Please take extreme care on emails from administration @ petshopboys-forum .com !!!!!!!!!!!
In the last days I recognise some emails about Tickets for PSB@ROH which I THINK could be a money trap. After we have to hold this email open for user requests and alerts via the contact link (at the...
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...
This is the Farrow-designed cover of the Undertow three-track CD which will come exclusively with copies of the new Annually book. Go to the Store on this site to pre-order your copy. A four-track vinyl 12-inch will also be commercially released at a later date to be...
Last post
Good grief, the whiplash you get from a twenty-something year old forum! The level of thread resurrection that you get here is a first for me. However, since it has unearthed the satirical gem that is Old Curmudgeon , I'll give it a pass... again... :lol:
Check out Tina Turner’s socials - looks like there’s potentially a new PSB remix coming this Friday:
Last post
What a crazy idea Tina Turner singing Try it Like it would've been Madonna singing Heart. Tina was the 80's icon for women empowerment, not some homewrecker. Confidential really was the best they could offer her. It has stood the test of time unlike her Break every rule album which is totally...
« We are starting work early this year on the 2025 edition of Annually , which, as always, will include a selection of your letters answered by Chris and Neil.
So if you have a question for them, email it to info@beckerbrown.com with Annually letters in the subject line by next Monday, 7th...
Last post
Still waiting in Jersey City, New Jersey.
does anyone have a good customer service email address?
I'm delighted that my publisher has given me the go-ahead to provide details about my upcoming books. I've written two books in Fonthill Media's excellent Song by Song popular music series. Past Song by Song books have focused on such artists as ABBA, Bruce Springsteen, U2,...
Last post
I have to confess I heard about this nearly a year ago but mum was the word :wink:
Today is a busy day for PSB world, with three new releases:
Mark Springer, Neil Tennant & Sacconi Quartet - Sleep Of Reason
The Hidden Cameras - How do you love (pet shop boys remix)
Tina Turner - Hot For You Baby (pet shop boys remix)
However, Sleep Of Reason involves Neil without Chris,...
Last post
Is that corrugated iron they're hitting
No no no it's perfectly normal
It's just the sound...of my testicles falling off
I'm a huge Pet Shop Boys fan since I was 4 years old and I wanted to share something special with you.
I’ve made an accurate instrumental recreation of one of their songs that I love the most, 'Being Boring' and I thought it would be fantastic to share it with this wonderful community...
Last post
One of the most challenging recreations I've ever worked on so far, 'Love Comes Quickly'. :)
Mark Springer/Neil Tennant/Sacconi String Quartet
I fell into a deep sleep of reason Everything broken and hence when I woke up from that deep sleep of reason it all made sense”
A Unique Artistic Partnership. Release Date: Apr 25, 2025
Discs: 2
This project represents a distinct and carefully...
Last post
Just got the mail that CD and vinyls will be shipped on May 15th.
The Hidden Cameras return with their long-awaited, anthemic new single, How Do You Love? Over a pumping bassline, soulful piano chords, and melancholic string arrangements (played and arranged by longtime musical partner Owen Pallett), Joel Gibb hits the precise spot...
Last post
Greetings,
Crazy that on the same day 2 PSB remixes can be released that are polar opposites, this one top notch classic PSB effortlessly taking the original track to another level and the other, yee Gods what were they thinking! I wouldn't be at all surprised if the TT track was suddenly pulled...
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...
Last post
I am surprised Never Gonna's sales figure is merely 700,000 + units. It was everywhere and I mean it literally. It was like every Uk citizen had to buy it by the force of law.
By the way, I hate that song (and all SAW tracks- they are so awful that they are not even popular atn those boring and...
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...
Last post
We had planned to air our Dreamworld episode to neatly coincide with the release of the new Pet Shop Boys Blu-ray, so the delay left us with a quandary - should we put our episode back too? It was the second we recorded of our new batch and we’d purposefully chosen it to open our new season. So,...
