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TGI Fridays (UK) in 1996 had Before on their instore CD compilation. I remember because I worked there and it was followed by Beautiful South's Don't Marry Her, F**k Me......

Greendrake wrote: Sun 10 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm

Neilatrone wrote: Sun 10 Feb 2019, 12:45 pm It doesn’t often snow at Christmas..........in Dubai, United Arab Emirates!

Wow! Was it the fanclub or new version?

Was a couple of years ok so I can’t remember. But it was stunning as it’s rare to hear a Christmas song let alone a Pet Shop Boys song, in public!

In a car with a college friend, a few years after graduating, going to a former classmate's funeral with the radio on. "Highway to Hell" was quickly followed by "It's a sin."

Drico.

Well the place wasn't odd - a bookshop cafe. But it sticks in my mind. The shop sold albums too. It was the week of the Fundemental release. They played Soddam & Gomarrh over the speakers. Two elderly, quite prim and proper ladies listening. Cue much spluttering of tea and comments about the appalling nature of modernity etc. That a PSB track had engendered such a reaction was marvellous. Still should have been a single.

jrusher12 wrote: Mon 11 Feb 2019, 9:10 pm Well the place wasn't odd - a bookshop cafe. But it sticks in my mind. The shop sold albums too. It was the week of the Fundemental release. They played Soddam & Gomarrh over the speakers. Two elderly, quite prim and proper ladies listening. Cue much spluttering of tea and comments about the appalling nature of modernity etc. That a PSB track had engendered such a reaction was marvellous. Still should have been a single.

Didn't EMI talk them out of that?

Trevor Horn does a great job on this, but I still find the song itself a little twee. It's the verses that let it down for me, but the chorus is tremendous.

Drico.

Greetings,

Drico One wrote: Mon 11 Feb 2019, 9:19 pm Trevor Horn does a great job on this, but I still find the song itself a little twee. It's the verses that let it down for me, but the chorus is tremendous.

The drums could also be a bit more electronic / harder in order to better match the rest of the arrangement, IMO.

It's a good song, but it doesn't quite work. It's a little like Discoteca in the sense that despite all manner of attempts at constructing a seven-inch version, they couldn't really work out exactly how it was meant to sound.

Retro.

Whilst taking to Neil on a staircase at a hotel in Birmingham! Someone phoned me, and at the time my ringtone was West End girls (Grum remix). I carried on chatting hoping he wouldn’t notice... luckily I don’t think he did..!

''The View from Your Balcony'' just played on Homes Under the Hammer (BBC1). The property in question must have had a fitted kitchen or something ; )

ArtHist wrote: Tue 12 Feb 2019, 10:09 am ''The View from Your Balcony'' just played on Homes Under the Hammer (BBC1). The property in question must have had a fitted kitchen or something ; )

Don't forget to tell Wayne!

Our local "ish" shopping centre always has PSB playing. Someone must be a fan there. Also, in the shops often there too. ASDA at Christmas was another. The BBC1 programme Homes Under The Hammer often has a PSB track playing on it. Good taste! (Sorry, ArtHist - has already mentioned about Homes Under The Hammer).

In the late 1990s, as I was travelling in a public routed minibus in my hometown, the driver played Alternative cassette on his audio system, much to my surprise and excitement.

Luna Park, on a plane, (several times before a Virgin Atlantic flight). This was repeated on the way home too.

A summer night of 2017, at a gas station close to my house.
There were 2 food trucks on the opposite side of each other, one doing pasta, one doing panini.
I was sitting eating by the pasta one and Go west started playing. A few second later the panini one started playing Suburbia.
All the situation was odd, confusing and out of time, but it was also a complete PSB triumph!

onzio wrote: Thu 14 Feb 2019, 9:52 am A summer night of 2017, at a gas station close to my house.
There were 2 food trucks on the opposite side of each other, one doing pasta, one doing panini.
I was sitting eating by the pasta one and Go west started playing. A few second later the panini one started playing Suburbia.
All the situation was odd, confusing and out of time, but it was also a complete PSB triumph!

I suppose it would have been beyond surreal if one of them had played The Truck Driver And His Mate..

Just before their Concert at the Poppodium Tilburg in 2016 i stepped into a very nice cafe just around the corner of the venue (i think it was the "Studio").
They played PSB only all day including the more obscure tracks from Alternative, they even had "Super" Menues and Pet Shop Boys Snacks.
Maybe thats not too "odd", but to hear my favourite Band in such a wonderful cafe and to feel the appreciation felt quite surreal. I was 13 again.