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80's UK Chart Sales and Info

Last post by Tentenlad « Mon 24 Mar 2025, 3:50 pm
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by Tentenlad » Thu 13 Mar 2025, 10:48 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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80’s sales and chart info for Pet Shop Boys

1985
‘West End Girls’
The 68th best-selling single of 1985.
228,701 copies sold.
The top 13 selling singles sold over 500, 000 copies in 1985. By comparison, in 1987 (Pet Shop boys ‘imperial phase’?) only the top 7 singles managed those kinds of...

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Bronski Beat 1980’s singles ranked by UK sales

‘Smalltown Boy’ 312,647
‘I Feel Love Medley’ (with Marc Almond) 284,835
‘Why?’ 224,281
‘Hit That Perfect Beat’ 215,237
‘It Ain't Necessarily’ So 115,294
‘C’mon C’mon’ 66,589
‘Cha Cha Heels’ (with Eartha Kitt) 39,032

The Communards 1980’s singles...
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Mon 24 Mar 2025, 3:50 pm
Neil's best lyrics / your favourites...

Last post by Vintage Youth « Mon 24 Mar 2025, 3:31 pm
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by Sandy Shaw » Mon 17 Mar 2025, 2:23 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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I thought I'd start a positive thread!

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We also had a massive bike shed in school, even though no one came to school on a bike, that people used to go behind to smoke, snog and **CENSORED** and I loved that bit of relatability. No cricket pavilion though (my much posher primary school did, though).
Also the Smash Hits effect, all the...
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Mon 24 Mar 2025, 3:31 pm
Where is the oddest public place you've heard a PSB song?

Last post by Danimal « Mon 24 Mar 2025, 10:44 am
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by Gabby » Sat 09 Feb 2019, 10:48 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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Sorry if this has been a topic before, but living in Canada, as I do, you don't often hear PSB except perhaps the odd radio play of West End girls on a retro radio station, or similarly popular Please/Actually era songs in various stores (What have I done to deserve this? and Always on my mind pop up from time to time).

Today I was really...

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Last year I heard “Always on my mind” playing in the Village Market in Decatur, MI. Decatur is a rural village in southwest Michigan about 120 miles west of Chicago. Though there are many well-to-do Chicago people who have second homes or vacation in southwest Michigan, Decatur is not one of those...
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Mon 24 Mar 2025, 10:44 am
Pet Shop Boys, Similar

Last post by telys « Mon 24 Mar 2025, 10:20 am
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by York Minster » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 6:18 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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Not sure if this is on or off topic, but should work here anyway:

Lets share songs that sound like Pet Shop Boys songs. It could be a small part of the song, just the melody, or the song taken as a whole.

Here is Mood Ring by Debbie Harry: (youtube audio sounds worse than usual lately IMO)

It's...

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If you like these tracks listen to 'The Calm Before the Storm' and 'Let's Go Surfing' from Sparks. 'Let's Go Surfing' does sound like a response to the PSB version of 'Go West'. Also when Sparks released 'National Crime Awareness Week' I remember many journalists comparing this with PSB. Ron Mael...
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Mon 24 Mar 2025, 10:20 am
“It’s a sin” on “The Righteous Gemstones”

Last post by Danimal « Mon 24 Mar 2025, 2:00 am
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by Danimal » Mon 24 Mar 2025, 2:00 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

Just watched episode two of season four of “The Righteous Gemstones”, which is a Max/HBO comedy series about a family of corrupt televangelists.

The climactic scene of this episode prominently features “It’s a sin.” The success of PSB syncs since returning to Parlophone continues. I’m sure it also...

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Mon 24 Mar 2025, 2:00 am
Posters - A question about hanging the PSB on your wall

Last post by petshopgrrl « Sun 23 Mar 2025, 7:33 pm
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by the8thark » Fri 21 Mar 2025, 6:41 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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I am asking this for myself but possibly others might find the answer to this question useful as well. Helping others out as well who also want a poster.

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a PSB poster to frame and put on my wall.
I do like the YES artwork and have been looking for that as a...

