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...
I'm a complete newbie so apologies if this has been discussed before...
I've been watching some live performances of the guys and I was really surprised to see Chris so involved. His dancing and rapping/singing in paninaro . Are there any similar performances where he gets involved?. Also was...
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In the same vein, I approached Neil at the BBC Concert Orchestra “Music and Chance” night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2009. He happily signed and chatted but needed to point out to me that I was standing right next to Chris and that I might want his autograph too.
Okay, firstly apols if this breaks a few rules but last year I digitised these old cassettes. As a result I have 10 x 1 hour mp3 files (2 for each day). I was going to upload them to YT but it seems they are too long for a standard account. Does anyone have any ideas how I could make them available...
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Yes in 1992 they were on from Monday 27th July.
In 1991 they hosted in August (I taped all the shows)
Firstly, I must say I’m delighted with the new transfer and restoration of It Couldn’t Happen Here. I’ve seen the film probably hundreds of times over the years. My original PMI VHS copy always had a rather lamentable soundtrack, so I was very much looking forward to this...
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I'd expect them to recall the Blu-ray and reissue the movie.
That would have been horrible because Blu-rays have to be 24 fps, so they would have to resample every 25 frames of the original 25 fps footage into new 24 frames interpolating those 25 to keep the speed right. (They have actually done...
There is not much going on at the moment, so I thought maybe I could put up a theory about Disco 5.
What kind of remixes could be included on Disco 5? Or no remixes? I have two theories, which of course don't have to be right at all.
Since it's all...
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Everyone seems to expect Disco 5. they dont seem to give any thought to another release they could possibly make. and its the kind of release that strikes terror in the heart of many a PSB fan. deep disappointment .....and extreme irritation. yes,I'm talking about a live album.
Not sure if this is already news to others, but saw this DVD cover on the Electric,Pet Shop Boys site on facebook.
Is this due or a bootleg..?
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If a site doesn't want older threads to be responded to, then they should lock them. In fact, in some of the forums I'm on, people get mad if you create a new thread if there is already an appropriate one. So, I guess you can't win.
Links:
Original SD version:
HD recreation:
HD Trailer:
Through March and April, my COVID project was to finally properly sync the PSB score to Battleship Potemkin to the film. As you may know, the CD version contained edits of Comrades, and Men and Maggots (cut down to roughly half it's actual...
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I really enjoyed watching this. Well done. I've wanted to see Potemkin like this for years.
The only thing I remember of it is an amazing intro, like PSB trying to create something big that flops at the end. I know you can listen to it on Youtube but I don't remember the name of the song. I think is more or less a recent song (from the last 10 years).
I think it's time for the ultimate video DVD or BluRey. With so many videos, maybe more.
Here is the list that these multiple DVDs or BluReys should contain on everyone.
Single Videos
Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) (First Version)
West End Girls
Love comes quickly
Opportunities (Let's...
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Left to my own devices (Longer Video version)
I need this in my life, i have waited since devices was released to have the Introspective version on video...if it is out there i demand to see it now :D
We are going to do that from time to time with most of PSB albums (specially with the ones that have Further Listenings versions). You have to choose ten songs between the ones that appear on the album and its further listenings in order to create a better album. You can include long running tracks...
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To be honest I don't feel the need to change any of the albums, assuming most of us have the option to make our own playlists and I listen to all of the albums on shuffle from time to time and I have a playlist of all the albums with the singles removed along with b sides and unreleased songs which...
A former editor writes:
Following your Pet Shop Boys 'only from the
left' photography instructions last week,
in the three years I worked at the Big Issue,
Chris Lowe was the only celebrity EVER to
demand his photos be retouched. Including one
tiny one, where he was way in the background...
Well, it has posted on the Youtube section but I wanted to create its own post because it's a quite rare performance. It comes from the show Dance Energy. A dance-funky show from BBC 2. The ambient with all these people dancing around PSB give to the show another feeling. Even Neil has to move a...
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It’s the funky drummer James brown loop. You can’t help BUT dance to it. The style of the dancers is the same of that in the Being Boring Video.
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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Stonewall? Wasn't that this seedy dive where people went cruising? Why would the boys wanna be associated with that?
The concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall - the complete opposite of a seedy dive in my book!
Pet Shop Boys are one of a few legacy acts that you’ve worked with. Who were some of your idols growing up?
Pretty much all synth-pop—Human League at the top. When I was very young, I liked Ultravox and OMD. Those three are the trinity of synth-pop to me. I also used to...
Both are arguably the best PSB tracks of all time, at least both have some remarkable achivements. Being Boring has the most touching lyrics ever listened on a PSB song and a more mature perspective. Left to my own Devices has one of the most powerful and complex song they have ever created, a...
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Both are obvious classics! I voted for BB just to even things out.. Left to my own devices was trouncing it in the vote! Lol.. I don’t think I could choose tbh.. it’d have to depend on my mood..
On the PSB shop we have two versions of the I Don't Wanna CD single.
x20023CD
x20023CDSO
The bottom one is sold out.
Is this just a case of a reprint of the single under a different product code? Or is there any other differences here? I don't think so but I'm just clarifying.
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The SO ones are going for a couple of grand on eBay.
Help!, another new Nickname's poll. Children and women first.
The 2 big PSB's album. Maybe Behaviour and Very have their options too but, I think for general public, these two albums represent the most influential and successful era of PSB. So, choose the best one.
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These are two of my least favourite PSB albums. However I like Introspective the least of these two so I voted for the other - Actually.
With the concert tour on hold many here are hoping for Di5co to act as a stopgap and extend the shelf life of the Hotspot era. Does Kylie's just announced album title (due November) put the mockers on the possibility? Or could it cheekily sneak out before then regardless? Thoughts?
This has probably been done before, but what's the best version of Discography? That is, if you have to keep the track order the same, but you can pick any version of the song you want, what does your ideal Discography look like?
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The only change I would make to the original would be to include the single mix of ‘how can you expect to be taken seriously?’
That'd make it a double CD - unless you removed one of the other tracks.
So be it!
If you look at stevebr’s version that could be a triple CD!
Italian composer Ennio Morricone as died, 91 years old. Most famous for his film scores, particularly the Dollars trilogy. For us PSB fans it is of course It couldn't happen here that comes to mind, one of PSB finest tracks.
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You could just check out the album sleeve notes, I assume you have the album 😊
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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I quite like the idea that Getting Away With It was the last synthpop hit of the 1980s.
In Private got a place higher than You Surround Me. :wink: Sorry Pughie!
According to both Discogs and the Pet Shop Boys Catalogue website, the 7 single of Absolutely Fabulous has the full 8 minute, 10 second version of Absolutely Fabulous (Dull Soulless Dance Music Mix) .
I've never heard of one side of a 7 single having over 8 minutes of music, so I was a...
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It's a comedy record. The Dull Soulless Dance Music mix is INTENDED to be exactly that. Dull. Soulless. Darnce music!
I know this may have been discussed before, but I cannot find the info...
Does anyone know the (top ten) best selling singles by the boys worldwide / in the U.K
Are there any official sales figures? :D
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There are no official sales figures available of their single sales. Neil has stated that he doesn’t know the total amount of singles sold himself.
Always On My Mind is their best selling single in the U.K
What Have I Done... has sold millions(Neil’s own words)
It’s A Sin has apparently sold 2.1...
Funko vinyl Pops ( Bobble head figures from stage and screen and anything else they can get the rights to!) have done many music artists from Elvis,Beatles , Elton john Etc so do you think they would do Neil and Chris (pointy hat era would be the most iconic imho) as many on here would buy them i...
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Oh dear, I really shouldn't have clicked on that link.
I don't understand why, maybe someone can explain what's wrong with this series.
:shock:
Sorry, I meant it as in, i shouldn't have clicked that link because now I must own all of them! Love Money Heist, best show I watched over the...
Heads up for musos round here. Just came across and downloaded this PET SHOP DRUMS for Kontakt freebie from PastToFutureReverbs dev.
Everyone knows the unmistakable sound of synth-pop from the 80s. We pay tribute with this drumkit from one of our favorite bands from this revolutionary music...
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Cool idea, but these drums came 35 years too late ;-)
Despite all of this, it's an amazing cover.
