declined by the same people who asked them, if I remember well, and that song turned to be "this must be the place I waited years to leave".

were they asked? I thought they sort of assumed they were gonna be and nothing came of it

Radiophonic called it well. Doctor Who would be fantastic. Didn't they get asked to re do the theme tune not long ago but refused because they thought it couldn't be improved?

Dave

NJTom wrote:It's in the scene where Joe Pesci is cleaning Mel's trailer and talks to him on the phone ... you can barely hear it.

Thanks man.. will check it out

Pet Shop Boys were asked to remix the Doctor Who theme a few years back for the Comic Relief episode with Rowan Atkinson but were too busy to schedule the time. Neil said at a signing they've regretted it ever since. I love the Doctor Who theme and I love the Pet Shop Boys but I can't imagine they'd improve it in any way so I'm glad it didn't work out.

I don't think their music is suited for soundtracks. Potemkin is interesting but lacks the depth of production a feature film requires. Their old hits might work in a period comedy but the moment Neil starts singing in a key scene in a drama the connection with the audience is severed. As a fan I love his voice but it doesn't have the engaging, emotional heft soundtrack songs require. On top of this most of their material is negative, detached or ironic and none of that works as a soundtrack, the purpose of which is to coddle and emotionally direct an audience.

I'm ignoring "inspired by" soundtracks like the Psycho one because those aren't really soundtracks. And also because I hate being reminded of Screaming.