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...
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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if the Disco Version of Heart was part of Actually, it would have been near perfection and a close call..but Introspective it is for me!
It's an album I learnt to love, Left to my own devices, I'm not Scared, Domino were immediate and I was seriously scratching my head on I want a Dog at first and I never cared...
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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Sorry but why pit any track against the almighty Left to my own devices! It is the essence of Pet Shop Boys in one song
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...
It won't be long now till its 33 years since hearing Always on my mind for the very first time on that Elvis Presley Love Me Tender Tv show. Gosh it only seems like yesteryear. I don't think there will ever be a Pet Shop Boys song that makes me fascinated to the very limit upon listening to it more...
Nerd question time. Was Please released on CD at the same time as the LP and cassette, or did it come out solely on those formats at first? I'm asking cause I stumbled across these magazine adverts which clearly advertise it as a new album and cassette but make no mention of the CD. By the time of...
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I knew it was a bit later because Neil alludes to it in one of the album FL chats I think. When discussing the image of them on the album he says when it was released on CD they forgot to shrink the picture so it looks too large relatively. This implies it was some time later.
Join Dan Bull and Will Warren as each episode they take a brilliant pop album and go through it track by track, discussing the acts, the songwriting and production, iconic music videos and artwork, and their memories of the release. Let us know your thoughts @trackbytrackuk #trackbytrack Hosts: Dan...
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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The quality is exactly what you would expect from a TDK D-90 recorded off the radio and which has been in my loft for 28 years.
Mixcloud makes only 67-68 kbps available to us. Reckon your rips sound much better than that. Since you are making them publicly available anyway and this does not seem...
Does anyone have an excact number of how many unique tracks are released credited or co-credited to Tennant/Lowe (or Lowe/Tennant), performed by any artist (including PSB themselves, of course)?
I know that there's a list on Geowayne.com called PSB Song Chronology with 379...
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I have the Please sheet music book and on there Later Tonight is just credited to Tennant (yup I saw this thread and just went to my shelves to check!), and 2/0 is credited to Tennant/Orlando as mentioned above.
Thanks for confirming! Funnily enough I just had a sort out and found all my old PSB...
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 can consider myself an 80-90s music-video collector... I was obsesssed with them for many years (a little more relaxed now) and very selective about the quality. I´m pretty sure that most of the UK music videos were produced with 25fps in mind as final result, and US videos on 30. I always...
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).
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lift your game nickname, I really need to know what this song is
But on a similar note, this podcast episode is a great listen
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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The recent Manic Street Preachers anniversary releases have changed track lists.
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.
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
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...
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.
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 😊
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!
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.
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...
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.
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?.
Was doing some spring cleaning the other day and ran across an old pic I had with Neil/Chris when they were in Dallas for Nightlight tour in very early 2000's. I was in upper 20's at the time and brought back memories of that crazy night after the show - does anyone else have similar stories of...
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I was fortunate to meet and chat with Chris after the first performance at the Savoy in 1997 (at the stage door afterwards) I was utterly star struck but I had enough presence to talk about football and Arsenal mainly and keep the chat away from music and fandom.. In return he was totally charming...
I see Introspective as a stand-alone fantastic album, with close to 5 million sales , their best selling album, and not some outcast from Actually, as much as I love that album, and I know Neil and Chris feel the same, because they have said so. But each to their own.
The PSB account has taken the 4 performances of Neil and Chris on this TV show. I know there is a Youtube thread but I think it's the first time we can watch the 4 performances all together and talking about them. I love it. You know it's like PSB being rock stars. I love the spectacularity of it...
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Great and strange but there is a recurring theme for all four videos
- perhaps told that the decorators are in when performing 'Opportunities' I don't think paint splatters on the artist's designer clothes would be a good idea. Neil then realises they are using gloss rather than matt for the...
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