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...
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Please try not to drift into conversation in this thread as key posts may get missed.
Ta,
Dave :D
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There's a small mention of PSB in the latest We Buy Records podcast. Both the presenters own record shops and one of them mentions that Neil recently came into this shop. Says he was very nice, and on noticing the store sells comic books, got into a discussion about his Marvel days. Also managed to...
A legendary Pet Shop Boys album is released on CD, digital and limited-edition vinyl, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Very Relentless . The limited-edition yellow vinyl version, exclusive to the PSB Store, and the CD will be released on 20th October.
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Nice!
...or maybe something like this (as I mentioned earlier, I think the typography in Farrow's design is too large):
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I'm still liking the black. I don't like way the pink accentuates the outline of their chins. The black softens the images.
Here's mine I can only imagine how amazing this concert would be
Suburbia
What Have I Done To Deserve This ?
Paninaro
West End Girls
Rent
Two Divided By Zero
So Hard
This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
I'm Not Scared
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When...
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Hello, here's mine: :-)
For your own good
Radiophonic
Can you forgive her
Before
Home and dry
Always
Give it a go
Inside a dream
Disappointed
Forever in love
In his imagination
I want a dog
My October symphony
Jealousy
King's Cross
Se a vida e
Love etc.
Was it worth it
Yound offender
So hard
Say...
The link closed off (presumably on the September 1st cut off date as advised).
I'm still not entirely sure how they're going to do this logistically speaking.
Also, can we presume the original copies were not actually recalled and are still out there (ie can...
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I have written to this url
and I still have no response. I have two copies of Smash. One that arrived in July with the pre-booking and another that arrived in September and I don't know if both are affected by this error. Can someone explain to me exactly what is happening where you have...
A VERY Happy Birthday to Very and Very Relentless: released 30 years ago today.
What an amazing 18-track package Very Relentless was and still is.
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a new Substack on Very -
With its bright orange ‘lego’ CD case and early CGI videos for the singles, it was certainly their shiniest album. Even song titles such as I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing bouncing around a jaunty piano, giddy in love, and at such odds to the previous...
3CD
White Vinyl LP
DVD
Live tracks from Heaven 1991
Plus new remixes and some unreleased tracks
Just over 30 years ago, the Pet Shop Boys founded their own record label, Spaghetti Recordings, and their first and most memorable signing was 21 year-old electronic-pop prodigy David Cicero. The...
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About the CDs, the Live For Today (Orchestral Longer Version) isn´t just a longer variant of the Orchestral from the Soundtrack CD, but a totally different version. Nice surprise there!
On the other hand, Live For Today (Underground Dub) sound really bad here compared with the Club Mix (also mixed...
I was just watching this for the first time in ages, and think it's beautiful and really suits the mood of the song. If you're going to release a Diane Warren ballad then you obviously have to make a Russian Constructivist video. Aerosmith did.
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I always thought it was a video made for No time For Tears that they just repurposed for Numb when NTFT got cancelled
I've missed ordering first day covers for this issue but it's good to see one of the official DSB stamps using a photograph from the BBC Electric proms and also a mention of Pet Shop Boys in the presentation pack.
Also my workplace the Royal Albert hall gets a mention and two labels in the...
Neil Tennant is Special Singer Guest on German Radio Station Radio1 Concert live in Berlin on 10th November 2023. Tennant will Singing some Classics from Pet Shop Boys Career Composed from Famous Sven Helbig in Front of the Berlin Orchestra.
You can book your Tickets now. Price 35 €. Few very...
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I am excited to Hearing Legacy for the First time Live. Really great Song from succesfull YES era. I have Tickets in third row. Not long to wait. I expect that Chris will BE sitting in the audience.
I took the time to compare the original CD single version of Winner with the Smash version closely (put them side by side in Samplitude software enabling a jump from one to the other from any position in the song).
And I must admit there isn't much of a difference between the two as I thought...
As we approach the 24th anniversary of Nightlife (October 1999), I was wondering if options about it have changed in the years since its release?
At the time, Q magazine hailed it as their best album. However, most other critics were less kind. Amongst fans, it’s rare to see Nightlife top - or...
