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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...
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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Finally heard West End girls in the wild, doing the grocery shop yesterday morning at Vons!
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.
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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Where are these data from?
Are they estimates? Do they come from real counting?
Do they include all the formats (7 , 12 , cds...)?
Do these numbers count real sales, or do they count printed items?
Do they include import items?
Judging by the Kate Bush figures and from working in the industry...
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
Saw this tonight on my way from work, the flyers are popping up everywhere.
Anyone know what it's about?
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This mag has been kicking about for a while now. The first issue featured Chris on the cover, and goes for a few quid now.
It’s very much based on football casual terrace culture, mainly in the 80s, with the usually unmentioned undercurrent of hooliganism. The guy behind it’s obviously a PSB fan...
I ended up seeing the revival several times, and the production revealed itself as finely detailed and thought out, and the cast did great justice to the songs...
I wonder if some lucky buyers managed to obtain some souvenirs of the show...
''South London venue The Turbine Theatre,...
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What a pity.
The venue did seem slightly out of place amongst the ultra rich and absent residents who (don’t) inhabit Battersea Power Station
I really enjoyed the production of C2H, and I think this venue, much like the Union Theatre, really added to the production.
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...
One of the many things that I think elevates PSB's songwriting above their peers is their ability to craft the perfect middle eight, or in layman's terms, the bit of the song that usually occurs about 2/3 of the way through and isn't the verse, chorus or the bridge in between them.
DJ culture (...
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Leans? It positively hurtles! All pistons go, like the aforementioned party train. It pains me that I may never see Will-o done live, because it could open the heck out of a set. But yeah, it would need a suitable follow-on track so all that momentum doesn't go over a cliff.
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...
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When with some proper AI software I plan to create a mashup of Dj culture using the backing track of Where the streets have no name, taking it up to well deserved new heights. Maybe next tour they'll remember this underrated moderate hit once again.
« 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...
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Looking forward to the Q&A section.
I saw a Depeche Mode interview where they were asked their most favourite and least favourite song they've done.
I'd like those types of questions to be asked.
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.
It only has one verse really, and Neil's nonsense word is funny but doesn't go much beyond that. Chris's solo is weak. Yet, it certainly has a charm. Best kept as a demo or could it be brought out into the light of day with some touch-up?
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Honestly, it is terrible.
Well honestly, I love it. It’d make a great track if revisited and fleshed out, especially after hearing the Nathan Jay remix;
Try this fan mix for size
Ooh yes loving that! We just need to convince them to revisit it lol
I reckon there’ll be more UK dates plus they are yet to take Dreamworld to the far east or Australia.
I'm not convinced Dreamworld will ever get to Australia. Rumour has it (based on some comments from Stephen Morris) there was a Unity tour planned, but it feel through due to a...
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...
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I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing missed out on two chart positions by a total of four panel sales on its second week in 1993. It landed at 13, but would have been number 12 (above M People's Don't Look Any Further) if it sold 31 more copies - or number 11 (above Meatloaf) if it sold 61...
When Pet Shop Boys reissued their first six albums in 2001, they revealed five “rough rules” they’d given themselves in order to determine what they would (and wouldn’t) include on the accompanying Further Listening discs. These were:
1. The tracks would have to be what they considered to be...
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Greetings,
This is why Spotify/Apple music sucks and physical media is still the way to go.
I feel bad for newer PSB fans who have to search out these tracks now. It seemed like just standard stuff back in the day. I never thought for a moment that so many tracks would become so hard to find....
My wife bought me two delightful books Booze and Vinyl and Booze and Vinyl 2 which pair listening parties of various albums to drinks and cocktails to be taken during those listens.
Booze and Vinyl 2 contains a segment for Please with two very suitably English sounding cocktails and some nice...
Is This What We Want? is a 2025 album by various artists. It consists of silence, recorded in recording studios. It was released in protest at the potential impact of artificial technology on music. The message The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies is spelt by...
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Markus is right...lack of talent is neither her nor there with AI.
If you can’t do it without AI you lack talent.
its the future.
I don’t doubt that - exploitation, enshittification and the rise of the talentless is the apogee of our cultural devolution.
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!
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Oh this is so good! very smooth, and it fixes the problem I had with the chorus, in that I never liked it, the PSB version always sounded too boxy and derivative to my ears. this has a sheen about it with the new music which I like very much. it shimmers with the echoey leads in the background. so...
Wouldn't it be great to copy Madonna's latest album, top 50 remixes of her best tracks? We'd finally get gems like Young Offender Jam & Spoon remix available on streaming services.
What would the ultimate playlist be like?
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I'd really like to have this version on CD:
Young Offender (Remix No 2)
I've always preferred that remix to the Trip-O-Matic one.
