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...
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...
How cool are these. Also stuff for Depeche Mode and Duran Duran etc.
I think the Liberation one is my favourite.
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Go West is the best one.
Libération is beautiful, but I would have preferred a version with Neil on one side and Chris on the other.
There are no connecting rotation lines, only two point to match: top head and neck/throat
Before people start moaning about why this video is not part of the Youtube thread, I want to say I really believe this review deserves its own thread.
First of all, it came from a non PSB fan but he has been listening the whole discography from PSB (all the studio albums, one after another)....
So gutted that Glastonbury won't be happening this year, especially as the boys would have been just amazing. To alleviate the lockdown blues, my partner and I decided to put a podcast together celebrating all things PSB. It's specifically aimed at families and to introduce Neil...
It's not my style to complain on social media about a seller. I try to solve it directly with the company in question. However, I now feel that I should share this experience, as a warning.
Timeline:
On April 1st, I order items with a value of 171,18 euro. Annually, I don't wanna, Monkey Business...
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Wow, posting in the forum must be good luck because Annually finally arrived today (after I had posted a couple days ago).
It shows PostNL as the courier with a shipment date of 4/17.....it arrived at the post office on 6/21 so over 60 days! :grumble:
The final results are in for my poll of the past week, in which I asked my site visitors to rate the songs from My Beautiful Laundrette (aside from the previously rated No Boundaries ) as well as the most recent Pet Shop Boys single b-side, New Boy, on my usual 0 to 10 scale as they compare to all...
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No, I didnt know you could do that. Might check it out but would still want my own list offline too.
There is the function to export lists from Discogs in Excel/csv format.
(I am no affiliated with Discogs or any of its ancillaries)
I signed up so will def give this a try. Thanks all for the...
Neil has dug up old cassettes from various studio sessions and posted a pic.
Now, is there anything of interest here? Some monitor mixes of Performance and a few session mixes from the 80's. Anything that sheds any light on songs/tracks/mixes?
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Interesting to note that the Opportunity cassette has artwork on the inlay - it looks like it's styled as a U.S. bank note with Neil and Chris in the center - next to them on the left would be one of the seals of the note.
On closer inspection, thats the same/similar picture as used on the...
Hey there! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last full day of my current Rating Project survey, in which I'm asking you to rate the previously unreleased songs from My Beautiful Laundrette as well as the recent b-side New Boy on a scale of 0 to 10 as they compare to all other Pet Shop Boys/Tennant-Lowe...
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Oh, I thought it was biweekly. I got to hurry, then.
EDIT: Now I've heard them through once more, and I've casted my votes. Thanks for waiting:)
(I'm not particulary impressed by these songs. I find only Angelig thug to be (slighty) above PSB-average. The rest of them are below.)
It is great that this arise after 30 years! It is not a fake taken from the Performance DVD, it has the This must be the place bit after Losing my mind and the mix is clearly different, including the audience sound (very nice sound indeed!). It is a pity that it is not completed. I´m still looking...
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Very nice rare stuff with perfect Sound. Love The old sounding Instruments and Computer Programmed audios
Wow, can't keep my ears off them. Those remixes on the 12'' of I don't wanna are amazing. I don't really listen to them as individual tracks, more like one long remix. When the cowbell sets in after three minutes.... Feels like a perfect merge of the 80's and the 20's. Amazing that something that a...
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He's 21 now, to be frank.
But yeah, they were amazing two months ago as well. You know, when they actually came out.
I'm relieved he's 21. If he were still 17 I might have to give him a clip round the lughole for being a clever-dick
The from Lake Geneva from the Finland Station lyric from West End Girls was discussed by some professor in a new feature on the Dermot O'Leary show on Radio 2 this afternoon. Then West End Girls was played.
It is great that this arise after 30 years! It is not a fake taken from the Performance DVD, it has the This must be the place bit after Losing my mind and the mix is clearly different, including the audience sound (very nice sound indeed!). It is a pity that it is not completed. I´m still looking...
Hey there! I've just launched my first PSB survey in nearly three months: a new Rating Project poll in which I'm asking you to rate the most recently released Tennant-Lowe songs -- the previously unreleased tracks from My Beautiful Laundrett e plus the single b-side New Boy -- on a scale of 0 to 10...
Here's the sequel of this long forgotten thread.
This is a hypothetical box set idea covering the album Actually . The first thread dealt with the Bobby 'O' and Please eras. It's just a list of everything officially released which they would be most kind to expand on once we get these reissues....
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On the 12” Remix it says additional keyboards by Adrien Cook. So maybe that’s the difference.
Has anyone been following the Guardian's 100 Greatest UK No.1's?
We're down to the final 5 this week (1 per weekday), and still no PSB.
There are rules and an artist can only appear once in the list. I'd be stunned if one of West End girls, It's a Sin, Always on my mind, or Heart were overlooked in this.
My money is...
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WOW ! am so thrilled and proud as a fan :mrgreen:
Human League's Dont you want me sounds soo good even today! but i always felt it needed another verse? donno why..
I agree - I am well chuffed about it too Shopper. :D For some reason I have never been keen on Human League's Don't you want...
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.
In light of recent government advice in relation to the ongoing situation and threat of COVID-19 globally, Pet Shop Boys’ Dreamworld tour can no longer commence as planned in May 2020 and the dates are being rescheduled. The European leg of the tour was...
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my Newcastle concert should have been tonight now I am going to have to wait almost a year until I see them now
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.
I've finally got my little PSB lyrics project now completed - taken a while but I've collated all the PSB lyrics taken from the official site as at May 2020 and transposed these into a mega monster Excel spreadsheet.
After much cutting, chopping and...
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Pretty good effort all!
Most frequently occurring words - excluding stop words
Oh, very interesting and what about the word that is present in more songs?
Could you do that with your excel file?
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...
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