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...
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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You can watch here the new visuals of Paninaro (Primavera Sound) and Chris singing:
The track listing for Noel Gallagher's upcoming new album, Council Skies has leaked and there's a PSB 12 remix of a track called Think Of A Number.. Screenshot_20230117-075422.png
I seem to recall reading somewhere that they had been working on a remix for someone, this looks like the result....
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Superb remix, although I was hoping to hear a Neil harmony on this bit :
I hope it comes round again
Right now, people are dancing
I can't hear Neil at all on the track. I'm guessing the other mixes have more Neil vocal on?
Jenesaispop is a website that is very PSB friendly, there is an interview here with James Ford. He doesn't say too much about the new album. But he says some interesting things:
- He thinks the album is not going to be released very soon, not even this year maybe.
- The album goes very well. The...
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- The album goes very well. The songs are excellent.
I wonder if any producer could say that he didn't like the songs the musicians brought him, but he would still work on them anyway.
Myself (Graham) and Dog (Chris) have made the brave (or foolish!) move to record a series of Pet Shop Boys fan podcasts.
Prior to recording, we had only met once ‘on a wet Wednesday night’ in a pub near where we both live in West Yorkshire in the north of England. But we thought it might be fun...
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Had a listen …. great stuff Chris and Graham!
As others have said, listening to you recount your stories jogged my own memories of those early years of discovery. I had totally forgotten about the tone that played on cassettes but I’m itching to hear that again now!
I wanted to ask if anyone has bought tickets for Wembley on the Even Travel website (
I ask because I have several doubts.
1. Today I have not received the tickets yet.
2. After sending them an email, they told me that the tickets are not sent, they are downloaded. But I...
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I used them last year for Bournemouth. They mailed physical tickets but were very reputable and responsive so I’m sure if they say these ones are downloadable that they will provide the link.
When I go to watch some football matches on TV on the break of them, I like watching these channels to watch those videos of the big era of music videos. It's sad when you watch MTV nowadays with those horrible no music show or MTV Hits with so many lyric videos, the same you can watch on Youtube....
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PSB talk here (min 28) about what happened to them with MTV. The homoerotic video of Domino Dancing could have been the end of their success in USA because PSB didn't play their videos so much after that (but I've seen many videos after Domino Dancing era of them on these MTV's oldies channels):...
A diary and behind-the-scenes photos from the first leg of the Dreamworld tour, including headlining the Other Stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
Neil and Chris discuss the Pet Shop Boys/New Order co-headline Unity Tour of North America with exclusive photographs by...
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Also Mid May had passed, so I reminded the Store to get back re the double VAT and custom fees…
Today received an email that hey are happy to refund, asking for my PayPal account address and the invoice and proof of payment (the latter two I had already sent)
Let's wait and see...
It's been quite some time, but I'm finally running a new PSB poll. It's my latest Rating Project survey, in which I ask my site visitors to rate each of the Pet Shop Boys' songs a scale of 0 to 10 based on how they compare to the PSB song catalog overall:
0 = One of the worst PSB songs ever!...
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I believe that there should be a general update for all previous songs - at least from albums/singles older than 10-15 years.
I agree. There *should* be. And it's something I would almost certainly do if Neil and Chris ever get to a point where they stop releasing new music. But to redo all of...
I know there is another thread with this topic but many of you could think you have listened the full version of the song with the link of the other thread and it's not true. That one was taken from the film.
Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities ('Tetris' Film full version) (re-mixed by Steve Lipson,...
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Listening to Kazak it strikes me that there is a melody line very similar to the Tetris song (the folk song). So N&C already did to themselves what Lipson has done....
This guy does a note for note cover/recreation of West End girls (album version) along with explaining subtitles about the work. Interesting to read about the complex trumpet solo and its samples.
The final 3 minutes are a collection of stems... really great. Yet againg I come to appreciate West End girls even more and...
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May we possibly fix the misleading title of this thread as this is not a cover version but technically a recreation of the instrumental? At least that’s what it’s aiming at. Thank you.
Africa Green has posted a behind the scenes clip during rehearsals, and it's revealed a camera crew were there filming for an upcoming BBC Documentary.
Screengrab:
(Clare Uchima pictured on the right)
Says there's an interview being recorded for it.
What will the documentary be, A Life In Pop...
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Do we reckon this will be out in June for SMASH then?
Hi everyone, my family and I are heading down to Blackpool and St Annes for the weekend. My wee girl is mad on PSB just now, especially Chrissy Baby - are there any places of interest I could show her whilst we are there? I thought at one point there was a mural of Chris near the Winter Gardens (?)...
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There was a mural of Chris but that was a few years ago. Not sure if still doing the Silver Arches light show on Birkey Street, to PSB music? Otherwise it’s the standard tourist spots to enjoy 😊.
HD version just uploaded, forgot how great 7” version sounds,
Video reminds me of the shamen, eeeez are gud! :dance:
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I think it's in my top 50 PSB songs. The effect on Neil's vocals in verses (like he's singing through the phone) is what makes me like album version more than the single mix.
The BPI has awarded the pet shop boys a few updates on their sales awards.
PopArt has been upgraded from gold to platinum status.
