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- Wed 11 Jan 2023, 6:10 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Bilingual promotion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4432
Re: Bilingual promotion
Bilingual was also deliberately pitched against the trends of its time—an anti-Britpop album that was also disconnected from the dance music of the era. And disconnected from the hyper-creative 1980s milieu that had given rise to PSB in the first place: Italo disco, NYC electro and early hip hop, ea...
- Fri 02 Dec 2022, 4:55 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Producers suggestions for a new PSB album
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8519
Re: Producers suggestions for a new PSB album
Johnny Jewel. Not only for moodiness and Italo feel of his work but also because he seems to keep remixing and producing interesting new variations on everything he produces. (I guess Chris Zippel did that, too, but not many of the permutations he did in the Release days have been, erm, released.)
- Fri 03 Sep 2021, 6:10 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Hating PSB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8197
Re: Hating PSB
The Moz/Bennett story is that the playwright chose “It’s a Sin” over a Smiths song to feature in “The History Boys.” If memory serves…
- Thu 20 May 2021, 6:25 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: The mass-media trilogy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1616
Re: The mass-media trilogy
They’d first thought about touring in 1986 with a “scratch video” multimedia component. They decided against it. (From the sound of it, it might have been like U2’s ZooTV some five or six years later.) I agree with those who see MCMLXXXIX as a precursor to Performance. The point of Discovery was sim...
- Wed 12 May 2021, 8:16 pm
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: The PSB vault
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3594
Re: The PSB vault
There's scads and scads of stuff, as back issues of Literally have informed us. And as the Further Listenings have shown, there are recordings that aren't even known from the recording diaries in Literally. The fates of "You've Got to Start Somewhere" and "In the Club or in the Queue&...
- Tue 27 Apr 2021, 6:48 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Do you think a producer like Mark Ronson could work for PSB?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5217
Re: Do you think a producer like Mark Ronson could work for PSB?
I’d like them to work with Johnny Jewel. Not only is he great as a kind of neo-Italo-disco producer, but his habit of making a lot of alternate mixes and remixes would generate plenty of material for singles.
- Thu 04 Feb 2021, 9:11 pm
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour 2022, 2023 & now 2024
- Replies: 689
- Views: 150118
Re: DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour RESCHEDULED until 2022
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- Thu 04 Feb 2021, 9:10 pm
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour 2022, 2023 & now 2024
- Replies: 689
- Views: 150118
Re: DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour RESCHEDULED until 2022
I can’t see any logic behind another greatest hits. Who would buy it? Nobody under 35 buys CD. And anyone over 35 who is just a casual listener to PSB already has Discography, Popart, or Ultimate. Die-hard older fans are the only CD market for the Boys today, and those fans—we fans—would be better s...
- Fri 25 Sep 2020, 8:58 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Single versions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8690
Re: Single versions
Regarding “Heart” and how attentive the Boys are to their albums, I think they’ve said they liked the lucky accident of the “abrupt,” partially erased intro to the album version of “Heart.” They obviously had conflicted feelings about the song as a whole, though, as it underwent a radical reworking ...
- Fri 25 Sep 2020, 8:50 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Single versions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8690
Re: Single versions
I’ll break with just about everyone else and rather than nominate a remixed single, I’ll suggest the 7” edit of “Before” as better than the album version, and I think the Boys made the right call with the “Minimal” edit as a single, even tho I prefer the album version personally. What makes these ed...
- Wed 16 Sep 2020, 5:23 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Did the PSB website change?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5255
Re: Did the PSB website change?
When the Boys left Parlophone in 2013 the music business was moribund. Nobody wanted to invest even in the big companies. Now there’s a Vogue for music investments because streaming has matured enough that it seems clear what the revenue flows will look like over the long term, and even though music...
- Fri 11 Sep 2020, 5:06 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Did the PSB website change?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5255
Re: Did the PSB website change?
My guess is this is actually quite big—maybe they sold their music catalogue to Warner’s. Former PSB manager Merck Mercuriadis has a company that buys up catalogues and recently acquired Blondie’s, https://variety.com/2020/music/news/blondie-song-catalog-hipgnosis-1234725924/ . Several long-establis...
- Thu 30 Apr 2020, 4:41 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: 4th single off Hotspot - I Don't Wanna
- Replies: 200
- Views: 66879
Re: 4th single off Hotspot - I Don't Wanna
I'm baffled by the radio edit. Would it really be any less likely to be played on radio at 4 minutes long, compared to the chopped version? The edit makes an abrupt switch from the truncated intro into the beat--it sounds amateurish. The "Monkey Business" and "Burning the Heather"...
- Wed 29 Jan 2020, 5:05 pm
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Wedding in Berlin: revival of interest?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 19236
Re: Wedding in Berlin: revival of interest?
I was thinking it should have been a b-side, but then it occurred to me that for sales reasons it made sense to include it on the album: there will be some demand for the song at weddings, and by associating the song with the album, they might sell a few more albums. It’s more helpful than it would ...
- Tue 26 Nov 2019, 12:38 am
- Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
- Topic: Obsessed with anything unreleased?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 17306
Re: Obsessed with anything unreleased?
“Love your enemy,” which has never leaked, sounded enticing from its description in Literally: “gorgeous strings” and apparently a Massive Attack vibe. I’d love for the Bobby O demos / album prototype to get a proper release. And in addition to the Bobby O demo of “In the club or in the queue,” ther...