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Danimal wrote: Fri 12 Dec 2025, 12:57 pm

Patrick Bateman wrote: Fri 12 Dec 2025, 7:27 am this feels like the last Beatles Christmas record when they all hated each other and it was just John and Yoko chatting crap while on heroin.

I would pay 20 quid for an issue of “Annually” that’s nothing but Chris and Neil chatting crap while on heroin.

This made me chuckle

Patrick Bateman wrote: Fri 12 Dec 2025, 7:27 amWell, yes, I'm not averse to criticising them just because I'm a fan of their music.

Nice straw man.

If one compares it with the original Annually...

...then one is an idiot, since there is clearly a marked difference between a mass market product about current hitmakers and a niche item for diehard fans from a band that no longer charts singles.

Now that may be an unfair comparison, but if they're going to put out something with so much obvious filler, then they should at least offer a CD with it, like the earlier ones.

Most installments haven't come with a CD. I like them too, but the whinging is absurd.

NotInvisible wrote: Sun 14 Dec 2025, 7:41 pm ...then one is an idiot, since there is clearly a marked difference between a mass market product about current hitmakers and a niche item for diehard fans from a band that no longer charts singles.

Well duh, that's what a comparison is.

We get it, you're a loyal fan who won't hear a word against your heroes. Your idolatry is touching.

That’s a great song title, Your idolarty is touching.

ELPAYOBUENO wrote: Fri 12 Dec 2025, 5:30 pm Don´t you think we are pretty close to the end of the Boys?

Sorry to disappoint you but they have more than 10 years left of doing things that they love to do. They will stop touring at some point, though.

ELPAYOBUENO wrote: Fri 12 Dec 2025, 5:30 pm Don´t you think we are pretty close to the end of the Boys? I mean, they have never been a nostalgic band, and suddently we have a neverending greatest hits tour, Volume actualized up to this year, Obscure, clearly a thank you letter to their fans, and now Actually with a 20 objects historic review, an article about something that happens in the 80s, and a 80s picture in the cover as weel. Sounds like a goodbye to me.

The never-ending Dreamworld tour, that final performance of Being Boring, the whole Nonetheless campaign (cover, lyrics, 5 singles streak and specially the video of Bohemia), the release of Volume, the Obscure shows... All this is giving me a sense of goodbye. Maybe not imminent but like accepting that the end is near and tying all loose ends in their own terms while they can.

I think all this will become more evident once they retire. Everyone will be like "How we didn't see it, they were telling us goodbye!".

Much like Blackstar album was interpreted as his goodbye letter once Bowie died, but no one saw it before that despite those not very subtle videos and lyrics.

It'll be goodbye when the album "Thankyou" is released....

Danimal wrote: Sat 13 Dec 2025, 12:31 pm I wouldn’t be surprised if they release a compilation of b-sides later this year also entitled “Volume” or “Obscure.”

What, in the next 16 days? Fancy placing a bet?

For next year's Annually, it would be cool if Chris Heath went on their Japan tour as a sort of full circle.

eastendboy wrote: Mon 15 Dec 2025, 6:09 am That’s a great song title, Your idolarty is touching.

Tennant and Morrissey collab.

Patrick Bateman wrote: Mon 15 Dec 2025, 5:04 amWe get it, you're a loyal fan who won't hear a word against your heroes.

...and another straw man. I criticize them all the time - just yesterday I posted here about them phoning in their remixes. But likewise I don't feel entitled to a CD with Annually every year, and I understand the economics of micropublishing full color hardcover books vs mass market stuff like the original Annually means the former are going to cost a lot more than the latter.

If your only rhetorical options are zero and a hundred, it's not a great sign.

nonesuch wrote: Mon 15 Dec 2025, 1:22 pm For next year's Annually, it would be cool if Chris Heath went on their Japan tour as a sort of full circle.

If they have nothing to report, maybe we could get excerpts from the Discovery tour book that was never released...

For the first time I am having problems ordering this. Coming up with

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They couldn't verify address before payment screen too. Who have people contacted when this has happened to them in the past?

Red Letter Days wrote: Thu 08 Jan 2026, 9:28 pm For the first time I am having problems ordering this. Coming up with

There was a problem processing your credit or debit card (incorrect payment information, insufficient funds, technical issues with your bank etc); please double check your payment information and try again. If you still cannot place your order, please contact your card issuing bank.

They couldn't verify address before payment screen too. Who have people contacted when this has happened to them in the past?

If you're buying through the official PSB store, there's a "Contact Us" link under the Support menu at the bottom of the store webpages. I had to use this once to gripe about why my copies of New London Boy were taking so long to ship. I got a reply from an Actual Human Being within about 24 hours and the CDs did get to me eventually.

Maybe their payment system is having a bad day?

I managed to order more easily from the US store, if that's any help?