I know yesterday (13th March) was the first time a new PSB track had been played in ages, but (as per the long standing forum rules) in future all public requests for copies of any new track, PSB or otherwise, will be deleted and/or threads containing requests closed. We will officially...
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Ta,
Dave :D
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“We’re all miserable f******; it’s a look which we just stole from Sparks.”
... i like the little mention of the PSB's in the new Sparks documentary. Question(to Neil): Why don't you guys ever acknowledge Sparks? Neil's answer(with a scornful look): You are very naughty. (then walks away).
Just listening to BBC6 Music and an interview with Paul Weller mentions this...his latest track does sound more electronic so perfect for a remix I guess. When did Neil and Chris last remix someone else's track? :) :D Interesting indeed.
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Would love an instrumental, or at least one with just Neil's whispery backing track. Paul's voice is indeed embarrassing...doesn't sound like it belongs on a four-on-the-floor 12 minute dance tune. Also the vocals come in too quick; 20 seconds into the song if I recall. Would be better if PSB gave...
I had an idea a few months ago to gather the main UK 12 inch singles from the Discography era together, into an appropriately themed boxed set.
Finally got it back from the printers today and really pleased with it. Thought I'd share where people might appreciate it!
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50poundnote, from about ten/fifteen years ago, was on the net and brilliantly executed every single Factory record New Order release. Every track, artwork re-done, all available for download. Then went onto do Joy Division. Both projects were spot on. Rare edits, complete tracklistings and nothing...
Sorry if this has already been posted but I just heard it. Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn, has released a cover of It's A Sin. It's part of a soundtrack. I really like the musical arrangement. 2021 has been a great year for It's A Sin.
Was made aware of this by a work friend. not sure how good it will be.(Feel free to delete if its been mentioned)
Hanging Around Books next photozine release will be RETROSPECTIVE - PET SHOP BOYS 1986/92 and it is released on August 16th, 2021.
The collection, from the archive of renowned...
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Q: I suppose it's just black and white photographs printed in this book?
Somewhat bizarrely, Zara are selling some Pet Shop Boys t-shirts…
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Tucked-in tees and bumbags?! f*** that...
Well, each to their own I guess but personally speaking there's nothing looking worse than tees that do not fit properly (as often is the case which is normal as they're not tailored - exception: OS fit which actually suits you) either hanging down your...
The final results are in for my Rating Project poll for Cricket Wife. I'm afraid it didn't do very well, earning an average rating of only 4.902, placing it at #356 among 381 Pet Shop Boys songs. It's interesting to note, however, that the most common rating for the song was 7, with 16.9% of voters...
Hi, Petheads.
I want to edit a video on YouTube using parts of one or more Pet Shop Boys songs, but I'm afraid I can't, due to problems with the copyright of the songs.
I've watched a lot of fans videos using their songs, so I wonder if there's any way to use any of their songs, or versions of...
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I think in most cases there is no problem using copyrighted songs, you just won't be able to make money from your video. As far as I know, the worst thing that can possibly happen is that the video will be blocked, so that no one or only people living in certain countries will be able to watch it.
Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my Rating Project poll on the Pet Shop Boys' latest song, Cricket Wife. If you haven't registered your rating yet, please pay a quick visit to my Commentary site at and make your choice, rating Cricket Wife on a scale of 0-10, in which 0 means...
I’m sure I read somewhere that the original track list for Bilingual was different to the one released (and that the change came at a late stage in the development of the album).
Does anyone know what the original track list was?
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I can't believe some people actually don't like Discoteca! The double-intro to this album is EPIC and the 1 thing that kept me coming back to it and willing to overlook all the clashy bits. I kind of wish they just narrowed their focus and made it decidedly latin pop from start to finish. While i...
I thought someone would have noted it here but maybe everybody bas a copy. PSB tweeted that BFI had some copies left of the limited edition version of ichh for 19.99 if anyone is still interested. Still in stock right now.
AR
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Hi! Hope you are all well. It is not the limited edition but, they recon they have them now at :- :D The company themselves are fine to deal with as we have had quite a few orders from them in the past.
So if I were to organise a Pet Shop Boys convention in London (or more likely South London) next year, who would be interested in attending?
I've been running Transformers shows for years and fancy a change.
There would be dealers tables selling PSB merchandise, PSB videos on show, a mass of fans...
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I remember the Decadence convention in Sept 1991 at the (then called) Palais. Same place Kate Bush club had a convention there earlier in the year and Kate showed up! Seem to recall Chris popped his head in the 91 convention then left quickly.
First half is actual (not for early in the morning) remixes, second half is more subtle extended mixes of the best songs off his recent Today album (and if you haven't heard that, you should probably have a listen to those songs here).
