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...
Pet Shop Boys choreographer Lynne Page has made a tutorial video for the Monkey business dance. Neil and Chris invite you to learn the moves and then make your own video of you doing the dance! Post it online using the hashtag #MonkeyBusinessDance.
The tutorial:
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A new MK video routine (with the origintal MB in the background):
Probably many of you know that but I didn't know it. Even being a hardcore fan of PSB.
I didn't know Bobby created this song in 1985 for his album: Bobby O and his Banana Republic. The song is Mixed Up World . When you listen to this song you can hear how much it sounds like West End Girls. In...
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Bobby O has done some blatant plagiarism in the past. I bought a Divine album a few weeks ago and there's the I Feel Love ripoff Shoot Your Shot, but I didn't know about Love Reaction which is just Blue Monday. When I heard it, I just had to laugh. It's great stuff, mind you. Anyway, in that light...
Years and years (ago)...around the time of Nightlife onwards, I used to meet up with other fans and go to various events... or just chat about the boys, in person (not online!)
Things I remember:
Going to a one off event at a venue in North London (maybe something to do with Home & Dry?)
Going...
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the day after the final ROH performance in 2017
Pardon, was that 2016 or 2018? ROH performances were in those years but not in 2017.
(In 2017 was RAH, and only one :D ).
Not sure if it is just me or not but, these seem like a very long time ago now. I am losing track of all time. :?
Neil is interviewed in The Guardian after the triumphant best nr 1 achievement.
We recorded three other songs in an hour and a half , he says about what followed immediately after the '84 recording of West End girls. Which three?
There is also mentioning of the very first version of West End girls, the one done in...
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On the About CD, Neil mentions on their return from NYC, he played Opportunities & Pet Shop Boys to his chums in Smash Hits. but was too embarrassed to play West End Girls
The next chap, David Bostock says he loved One More Chance
What an amazing re-record. It's just so lush and content - new material like this would suit them
West End Girls - Lockdown Version
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I just noticed, its interesting they left off the patented PSB pad they put on most songs. its got a sort of light analogy pad but not the usual glorious string pad they put on everything. 😊
Further to Neil choosing Flames of Love by Fancy in Literally recently, it is interesting to learn that the Boys appeared in 2010 on this Fancy compilation / celebration
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Those last 52 seconds are really Kylie's fault..... :D
Hi,
I think this must have surfaced before, but I haven't found the answer to this. So here I go:
In chronological order, Jealousy is supposed to be the fourth single from Behaviour (right after Where the streets / Seriously ). It appears this way on compilations that list the songs in...
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They obviously struggled with the follow up to Being boring and its lowly chart position. I also remember Nervously being announced as the next single at one point in the Smash Hits news pages.
Which PSB songs fit best to summer? I have a go on these seventeen (this number because it fits on the old-fashioned CD format):
- Domino dancing (album version)
- It's alright (single version)
- Bet she's not your girlfriend
- I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing (album version, but the...
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Se a vida é it's their most summerish song and video.
The boring Corona-Time ,and a song,which I listened yesterday, since a long,long time,make me thinking about,that this,in my opinion,would be a great Pet shop Boys Cover,but who knows,if they ever would cover a song again.
After 15 years, it seems that there is available a copy of the instrumental versions of Fundamental . These
versions are amazing. Without the voice of Neil, it is possible to hear a lot of arragements and details in each
song that were hidden so far. I´m very impressed with the production of Sodoma...
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It was
Here is frequencies comparison of the first 16 seconds (before vocals kick in) of I'm with stupid (album track) and the lossless instrumental version sold by Qobuz:
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It proves that no proper lossless of the instrumental was ever released....
Pet Shop Boys are excited to be part of the @smithsonian 'Project Pride' virtual concert on Sunday, May 31st at 8pm EDT, celebrating the diversity, resilience and creativity in #LGBTQ+ history and culture.
The @smithsonian Institution is based in the USA and is the world’s largest museum,...
Wouldn't it be great if during this period of time if the boys released a collection of updated unreleased songs (Similar to how they re-did New Boy and finally released it) maybe as a bonus EP.
1.In The Club Or In The Queue
2.New Boy
3.All My Wasted Time (Bubadubadubadum)
4.BOUNCE!
5.Oh, Dear...
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Oh, but they are going to release it. Right after Paninaro 2020.
We've already had West End Girls 2020, you wont be laughing when Paninaro 2020 drops :shhh:
Where is it? Bring it back. Stuff like the remixes of Cicero or the Patience of a Saint.... music by Chris Lowe. Make the next albums based on this. It could be called 'Level', or 'Crave'.... :grumble:
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Decide had the Chris Lowe bassline.... the other remix had some of his core music.
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
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...
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 :-)
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