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...
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Thanks for the heads-up! It’s crucial to be cautious with emails from admin@psb-forum.com, especially if they involve ticket offers. Always use official contact links for issues and avoid replying to suspicious emails.
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...
Please post times, dates, channels, etc here so forum users don't miss out.
Please try not to drift into conversation in this thread as key posts may get missed.
Ta,
Dave :D
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So this should have been posted here really :oops:
Pet Shop Boys will be presenting five hour-long shows on @BBC6Music as part of their Artist in Residence series. The shows will be broadcast from November 11–14.
6 Music's Artist In Residence will be a journey into the musical soul of an...
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...
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My October Symphony
It's just a shame that all their songs sound the same !
I’m certain you jest. It’s sometimes so difficult to tell online.
I don’t think having a signature sound implies being repetitive. We’ll all have listened to every album multiple times. Sometimes that’s needed;...
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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Nothing is missing from them, but they could have a further expanded version of the albums.
Look at any other artist. Demos, rehearsals, live versions, other unreleased songs (Bounce, You've Got to Start Somewhere), alt versions, unreleased remixes, instrumentals, and so on. There is a plethora of...
Pet Shop Boys are pleased to reveal their latest single, “Feel”, which is now available as a five-track digital bundle at the link below. A CD single will be released on 27th September and is available to pre-order now.
Artwork photo by @corbinshaww
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Yeah there's something weird going on here - every other Nonetheless single has gone somewhere near the top of the physical and sales charts (a couple of thousand is apparently enough to do this) but this one hasn't charted at all even though it's almost certainly sold a similar number of copies to...
We know PSB have 4 song that reached #1 in UK but maybe we don't know anything about some songs from PSB that didn't get the top of the charts in UK but they got the top in other countries.
For example, did you know Suburbia was #1 in Poland and Belgium or What have I done to deserve this? in...
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Chat GPT tells me it was Cliff Richard with 'Mistletoe & Wine' in the Scottish singles chart. Probably likely as 'Left To My Own Devices' came out on 14 November. Perhaps it was Radio Clyde's own countdown of their favourite songs from that year?
« 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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Only the silly ones get a look in!
This is true. I asked them what animal they would choose to be if they had a spell cast on them :lol:
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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The Hidden Cameras have their own version of The dark end of the street. Might be where PSB first heard it.
Just curious, I know we all have diverse music tastes on here and this topic is highly subjective. However, in your opinion, what album do you own or listen to that is as far removed from Pet Shop Boys music as it is possible to be within your own specific taste.
I’d say for me, I have Dookie by...
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The Music of Bollywood legends Shankar & Jaiksihan. Film music composers of the 50's and 60's. Their music had strong melody. Shankar-Jaikishan were a duk who composed for 121 Bollywood films between 1949-1971.
The Beatles are also my favourites, yet so different to PSB but also similar.
I thought this couuld have been Schlager for Christmas time but the version of Chris is part of Feel , so maybe it's not going to happen. Anyway, I think the time works for a Christmas release. Why am I dancing? works like a song for Christmas,...
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Their tweet said Feel is their fourth single this year . Will there be a fifth? That's not quite the same as the fourth one from Nonetheless . So the hint is ambiguous. It may well mean a fifth single that isn't from the album proper...
I think it cleary means that the next single is from the...
Pet Shop Boys today reveal a special expanded edition of their latest album, “Nonetheless”, which will be released in a triple black vinyl set, double CD set and digitally on 22nd November. Link to pre-order below.
The expanded edition will feature the full “Nonetheless” album plus four new...
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here's a megamix... came out pretty good..
Thanks. Enjoyed that. Lots of instrumentation removed as well as the vocals though. Maybe one day we’ll get the proper instrumentals.
I was just listening Twenty something and came up with this question since it happens to me right after the last verse.
I always get goosebumps because I can't process how beautiful is that bit. (From 3:30 to 3:41 on the album version)
But there are other examples:
- The final build up of To step...
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Oh my God!
I forgot about that soul breaker duo:
The meeting - The clock 1/2/3
Every time I listen to it when the strings rise at the final verse of the meeting my heart literally breaks. And at the same time it's like a transcendental state of happiness and hope and life is precious and...
Pet Shop Boys will be presenting five hour-long shows on @BBC6Music as part of their Artist in Residence series. The shows will be broadcast from November 11–14.