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Eurovision. I can see them dying to give us nill points, when something like River of Lies should be a massive hit.
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I do a search-query in the Frech music-rights database on sacem.fr. I thought I'd thrown Neil's name in it to see if I find some remarkable things. And I did.
One of the first hits I get is
Go Away.
credited to:
TENNANT NEIL FRANCIS, Compositeur-Auteur
LOWE CHRIS,...
Hey there! I believe I've waited long enough to run a new Rating Project poll for the most recently released Pet Shop Boys song, Cricket Wife. I realize that not everyone who ordered Annually 2021 , accompanied by the Cricket Wife CD single, may have received it by now. But after all this time, I...
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I gave it 2, very very poor in my opinion. Worse even than Electricity 😂
Does Neil say (‘lecture’ is a better word for our headmaster Mr. Tennant!) when Madonna says ‘Ik ben droevig’ : ‘Oh, that’s wrong in German bytheway’? If that’s what he says , then he is in fact wrong too. Because that lyric is not German, but Dutch :wink:
Random dreaming... two discs... six tracks on each...
Disc one... 2 songs from each of the Stuart Price albums... rerecorded with other producers.
Disc two... 6 older songs re-recorded with Stuart Price... based on tour versions.
Im living in Denmark and experiencing that both parcels from digital stores (Live DVD + Annually) where supposed to be sent by UPS (got the tracking codes from customer service) but are apparently never handed over to UPS.
Are anyone else...
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Well, I finally received Annually the other day, two months after it was released. It took a million e-mails to DS, full of confusing answers, but they finally shipped it with UPS this week, so I am just happy that I finally received it here in New York. Next year, I’ll maybe just go back to...
I did read that long, rambled piece by that pop journalist person going on (and on) about 'Discovery.' Goodness me. Cheap and cheerful it might be (although TBH, it looks no more or less expensive than, say, the Nightlife tour concerts or any of the others from the past few...
Anyone know how many/what On-U Sound mixes were done for PSB by Adrian Sherwood et al and whether they are classed as official?
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That's not Adrian Sherwood's label...its an American remix service...he did remix a couple of Depeche tunes though. I saw him live once heavy dub reggae mixed live..Great.
As far as I am aware On u sound is British and was formed by Adrian sherwood and and Pete (I can't remember his last name)....
The song was a hit in Spain, UK, Germany but it was also in Russia. Anyway and after some decades, not to much has changed in Russia about the perception of gay people. The political view PSB gave to the song was successful and also smart. So Go West then.
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Didn't realise until today about the dangers of freedom of the press and investigative journalism in the Netherlands.
Mixing all the rumours and information. Singles in a reverse chronological order, including singles of Hotspot (except Burning the Heather) and then all the Top 10 in UK's chart (including songs performed by other artists).
Looks like the set-list of Dreamworld Tour could be like this (28 songs)....
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DJ Culture definitely, it just doesn't get enough love.
'like Liz before Betty, she after Sean
Suddenly you're missing, then you're reborn'
I’ve recently discovered the Eddie Valdez mix of Did you see me coming.
Does anyone know the story behind this? It didn’t seem to get an official release and I’m my opinion it is the best version of this song, not overproducted like the album version or flat and repetitive like the possibly more...
A fascinating snippet from a Rolling Stones article in the latest issue of Mojo . There's a short history of The Rolling Stones Mobile, a recording studio built in a lorry in 1969.
In the '80s, the Mobile passed on to Wyman's AIMS charity. We used it to record 50 unknown artists throughout...
Is Chris Dowell - Neil's friend who partly-inspired Being Boring, the same Chris who was jealous of Chris Lowe in Jealousy?
I'm quite sure he was. I can't remember exactly where but I do remember that Neil talked about his friend being jealous of how much time he spent with PSB's Chris and some...
Just recently I find out about this project of collaboration...and that Dieter talked seriously about it on a press conference in Estonia, 1998.
Was it a real project, or something that happened only on Dieter's head?
Go to 1:54 on this video:
(sorry if this was poster before, but I didn´t...
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I personally think it only happened in Dieter's head, didn't Neil and Chris make fun of Modern Talking in the 80s?
Did they? Nothing wrong with Modern Talking. Just listen to much of the italo music from that period and they very much sound the same. They are just not very original and stick to...
Since 2011 BBC4 has been airing Top of the Pops episodes, in chronological order from 1976 onwards. This week the episode originally aired on 08 August 1985 will be shown, which means PSB'S first appearence from November 1985 is just around the corner, and from that point they will be making...
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Streets enters at number seven. TOTP omits the Boystown Gang part of the title and Anthea 'Cocaine' Turner tells us how fantastic U2's version was, which seems rather apt.