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I have loved this album from the start. It appeals to me and also to some of the challenges I faced at the time of release. So its somehow made my soundtrack of that era.
Great songs like: Radiophonic , I Don't Know What You Want but I Can't Give It Any More , Happiness Is an Option
Marking the Roxy Music mainman’s 78th birthday, the blog has a retro rewind to fellow Geordie and Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant in audio spoken word, reflecting on Bryan in Bel Air, circa 1974’s Another Time Another Place, in a film called Sophis....
Well, I wanted to ask you if there is someone who has requested the refund and how long it took. I'm still waiting for the Annually 2023 refund, so don't even think about Smash.
Has anyone received it? How long has it taken? In an email they told me it would take, but they did not specify how long.
Leicester’s Curve has today announced its critically acclaimed Made at Curve production of Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette will return with a spring 2024 tour as part of the Theatre Nation Partnerships initiative.
Set in London during the Thatcher years, My Beautiful Laundrette tells the...
CASISDEAD will release their debut studio album entitled Famous Last Words, on October 27th via XL Recordings. The LP features collaborators including Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, Connie Constance, Kamio and Desire.
The vocalists are immersed in CASISDEAD’s hallmark 80’s-inspired synthpop...
With his fairytale lyrics about wizards dragons & unicorns, Marc Bolan was clearly a fan of comic books.
Neil Tennant, then editor of Marvel UK, even interviewed the singer in the 70s.
The blog has the complete exchange – courtesy of Marvel in ’76, which is the age the elfin...
I really believe one video inspired to the other one. What do you think?
Stranger in Moscow:
Miracles:
I love rainy days, by the way.
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I remember Neil saying somewhere (possibly an ITV Chart Show review of the music year) that SiM was one of his favourite songs or videos or something of the year.
It's a really good song, you feel very confortable listen to it. It's like being in a room watching the rainy day/night outside....
Hello!
I hope you don't mind me posting this version of Everything Means Something I made.
Hopefully someone will like it :)
Any feedback appreciated.
Thanks!
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Awesome! Love when artists remix weaker tracks and elevate them. Thanks for sharing!
The track is not weak, it's one of the best song they've done.
Imo the track is totally fantastic.
Can charts be altered by false donloads?
example with I'm with stupid
EMI/Parlophone decides that is time for PSB to have a new #1 in the single charts.
So they decide to download 10000 times the song.
It will cost 10000 UKP, but most of this money will come back to them being the label of the author.
Having...
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It’s not trolling. Wind yer necks in. It’s a bit of fun due to a previous post stating that it’s annoying when an old thread gets bumped. No need for name calling. As it is, is restarted and old discussion. Surely a good thing during this quiet period.
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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I think this wasn´t confirmed here, but I finally put my hands on the Arthur Baker CDs and the Club Mix of Suburbia is the complete version, including the final orchestra stab, not like on the Digital release where it was removed! ;)
Stumbled across this today: it's a limited- edition print by Jeremy Deller in aid of the National Brain Appeal. UK postage only, alas. It's signed, though the site doesn't mention this fact.
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And printed on an ink jet printer too. Could he not afford a decent laser one?
It's the other way around, hi-end ink jet printers are used for high quality art prints. Laser printers are not. See
I'm just defending the choice of printer, not the artwork itself :)
Well, you learn something new every day - or at least every week or so if you're a polymath like me.
I never knew that they asked Susan Boyle to duet with them on What have I done to deserve this? at Glastonbury in 2010.
Drico.
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Radiophoic was supposed to be a single in 2000.
US label was hoping to use it to support what they called a Shed Tour in the US.
Shed Tour never happened, apparently that is an outdoor tour with other acts. And I do not think that single ever was given out to be remixed but it was intended all...
I think we’re both a bit autistic - OMG, I've been saying this about them for years!! It's likely what gives them their genius and drive and focus and loyalty but also makes them a bit stroppy and opinionated and difficult to work with. Not to mention...
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Bloody paywalls. Would love to read that.
My 8yr daughter is autistic and quite the brilliant, maddening, funny handful!
