TSHP? EDIT: Oh, ‘The Schlager Hit Parade’. I really hate this trend of referring to songs by their initial letters. Stop being so bloody lazy, have some consideration for the reader and write the full name! I second this. If someone doesn't want to write the full title, songs usually have one word t ...

nickname, you are obsessed with recreating their imperial success but that was a moment in time that is gone forever. Yes, it's nice they can continue to get public exposure on cheesy Saturday night TV but we're never going to get PSB contending for the Christmas number one again like in 1987 ...

Sorry Nickname, but what do you consider euphoric? I ask because the Boys have a very specific definition of "euphoria," and I don't think yours matches theirs. Also, that quote is paraphrasing what Neil said about Nonetheless in multiple interviews, so the "euphoric and orchestral album" is ...

What a pity, I think many of us would love the idea of an euphoric and orchestral new album. Sorry Nickname, but what do you consider euphoric? I ask because the Boys have a very specific definition of "euphoria," and I don't think yours matches theirs. Also, that quote is paraphrasing what Neil ...

Well, I hope you all are happy. The comments were turned off because a bunch of people were explicitly being homophobic about it. If you all can't accept the Boys are queer and therefore will make queer content, then just leave. If to you these people are a couple of pretty faces dancing around and ...

I don’t understand why you keep making broad statements based solely on your own personal experience, when the reality is very different if you took the time to talk to international Petheads (and I mean truly international, not just European fans). In Latin America, for instance, the Boys became h ...

2024 has probably been their most popular year since 1987. Everyone seems to be lapping them up, they're everywhere. Fourty years on, nobody could have anticipated this sort of popularity. Is the tea set dishwasher safe? The most popular year since 1987?. I think you say too much. Absolutely. You ...

Makes me think of the line from 'It Couldn't Happen Here' if there where no teacups...then there would be no tea drinkers OK, but seriously, "tea" literally crops up all over the place in PSB mythology. This maybe makes more sense than anyone realises. As noted above, the tea references in ICHH ...

I got into Pet Shop Boys by myself when I was 17. I grew up watching VH1 and MTV, and I got a computer pretty early on (I must've been 8 or 9). I’d sit by myself in front of the TV, watch music videos, and note down the artists and song titles I liked. Then I’d go to my computer, search for those son ...

I'm agree WIAD? is not as good as their anthemic tracks of the old days but the rest of the songs from the album are clear album fillers. Neither for Radio 2, nor for Christmas time either. But "Schlanger" and "WIAD?" work fine for the typical songs you can listen those days on the radio but a good ...

Why am I dancing? is like ultra processed food. You initially think you like it, it tickles the right taste buds and triggers your memory of happy times, but it doesn't hold together, leaves you wanting more and is bad for your stomach lining. You'll be hungry for the real thing afterwards. I feel ...

Also, we haven’t had the video from which this photo was taken in January when Neil claimed they were busy shooting a video. Might this be from the 5th single’s music video? IMG_1616.jpeg It's from the Loneliness shoot, but it wasn't used in the music video. Instead, photos taken by Alasdair McL ...

It has to be Adrenaline. I wouldn't pick a cover as a single, especially since the last time one was an A-side was Somewhere, if I'm not mistaken. So, the chances of ...Dudes or The Dark End of the Street being chosen as one are statistically low. It also can't be one of the songs from the original ...

I have an idea for a different spin on a greatest hits tour, which would see them play Please and Actually in full. It could be billed as: Pet Shop Boys: Imperial Their early stuff, live “We didn’t tour until 1989, by which time we’d already released three albums and our “imperial phase” was already ...

Why? So you can be disappointed again that the music video and promo are "too predictable" with young men showing a platonic/romantic interest in each other? But in all seriousness, if they were to release a fifth single (unlikely), it would have to be something like Fluorescent (RSD) or Undertow ...