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've been fortunate to get a look at the limited edition reissue of this classic album courtesy of my local Oxfam. I think you'll agree it's impressive. It's called VerySemiRelentless due to the scaled back tracklisting. According to Neil he never liked Relentless so insisted on the reissue having...
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Quite possibly the worst bootleg I have ever seen in my life.
I dunno - there are some absolutely dire ones out there.
According the The Mail TV guide radio 6 Friday 7.30am Pet Shop Boys are talking about Hotspot. Thought I would post on here so, you get a chance to see this post. I couldn’t find this radio station on Sky the last time. It is there but not near radio 1,2 etc... :D
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Wed 7.30 David Tennant
Thu 7.30 The chap he nicked his surname from...
One of my favourite parts of a new PSB ‘era’ starting is the design aspect of it. As Petheads, we’re incredibly lucky (or maybe we just have great taste!). Neil and Chris’s collaboration with Farrow has produced some beautiful work.
The Super era was very, very strong in terms of design in my...
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I think this might be the most uninteresting design era of their career... It must be intentional but none of these cover artworks evokes anything to me. :(
Has anyone else noticed that when BBC Radio 2 play Go West they play what I believe is the Mark Stent original 7” mix and not the version that was actually released as a single? It must just be what they have in their computer.
It’s the mix with the extra synth riff, but without the brass parts...
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Original single was out October 28th 1992. Then pulled and reworked and released as the second single for Very in 1993. You are correct. Mark Stent 7 mix may have been digitized by BBC Radio 2 and they may be playing it by accident. There is always a chance.
Or perhaps i'm misremembering. But didn't PSB sue one Roger Scruton because he claimed that like the Spice girls, they didn't write their own songs?
Well if it is the same person, he has an article in the Guardian where he describes how his grandfather's name was.. Lowe.
He also describes the...
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What does he mean with which owes its trade mark to subsequent sound engineering, designed precisely to make it unrepeatable. ? That PSB have a unique sound?
I reckon he meant that the sounds couldn't be recreated for 'live' work. That's a whole debate in itself!
This links on its thread about radio appareances. But I think it's great because Neil starts singing all time. What about Neil singing a theme for Dora the Explorer :mrgreen:) with Chris making a dance routine on the next Monkey Business video? .
They feel more relaxed than ever:
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Wow - that’s the most ‘up’ I’ve heard them for a while!
Frisky...
I would love us to go through this together. The Boys have mentioned in a recent Q&A that they'd love to collect all of their remixes etc. in a singles box set. Now, we all know it's a massive undertaking, and I think most fans would agree with me that it would be best done in phases, best to do...
Her first hit West End Girls was about London. Around 35 years later, the Pet Shop Boys are now celebrating the German capital as a hotspot . Singer Neil Tennant speaks in the dpa interview about Berlin and Bowie, the new album and a long pop career.
With this album I find myself deliberately avoiding any information about what it sounds like (apart from info coming from PSB themselves). I have not read any reviews yet whatsoever, and not going to read them until I hear the album. Don't want to have any idea...
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You can read the title of this topic to the rythm of I'm not leaving till the last joint has shut down .
The best rating albums are Actually, Introspective, Behaviour and Very. Not a surprise. Quite good marks for Fundamental too.
- Please:
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Christgau's Record Guide A−
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars
Spin Alternative Record Guide...
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NME marks are interesting! Nightlife and Release total 'down the dumper' scores.
Ralph Moore, PSBs remix consultant, has just confirmed on the Bigmouth podcast (which contains a great review of the album) that two remixes have been completed for a fourth single from the album. He refused to confirm which track though!
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Ugh....I think I'm going to bow out for the rest of the days till release.
this will be the first time I listen to a PSB album without having had the leak weeks out or having heard snippers...which odds are the closer we get is bound to be found somewhere.
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...
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So good! So it`s time to get the full HD 3D Liberation video finally available for all of us!!! :D
You could do Liberation in VR. Now THAT would be awesome!
