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Siren Disc.com has posted the formats (but not the tracklisting) for Minimal.

http://www.sirendisc.com/cgi/panel.cgi/ ... +Shop+Boys
(Under Pet Shop Boys -- FUTURE RELEASES Catalog Selections)

Looks like there will be a 7", CD Single and DVD Single. The single will be released on July 24.

CDS $7.99 Minimal
COUNTRY: U.K.
Format: CD SINGLE
Expected Release Date: 24-Jul-06

7" $9.95 Minimal
COUNTRY: U.K.
Format: 7" SINGLE VINYL
Expected Release Date: 24-Jul-06

DVD SINGLE $8.99 Minimal PAL
NOTE: PAL format DVD may not be compatible with U.S. players.
COUNTRY: U.K.
Format: DVD SINGLE
Expected Release Date: 24-Jul-06

Well, looks like I'll be buying the German release again.

Didn't Neil say that one of the formats of the single would feature remixes?

Let's hope that they release a maxi-CD or something in other European countries.

So over a month to go. 2 weeks after Neil´s birthday. They always release something (sometimes Literally is out) around their birthdays.

They should scrap the 7" in favour of a maxi CD

I don't trust this early information yet. I think this is just wat Sirendisc *assumes* will be the formats. Let's wait for official confirmation before drawing conclusions.

Lleonard Pler wrote:Didn't Neil say that one of the formats of the single would feature remixes?

Let's hope that they release a maxi-CD or something in other European countries.

DMD?
Like I'm with Stupid.

In terms of a standard buyer interest, does anything make 7" more attractive than a remixCD?

Please put remixes (good ones) on an audio cd

Personally, i'm not bothered about remixes. I never really listen to them. The 7 inch must have been popular with Stupid, otherwise i doubt they would have gone with it.

Dave

Idiots.

I guess the DVD single of I'm With Stupid must have sold well enough to justify a follow-up. Personally, I'd prefer a mix cd, but then PSB mixes aren't exactly the greatest. So, hopefully, as with the I'm With Stupid package, we'll get 2 brand-spanking-new quality b-sides which will do me fine.

Frequency wrote:I guess the DVD single of I'm With Stupid must have sold well enough to justify a follow-up. Personally, I'd prefer a mix cd, but then PSB mixes aren't exactly the greatest. So, hopefully, as with the I'm With Stupid package, we'll get 2 brand-spanking-new quality b-sides which will do me fine.

I am extremely doubtful about getting an exciting package for this single...

they went in to the Studio to record Girls/Resurrectionist just prior to the release of I'm with stupid, plus we know that No Time For Tears & Bright Young Things may/will feature as B-sides..

I don't think there's going to be much in the way of brand new songs, especially if one of the formats, according to Neil, will contain remixes... this would have to be the DVD, I guess?

A studio version of BYT would be nice as I think its a great song. I really hope NTFT hasn't been mooted for a possible b-side as that would be such a waste. I always thought sticking Sail Away and Screaming on the b-sides was a bit of a waste but this would be even more so.

As for the remixes, well, its likely that the utterly dreadful Tiga mix will turn up on the remix CD, if there is one, so, I'm not particularly filled with hope about the potential remixes; unless, of course, PSB maintain their recent tradition of these maxi mixes they've been knocking out, which means we'll get one listenable remix.


I wish they'd forget about the 7 inch and just do a 2 track CD, remix CD and the DVD single with 2 b-sides, probably one extended or remixed version from the 2 track CD b-side (a la the Ressurrectionist).

Why on earth should No Time For Tears be on the b-side? It has ben after all been released on a legitimate Tennant/Lowe release, unlike Screaming & Sail Away which had been released on "various artists" compilations before that.

I haven't even heard Bright Young Things, so I for one would be glad to have it as a b-side.