Chris once said that after listening to Passion by The Flirts, everything he had heard up to that point was made redundant.
Cast your mind back to when you had that feeling to a Pet Shop Boys song.
Mine has to be Paninaro (Italian Remix) from Disco. Everything about that mix made me feel this is...
Last post
What always impressed me about Paninaro is that it's the bloody other one 'singing' it! How good must you be if a stone-cold classic has the keyboard player on lead vocals?
Even The Beatles only gave Ringo the cheesier songs; it wasn't like he sang Strawberry Fields.
I found some old VHS video cassettes in my loft at the weekend. Every time something PSB related was on the TV, I would stick my cassette in and wait, my fingers hovering over the record button. You may well have done the same. The result is four x three-hour cassettes, some more full than others,...
I'm having a blackout. I have a vague memory of listening to this remix, the full length one, on a CD because it would be on my ipod. I've searched in my many iTunes libraries, discogs, and I've come up empty-handed.
Am I delusional here, I could have sworn it was released on a CD, either a...
For people looking for the 1996 theme of The Noise, which they composed for the ITV show of the same name, someone uploaded the first full episode to youtube yesterday:
And you can hear the musical theme in 30 seconds glorious stereo. A lot better than the version I have.
Last post
Wow, never heard about this track. It makes me think to a lost tmit track.
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on the lack of any vinyl single releases thus far. One thing about the Kobalt era was the abundance of stuff released on (mainly)12
Electric era - Axis 10 , Vocal 12 , Bourgeois 12 , Thursday 12 , Fluorescent RSD 12
Super era - The Pop kids 12 , Inner...
Last post
Slight tangent but there are thousands upon thousands of vinyl singles/albums in all the charity shops and car boots
As some of you may know, some enthusiasts at the UK Mix forum recently got their hands on the actual chart data used by Gallup to compile the UK singles chart in the 1980s and early 1990s. What's interesting is that it revealed for the first time the estimated weekly sales of each single along with...
I found this on YT
Somebody doing AI versions... supposed to sound like PSB or at least Neil singing. I've listened to a handful of songs. They sound like demoes and weak demoes as well. I compared with a Queen AI channel which was way ahead of this PSB AI channel.
Last post
I'm familiar with the channel. These songs are a guilty pleasure of mine.
These are some bits from Annually which I thought were interesting:
If Jesus had a sister “was potentially down to be on the album originally”.
Everybody will dance was sent to Robbie Williams for his possible use.
Chris’s first choice for their Piano Room cover version was Ivor Novell’s My...
Last post
New London boy was considered as the first single from Nonetheless.
I was actually surprised to learn that it was not , in fact, a single until like the very end! That one BBC article (released right when they were promoting Nonetheless) gave me a false impression :lol:
Pet Shop Boys announce the theatrical release of Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live At The Royal Arena Copenhagen , coming to cinemas worldwide for two nights only on 31 January and 4 February 2024. Tickets go on sale on 6 December.
psbdreamworldlivefilm.com
Last post
Copies for sale on Discogs, but I’m not paying £85!
This thread is for daily discussion of a Pet Shop Boys track, selected in chronological order, from studio albums starting with Please – including Further Listening – to the new album. The idea is to allow a 24-hour period of discussion for each track – then we move on to the next one. The first 11...
Last post
Track 57: Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend
Behaviour: Further Listening, Track 5
I absolutely adore this song. From the first time I heard it on the b side of the 12 , I've never skipped in on any playlist.
The general feeling I'm reading of exhaustion over the Dreamworld dates this year and the delayed release of the DVD got me thinking about how things might have played out had COVID never happened.
The Boys must have had some sort of plan for the years ahead, even if songs weren't written or...
Last post
Greetings,
As it relates to Dreamworld specifically, I have always envisaged this greatest hits tour as their touring swan-song. I think all the pandemic did was delay its commencement, and potentially push out its finale.
