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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...
« 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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Annually is a lovely idea but the shipping to the USA costs more than the book. Now I realize why they're always so damned expensive on eBay.
Maybe it's time for an e-book version? Might help solve the problem of font size!
With Nonetheless now sinking in to our collective psyches, how are forum members’ favourite album lists looking? For me:
Untouchable:
Behaviour
Actually
Introspective
Top tier:
Fundamental
Please
Very
Great:
Nonetheless
Electric
Bilingual
Yes
Good:
Super
Hotspot
Elysium
Bringing up the...
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Ok then, since we're into ranking, and since I can't bring myself to do it, I asked Co-pilot to do it for me. It said, I'd be happy to help! Could you please list your favorite Pet shop boys albums so I can rank them for you? Well, I wasn't about to do that, so I extracted myself from the situation...
Introduction.
Several West End Girls remixes produced by Boby O after 1984 contain lyrics that are not from the original 1984 West End Girls:
Looking left, turning right, 'Cause money's short and time is tight / If we don't find the right solution, Will there be a revolution?
For example, this...
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They liked one of those lines so much they cut and pasted it from West End girls to Tonight is forever.
Just seen a trailer for this and it had the 12”mix of Always On My Mind featured heavily. I wonder if this is the tv programme that Angela spoke about last year?
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Just logged on to the forum because just had a weird dream. Heard these lyrics done live…
I really love parties
Yes, I really do
I really love parties
‘cos I will be with you.
I love the parties
I really do
I love the parties
‘cos I will be with you.
Hi, I know there are some acetates on Discogs but is there a website with details of Pet Shop Boys/PSB related acetates that feature unreleased mixes/versions? I know the odd one pops up on eBay too but just wondering if any PSB superfan has a site or page that documents such acetates?
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Complete PSB discography: Singles, Albums, Videos, Collaborations, Bootlegs, Covers, etc...
More than 50000 pictures
1. Feel
2. New London boy
3. Loneliness
4. A new bohemia
5. Dancing star
6. Why am I dancing?
7. Love is the law
8. The dark end of the street
9. The secret of happiness
10. I’ve got plans (involving you)
11. Beauty has laid siege to the city
12. Through you (extended mix)
13. Bullet for Narcissus...
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Greetings,
2. … and equally unsurprisingly, Miserere secured the biggest number of 23s with 16 – 69% of us think it’s the worst song (or “song”) of the era. Consensus!
I don't understand this one at all, it's a terrific track. But then again, the overall quality of the era is so high....
Hope you all are doing well.
Encouraged by your feedback from my Drunk remix I thought I'd share this new one.
Any feedback is always appreciated, thanks!
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Excellent work again. You have such an ear for melody, and draw something different out of the music while maintaining the spirit of the original.
Thank you so much for those very kind words, appreciate it! :D
An expanded edition of Nonetheless is clear and the fifth single too but we don't know anything about it. The release for the expanded edition is in November but is there something waiting for December?, a single?, an EP?. Maybe the answer is no . But bear in mind they have been written many songs...
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I got mine in Melbourne too just before Xmas !
Great! Hope you enjoyed them. :D
Still no sign of them here in California. Time to get medieval on the US store’s @$$. :evil:
How many other US fans are in the same boat (and how many already cancelled and reordered from the UK store)?
I’m sure Neil and Chris haven’t yet even begun thinking about their next album, but I’m clearly already winding down for Christmas and I can’t help wondering where they’ll turn next. We know for sure that there’s no Electric-style fast-follower album ready to go - Neil ruled out as much at the...
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I'd love to hear them work with Daniel Avery. His dark yet joyous productions would be a wonderful contrast to the Boys melodies.
Recently I've re-discovered a pile (a cache?) of old audio cassettes in a box in my loft. I've been going through and digitising them, and I'm now planning on uploading them to Mixcloud, so I can share them here, and via our In Depth podcast socials. Some stuff you'll have heard before - and some...
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Has anyone got a recording of when Chris Lowe stood in for Pete Tong? Perhaps I imagined it...
