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by retrofuturist
Wed 18 Jun 2025, 5:12 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Trying to get DreamWorld refund and Annually posted
Replies: 6
Views: 522

Re: Trying to get DreamWorld refund and Annually posted

Greetings,


Is anyone else in the same boat and up the same creek without a paddle?

I'm in a different creek and have decided not to paddle. I ordered Dreamworld through Warner Australia who seem to handle the official Australian arm of their distribution. Whilst the note from the Pet Shop Boys ...
by retrofuturist
Tue 17 Jun 2025, 12:34 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: This Is Navalny - Benefit concert (NOW CANCELLED)
Replies: 102
Views: 6937

Re: This Is Navalny - Benefit concert

Greetings,


That's the 2nd "Due to circumstances beyond our control" in a week.

Suggestion: start taking control a bit more.

It has been a rough week for them. I can understand your sentiment too. Maybe it might be time for a bit of low-key song-writing or studio time... something which ...
by retrofuturist
Fri 13 Jun 2025, 6:34 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,


Stop whining.

I'm not whining. In fact, if your comprehension skills were any good you would have noticed I was explicitly giving thanks for the quality control that sees their more "artistic" tracks find their way onto the albums, and the more "overt" tracks finding their way onto ...
by retrofuturist
Fri 13 Jun 2025, 3:02 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,


Nothing abstruse about Bullet for Narcissus or The Dictator Decides, lol.

There's no "name dropping" for one thing, and that makes it a bit more generic, abstract and malleable to interpretation and interpolation.

Pet Shop Boys are at their best when they deploy subtle allusion ...
by retrofuturist
Thu 12 Jun 2025, 11:38 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,


It will be a very long album track list if they should cover every tragic event globally. Some +40 tracks or more just for the basics - unfortunately. Album title "Depressed" ?
I for one am very thankful they keep their direct, naive "Guardian" style of politics off the albums (e.g ...
by retrofuturist
Sun 08 Jun 2025, 11:42 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,

I find the whole "Why hasn't Neil sung a song about my favourite political cause?" line baffling.

Do we not remember that Pet Shop Boys once had a single called How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? about how banal it is when popstars think that their opinions are somehow more ...
by retrofuturist
Sun 08 Jun 2025, 3:05 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,




Anyone found it for download anywhere (legally) at CD quality?


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https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/hymn-in-memoriam-alexei-navalny-pet-shop-boys/qqg7vjm55i1cc


https://uk.7digital.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/release/hymn-in-memoriam-alexei ...
by retrofuturist
Fri 06 Jun 2025, 11:50 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Black vinyl reissue Discography 25th August
Replies: 3
Views: 374

Re: Black vinyl reissue Discography 25th August

Greetings Old Soak,

More colours to collect! :lol:

Retro. :)
by retrofuturist
Fri 06 Jun 2025, 11:13 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

Re: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,
zukunft wrote: Fri 06 Jun 2025, 10:54 am It‘s not a proper single, is it?
It appears that Axis and Integral now have a new room-mate.

If you believe the lnk.to multilink above it's explicitly called a "single" there.

Retro. :)
by retrofuturist
Fri 06 Jun 2025, 10:28 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)
Replies: 52
Views: 4821

NEW SINGLE: Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Greetings,

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZCLs_NHqzUpZMqqlbTcIwzSyS9AT5xREv9chnA9_vaQ52CWdgntyMc5rwXa8gFAhEQl9FfZRlW1ch_qO=w544-h544-l90-rj

Pet Shop Boys today release a new dance mix of “Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)”, a song dedicated to his memory and cause, which was originally ...
by retrofuturist
Fri 06 Jun 2025, 4:28 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: 80sography – Phil Harding on PSB
Replies: 7
Views: 864

Re: 80sography – Phil Harding on PSB

Greetings,

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. He sounds like a good, level-headed bloke.

It's fascinating to hear about how/when the Always On My Mind remix and I'm Not Scared were mixed, and to then reflect upon how they would evolve even further from there to form a third of the Introspective ...
by retrofuturist
Tue 03 Jun 2025, 11:22 pm
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: West End Girls is the only song by PSB frustration
Replies: 9
Views: 812

Re: West End Girls is the only song by PSB frustration

Greetings,


Rant over, but anyone care to chime in on the narrowminded, hackneyed use of West End girls?

I'll be honest. Nowadays, I haven't got any idea how anyone uses anything. I pay zero attention to normie culture and hope that in return that they'll pay zero attention to me. 8)

But yes ...
by retrofuturist
Tue 03 Jun 2025, 4:27 am
Forum: PSB Live / Tours
Topic: New Order Australia 2025
Replies: 7
Views: 4664

Re: New Order Australia 2025

Greetings,

Lol. Albanese. Dead ringer. Now you've ruined New Order for me. :lol:

In all seriousness, yep, it's time for a new album. :up:

Retro. :)
by retrofuturist
Tue 03 Jun 2025, 2:26 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: Blue vinyl Discography reissue 30 May
Replies: 113
Views: 11168

Re: Blue vinyl Discography reissue 30 May

Greetings,

I've never had Discography on vinyl, but I gave it a miss on account of owning SMASH.

I totally understand Old Soak's "who cares" comment about the colour of the vinyl. At some point you've got to draw a line under it - I mean, how many colours were there of Nonetheless? That was just ...
by retrofuturist
Thu 29 May 2025, 8:56 am
Forum: Pet Shop Boys Discussion
Topic: ''The night I fell in love'' review by Wayne Studer
Replies: 26
Views: 4156

Re: ''The night I fell in love'' review by Wayne Studer

Greetings,


One of the genuine turds floating atop an otherwise glittering palmarès: excruciating, cringeworthy, exactly the sort of track you wouldn't play to a non-fan to persuade them what they are missing.

Correct. The quality control standards between 1997 and 2002 dropped a long, long way ...