Sorry if this has been a topic before, but living in Canada, as I do, you don't often hear PSB except perhaps the odd radio play of West End girls on a retro radio station, or similarly popular Please/Actually era songs in various stores (What have I done to deserve this? and Always on my mind pop up from time to time).
Today I was really...
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There may have been more bizarre occasions, but I can mention I heard Vocal at the gym a few months ago, and Go West and New York City Boy have been played at least a couple times during the spinning classes. This is in San Salvador, El Salvador, by the way...
The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show played the song today (looks like Zoe Ball likes the song). Anyway, she started to red text message while the song went on. But it was supposed the song had finished it kept on going. The thing is it looked more like a loop of the middle of the song than anything else....
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Doesn't sound like the radio edit to me! It's definitely longer, starting at 1:04:56 until 1:09:07. And the ending is different too!
Did anyone mentioned there are still no original promo CDs/CDRs around there?
Not even 1track radio CDRs for Dreamland/Burning The Heather/Monkey Business. And of course no promo CD for Hotspot which is usualy available for journalists. And it's photo was available in Insta/FB prior to release...
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So sharing files, even within our Community, is wrong, but selling some fake records is an acceptable alternative ? Of course I complety disagree with you and don't like it. We could discuss endlessly... Anyway, It has nothing to do with being a morał authority , just alarming people who think...
I thought I'd start a new thread with the chart positions of the new single.
In the UK its number 57 in the sales chart although not in the main chart which includes streaming..still not bad after 2 days.😁😁😁
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Dreamland peaked at #6 in the Billboard Dance Club Songs. Falls #6 to #8 in the chart dated 18/1/2020.
Also falls #24 to #41 in the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs after peaking at #21 two weeks ago.
The following songs reached Nr. 1 on the Official U.K Airplay Chart
West End Girls
Always On My Mind
Heart
Domino Dancing
Its Alright
So Hard
I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
Girls Aloud The Loving Kind.
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When It's a Sin was released, songs like I Want your Sex from George Michael or I Wanna Dance with Somebody from Whithney Houston were getting a lot or airplays. Even A-Ha with The Living Daylights could have been a strong competition.
But well, there were many other rivals in the chart, a bit...
According to Neil Tennant and Christopher Lowe became Directors of X2 PERFUMES LIMITED on the same as they became Directors of X2 RECORDINGS LIMITED.
Of course I wish them all the best in their side endeavour and I wonder what the first perfume will be? Hope it's called Electric.
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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Here's another mock up
This and the pointy hats image are what I have recommended to them.
I happened to see this old advert on YouTube for an old fragrance, 'Turbo', and it made me think it was an inspiration for the intro to Axis.
Right down to the 'Turn it on'.
What do you think?
Rich
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It reminds me more of the intro to Music For Boys than Axis. :D
The final results are in for my poll of the past two weeks, in which I asked my site visitors to choose what they consider to be the Pet Shop Boys highlight of 2019. And the response that received the most votes was:
* The 'Burning the Heather' single with the bonus track 'Decide,' picked by 21.1%...
I found out today I have 20 mins on the phone with Neil (I’m presuming just Neil) on January 10. If there’s anything you want to ask him that you haven’t already sent to Literally, post it here and hopefully I’ll still have time to ask him.
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I found out today I have 20 mins on the phone with Neil (I’m presuming just Neil) on January 10. If there’s anything you want to ask him that you haven’t already sent to Literally, post it here and hopefully I’ll still have time to ask him.
Mastering
Surrounded by old tapes, DATs, CDs etc for a forthcoming reissues project. It's always interesting to see what forgotten gems turn up! Back to songwriting next week. Neil x
So, what do u think is waiting us? A Singles boxset? Further Listenings for Nightlife-Elysium albums?
This track probably deserves its own topic. Another hidden gem like so many in the career of those lovely Pet Shop Boys
Lowe on vocoderized vocals + classic dark dance music + a huge CYA remix; what have done to deserve the Pet Shop Boys ?
