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 can't remember if the Boys ever said something about this, but I was just wondering why in the Elysium deluxe edition released in 2017, the Further Listening CD is missing the following tracks:
-A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
-One Night
-The Way Through The Woods
Ok, maybe the short version of...
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More specifically it's when they BEGAN work on them. Most of these tracks end up being finished around the time of original release.
I don't remember it that way, I'm pretty sure Neil said that songs are included according to when they were recorded like Harry wrote. Are you sure about it...
On Hotspot - Happy People and obviously the Wedding song. The bells sound really haunting to me. Do they really sound like this or do you think PSB's have done something to the sound of them? They sound like they are being played backwards to me. :?
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I'm not on social media.
Discussion boards are social media.
To be honest BoyStrange I only thought Facebook, Twitter and the like were social media. :oops:
:D Blade who has made several unofficial remixes over the years of Pet Shop Boys tracks has now remixed all of the Hotspot album and he has done a mighty fine job.
He has uploaded the remixed album on Soundcloud, where you can stream the album.
Personally I think this is his best work to date....
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I admire anyone who can do that, but these aren’t for me. Just a bit... meh.
I am hugely disappointed by Hotspot. As somebody else pointed out on this forum N & C yet again fail to put the adequate tracks on an album, filling it with b-side material. And the lyrics are really sub-par. Perhaps it's because there is no record company saying 'no' anymore.
Anyway, I decided to...
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Gee was going indie such a good thing?
Commercially yes.
Creatively yes . . . I guess, the new materal from the past few years is certainly unique.
Quality of content when compared to the previous few decades? Very questionable. Many would say no and I tend to agree with the no. Though I think...
Am I mistaken in thinking I'm hearing a slowed down version of the synth sound from Did You See Me Coming remix?
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I would like the next one to have more heavier electronic songs like Wilo the wisp, integral,positive role model etc etc. maybe even cyberpunk industrial style.
We have never listened to this song and it was the most popular of Neil's group called Dust .
Do you know some more info about this song?. It's strange because we've never listened how this group Dust sounded and the song looked like it was particuarly good..
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Wow, haven't seen this pettext. This music must be released to the public somehow. This also means Neil's career spans another ten years. Neil was 17 at the time. Imagine him being the leader of a folk ban in the 70's before reinventing himself as a pop/disco singer in the '80s, a gay icon in the...
The Most Incredible Thing returns
Charlotte Ballet’s acclaimed production of The Most Incredible Thing , the ballet by Javier De Frutos with music by PSB based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen, returns to Charlotte NC this autumn. Details at the links below.
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I traveled to London to see the run there in 2011. I hardly recall it. Not bad, just not my thing; and definitely not a pet shop boys show.
A music fan has been reunited with a cassette tape she lost while on holiday 25 years ago after it washed up on a beach hundreds of miles away.
Stella Wedell was 12 when she took the tape on a Spanish holiday to listen to songs by the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy and Bob Marley on her Walkman....
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I think that's the kind of thing that would bother Paul even with as much success as he's had. that this young girl at the time decided he was only 1 of 2 artists that didn't make the cut for the mixtape. if you noticed the discrepancy, other people will put it out there for Paul to enjoy this...
Looks like they changed official online retailer for Official store.
Now I can't log in with my e-mail. It says there is no such user. I guess it means everybody needs to re-register in online store. Or it's only my problem?
Interesting what will happen with our previous undelivered/undispatched...
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I think main idea will be that users with UK IP will direct to old store and the rest to the new one.
And I hope the new store is just under construction and will have more items and shipping options soon.
Now I have only option with shipping cost 30 Euro to outside EU :(
Does anyone know why the PSB or their team chose to put bird sounds at the beginning of the track?
The end of Will O Wisp (Last 15 seconds) feels a little tacked on just to blend in better with You Are The One. Personally I feel that last 15 seconds was not needed, and the bird sounds would have...
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Greetings,
How did it get distributed please? CD or digital file? Either presumably watermarked?
Digital streaming and/or 320 kbps MP3 file... and yes, the files are watermarked.
Hi.
I don't know him, and I don't know anything about production but I heard some of the mixes he has done with PSB songs, and I think he could be a great producer and video maker for them.
What do you think about that?
If you are a PSB harcore fan, I think you should watch this movie (with subtitles in Spanish for Spanish speakers). It's easy to see the influence in all of it, except the music. The place where the suburbs met utopia, let's take a ride a run with the dogs tonigh in Suburbia:
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They clearly believe their posts to be of higher value than the rest of us...
On January xx, “Monkey business”, the third new song from the forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album, is released. Their first version of the song had been written in the Super era. The chorus existed first; the verses came later, inspired by Neil imagining what Mick Jagger might sing if this were a...
6 from me. May have got 7 without Wedding in Berlin and with Decide, An Open Mind or At Rock Bottom on instead. I have absolutely no doubt that Wedding in Berlin's inclusion was a wilful decision to be contrary on either of their part's (although probably Chris, imho.) This is Compared with 9 and...