1- Kraftwerk
2 - Depeche Mode
3 - New Order
4 - Pet Shop Boys
5 - The Human League
6 - Daft Punk
7 - Erasure
8 - Yazoo (Yaz en USA)
9 - CHVRCHES
10 - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
Last post
Greetings,
Half of the artists wouldn't fit even in a serious top 100 electronic bands of all time.
In his latest social media posting, Rupaul chooses Liza Minelli “Results” as his pick. Wonder why the boys never produce or remix any of Rupaul songs or even appear on Drag Race…
Last post
Yup, even the gay community likes its icons having mass appeal. No artist has ever had success sucking up to the gay community.
In order to make an easy reading of the reviews from the members of this community. I think all os us should use only one thread for all our reviews about Nonetheless. A space we can express our opinion about all the songs from Nonetheless song by...
Last post
It's been a year and I listen to songs from this album all the time. I finally bought the vinyl, I was expecting that they would bring 3 vinyls with bonuses to Russia, but in Russia it costs 150 Euro. I bought the transparent one and listen to it with pleasure.
New London Boy sounds the best in my...
I thought someone would have noted it here but maybe everybody bas a copy. PSB tweeted that BFI had some copies left of the limited edition version of ichh for 19.99 if anyone is still interested. Still in stock right now.
AR
Last post
Yep. You don’t need to drop any frames. It’s well worth doing for my ears and picture remains completely smooth.
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.
-----
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...
Last post
I've the same design of poster but for the UK leg of the tour:
Hey hey everybody!
I'm looking for an article or an interview I know I've read somewhere about the changes included in the cover of All the young dudes. I mean lyric subtle changes and omissions on the radio version.
Thanks!
Last post
Wonderful compendium, Wayne! Thanks so much. Added clarity to many lines I've wondered about.
Neil will be appearing as a special guest vocalist for “Great Movie Songs with @annedudleymusic & Friends” at the
@RoundhouseLDN, London on Tuesday, 25th March 2025, as part of the @LDNSoundtrack Festival. Full details at the link below.
Conductor
Anne Dudley
Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic...
Last post
Non paywall version:
Thanks!
Worth it for this gem describing Neil... ''Dressed in the frock coat of a frisky Victorian curate''...
Some PSB items I am just destined not to own, and this is one of them. When it first came out I was on holiday and temporarily incommunicado. Yesterday when these few were available, I was in the dentist having a tooth extraction. C'est la vie!
Hope you all are well!
I wanted to share this new remix with you, as you've given me some nice and useful feedback in the past.
I hope you like it. Any feedback is welcome!
Thanks!
Last post
Missed this the first time around but luckily an undertow drew me to this thread. Good thing too, because this is utterly gorgeous! It's so floaty and trippy and I love the new riff. Thanks for sharing! :clap:
That’s great, thank you so much, really appreciate the feedback :)
Apologies if this that been discussed before but can anyone confirm if these two singles, DJ Culture and Was It Worth It?, were recorded as part of the Behaviour sessions in 1990 or especially for the Discography compilation the following year?
They would both have been fantastic additions to...
Last post
Thank you, 102db, this is really interesting. It wasn't exactly the speech synthesis itself I was surprised by, so much as the fact they made it sound like a record (rather than a robot) talking . I guess it was just about trying different things until it sounded right, probably all the things...
New documentary coming out next month about the songwriter Allee Willis who of course we all know from 'What have I... .
PSB are featured in the movie according to the blurb at the end of the trailer.
Last post
Saw this tonight as part of the BFI Flare festival; Allee's partner Prudence, who helped make the film, did a Q&A afterwards. It's a really moving and lovely tribute, and I learnt a lot about someone whose work has been pretty ubiquitous for decades. Neil and Chris are in it for about 30 seconds,...
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...
Last post
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...
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...
We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’
Last post
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.
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?
Last post
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
Users browsing this forum: Amazon [Bot], g_m, Google [Bot] and 3 guests
Forum permissions
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