Spurred by a comment by our illustrious Drico, I wondered about what makes a hardcore fan of a band.
The AI generated definition (below) is such that either any one of us could call ourselves that of the PSB's, or not, if you take that definition to its extremities.
EDIT: just for clarity I used...
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I do not know what to call myself.
Usually I don't like their videos; I find them wooden and boring except for a few notable ones for me, including Heart, Monkey Business, Being Boring, Together (very energetic) and On Social Media. If they never released a video again, I would never regret it. I...
I'm not sure if this has been asked before but does anybody have a list of the songs played in the hour or so before PSB go on stage on the Super tour? I was at Nottingham and there was one track which was really good. It had a military sounding chant something like 1, 2...3, 4!! in it. I thought...
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Does anyone have all played Pre Show Tunes of the Last Dreamworld Shows especially Berlin Uber Arena 2024 ?
Who’s watching? Does anyone think that one of the actors who plays the youngest son looks like a young Chris Lowe? Throughout the episode I kept thinking that’s Chris when he was younger…
The final results are in for my poll this past week in which I asked my site visitors to rate the music videos for the Pet Shop Boys six most recent singles. And the video that received the highest average rating is:
* A New Bohemia, with an average rating of 3.837 out of 5.
Hey there! Today (Saturday) is the last full day of my poll in which I ask you to rate the Pet Shop Boys' music videos for their most recent singles on a scale of 1 to 5 as they compare with all of their other music videos. If you haven't voted yet, please visit my Commentary site at and make your...
You go to a concert of an artist that at some points in their career they famously dressed up in a particular costume that everyone will associate that artist with. Robbie Williams most famous example is his Let Me Entertain You video for example. We're all...
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I saved a lot of money to get the blow up michiko koshino coat and when I got to the store it had sold out and there were no plans for anymore so I bought a reversible bomber jacket which I’ve still got.
At the dreamworld concert at Wembley Arena someone was wearing the silver,black and white coat...
Several site visitors have suggested that I get caught up on my website's ratings of the music videos for the Pet Shop Boys' singles (since I haven't run any such polls since Monkey Business ). So I've finally gotten around to launch just such a survey. If you would like to take part, please visit...
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The hardest to rank was I Don't Wanna. I think it's a great lyric video. If the comparison was with other lyric videos I would have given it a 5. My favorite lyric videos are I Don't Wanna, Dreamland and On Social Media (PessimistPug is a PSB icon). Compared to all other PSB videos I gave it an...
I was listening to my iPod earlier & had it on random (as you do etc). Then this came on & I've not heard it for a while, but I have to say it's really good! It's a shame it's never had a 'proper' release, just like their remixes of Kids by MGMT, which were also quite good IIRC.
I don't know the...
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Well thank you...As I am in love with their Kids remix, I nose-dived into this but... I do not know what I was expecting but was not expecting this LOL :) It's good but it does not excite me as much as Kids...maybe it is a grower. It sounds a good choice for a cold room experience in a SPA after a...
Marianne Faithfull, who appeared with the charity project curated by Neil 20th Century Blues singing Mad About the Boy and was also part inspiration for Billie Trix in Closer to Heaven has died.
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I will always remember her with Alain Delon and Mick Jagger sitting by her two sides, and Jagger was sulking like a child while the other two were having the time of their lives, chatting and heartily laughing. To many, this was the dictionary definition of jealousy (Jagger and Faithfull were...
1 - West End Girls
2 - Always on my Mind
3 - It's a Sin
4 - Go West
5 - Domino Dancing
6 - What have I done to deserve This?
7 - Heart
8 - New York City Boy
9 - Suburbia
10 - Opportinities
The forum is a bit down these days so I created another ranking...
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Not really a surprise that most of those are from the imperial phase. Nothing from the past 24 years.
For Neil, Domino Dancing wasn't part of Imperial Phase.
Well Domino dancing was part of the Imperial Phase... until Neil realised it didn't chart high enough for him. So it's Schrödinger's...
Slate just posted part 1 of a podcast about Madonna's imperial phase, which contains a nice, lengthy nod to Neil's other gift to the pop universe (starting at 10:48):
From the AI-generated transcript:
Speaker B: This is Its a Sin, a 1987 transatlantic hit by Pet Shop Boys, the British dance...
In Japan, next June, 11 PSB albums will be reissued for the special Forever Young 2025 series.
From Please to Elysium, with special limited editions including the megajackets , i.e. the 24x24 cm cardboard reproduction of the covers.
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Why not a Worldwide release? I was trying to find Introspective on CD the other day and it wasn’t easy!
I, stupidly, sold of my original CDs in 2001 when the reissues came out but I've been able to back track through some second hand stores and get hold of the original CD-releases, all but...
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