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...
I just got the christmas cards I ordered from the PSB store. They come in a red box with a logo printed on it. The back of the christmas cards also have this logo. It says Pet Shop Boys since 1984 :
Does this mean next year will be a festive year? 40 years of Pet Shop Boys?
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Yes, I would say so. The album’s scheduled for April, specifically to mark the 40th anniversary of West End girls. I suspect we’ll be seeing that logo in all sorts of places next year.
Behaviour wasn't commercial at all except So Hard. In fact, it wasn't a good move. If I were them, I wouldn't work with Liza in some good songs to keep them for myself and create a better album. With the same level of production the songs for Liza had and the voice of Neil, PSB had a really good...
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Yeah, Behaviour is perfect as it is !, I was to young to understand it initially, but gradually I got it, it’s a beautiful album, and as Chris said, we set out to make a real techno album, but if what comes out of you isn’t techno that isn’t really much you can do about it.
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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It's here. I dunno why they've added 'Ormesby Saint Margaret' to my London address but nonetheless IT IS HERE and less than six months after the album came out! Impressive.
Mine was addressed to an incorrect town also.
Name, street, postcode were all correct, but I don't live in St Albans!...
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
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Dunno about Vue, but I just booked an Odeon Luxe ticket in London for Jan 31.
Where in London if you don't mind saying, as far as I can see there are no Odeon Luxes in London??
If you are looking for more comfort then Barbican is also worth considering
I have a few scrapbooks from my early years of fandom which I used to archive magazine and newspaper cuttings. Smash Hits particularly. Many of these will have already found their way online since, but I thought I would start to share some bits and pieces here in case there is anything of interest...
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Bono, responding to PSB’s U2 cover.
What a load of bull.
Found this on YT, mashup of Streets with PSB music and Bono's vocals. Those vocals aren't very good.
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...
I’ve taken the liberty of starting a new thread to help us separate chat about the new EP.
I’ve spent a bit of time re-reading the 2016 edition of Literally. There was obviously unfinished business from the Super songwriting sessions. First, there was the mooted “dark techno” album which...
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I just listened back through “I will fall” as it’s getting so much love. Very solid song that would have fit right on “Super” with the Stuart Price treatment. The released version is too soft-synthy and is badly in need of production.
Maybe, just meybe I can see what you mean but right now and...
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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FYI, I finally received my refund for the customs charges from my order of these today. Only took 6 weeks!
And now have to go through the whole thing again due to the customs chargees I got from my order of the Christmas merch!
Although I own all of the further listening discs I'm not always in a position to dig them out to read. Is there anywhere online where they have been scanned or transcribed?
Cheers
Pete
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Hey, does anyone have the scans in high quality of behaviour. I am looking for of the picture where Neil and Chris are sit holding roses, I would like to draw it, but I dont find any picture of it in high quality, I saw that in this post someone uploaded the scans. Also, Im new in this forum, and...
Just watched the primavera São Paulo concert
During Domino Dancing she stopped playing then few seconds later it looked like she had to be helped off stage
Hope she is ok
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Hey, Come on, be decent. Food poisoning is no fun.
I recently stumbled upon a great YT-account where the user does superb extended mixes of amongst others PSB. There are about 50 PSB and PSB-related tracks. The mixes are using original sounds, no own additions of beats and stuff and mostly they can be regarded as re-edits. Many of the remixes are...
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Blade Mixes.
I love Blade Mixes. He creates awesome unofficial remixes of PSB tracks.
He's up there with JCRZ. Has been quite active in recent weeks.
Have I discovered, yes most definitely. I'm into bootleg remixes, and with
technology improving (vocal filtering) they're getting better.
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...