Pet Shop Boys announce the release on DVD and 2-CD of their “Discovery: Live in Rio 1994” concert, recorded towards the end of their 1994 tour of Singapore, Australia and Latin America. Release date is April 23rd. The DVD and CDs package is available for pre-order from today at the link below....
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They haven't learnt with the packaging. Awkward to remove, almost inevitable you'll put fine scratches on discs too. My first one arrived with a damaged DVD it was that tight the plastic inside the disc had actually fractured like safety glass would. I'd rather pay 50p more for a proper plastic...
More than 100 days ago, I've started 4 polls you could vote on the Off Topic Discussion. Now the poll is over. Let's talk about the results. Bear in mind is a small poll from this forum but I don't know why I think is quite accurate.
Pet Shop Boys Community - Demographics (your age)
Neil and...
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So does that make me a typical Pet Shop Boys fan then...
English
Male
49
Straight
Was married
Have 2 kids and fiance
But currently live alone
So we finally have a bit of sunshine and would love to wear some PSB t shirts from back in the day but they are faded and possibly shrunk although it might be me!
Do you think it’s a good idea to have tour t shirts reprinted and sold on the PSB website?
Personally I’d buy most of the 89 tour...
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Yeah they could do more merchandise.
As it stands it appears the website is really only for surplus tour merch.
New Order do it, you can sell old school merch randomly.
Further to this, I think selling just general t-shirts without having to promote something is not a bad idea.
There is a...
What could the new fan club 2021 Annually issue hold? How each of them shopped with masks at Tescos or Sainsburys in 2020? Maybe an update on the product development of the Funko Dolls ??? Goodbye 2020...hello 2021.
1 December 2020
Letters
Work is underway for the 2021 issue of Annually and...
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I got one from Ebay. Very interesting read, loved reading about the year 1986. Their comments on the photosession in the Netherlands on 24 january really seems to have affected their performance for TopPop the same day:
So that made me curious about the interview they did for Dutch radio...
I am sure more people already done this, but it’s quite interesting to see how many businesses (‘limiteds / LTD’s) the Pet Shop Boys own. Here, have a look 👀 at Neil’s:
Their X2 Perfumes for example has not quite taken off yet, did it? :think:
Looking forward to Hotspot next month, and wanted to provide an early Xmas present to help fill in the time gap!
I'm 100% confident these tracks won't see the light of day in any type of release, as 1997 was still pre-smart phone and unlikely a high quality soundboard mix exists anywhere.
Quality...
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Sandie Shaw- Any details on what the concert was like to attend in person? Did they wear Very-era costumes or just casual clothes?
Casual clothes. Was Bilingual era so to late for Very!
They wore the I wouldn’t notmally do this kind of thing wigs for the 1993 equality show
I love both bands, not simply because they are also a duo, but because they seem like a younger risk-taking version of PSB if they only did instrumentals.
Here’s the newest song (“Captain”) from Gaspard Auge’s solo album - he is the Chris Lowe of Justice.
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I think the comparison to PSB is a major stretch. I would never put them side-by-side, in any context. Basically what you're doing is clickbait :D
I feel like we've mentioned them before, but... yeah, I only enjoyed the debut, Planisphere and bits of the sophomore. It got old, fast. Not to...
I used to put a watershed mark on 1992, PSB before and after but now I rather think it's 1994. Then Pete died, they went on their party tour in S Am and let it all loose. 10 years later the rebirth of PSB with Potemkin soundtrack. 5 years after that they became legacy and that's where we are now....
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They’re never going to top the charts again. They’ll get a brief mention on the TV news when one or both of them dies.
Perhaps a longer mention if they both died in some spectacular way. Lol I know this is kind of morbid but I found your comment really funny.
If you go to the YOUTUBE section and go watch the SAVE video, you can find many coments saying in Spanish venimos por Pasapalabra :
The other day in a show called Pasapalabra (similar to The Alphabet Game) on an Argentinian TV, there was a guest called Iván de Pineda. He appeared on that PSB...
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Oh haha..I use to see this TV show on many days...but missed that one apparently! In fact he´s the presenter/moderator of show, not a guest. A very clever man who did a career from modeling to TV host more because of his wide culture than for his appearance (an unusual case!). But on the Se A Vida...
What would you class as their saddest or most moving songs? I appreciate this is subjective but it would be interesting to see if there some common choices.
I have always found the chorus of Dreaming of the Queen pretty heartbreaking. The death of love itself, then suddenly made personal:
'There...
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Thanks for this. :( 8) :cry:
Can I suggest Birthday Boy if it's not there already?
Added! Thank you.
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