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I'm seriously contemplating dropping cash on one of these:

Not an official PSB poster but a nice art piece. The theater does/did this for other shows too as their own art series.

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Sun 23 Mar 2025, 7:33 pm
'Megamix' (Sweden only promo megamix 1991)

Last post by MikeyC « Sun 23 Mar 2025, 6:59 pm
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by Riikka » Sat 11 Aug 2007, 6:13 pm » in Collector Discussion

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Can anyone tell us more about this promo release? It is listed here: but I would like to know if it's something really rare (impossible to find or extremely expensive) and whether it sounds great? As far as I've heard, sometimes that kind of mixes can be really enjoyable.

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Well done!!

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Sun 23 Mar 2025, 6:59 pm
Guardian article - Russia

Last post by StevePSB « Sun 23 Mar 2025, 8:56 am
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by missemma » Wed 12 Mar 2025, 6:20 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

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It has been noted that the line has been crossed a couple of times here, so on topic and no personal insults and abuse otherwise we'll have no choice but to close this topic.

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Sun 23 Mar 2025, 8:56 am
Neil's Worst Lyrics

Last post by glennjridge « Sun 23 Mar 2025, 4:53 am
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by TallThinMan » Sat 19 Oct 2013, 10:21 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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In the true PSB spirit of celebrating negativity rather than positivity, what are Neil's worst lyics?

How about the tautological Planes taking off to fly from Hold On?

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he doesn't have many bad lyrics...... I will say though I kinda cringe just a little when he does those little throwback lines he used in past songs where they were done better.

such as like firm Government in Kings cross and the later gunpoint has a firm voice in dictator

remember when you were...
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Last post by glennjridge
Sun 23 Mar 2025, 4:53 am
4.4 Helsinki PSB club night

Last post by Avalon « Sat 22 Mar 2025, 12:42 pm
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by Avalon » Sat 22 Mar 2025, 12:42 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

Tonight Is Forever - A club night of Pet Shop Boys and Pet Shop Boys only, in Helsinki (Finland)

Saturday 4 April at KULT (downstairs club space in Kulttuuritalo, Sturenkatu)

2230 doors
2300 club starts
0400 club ends

Free entry before midnight
11,50€ after midnight (6,50€ in pre-sale at...

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Sat 22 Mar 2025, 12:42 pm
Nonetheless instrumentals

Last post by greenmile « Sat 22 Mar 2025, 1:01 am
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by Dog » Thu 17 Oct 2024, 4:43 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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I see Periodic Table of Synthpop is (cheekily) offering up Nonetheless Instrumentals for download - official versions reserved for record company use, rather than AI recreations.

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I'm looking forward to the official release of these at some point!

I wouldn't hold your breath. I think all of these tracks, not just the PSB ones, were meant for licencing purposes to production companies for use in TV, movies or other commercial projects.
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Sat 22 Mar 2025, 1:01 am
DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour 2022, 2023, 2024 & now 2025

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8 April 2020

Dreamworld rescheduled

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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Rent duet incoming….
Dreamland might be easier for them to do.

w/ Clare the Best possible Version
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Last post by young.offender
Fri 21 Mar 2025, 5:29 pm
Pet Shop Boys remix Primal Scream

Last post by nekko « Wed 19 Mar 2025, 10:09 pm
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by Dog » Fri 07 Mar 2025, 4:23 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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Out now:

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And here's the edit :

I can't decide whether the new vocals (at 2:40) are Neil's voice or not...
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Last post by nekko
Wed 19 Mar 2025, 10:09 pm
Tour vocal studio demos MONTAGE

Last post by Towa « Tue 18 Mar 2025, 7:50 pm
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by Constantin V. » Fri 14 Mar 2025, 10:16 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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It's a great record. It is a pity that it will never be officially released.

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Some of those demos seem to have the vocals from the album versions. Maybe those aren't original demos?

Maybe it's that when the live arrangements were being produced, they use the original studio vocals to save having to record guide vocals - effectively making them remixes at that point in the...

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