Pure bliss.
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I like No boundaries more than An open mind, personally. It has this addictive energy going on throughout. Open mind is fantastic too though, don't get me wrong.
Currently my order of preference is like this: Decide > No boundaries > An open mind
Do you like Agenda? Or do you hate it? What's your opinion about the EP?
Do you like that the CD version was exclusive to Annually?
Do you feel the EP was appropriately titled? (you know what I mean)
I do think some more discussion about this EP would be a good thing as it's a very unique EP, to...
I think there is a proper video (maybe with the full version of the song) on the way, this is the main single from Hotspot (because it works to introduce the album). I don't think they are going to put a single cover and that's all. You know, there is not a lyric video. :twisted:
The ones who...
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An 8 from me as well. The more I listen to the song, the more I like it and discover new sounds...
A phenomenon I think many of us are experiencing! It gets better and better! And those synth sounds are chills-inducing!! 8)
Does anyone remember the home that Chris Lowe sold not too long ago in London ? Can anyone remember where it was at all ? Just looking out of general interest ???
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I could well be wrong but my hunch is that Chris bought this property for himself and Pete and couldn't sell it quick enough after Pete's passing. I believe he may have then purchased the flat above the nightclub that was featured in Elle Decoration..
For me, the song is quite good (I told you Dreamland was going to be a good song). The only bad thing is the production. I like the bridges, the chorus is good (not sublime but good). The best of all is the youthful feeling of the song, Olly Alexander does a good job and he has...
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Not a fan of Olly's voice, song would be better if just Neil IMO...or just perhaps a different singer dueting with him.
It just struck me that in the 80s and early 90s PSB 12 -singles used to have their b-sides on them, but the last time this happened was in '94 with Yesterday when I was mad (if I'm not mistaken).
I think Dreamland would have made rather a nice 12 -single with the b-sides on it.
At least it would...
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I've collected 12 and CD singles as a rule and generally left the 7 out unless there was no other choice (I'm looking at you Minimal and BTH!)
That being said a different remix on CD to the 12 is nice but I'd still like it to rip as an mp3 so in the instance of Monkey Business I'm quite happy for...
Which are the songs that most make you think Neil is a lyrical genius? My top 3:
1. Nothing has been proved
2. After the event
3. Being Boring
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If you've done nothing wrong
You've got nothing to fear
If you've something to hide
You shouldn't even be here
The entire song Integral is lyrically brilliant. My favourite of his lyrics. It's so true and it's something every politician should have in the back of their mind. In my opinion it's...
Hi, everyone.
I am a Spanish Pethead. I've been reading you for years, and I've finally decided to write something. Hope you like It.
One of the things that I like and intrigue most about the songs in general, and those of the Pet in particular, is that sometimes, when a song is ending, they...
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Great question! I posted on here, years ago, that I wished “Boy Strange’s” piano ending plodded on for a minute or two.
Tempus fugit. We are now in the tenth year of the fourth Pet Shop Boys decade. That, of course, got me thinking. It doesn't take much. What were my highlights since 2010? Restricting myself to the quality control guarantee of 10 tracks, I cannot find a place for marvellous moments such as Axis,...
I think this one is a good question for a poll, although some people can hate them.
Remember the classics from the 80's, the 90's, some songs from Fundamental (TSAGS, Integral), some other from Yes (Love etc, AOTW) but after that, I don't see any song you can think there is a new classic on it, I...
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As individual tracks, Axis and Love is a bourgeois construct are amazing, well loved and some of the best work the PSB have ever done.
However as albums the answer is no.
I don't think there is a single PSB album that universally has every noe of it's tracks loved by everyone. Every album has some trqacks that at least...
Is there any unreleased work by the Boys that you're obsessed with having them release already?
I'm obsessed with that 1997 Stonewall concert, with the Sound of Music covers + It's Not Unusual. The only versions out there are murky at best, and not sure the technology in 1997 was good enough to...
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