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There is a fantastic article on p140 in the new Mixmag (UK March 2006 Issue) which sees Neil & Chris make their choices with an explaination for each:


FIRST TRACK BOUGHT: (Chris) Diana Ross - Baby Love
CURRENTLY STUCK ON MY STEREO: (Neil) Vitalic - OK Cowboy
CURRENT FAVOURITE SONG: (Chris) Hi_Tack - Say Say Say nb. A fantastic choice by Mr Lowe, I have been listening to this loads recently - see listening thread!
THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE MADE: Absolutely Fabulous
I WISH WE'D MADE: Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy nb. A different choice to Enjoy The Silence which was always the choice for the last Fifteen years!
FAVOURITE RAVE RECORD: (Chris) Kariya - Let Me Love You For Tonight
SONG FOR SATURDAY NIGHT: (Neil) London Elektricity - Will To Love
AN ALBUM FOR SUNDAYS: (Neil) Sigur Ros - Agateis Byrjun
SONG THAT MAKES ME CRY: (Neil) Dusty Springfield - I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore
TOP SONG BY TREVOR HORN: (Neil) Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
FAVOURITE MADONNA SONG: (Neil) Lucky Star
MIXMAG RECOMMENDS: Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour


An excellent article with a full colour page featuring one of the press pictures from the Flamboyant sets. Well worth a read.

Great to see them slag off Ab Fab at last!

Let me love you for tonight is f*** awesome!!!!!

Janet Street-Porter wrote:Great to see them slag off Ab Fab at last!

Quite frankly, this astonishes me. How could N&C say such a thing???

It is TRULY a quintessential PSB song. Catchy, Clever, Camp, Memorable, Danceable and - dare I say it -- Ironic.

I see that this entry doesn't have an attribution, so who blurted this out? Neil? Chris? Their Accountant?

Time will be less kind to New York city boy than Absolutely fabulous, I think, but that's just my opinion ...

yeah I thought that odd myself givin their comments in the remastered booklet about it. they like it. perhaps they were talking about the critical reaction to it and how its percieved they shouldnt have made it.

ab fab was a bit crap, let's be honest.

i can think of a few worse than that, New York city boy for one

There is also a PSB mention in the new edition of The Word. 'Love Comes Quickly' is featured in the greatest love songs section, accompanied by a small piece. They are due to appear in a rather large piece, in next month's edition - including a brand new interview - but I don't know if that will be put back now with the delay in releasing the album.

From what I remember they don't slag it off as such and one of them even says something along the lines of "How DARE you say that?!!" and they mention how well it did in certain countries. I think it's more of a Mixmag opinion. I will have a look tonight.
They do however mention as a footnote that Minimal will be released in early March with Fundamental following before the end!

The mag is worth buying alone for the Ferry Corsten CD on the cover.

CURRENT FAVOURITE SONG: (Chris) Hi_Tack - Say Say Say nb. A fantastic choice by Mr Lowe, I have been listening to this loads recently - see listening thread!

Do you know if the PSB have ever said if they're fans of Michael Jackson's music?

I noticed the way they did Disco3 was identical to Michael Jackson's remix album Blood On The Dancefloor. That also had original songs for the first half of the album, then remixes from his last studio album HIStory.

Neil Tennant played 'Strangers in Moscow' during the Merry Pet Shop Boys radio 1 show in 1995.

Syncratic wrote:Neil Tennant played 'Strangers in Moscow' during the Merry Pet Shop Boys radio 1 show in 1995.

Well, the beginning of the original version of Westend Girls (with Bobby "O") is equal to the beginning of Billie Jean (like PSB recognaize on the BBC2 documentary "Really").

Leeds City Boy wrote:There is a fantastic article on p140 in the new Mixmag (UK March 2006 Issue) ...

Great, thx. for posting the 'interview'.