6 Music's Artist In Residence will be a journey into the musical soul of an artist, based around a theme or mood. Each episode finds...
So as everyone already knows they've had a song in Saltburn and All Of Us Strangers. I was watching the TV show Industry and Opportunities was played at the end of season 3 episode one. They were also in the Netflix show The Decameron in episode 3 with What Have I Done To Deserve This?
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I think I would take exception with They did the most amazing headline set on one of the smaller stages there. The Other Stage is still a pretty big deal isn't it?
Queen are on the list. That’s a forgone conclusion unfortunately then as every music illiterate knucklehead votes for them. Still my five votes went to PSB, New Order, Depeche, Manics and Beautiful South.
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I love polls and list. I try to ignore the fact it’s reductive, commercially driven, and compartmentalised; Instead, it’s a chance to discover what I’m possibly missing out on. The annual end of year best of polls usually contain one or two delightful surprises. However, what’s the value in being...
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...
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I’ve been listening to the Pet Shop Boys since I was 4 years old. I have all their albums and singles on vinyl, CD, and cassette. I grew up with their music, which is the soundtrack of my life. That’s why my ear knows those sounds so well— their music feels like 'home' to my ears.
Didn't find a specific topic dedicated to Bullet for Narcissus.
Welp
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I don't really get a political vibe out of anything in the Price trilogy, except maybe Last to Die , and Hotspot feels like Nope, we're getting outta here! , but...the Agenda and Lost EPs would like a word... :lol:
Well... there's a lot of political vibe in the Price trilogy:
Dictator Decides...
Spent a lovely afternoon finally reading the gorgeous hardcovers that come with the New Order box sets, and I have to plead with the universe for something similar from the Pet Shop Boys. I know they (claim to) dislike looking backwards, but imagine a box for each album with the album on CD and...
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A series of albums of extended and/or essential remixes would do well. Could even just stick to the 6 tracks per a CD... 3x12 format.
That would also be a nice Disco 5: a one or even 2CD set with the best remixes that so far have only released on vinyl. Not for the completist, but would make a...
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...
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I’ve always wanted to hear Neil sing “The Windmills Of Your Mind” from The Thomas Crown Affair
Please = No / No
Actually = No / No
Introspective = Yes / No
Behaviour = Yes / No
Very = Yes / Yes
Bilingual = No / Yes
Nightlife = No / No
Release = Yes / Yes
Fundamental = No / No
Yes = Yes / Yes
Elysium = No / Yes
Electric = Yes / Yes
Super = No / No...
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Yes = Yes / Yes
Would be great to give someone this equation and ask them to give context.
Received the Smash lenticular this week and have it housed with my Smash vinyl box set. Easy to see the intention of it being attached to the box lid, similar to Alternative's box.
Wonder why it never happened? 🤔
I'd definitely encourage anyone with the box set to go the extra mile and order the...
Nonetheless, the extent to which they’d been exploited was not only apparent to the band – “when we saw the royalty statements and realised that we’d been taken for one big ride” – but by their pop music peers too. “Bronski Beat went around throwing scorn on us for signing...
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Oh don't get me wrong, I also don't mean to say that everything should be played live all the time. The first PSB tours Chris was also miming his way through (parts of) the songs or not doing any playing at all on stage (that's why I am not a big fan of Performance). But in FGTH's case, their first...
Cross-posted from Facebook.
Apparently some of the vendors didn't get their stuff out until Wednesday.
You can see the remnants of the lake we had to wade through to exit the venue.
Hello! The have published a new album this year. In the last years they started a new tour only a few months after publishing an album. Does anybody know when they will start a new tour?
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Some good ideas about concerts and it wouldn’t do any harm by emailing Angela.info@beckerbrown.com
I’ve emailed several times with suggestions, a few times about reissuing old tour t-shirts without a reply and I wonder if after reading the email it gets as far as Chris and Neil.
Chris Lowe despite his shyness, managed to sh/ine on stage.It's worth considering hoow his personality influenced the the band's dynamics..Perhaps this balance between introversion and extroversion is what creates their unique style :) ?
Just picked up the 2013 expanded version of Electronic's debut album. The 2-CD collection comes with a long text about the birth of Electronic and the band's first years.
The text, written in that annoying language of english music critics, consistently describes Electronic's collaboration with...
