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Minimalizm wrote:One expects two or three years at least (such as Very and Bilingual even though the latter produced three top ten singles and went top five) between two albums for such a fall...What happened to all those buyers all of a sudden?

Discernment?

There wasn't much of a chance in them days to preview the albums and because the album was so poor, they struggled to get back the fans that went missing. One bad album and kill a group. However, Erasure have had a very loyal fan base and they have just about kept them afloat, which deserves credit because there isn't a lot of loyalty about these days.

Was in HMV Silverburn yesterday. Saw what looked like a box set of total pop, was gathering dust....

skyhigh wrote:Was in HMV Silverburn yesterday. Saw what looked like a box set of total pop, was gathering dust....

How come you didn't buy it?

Pop40 out of the top 100.

Sales so far = 18,500 (4 weeks)

I think the self-titled album is one of their best actually. Definitely better than I Say I Say, and IMO also better on the whole than Chorus.

From a new interview with Neil Tennant:

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And for the record Tennant doesn't believe Pet Shop Boys are adequately described as a 'synthpop duo'. "We've never really, at any point in our career, been restricted to synthpop. Even on our first album, West End Girls was not exactly just simple synthpop. We've always had different elements. We've always had guitars, actually, even though we officially slag off guitars - as a pop instrument they're great."

From the mid-'80s till now, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure are often mentioned somehow as 'rivals' in the synthpop stakes. They both have gay singers, sport synthpop aesthetics and are made up of just two people, one quiet on keyboards, the other loud on vocals. "But the only rivalry between Pet Shop Boys and Erasure is because of the public!" Tennant protests. "They've sort of thrown us together. I think our records and their records are very, very different. Vince Clarke is not quite, but verges on, being a synth purist, while Pet Shop Boys have always been quite orchestral. The tradition of pop we are in, we are electronic, but we're pretty much in the tradition of Phil Spector really. It's all hands on deck - not just synthesisers, but guitars, orchestras...

"Their songs are very different. But they've got some lovely songs, I think. If there has been a rivalry, it hasn't really come from Erasure or the Pet Shop Boys. I've always found it a bit weird - I don't really think about Erasure that much, and I don't suppose they think about us, apart from the fact that we endlessly get compared with each other. We don't know each other! I've only ever met Andy Bell maybe twice. I've never actually met Vince Clarke!" He laughs. "I've met Bono more times than Vince Clarke."

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From the aforementioned new interview with Neil Tennant:

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We didn't make this album in a big £1,500-a-day proper studio; we made it in my house in County Durham and Brian Higgins' place in Kent. That's all changed, and the way it's distributed has changed.

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Hi Undertaker!

pulse wrote:From the aforementioned new interview with Neil Tennant:

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We didn't make this album in a big £1,500-a-day proper studio; we made it in my house in County Durham and Brian Higgins' place in Kent. That's all changed, and the way it's distributed has changed.

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Hi Undertaker!

What?

pulse wrote:From a new interview with Neil Tennant:

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And for the record Tennant doesn't believe Pet Shop Boys are adequately described as a 'synthpop duo'. "We've never really, at any point in our career, been restricted to synthpop. Even on our first album, West End Girls was not exactly just simple synthpop. We've always had different elements. We've always had guitars, actually, even though we officially slag off guitars - as a pop instrument they're great."

From the mid-'80s till now, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure are often mentioned somehow as 'rivals' in the synthpop stakes. They both have gay singers, sport synthpop aesthetics and are made up of just two people, one quiet on keyboards, the other loud on vocals. "But the only rivalry between Pet Shop Boys and Erasure is because of the public!" Tennant protests. "They've sort of thrown us together. I think our records and their records are very, very different. Vince Clarke is not quite, but verges on, being a synth purist, while Pet Shop Boys have always been quite orchestral. The tradition of pop we are in, we are electronic, but we're pretty much in the tradition of Phil Spector really. It's all hands on deck - not just synthesisers, but guitars, orchestras...

"Their songs are very different. But they've got some lovely songs, I think. If there has been a rivalry, it hasn't really come from Erasure or the Pet Shop Boys. I've always found it a bit weird - I don't really think about Erasure that much, and I don't suppose they think about us, apart from the fact that we endlessly get compared with each other. We don't know each other! I've only ever met Andy Bell maybe twice. I've never actually met Vince Clarke!" He laughs. "I've met Bono more times than Vince Clarke."

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Who'd have thought the man who would perfectly summise the pointlessness of the "rivalry" would be Neil himself?

Doesn't surprise me at all, it is only a few people on here who seem obsessed with comparing the two and mocking Erasure for pointless and irrelevant reasons, It's obvious why, they do it to try and justify being PSB fans and unfortunately the actual music always seems to get lost somewhere along the line....

Somebody needs to get a job

homer1972 wrote:Somebody needs to get a job

He use to have one. He was a singer in a band but he's had to take up a part time job as the muffin man. Stop picking on him. Look how excited he looks.

Have you bought Yes yet, homer?

Downloaded it from limewire Mavis.