Ultimate has been awarded with a silver certification.
A few more could follow. :D
These sales awards are based purely on sales, not shipments. They are based on the...
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West End Girls, has just been certified platinum in the U.K (600,000) this includes download sales and streaming.
But it does not include the physical sales, it achieved when it was released in 1985. So if you combined those sales, it is over 1 million in the U.K. The physical sales of West End girls was...
I’ve taken the liberty of starting a new thread to help us separate chat about the new EP.
I’ve spent a bit of time re-reading the 2016 edition of Literally. There was obviously unfinished business from the Super songwriting sessions. First, there was the mooted “dark techno” album which...
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Agree with that but I really believe Shameles was a clear opener for Very . For me, one of their biggest mistakes.
Shameless might be a bit overwhelming for an album opener. You need to prep people a bit before you throw all that high-NRG irony at them. Can You Forgive Her is the perfect,...
Hm, stupid question perhaps but I sometimes I feel that we never really discuss the basics. Why are PSB so good? We all like them but there must be some basic ingredient that makes their quality high.
I think I might have an answer. Some things are apparent: the lyrics are of high quality (but...
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Sly, wry and dry witticism
Arrived (on Parlophone at least) already fully formed
Constantly reinventing their sound
Never reinventing the dynamic pretense of the lazy sod who does nothing standing behind the keyboard and the studious scholar
More layers than an onion to many of the lyrics which...
You can also enjoy with Pet Shop Boys on Going Live, Christmas 1991. Review of the year and interview by Sarah Greene.
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If we can't discuss file sharing, in my opinion we shouldn't be able to discuss unofficial youtube uploads. I can upload anything and everything to Youtube, it's the same as uploading to a file sharing site. It doesn't mean it's clear for copyright.
“Also coming up in 2023, BBC Two continues its Reel Stories series with Reel Stories: Pet Shop Boys. BBC Radio 2’s Dermot O’Leary invites Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to join him in a London cinema and relive some of the pivotal moments from their...
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Yeah could have been longer, for sure.
Neil needs to stop putting his hand over his mouth lol, he was constantly fidgeting.
PSB feature in this week's edition of the Radio Times, presumably as promotion for the BBC2 evening this Saturday.. I attempted to add the feature but the attachments are not uploading here for some reason..
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Many Thanks for posting the article GalataPSB. It reminded me to set Sky to record the programmes yesterday. I can't keep up with the time at the moment :D :up:
I've always had a somewhat complicated relation to Opportunities. Firstly, I never really liked the title in brackets (Let's make lots of money). Secondly, I liked the version on Disco from the beginning but I found the Please mix a bit too non-melodic. But that has all changed over the years....
Verse 1:
In a world of endless screens
Our hearts are numb and our minds are mean
We're chasing shadows in the night
Searching for meaning in a synthetic life
Chorus:
Synthetic dreams, they never fade
In this world of digital masquerade
We're lost in a sea of data streams...
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Neil singing George Michaels the strangest thing. sounds great
There’s a brief piece on Neil talking about the use of AI as a songwriting tool buried in the culture section of The Guardian today:
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Also in the Daily Mail:
It's NOT a sin to use AI in the music industry! Pet Shop Boys reveal they're planning to use the tech to complete their unfinished songs
AI could 'fill in the blanks' if a song has been left unfinished, British pop icons say
Duo is considering new technologies for its...
On 17 April 2013, it was made public that Rauhofer was diagnosed with a brain tumor. A message was posted on his Facebook page by his friend and manager, Angelo Russo, informing friends and fans of the incident. On 7 May 2013, he died of brain cancer.
It was the only one video from Pet Shop Boys that wasn't on Youtube. Now on a HD Upgrade, we'll get the opportunity of watching on Youtube.
I don't know the problems the video had to be on Youtuble. Probably, it was because of the rights of the Japanese show...
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Yeah it's pretty shocking. You see them and it's clearly standard res.
Basically videotape quality, compared to Blu-ray. Barely even DVD quality.
And these days we're spoilt with 4k res remasters from other artists.
For instance Last Christmas
Or Thriller
Yes, we have seen before some performances of I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing before with some dance routines but I think it will probably the first time you'll see that (at least outside of UK). On other performances of the song Neil doesn't do as much as he does on this. I think this is...
Went to a local second hand store the other day. It's run by a local charity organisation affiliated to a local church organisation. I browsed through the records and books and magazines and found, amazingly Nothing Has Been Proved 7'' on vinyl for the equivalent to 0,5€. Ok, nothing to word about...
Almost two years since the first instalment of Arthur Baker’s DANCE MASTERS series launched with a deep dive on the remixing exploits of a certain Mr Shep Pettibone, the second instalment sees the record producer, DJ and remixer shine the spotlight on himself!
Arthur Baker Presents DANCE MASTERS:...
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Some people prefer actual achievements, I suppose. There's no reason to have to hunt down a track in 2023.
Hi.
I am a collector, and I'm actually hunting down records I'm looking for, even if we are in 2023.
We're not looking for tracks.
We're looking for records.
Here are some interesting new bits from Annually which I thought I’d pull out in case we wanted to discuss further.