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Thanks so much. BTW the Milton Keynes staircase you talk about was sat on by a local journalist who interviewed the PSB
I've got a notification on new release from Juno records:
PET SHOP BOYS
Suburbia (Arthur Baker 1986 Remixes)
Rhino/Parlophone
Cat: 5054197 645723
Released: 12 June 2023
Suburbia (club vocal mix)
Suburbia (dub version)
Genre: Euro Dance/Pop Dance
Formats:
Hi-Res 24-Bit 96.0 kHz (found on Qobuz)...
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At Discogs the remixes are treated as a new anno 2023 release (well it's a re-release)
Could thus be added to the rest of the stuff being released recently.
The BPI has awarded the pet shop boys a few updates on their sales awards.
PopArt has been upgraded from gold to platinum status.
Ultimate has been awarded with a silver certification.
A few more could follow. :D
These sales awards are based purely on sales, not shipments. They are based on the...
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It’s A Sin has been certified Gold in the U.K for sells(downloads) and streaming points of 400,000.This award does not include the original physical sales of the original release which was almost 1/2 million.
I had a listen to Memory of The Future the other day. The extended mix is such a perfect example of a transitional track. It would've fitted perfectly on Electric.
So are there any other transitional tracks like that, where we are in one era but get a track which tells us about the new era/album.
I...
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A transitional image was Was It Worth It? with the soft toy models of them that ties into the next release of Can You Forgive Her that also had models of the Boys on the cover.
True, that's an aspect I hadn't thought about. Was It Worth was poppy/happy like Very, not like Behaviour (although one...
In case anyone is interested my japanese version arrived and it does have the lyric booklet and signed photo. I wanted to attach photos but it says the board attachment quota has been reached so i cannot
Upload it to another website and post the link.
For example
Apparently the song Rent is featured in the movie?
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This movie is strange and brilliant. I highly recommend it. I’d say that the inclusion of Rent is quite a good plot point.
My friend and I laughed a lot in this movie, probably in places where we weren’t supposed to 🤣
I think I mentioned it before that I have in my possession the japanese version of Popart with a thick booklet containing in japanese language:
Introduction about every track
Interview with N&C
Translation of the lyrics
Now I wonder. Does anybody here know Japanese sufficiently for a translation...
33 years ago Pet Shop Boys Being Boring became the first PSB 45 to miss the UK Top 12 since they broke big with West End Girls. In one of our trio of interviews, Neil Tennant told me he & Chris Lowe “looked at each other with abject horror” when the chart position came through. The...
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Technically, it was actually the first to miss the UK Top 19. The author forgot Love Comes Quickly.
Which is arguably one of their greatest singles too.
What country was Rent and Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you) video shot in?
It coulnt be UK beacuse the steering wheel of the car is on the left side to both.
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I smell a rat !
btw in what minute do you see this happening ? because I dont
Mickey's Diner - 36 W. 9th Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Where The Streets Have No Name
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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It was the same for me at the Royal Albert Hall. The sound balance was rubbish where I was. It was like being at a different concert to everyone else.
Hello fans of the Pets, check out this video this cat did on Youtube, pretty legit.
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This is a lovely remix of a great song. I know I'll get hanged for this, but I don't really listen to fan mixes - I always hear there are great ones out there, and I don't disbelieve it - and for sure there are some TERRIBLE official remixes - but I'd rather stick with the N&C approved stuff. Now...
Just wondering which of PSB albums have been released in instrumental versions
I know about:
Elysium - special edition of the album release
Hotspot - special edition of the album release
Electric - some kind of special release
Yes - was it only on a vinyl extremely limited edition?
Fundamental? -...
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This might sound very sad, but I've made my own AI instrumental versions of every PSB album using a program called Gaudio Studio. Some of them sound great (the tracks with less instrumentation) but some sound terrible. Funny little experiment though. Can you forgive her is a track I've always...
Looks like the PSB show will be broadcasted live on the web for free!! :D
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Gosh, the Electric tour was so rejuvenating, so edgy. The album as well of course but with the tour as well it really shone a new light on PSB.
The edginess was what made the Electric era so good. New kind of sound but also new kind of lyrics. