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Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 7:30 am**

mantooth wrote:I have no clue if I'm even still a member. I wrote to ask, but never hard back. Although I did receive the DVD last year... Months late due to the postage fiasco.

I agree it is bit confusing knowing if you still are a member with there being so long between publications but at least we know we are store for the Xmas card

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 10:04 am**

They probably started out with electronic intentions before mr horn had his way. The electro demos would have been built up into big bombastic epics. Can't wait!

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 10:14 am**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:Pet Shop Boys' new album will be their first to feature real drums, as well as "lots of guitars".

Neil Tennant told their fanclub mag Literally: "We learned on our last tour playing with two guitarists that, when you have a big four-on-the-floor epic, putting guitar chords on a chorus tends to lift it. So we've done that."

He added: "But I think if you like It's A Sin, you'll like this album."

Pet Shop Boys say their as-yet-untitled new album, out in April, was originally intended as minimalist electro-pop.

"Consequently, as a result we've made an album of sweeping epics, one after another, " Neil Tennant told fanclub mag Literally. "I don't know how we've managed that."

Chris Lowe said: "It sounds quite expensive, which I know is very important to people."

Tennant described new single The Stonk as being "Pink Floyd meets Laurel and Hardy."

i never saw that in Literally about 'the stonk'??...

what page was THAT on then??

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 11:03 am**

Erm, I think that last part might have been a wind-up, somehow...

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 11:12 am**

"Consequently, as a result we've made an album of sweeping epics, one after another, " Neil Tennant told fanclub mag Literally. "I don't know how we've managed that."

If thats true

The album will be bloody fantastic

Pink Floyd meets Laurel and Hardy.

I like the sound of that

That just means to me an epic track going into say something like Tall Thin Men

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 11:50 am**

Got mine yesterday too! Surprised there was no Xmas card. Hopefully that'll appear soon.

All the Pink Floyd comparisons might be misleading. It was something Trevor Horn said but Neil responded that he's not familiar with their stuff.

They mention in the Q&A section that a full release of the Derek Jarman directed film of their first tour might now be possible. That would be good!

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 11:53 am**

Syncratic wrote:The Fischerspooner album, Odyssey was described during pre-release as being Pink Floyd and features real drums and guitars (or at least authetntic samples) and there's some very pure electronic pop songs on the album. It's patchy in places, but if you listen to 'Just Let Go', 'A Kick in the teeth' for example it's still fairly euphoric.

They may not be everyone's cup of tea but production wise you can have guitars and drums, and electronic music and mix it pretty well. However, I haven't seen the new literally so maybe there's a bit of leg pulling going on.

I absolutely loved their "Odyssey" album. Far better than the first one. But somehow I don't think that PSB will sound anything like it, I don't know... I'm not too confident about PSB album anymore. But I'll wait until I hear it.

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 5:55 pm**

I received my "Literally" today in Hong Kong!

Not many pictures... a bit disappointing..
But the first picture showing Neil pretending to fight is funny!

haha!

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 6:07 pm**

catcat wrote:I received my "Literally" today in ...

... Bremen/Germany.

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 6:24 pm**

I got mine one today.

I looove the first pic. Gotta pay the membership soon. I´ll send the payment tomorrow.
They don´t like it here that you send money by mail. Has anyone sent money in envelope so that the letter has been affirmed ? Still not sure in which way I´ll send it.

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2005, 7:39 pm**

I got mine today. There's a lot about the new album but there's nothing about "The stonk".

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2005, 1:49 am**

Arrived in L.A. (well, Long Beach actually - but you get the gist)

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2005, 4:57 am**

anyone want to hear something really funny go to I-tunes and check out "the best of PSB" by various artists and listen to the clip of westendgirls. I dont know who it is that is singing but talk about not taking the time to learn the lyrics.

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2005, 6:06 pm**

psb-freak wrote:I got mine one today. I looove the first pic. Gotta pay the membership soon. I´ll send the payment tomorrow.
They don´t like it here that you send money by mail. Has anyone sent money in envelope so that the letter has been affirmed ? Still not sure in which way I´ll send it.

I always send the money in the envelope and all the letters reached the PSB club. Never got caught or anything for that. I was searching for different ways of sending money but it seems impossible or too expensive so I use only envelopes.

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2005, 6:30 pm**

zukunft wrote:I got mine today. There's a lot about the new album but there's nothing about "The stonk".

Good News!

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Has anyone recieved Literally yet?