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Oh, I saw that I even missed basic ones (most embarrasing: there´s a gun in your hand, pointing at your head ;)), even though I checked the German translation and all sound good - up to now. And I remembered that unless you have sort of biographer of a 24 hour call was not really understandable by...
We have enough b-sides now for a third collection and I've been working on ideas for some time. The problem with a third collection is that at the point we left Format, there is a load of cover versions which I cannot see them front-loading a new album with. They have said that the 7 of Fugitive...
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How about calling it Otherwise ?
It’s a great title and seems to continue with that Englishness from Nonetheless.
Assemble.
back after probably a week of being online - what was i thinking on saturday, 24.8.2024 ??
i opened this page today at around 7:20am before school to check the notifications and i remembered i made a post back in august. i read it and almost started crying from laughter - a good way to continue my...
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Hello and welcome! Don't pay attention to the negativity. It's amazing that PSB (and this site) are still attracting new fans - like you I was 14 or 15 when I joined the forum (back in the Aimoo days) and I'm still here aged 36! How did you get into PSB?
Hey hey guys!!!
This is my latest unboxing.
15 Nonetheless versions.
It's not an unboxing strictly since most of the stuff was already unboxed. The thing is I can't help opening stuff that comes around as soon as I get it. And on top of it, this time Nonetheless versions arrived at many...
I just got to think about it since I was reading some posts on the collectors discussion forum about the yes box.
And I wonder how much and for how long can the value of some collectibles raise.
Will there be a time when suddenly my collection doesn't worth a penny? Or at least less than what I...
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I am not talking about now, as now there is a market for collections like ours. But the market for let’s say a Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard or even Dusty Springfield collection will be a lot smaller at the moment than they once were. That’s what the PSB will be in 20-30 years.
I haven't seen this film yet but PSB are on the soundtrack like for Saltburn.
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It becomes quite central because of the timing around Christmas. There are other bands given prominence, but it's clear the director felt PSB were important!
I can't listen to The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood without feeling really sad now.
I ran across this little tidbit & I'm confused about who this Pigott is. I'm not @ home to rifle thru my PSB stuff to find out exactly what his connection is to PSB. Can anyone enlighten me ?
22 years jail for VAT fraud gang
The judge said the crime had been 'audacious and outrageous'
A gang...
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Funny! I just had the same question (after 10 years!!), when my PSB Google Alerts produced this story:
So he did a runner! :lol:
Make that 20 years though…
OMG! I didn’t count an extra decade 😂😂 Ufff I’m getting old.
It's confirmed
A film of the Copenhagen show will be issued on Blu-ray later this year
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I become progressively more disappointed by New Order and more impressed by Peter Hook and the Light. He's got a class act going on there. He's very much a salesman but he also keeps the fans happy.
I don't blame Steven and Gillian. They were forced to pick a side and probably were smart to stick...
soo i´ve been thinking about making like psb products ( handmade & painted by me ( image ) ), but i really don´t know what because i don´t really know what people would want ( ex. i´m going to make myself a cover for my cd because i´m burning one ), sooo i wanted to ask if anyone would actually...
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Speaking for myself, I enjoy the official merch when it is substantial and beautiful and stylish (lithos, Catalogue etc) but I can do without (eg) a water bottle with the tour logo on or whatever.
Unofficial merch I would avoid like the plague. Absolute shit. Even if you think you’re creating...
Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent 40th anniversary reissue with SDE-exclusive blu-ray
4CD+DVD deluxe also available
London Records are reissuing Bronski Beat’s classic 1984 debut The Age of Consent for its 40th anniversary and formats will include an SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio with the album and...
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I mean… in general, in the west, what does a young gay man have to protest that’s unique to his sexuality? The 70-90s are where it’s at.
The fact you have to ask this is sad. Times are better for gay people in the UK, but there is still queer bashing and rampant transphobia.
Just looking at album covers and noticed, more often than not, that Chris is on the left and Neil on the right of the photo.
I'm not one that reads too much into things but it seems to be an aesthetic they've mostly stuck with over 40 years.
Purely an observation unless anyone has specific...
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Remembered this thread while reading The Pet Shop Boys versus America:
They sit in a back-stage room, surrounded by wigs and stage costumes, preparing to be interviewed by MTV. Neil tries to sit on Chris’s left.
‘I always sit on that side,’ objects Chris.
‘You do?’ says Neil, moving over. ‘I've...
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