I happen to quite like Dreamland - lyrically anyways. But I don't like the instrumentation. It doesnt fit the album, and its just loud and annoying to MY EARS.
So I created a new version from the TWD remix for myself. Sonically I think it fits better with the album, and I just like it...
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Geez, you guys are difficult.
I’m not a professional remixer.
I took the TWD remix and edited it down by removing some of the repetitive instrumentals, focusing more on the lyrics. I tried to create something more reminiscent of the album version but with different (and I’m my opinion better)...
After seeing the photo that’s won an award of some kind, I couldn’t help thinking that the style and colours fit perfectly with the current album campaign.
Your thoughts and suggestions ..... 61536C31-3691-434D-A886-6CC3D329712D.jpeg
No, not a real ale. In numerous interviews our heroes have spoken about using various old synths they found lying around Hansa studios during the recording of Hotspot. Synths they hadn’t encountered before. Now Pete Gleadall’s saying it’s ain’t so:
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It said about the older equipment in the Metro Interview. It now keeps me thinking - what would it have sounded like if it was digital and newer equipment etc..?
Interesting that the mixes haven't appeared on Dirrrty or the usual digital services....
:eh:
Retro. :)
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I recognise the name Cristian Thomas, that's a fan remixer. It's a bootleg.
If you Google any of the track names you'll find the remixes and upon listening it's obviously they are made without official STEMS and were published independently.
By the way, there are official commissioned remixes but...
Graham Norton played Neil doing a sort of mock jingle as the True or False? jingle today on Radio 2! Maybe this will be an ongoing thing'. The original rendition was when the Boys were interviewed themselves.
So Long LIve Vinyl describes Wedding as a slice of prime Chris Lowe giddiness (
So starting to think I may enjoy this track after all. Since I'm actually pretty tolerant of slightly wayward/oddball album sendoffs (You Choose, Leopardskin, Legacy, Footsteps - all fine by me)
@geowayne has there...
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1. King's Cross
2. It's alright
3. Vocal
4. Why don't we live together?
5. You choose
I've opened this new topic as a source of news for Aussie fans regarding Love etc and Yes. Here is the latest:
* I have it on good authority that Yes is now available in stores in Australia (or at least in Hum on Oxford in Sydney). I'm not sure about Yes etc, but will check it out tomorrow and...
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Omg who found this?! :shock:
How sad that they were hoping to make it to Australia the following year (1987) but wouldn't get here till 1994.
Note how young, innocent and uncynical they were around that time when it was all a big new adventure and radio was their friend.
It is obvious that Chris has a natural tendency and ability as well as a lithe body to dance. Wish he has been that active in the past (only videos would suffice; he could sulk all the way throughout concerts, no problem :)
In You Are the One around the mid 1:20's the paino seems really off like it's played on the wrong timing or something. Really sounds out. Don't know why though.
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I'd buy Hotspot again if it were available in STEMS.
Juno Download and other digital music sellers offer the format alongside the well known formats.
I'd re-buy the whole PSB catalogue in stems (not an abbreviation I guess?) if it was available. The only publicly available PSB stems I can recall...
Is anyone aware of a track-by-track commentary for Hotspot? Pretty sure they’ve done one for most of the previous albums, if not all of them. There was a good one on YouTube for Super.
Can someone please enlighten me and provide authoritative or otherwise well-grounded info on what sex and/or gender identity this person is (meant to appear as):
I'm not sure if this is doxxing of sorts, or if Greendrake is out to murder them for appearing in a Pet Shop Boys video in full drag, but it is this very average-looking, apparently straight male:
. Drag can be performed and enjoyed beyond gender, race and sexual orientation.
Forgive my ignorance, but have these ever been made public?
I’m listening to Bilingual now and there’s SO much going on musically, I’d love to hear it without the vocals.
If not, aside from Elysium and Hotspot, which instrumentals have been publicly released, if any?
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Winner Andrew Dawson Mix from the German 7“ Promo B-Side
My ruminations on where each track on Hotspot would best fit in with the 13 previous albums ...
1. Will-o-the-wisp - Please / Actually
2. You are the one - Release / Nightlife
3. Happy people - Bilingual / Yes
4. Dreamland - Yes / Super
5. Hoping for a miracle - Fundamental / Behaviour
6. I don’t...
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1. Will-o-the-wisp - Nightlife
2. You are the one - Behaviour
3. Happy people - Very
4. Dreamland - Nightlife / Yes
5. Hoping for a miracle - Fundamental
6. I don’t wanna - Disco 3 / Yes
7. Monkey business - Bilingual
8. Only the dark - Behaviour / Fundamental
9. Burning the heather - Release...
I think it's obvious to ask to the forum about the best song. So here it is.
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Hoping For A Miracle hits home with it's lyrics for me. It's really a PSB classic with the perfect balance of melancholy and uplifting aspiration. Sonically it's brilliant too, the sounds chosen and everything. To me overall the song reminds me of Being Boring.
I also like Only in the Dark and You...
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