I think from this post we need Agent Doris to get digitising as his New Year’s resolution.
Retro Bar
Frankie goes to Retro .
If you would like to attend you need to collect a wristband from the bar today.
The bar is open as usual with the DJ on from 9pm till 2am!
2 George Ct, London WC2N 6HH
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Thanks, just inspired me to play Think You're A Man which is an impossible song not to love on NYE 🤣
Thanks!
I did have fun despite exhaustion and suffering from a cold.
The DJs started with Liza's Don't Drop Bombs
We also had
Left to my own devices
Heart
What have I done to deserve this?
Suburbia
Liza' Losing my mind
Always On my...
I recently bought the Streets/Seriously CD single for a couple of quid because I'd never heard the classical reprise and no longer had the extended mix of the latter track anywhere. But what's most interested me about it is the version of Streets that plays as track 1. It's not labelled as a...
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As for So Hard, the Extended Dance Mix is the only one I ever listen to, the harder snares being brought forward in the mix and the absolutely gorgeous breakdown in the middle where it gradually goes to just the wobbly warm baseline before building up again.
Ok... second time lucky. Quiz republished at link below.
Do you have a certain je ne sais quoi or are you up against it? Crack the ten cryptic Christmas chestnuts to find out.
This requires a mix of logical deduction, familiarity with Pet Shop Boys, and sometimes a dollop of trial and error!...
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It’s a puzzle, not a quiz. A fiendishly difficult puzzle. Also you’ve missed some of the vowels from the album titles in Q5 (Actually and Introspective both need their initial letters adding) which tips that question from fiendish to literally impossible if your working is based on the surrounding...
I think I'm in love... this has been on repeat all afternoon. Yes, it's slight, inconsequential, b-side material. But dear God, is it an off-kilter, highly unusual earworm crying out for a much longer remix.
What is said in the background at 2:32, anyone make it out? Big Boy ? Sounds like Chris?
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Nah, DvW would have been in the can by the time CAHEB was released. I think it’s just a nice little nod from the universe. :)
Quite entertaining to see Elon being attacked by half the maga crowd for wanting to source cheap labour internationally. Trumps presidency looking distracted and bitter before it even starts.
I've long been perplexed by people awarding points out of 10 for Pet Shop Boys songs and albums. I've never understood why people needed 11 rating levels to make a definitive judgment of a track. Even more weird to me are those fractional ratings, say 7.2 out of 10. Can people really break down...
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It’s all a snapshot in time that could look very different tomorrow; however, at this moment…
Considering how great the PSB music is, I am surprised that there is so few officially released (and easily accessible) instrumental versions of their songs.
Even what does exist is hard to get. Yes was only on that vinyl set and Nonetheless was not even officially released at all.
We do have...
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Hmmm, I did not recall Dreaming Of The Queen being out in instrumental or being leaked. Young Offender was as was I Wouldn't Normally Do This King of Thing have leaked from Very.
I think hearing Very in instrumental format would be great.
here it is, the very instrumental megamix part1:...
I've got a question for those of you lucky enough to remember Introspective being released. It's simple enough - the album is now pretty iconic, with some of their best known songs, a spirit of experimentation that they never really matched, and that fantastic sleeve. But I can...
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Loved Left to my own devices and was working and my copy the 12 version with belly band, still got the album and band btw were purchased from Our Price in Swansea. Had to wait till I was home to listen to it. I opted for this version as I liked the fact that the tracks were over 3 12 singles so you...
We have today received the sad news that Jack Bond, the director of our feature film, “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and the videos for “Always on my mind” and “Heart”, died yesterday. Jack had a distinguished career making both feature films and documentaries. He supervised the Blu-ray re-release of...
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I did post about this three days ago in your James Bond thread
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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I always saw PSB as FGTH part two, but with a slightly better selection of songs( their 1986-88 output).
Frankie were one of the better bands from the 1981-84 era of New Pop, and I think they were much better than the likes of Tears for Fears or the god awful Soft Cell.