As covered elsewhere, in the upfront intro Neil and Chris say that “there may be a surprise live event in the offing”. What could this be? Elsewhere, in the Letters section, Chris...
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I’m definitely not a facist. I just call it like I see it. Lost was cool. There, I said something positive.
Do we know a reliable way to send a small mailing to Pet Shop Boys? I created an odd little idea based on their catalog they may like to see but I'm not sure how to get it to them. Becker Brown's site doesn't provide a mailing address. I wrote to their info@ address but have only received the...
Radiophonic said in the Disco 4 OS thread: of course this puts paid to any 'Collaboration'-type album.
Actually from what I've heard on the grapevine I'd say precisely the opposite. Think about it, none of the other artist's tracks on Disco 4 were originally written or produced by PSB. They are...
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I remember suggesting a futuristic design and look for Memory of the Future when the single was announced and lo and behold it was pretty much what I had in mind. I should sue.
Pet Shop Boys release a new album in 2007, with a difference.
For the first time ever, a comprehensive collection of their work with or for other artists is to be released on June 26 entitled Pet Shop Boys: Collaboration
Neil Tennant comments: It was interesting to compile all...
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I'm Gay: LittleBummerBoy Mix (Little Britain)
Has anyone heard this version yet? Is it on the Aussie CD5?
Does anyone have the tracklisting/credits of this single?
The PSB mix is still unreleased. They never said why
I tried to make a new double album out of Super given that we now have four more tracks (Lost) to add to the 12 album tracks and the six b-sides. But I just felt there would be too many tracks, short ones, a true double album should have fewer but longer tracks.
So I thought of making a Lost 2016...
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Love this idea. I would drop 'The White Dress' for 'Living in the Past' though.
I'd sequence it as:
Side A
01 Brick England
02 I Will Fall
03 In Bits
04 Skeletons in the Closet
05 Living in the Past
Side B
01 A Cloud in a Box
02 Kaputnik
03 The Dead Can Dance
04 The Lost Room
05 Wiedersehen...
Interesting that this hasn't become a subject (or has really been covered in the Lost thread).
The QR code suggests that by 'mining it' (clicking & activating it) Annually 2023 is the first of a digital Pet Shop Boys digital collection.
I hope all the collectors / completists out there are...
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Seems an awful lot of faff for...nothing. My phone is a 2016 model, simply doesn't do a thing with the QR code, and I suspect unless you are one of those morons who simply MUST have the very latest phone with tons of features you'll never use costing hundreds a month you are on a hiding to...
Apparently there’s a new “world exclusive interview” in the new issue of Classic Pop magazine. Anyone seen or read it yet?
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I suspected that it was either going to be a reissue, or an updated version. Once SMASH had been announced, I concluded that it was more than likely going to be an update.
Pet Shop Boys Catalogue
i don't think that information might be completely up to date.
Sorry if this was discussed before, but nothing came up using the Search function.
Just today I realised that the mix of Friendly Fire included on Format is a different version compared with the I Get Along DVD single and Nightlife/Further listening version.
I have to think Pet Shop Boys are loving the new Everything But The Girl, Fuse ? I am enthralled with it. It's arranged and recorded exquisitely. My esteem for Ben Watt has ballooned further. I almost don't need Tracey Thorn to record with PSB anymore, but I still hope it happens.
There's the...
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@alexis99, I hear the influence of Vocal in Karaoke as well.
@spooky, that's understandable, as they started in a highly acoustic mode. There's a lot I love in their earlier stuff and I have it all, but it was when they started wading into electronics that I started paying attention. When the...
Seems like there is another lost album's worth of music during 2022-2023:
Queen of Ice 05:33 03:18
Insanely Alive 06:22 03:35
Purple Zone 06:02 03:21
Living In The Past 04:37
The Lost Room 04:13
Skeletons In The Closet 03:04
Kaputnik 03:59
I Will Fall 04:39
Opportunities Tetris 05:38
So...
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It must be obvious, that the remix tracks are amounting to Disco 5.
Cosmic Fringes
Queen of Ice
Insanely Alive
Purple Zone
Think of a Number
Prior to any of these tracks being revealed, there were rumours swirling of Disco 5 being worked on or conceptualised.
So, a friend and I went to the Hidden Cameras gig in Soho last night
Joel Gibb and Owen Pallett on stage was treat enough, but in the crowd were Neil, and Chris. I had seen them in the nearby pub earlier with I believe James Ford, who was being very entertaining , and I guess they'd come from the...
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Wow, very jealous! I'd love to meet them but think I'd be too nervous. What was your opening line to Neil then?
I went with 'Hi Neil. How's it going? i thought Hidden Cameras were very good.. ' And he took it from there
was Chris wearing a hat and/or sunglasses? if not, and he wasn't with...
Depeche Mode's new album is out, What do we think of it?
It's produced by James Ford who is working on PSB's upcoming album. And obviously Depeche Mode are a synth duo just like PSB.
Hopefully we get Neil & Chris' opinion of the album soon. No doubt they've got the finger on the pulse with this...
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The most Depeche Mode sounding album of the last four years has been Hurts' Faith .
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