Making Pet Shop Boys : Behaviour

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Pertan · #1 Post by **Pertan** » Mon 12 Jan 2026, 5:59 pm

https://www.classicpopmag.com/features/ ... behaviour/

Skybluearmy87 · #2 Post by **Skybluearmy87** » Mon 12 Jan 2026, 6:55 pm

That was a good read thank you

tottenhammattspurs · Tue 13 Jan 2026, 7:40 am

As it’s Classic Pap magazine, I assume it’s riddled with errors?

Patrick Bateman · #4 Post by **Patrick Bateman** » Tue 13 Jan 2026, 8:50 am

That NME review of My October Symphony is so wrong.

Dog · #5 Post by **Dog** » Sat 17 Jan 2026, 12:10 pm

This cribs from the interview with Harold Faltermeyer I did for this forum:

“The album was put together using a catalogue of vintage synths. “I mean, you name it, we got it,” recalled Faltermeyer in an interview conducted in 2017 for the online forum Pet Shop Boys Community. “It started with the Moogs, Kurzweil and Roland modular synthesizers, Oberheims, Yamaha. We used the TR-808 drum machines, the 909, the TB-303 – very iconic Roland vintage gear.”

petshopgrrl · #6 Post by **petshopgrrl** » Mon 19 Jan 2026, 12:00 am

tottenhammattspurs wrote: Tue 13 Jan 2026, 7:40 am As it’s Classic Pap magazine, I assume it’s riddled with errors?

No, looks like the writer did his homework.

Dog wrote: Sat 17 Jan 2026, 12:10 pm This cribs from the interview with Harold Faltermeyer I did for this forum:

“The album was put together using a catalogue of vintage synths. “I mean, you name it, we got it,” recalled Faltermeyer in an interview conducted in 2017 for the online forum Pet Shop Boys Community. “It started with the Moogs, Kurzweil and Roland modular synthesizers, Oberheims, Yamaha. We used the TR-808 drum machines, the 909, the TB-303 – very iconic Roland vintage gear.”

Just found it and read it - what a great interview! It was nice of him to take the time. And you lot came up with good questions.

Here it is, for any other newbies.

viewtopic.php?p=567131#p567131

Dog wrote: Wed 20 Dec 2017, 8:57 pm

With the album Behaviour regarded by many as their finest work, Harold Faltermeyer’s position as co-producer firmly assures his place in Pet Shop Boys’ history.

Dog · #7 Post by **Dog** » Mon 19 Jan 2026, 12:06 pm

Thanks for digging it out

There are a few others I did around the same time:

Stephen Hague:
viewtopic.php?t=31132

Julian Mendelsohn:
viewtopic.php?t=33413&hilit=Julian+Mendelsohn+interview

Trevor Horn:
viewtopic.php?t=31601

jasonjohn · #8 Post by **jasonjohn** » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 9:35 am

Those forum interview are fantastic

https://www.classicpopmag.com/features/ ... behaviour/

As per Nervously years earlier, the songs were written mainly on guitar.
Eh? Am I reading that wrong?

“We didn’t set out to ‘go mature’,” said Tennant in the Radio 1 doc. “We set out, as usual, to make an album where every track could be a single. We used to say at the time we’d started to make 10 Kylie Minogue singles
For the longest time I thought that quote was referencing Very, which probably got closer to the mark? - maybe they immediately returned to that idea after their post-Discography hiatus?

portraits of Tennant and Lowe (the latter facing away from the camera), a still life, and a shot of Tennant and Lowe together, each clutching enormous bunches of roses. This was inspired by a 1951 photo of Judy Garland by Richard Avedon

telys · #9 Post by **telys** » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 10:07 am

Dog wrote: Mon 19 Jan 2026, 12:06 pm Thanks for digging it out There are a few others I did around the same time:

Stephen Hague:
viewtopic.php?t=31132

Would you consider producing another Pet Shop Boys album? (Pod)

Of course. Neil and I stay in touch, and the songs are better than ever… You never know!

Now, that would be something. The last time they did something together was CTH soundtrack back in 2001, wasn't it?