Here’s a playlist project I’ve completed just in time for the season:
Greetings , a Pet Shop Boys Christmas album.
I looked through my library to see if there was an album’s worth of PSB tracks resonant with the themes and motifs of Christmas and winter and found there indeed was. It makes for...
1. Feel
2. Dancing star
3. Through you (extended mix)
4. Beauty has laid siege to the city
5. Love is the law
6. I’ve got plans (involving you)
7. It’s not a crime
8. If Jesus had a sister
9. New London boy
10. The dark end of the street
11. The schlager hit parade...
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It's interesting to see so many different takes on the Nonetheless era tracks. Especially the B-sides.
Though You did nothing for me. I kept trying to like it. But I just could not get into it.
I loved The dark end of the street and Everyone Will Dance. Some nice work by Chris on these tracks.
For me, it was a surprise to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson giving an European MTV's Award to PSB. I thought it was going to be Olly Allexander who was also there the one chosen to give the Award but surprisingly it didn't happen. In some way, I think Aaron was chosen to promote himself because looks...
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It would have been very interesting, a second Jack Bond film with PSB as elder statesemen of pop.
Join the Pink Singers, Europe’s longest-running LGBT+ choir, at Cadogan Hall for a concert celebrating queer artists and queer stories.
Wish You Were Queer will feature bespoke arrangements of iconic songs by Queen, Chappell Roan, Joy Oladokun, Brandi Carlile, and The Pet Shop Boys. Celebrate...
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.
Julian Ruiz is one of the most famous producers from Spain and also known because of his famous radio show Plásticos y Decibelios . He have wrote many books about music and he is also known because he has a good relationship with many global artists and also with PSB.
I’m new here, and happy Christmas in advance( for anyone who isn’t a miserable Scrooge lol).
Does the PSB song Always on my Mind remind you of the festive season? I will always remember listening to it during December 1987. It was a warm sunny Christmas Day that year.
There's a lot of AI slop on Facebook at the moment in terms of long, verbose and completely erroneous descriptions of the history of popular musical acts. Pure engagement farming.
Does anyone know what this remix is? I’ve not heard it before as it’s a bit different to the original Bobby O version 7” and 12”. It’s released by ZYX so I’m assuming it’s one of those dodgy unofficial remixes, ala Hurricane Mixes??
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And I believe Tess is none other than Fancy a k a Manfred Alois Segieth
The connection between him and Bobby O is something I've long wondered about. Fancy's big hit Slice Me Nice is so similar to Passion and Helpless by the Flirts.
A signed pair of Neil's Celine shoes are being auctioned as part of the Celebrity Shoe Auction 2024 , organised by Small Steps Project. The auction closes on Thursday, 19 December, with proceeds supporting the children's charity, which provides shoes and emergency aid to children living on landfill...
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Hats off to the forumites yet again, sterling work as always. I take my hat off to you. Or should that be shoes....
Was it in Literally or vs America that Chris said he 'hated' shoes? I know he meant dress shoes, as opposed to trainers, but it made me laugh.
This is one of their best moves.
I mean, this might be the year of their best move for a long time.
(And the worst one too, the tea cups dreadful incident)
Look at the reaction videos. Kids seem to be pretty moved by the song (Lots of Bruh! 's)
Great track! Pet shop boys!
Following on from a comment in a post last week I thought it might be interesting to find out people's favourite artwork.
For me the visual side of PSB was one of the things that first attracted me to the band - I loved the fact that back in the day, quite often you only found out what the sleeve...
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Three that immediately spring to mind:
Introspective
Somewhere (promo 12 - very simple but beautiful)
Actually
Just wanted to get some take on how those here would organize songs from their various album eras (Please, Actually, Introspective, etc). My question is regarding demos and unreleased songs. So, take for example the song It's A Sin . Now, we all know that it appeared on their demo tape from 1983...
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Songs by release date.
Agreed - is find it difficult to rewrite my listening history but understand the completeness of others.
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