After the lockdown. I really believe there is a new Disco on the way. Something has been told before over there and I really believe Stuart wants to do that, he is a big fan of the first Disco . I've been thinking it could be a remix album of the whole triology but two first albums, Electric and...
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Well, theres no real point to releasing a... proper... new album if the next tour was going to be an iffy undertaking. its really all about the touring for most bands nowadays, thats where they make most of their money. or well maybe they could do a limited tour in europe, you seem to be doing...
that you crossed over from being a casual listener of the boys to being a dyed in the wool fan?
Mine was hearing Very in the fall of '93. Plain and simple. There were 6 different songs that had Top 5 singles chart written all over them. Others non-greatest hits releases like Actually and Behavior...
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Bought West End Girls on 7inch, Christmas 1985.
Then seemed to lose track of them until Suburbia, which I bought on 12 inch, then the Disco album, then Please...and everything released ever since.
With PSB being a pop act, I was wondering if they ever did the I–V–vi–IV chord progression, which is the pop chords progression. I'm not a music maker, don't know much about chords and stuff, but I was wondering if they ever did.
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*note Always on my mind (Brenda Lee)
Mea culpa. I don’t know where in the song it’s used though.
The brass riff part / verse.
And if you look up the chords for A red letter day, you'll find F - C - Dm - Bb. Granted, that's only the first 4 of an 8 chord phrase, but the ones we're looking...
Long time lurker and even longer time die hard here.
I have it on very good authority that the US Tour this fall will be a co-headline one with NEW ORDER.
Major news I think.
Thoughts!?
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Hey all - sorry wasn't sure where to post this question but I have two options on tickets for the Madison Square Garden concert.
My tickets are Block 108 row 18 - off to the near side of the stage and higher up in the tier and my friend has tickets in the opposite block 116 row 10 - so closer by...
I put @ 20%. I haven't read evidence in interviews that referenced the forum....but I still think Chris might casually check here infrequently. Neil seems like he'd be more heavily into Facebook, Instagram, etc while Chris doesn't seem like the type to care and would venture off the social media...
I know it's a difficult question, really difficult. Because Neil and Chris are not young boys any longer. But I think PSB should try to surprise with a new sound for the new album. Something really different even in a conceptual way. Of course, they are PSB but I see they feel too much confortable...
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James Ford has produced Jessie Ware's new album 'What's Your Pleasure?'. A sublime pop album that nods to many artists and references, yet sounds contemporary.
He has beautifully combined electronics with elegant orchestration and production, not a million miles from PSB. Listen to 'The Kill', the...
Having re-read Literally and Versus America for the first time since their initial release, it’s interesting viewing them through the prism of 30 years. A few things I’ve noticed:
Chris was much more of a raver than I remembered.
How can you expect to be taken seriously?? Is so obviously about Bros, especially when they talk...
Lynsey Hanley on the Pet Shop Boys and how a music duo that has always refused to play the pop game just keeps winning.
Originally tweeted from official PSB account.
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And a great quote from the associated online article here:
The Pet Shop Boys are the ultimate pop act for thinkers and feelers: for those who do both a bit too much, who make excessively romantic demands of life, and risk exhaustion in doing so.
I'll be the first one to say it, they should remaster the music videos!!
It's a new trend now, remastering music videos particularly from the 80's.
Elton and A-Ha have done this to promote their live tours. PSB could do the same.
They're put onto Youtube. Brilliantly they can replace the existing...
Neil's interesting interview on the Guardian Web site today contained some references to the new album. I was surprised at how willing he was to drop in tidbits about that as I was under the impression that we were still very much between albums, but it seems clear that this has now progressed. I...
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I was thinking that, although Hotspot as a title didn't click for me, now it's almost visionary as there are coronavirus hotspots all over the world. Even bland lyrics like Dreamland or I don't wanna have taken new meaning now. :shock: :shock:
Hey yeah I mentioned somewhere that Hotspot is like...
I think PSB has plans for a new Disco album and the next year they need one to promote the concerts, so I think they are going to use a fith single. Probably a new version of one song of Hotspot. Which one do you think they should choose?.
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