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...
To expand on the thread title, do you consider West End Sunglasses , the Dub of One more chance , Montreal mixes of West End girls etc. as official PSB releases? It's unusual that they included some of these in the original Annually , while Catalogue only lists the two original singles....
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This thread includes passages from the Michael Cowton book and references additional material still owned by Bobby O at the time, including the 28 minute version of Pet Shop Boys.
Equipment used for music production has changed a lot along the PSB career. I'd like this thread to be focused on the medium that PSB have used to store their studio recording masters.
I do not know the precise details yet, but I reckon roughly that would probably be:
Pre-1987-88: Multitrack...
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I know Hague was big on his digital recording ('True Faith' being a clear example in 1987). Wonder if 'Please' is listed as ADD because a couple of the songs had analogue origins ('Opportunities', 'Why Don't We Live Together?') because they had original versions recorded before the digital 'Please'...
BlueSwan is a martyr to clinically precise PSB song ranking threads. If only he had the same ruthlessness with his own band's quality control... But I digress.
I've never been able to determine rankings with the pinpoint accuracy and certainty required of such an endeavour, simply because the...
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Interesting exercise....
1980s
West End Girls
In the Night
Suburbia (The Full Horror)
It’s a Sin
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Left to My Own Devices (Album version)
Domino Dancing
Always On My Mind
Do I have to?
Your Funny Uncle
1990s
This Must be the Place I waited Years to Leave
So Hard...
Hey, I sometimes tend to think that Keyan's permanent ecstasy mix of We all feel better in the dark is the best remix of a PSB song ever. I mean, it's 15 min 40 sec long and combines all of the remixes of WAFB in seamless smooth way. And may I remind you, it's 15 min 40 sec long.
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Clearly one of their best is the infamous PSB Symphonic Mix of 'I'm In Love With a German Filmstar' by Sam Taylor Woods. Remember this kinda acid bass line which eventually leads to the 'Leben Ohne Liebe Kannst Du Nicht' finale?!
A new spinning vinyl playlist featuring fifteen official audio tracks by Pet Shop Boys is now available on YouTube at the link below.
These spinning vinyl videos have been updated with improved high definition audio tracks. The playlist includes selected songs from different PSB albums, including...
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Peak vinyl fetishism.
I will make videos of CDs playing in a CD player soon.
...and I will make videos of mp3s playing in an iPod or Zune (!) :shock:
I thought that All Over the World also features I love you because that part of the song started to spin around my head but I checked and saw it was I want you . More or less isn't it the same thing? :D
Main album tracks only -
how many songs per album do you think spoil its ‘cohesiveness’ (or maybe you just dislike?) and would opt to remove, thus ‘improving’ the overall album?
If anything, The dictator decides is out of place on Super, not that I care about that album.
And I think In denial, being a character-driven musical-song, is very much out of place on Nightlife, as is Boy strange, for sonical reasons.
Hm, sometimes I feel that Your funny uncle should've been saved for Behaviour. Perhaps fleshed out with a minute or so of instrumental or a beat and put on after Being Boring.
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p.s. having said that - the fact that is is so short is what makes is all the more sweeter ...
First and foremost, I hope you are both keeping well during these strange and unprecedented times. For some reason that glorious verse of Up against it - scenes as slow as Pinter / Synchronise your watches / There's still time to kill - keeps coming to my mind, but perhaps even...
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I don’t get all the extra fuss that this unreleased track gets ...
I mean what is meant to be so special about The Lost Room as opposed to any other unreleased track?
I should state that I’m a teetotaller so that might explain my ambivalent attitude
With time on my hands, and inspired by the new edition of Annually, I’ve put together a couple Spotify playlists compiling 32 years of Neil and Chris’s favourite records, as documented in the pages of Literally and Annually, from the original 1988 Pet Shop Boys, annually to the present day.
Wow! Pretty bad quality, but I had no idea these existed.
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Songs included in this bootleg CD:
It's a shame there's never been a good quality recording of either Wembley or Dodger Stadium released or leaked. I'm guessing that the Dodger gig is in an archive somewhere, similar to the DM gig that same day (taken from in house video I believe)
Does anyone know anything about this? It was described in Literally as ; but what set up was it? Performance? Sounds not, like far more stripped down. - another potential gig for a live box set of unique gigs .. they even played Paninaro and Occupy my mind!