Since Always on my mind has been crowned best cover I have been taking more interest in it's production. A song which has been covered a few times, Pet Shop Boys' version simply stands out as if it was originally written by Tennant/Lowe. From the breathtaking sound effect you first hear when the...
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Regarding the Phil Harding Remix version of Always of My Mind, which I think is excellent (like it a lot, even more than the original and introspective versions...), It's curious to check the similarities with Bananarama I Heard A Rumor Phil Harding Mixes (Miami Mix and House Mix).
Did you know the chord structure of the Village People’s Go West is based on Pachelbel’s Canon, and you can sing it over the Russian National Anthem?
In the 1990s, Tennant & Lowe added a new coda, altered some lyrics, brought in a Broadway show chorus and made it about international...
I was listening to some of the KLF’s tracks (they are back on YouTube with a brand new page) and I noticed some of the voices of “Last train to Trancentral” sound like the dialogue on “We came from outer space”... so I was thinking about “Relentless” being the PSB doing the KLF. What do you think...
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No. Forever (In Love) was intended to be the b-side of the cancelled 1992 Mark Stent produced Go West single.
Select magazine’s strapline claimed that the Boys had decided to 'bottle it in Xmas single race' to avoid any sense that they were reacting to the success of Abba-esque.
Few acts of the era were more perfect for the music video revolution than the self-proclaimed Nutty Boys, who, like the Dandy Highwayman and his cohorts, saw every video shoot as an opportunity for a fancy-dress adventure. And there are more parallels...
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Bit weird Neil didn't like Adam and the Ants in 1981. Also, kind of ironic he was bemoaning Madness becoming boring at the end as you could certainly accuse PSB of doing the same a few times if you follow the same logic. Groups grow up, change, and in Madness's case, lose their main songwriter. Or...
It's a big part of their success. Their classics (West End Girls, Opportunities, It's a Sin, Always on Mind, Left to my own Devices and more) have a cinematic atmosphere that makes them better and I think is relevant part of their success.
Starting with West End Girls that was a flop with the...
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I know Chris thinks the melody of Suburbia is a bit corny (but it's part of its charm) but they know how good the song is when they set the song as a opener of Dreamworld Tour and with almost the full version of the Full Horror Mix. Julian Mendelsohn did such a good job!
First: try to be a good music producer
Second: try to make a record with a big star full of influences from PSB
Third: when you get the attention of PSB try to produce them
Four: after that, try to suggest the idea of making a trilogy of albums with them
Five: when you get an afirmative vague...
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Wasn’t it Neil who half-jokingly announced that they were making a trilogy of albums with Stuart Price, rather than Stuart? I think it surprised both Chris and Stuart.
If I remember correctly, Stuart was opening one of the Electric shows as a DJ and asked about a next album production between...
OK, like the title suggests, what has been your favourite PSB Tour set and why? For me, having seen them all live, I'd say the MCMLXXXIX tour for the sheer exhilaration of finally seeing them play live and those Derek Jarman films.
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Cubism and Electric tour videos were kinda... dull, I guess. It just looked like the venue wasn't right somehow, but I never got there, so what do I know?
I don't remember an official Electric tour DVD?
Anyway, I saw the show in Sydney but this review from the London arena sums up how hastily...
Some wiki-editing t*** has locked it for a month with the BB/LBB title. :lol:
Oh, and if you look at the history of the page, Kleinhond is none other than Steve Pafford AKA Adam Tremadoc. :wink:
Almost as many aliases as you, eh Sean?
May The Force Be With You: The time Neil Tennant interviewed The Police at Shea Stadium
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Whatever happened to that Sting fellow?
He chose a PSB song as one of his favourite ten not long ago:
#sting
A lazy choice, to be sure but then he's not a Pet head. I can't deny Sting is a talented bastard and good looking and all the things that make us jealous. The album he did with...
Recently returned to Lost EP and finally realised it's really really great. I've especially fallen for I Will Fall. Such a sweet melody (I guess one of the happysad melodies). And such a great love lyrics.
So how do they still create a melody that seems so effortless but at the same time unique...
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