The Pet Shop Bays have decided to play...
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Songs included in this bootleg:
Found the Mayan recording on soulseek, not very good unfortunately. Is there a soundboard floating around or just this audience version?
I thought I was going to listen through some of the Price-material. Turns out I put on Super from start to end and this time I even liked Happiness a lot. I think it's a great album when listening through it, it puts you in a good mood, a little bit happy, not too euphoric though, just a tidy bit...
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I absolutely love Super. It’s more consistent than Electric although it doesn’t quite reach its dizzy heights. They are now both in my top 5 albums. The said can’t be said for “Hotspot” which is not the great thing many people are wittering on about. “Hoping for a Miracle” is exceptional. “Willo...
Today The Pop Kids Remixes went out from Sporify... :oops:
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So quick question - has anyone been using soundcloud go+ and any feedback?
I use Spotify and have done for sometime - I liked the fact you could use Spotify with DJ software and mix from spotify playlists and albums - which is quite handy if you don't want to fill your laptop or hard drive up with...
He just needs to start walking around his garden with a zimmer frame.
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Or just stay resident in the UK, and pay taxes to fund the NHS, which PSB do and many “synth pop bands” who were as big as them do not. A charity single would be a lovely gesture, but decades of paying into the system and helping to fund services is more welcome.
It seems very popular right now for major artists to dig in to their video archives and upload to YouTube previously unreleased or very rare live concert films. Pink Floyd, Genesis, OMD and Radiohead, to name a few, have already or will be releasing content to YouTube.
So it got me thinking, this...
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It's taken over 30 years for ICHH to appear on dvd, and that's only because someone else wanted to do it. I don't hold out any hope for MCMLXXIX ever appearing on anything other than VHS and YouTube. There were fan made DVDs of Discovery at the turn of the century, obviously ripped from the...
Listening to these two David Jackson remixes of IDW (which are both choice!) reminds me of TBWCKHCO, both in sound and in spirit (one being the polar opposite of the other, obv.). And then I got to thinking I'd love for the character in one to meet the character in the other. I think they'd hit it...
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I don't wanna 'nother drink or fight I wanna lover tonight
Why has this song never been played live? :grumble:
I can't understand why this song doesn't even have any official remixes or extended mix? To me it would of made a way better single than 'So Hard' (A song that drags down Behaviour!)
The song is highly relevant now, the lyrics are just as...
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This topic made me rediscover BEHAVIOUR a few days ago,been such a long time since i listened to it in it's entirety,forgot just how amazing it is...especially the end of the world,nervously and to face the truth...beautiful.
The BFI have today released a newly remastered 4K version of the original trailer for the Pet Shop Boys feature film “It Couldn’t Happen Here”. Unavailable for over 30 years, the limited edition DVD/Blu-ray is out on June 15th and can be pre-ordered now
Trailer:
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Very strange trailer. Was it some comedy movie? Some surreal thing? I have never care about becoming familiar with this production as it seemed to be completely patchy and weird in a bad way. Perhaps now I could try to fix this initial prejudice.
My Wife and daughter were watching BGT tonight( I think they recorded it from yesterday). Anyway I was in an adjoining room and heard It’s a Sin in the background. It turns out a dance group used it for an act.
Always pleasant to hear a Psb tune even in a different form.
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It's a great cover version, If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this, it's by Hidden Citizens and is available on Itunes :-)
We’re in a virus Hotspot
Burning the Heather hasn’t happened
We’re not in a Dreamland
We’re certainly not in a Dreamworld
We’re hoping for a miracle
I don’t wanna go out (Boris?)
Wedding in Berlin. Don’t no about Berlin but three of my friends have cancelled theirs!
The sweet lyric video for I don't wanna made me think of PSB's videos over their career. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that there was a general perception that their videos were never up to the quality of their singles - which I totally disagree with. I think that more often than not...
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The Left to My Own Devices video is utter garbage imho. It was an interesting concept but staring up at Neil and Chris' crotches through a clear perspex floor isnt my idea of music video greatness.
I can definitely see the concept - an arty, moody video to suit the song but it does seem quite...
1. Willo the wisp.
2. At rock bottom.
3. Happy people.
4. Dreamland.
5. Hoping for a miracle.
6. I don't wanna.
7. Monkey business.
8. No Boundaries.
9. An Open mind.
10. Burning the heather.
How exciting...in honour of Earth Day 2020...if I have read this correctly...Neil and Chris will be performing live from their home on YouTube during this Coronavirus self isolation time, tonight, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 starting at 10pm British Summer Time on Sam Lee's Singing with the...
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I guess it was exactly the same as the CD, apart from lots and lots of bird sounds over the top? I was hoping for something a little more live, given the mention of performers, however anything promoting them and a little bit different is all good :-)
The legendary late 80s girl group Fuzzbox are back Back BACK etc and according to their press release, their new album features a collaboration with Pet Shop Boys! I’ve asked Maggie about it but had a reply yet....
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My friend’s mrs had a fuzzbox and she wasn’t afraid to use it.
Allegedly...
I saw a Twitter thread the other day about 'the greatest debut albums of all time', and, as with all such threads, my first instinct was to say 'Pet Shop Boys, Please'.
And then I got to thinking. Please is a great album, but it could have been a truly stupendous...
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Best album of all time :P
- Two Divided by zero
- What have I done to deserve this (?)
- Love Comes Quickly
- One More Chance
- Jealousy
- Opportunities (reprise+Full Length 7 version)
- West End Girls (album version)
- Suburbia (Intro+7 vesion)
- It's a sin
- Why don't we live together ?...
I always like to use the Annually diaries to order my own Further Listening style playlists. From studying the new edition, does anyone have any builds or tweaks to the following?
1. New boy
2. The forgotten child
3. What are we going to do about the rich?
4. Give stupidity a chance
5. On social...
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It's not exactly the same. Johnny's theme has a synth trumpet line.
The Pop Kids is catalogued as No.9 in the series - X20009CD1 for the new single. I'm trying to fathom how they reached 9 already - what am I missing please? Can anyone provide a list?
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Update:
x2 0001 VL1 - Axis 12”
x2 0002 VL1 - Vocal 12”
x2 0002 CD1 - Vocal CD
x2 0003 VL1 - Electric LP
x2 0003 CD1 - Electric CD
x2 0003 BP1 - Electric Playbutton
x2 0003 LP2 - Electric Boxset
x2 0004 VL1 - Love Is A Bourgeois Construct 12”
x2 0004 CD1 - Love Is A Bourgeois Construct CD
Please please please could anyone who is waiting for annually to arrive or has a concern about their delivery date post it here (if you really have to) or perhaps resolve the delivery issue with the relevant delivery company.
I really don’t want to see people copy and paste their order status from...
I wouldn't normally suggest this kind of thing but wouldn't it be great if the Pets released a new version of It's alright? Having seen Chris's video, I reckon a lot of that would sound great in a new arrangement. Maybe they could just release it digitally. OK, it's a bit of a cash-in on tragedy...
Sorry if this has been posted before, a search didn't bring anything up.
Anyway, so I was listening to the audio commentary on PopArt yesterday and noticed Neil and Chris speaking about an unrated version of the Drunk video. Anyone know if this is available anywhere online to watch? And, while I'm...
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only a woman would have a vagina
What my joke triggered has really made me doubt that now.
...at left back, to be specific. I am assuming the journalist was listening to Hotspot when he wrote that :D
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...at left back, to be specific. I am assuming the journalist was listening to Hotspot when he wrote that :D
I was particularly pleased when I managed to see both 'Chris Lowe's' within a week. One on-stage at the Royal Opera House and the other playing against Liverpool for my beloved...
I am not a native English speaker... so I need some help to understand what:
‘is better far’ means in the context of this song:
The land of dreams is better far
Above the light of the morning star
Thanks!
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Think it's an annoying lyric. It sounds odd and doesn't let you make sense of it. I thought it meant 'The land of dreams is better for...' Good album though. I had a good time with it buying coffee from McDonalds.
the drum programming is interesting, especially in the second part when it goes all a bit contemporary pop.
I find it very similar to the one in Betrayed from 24 years ago.
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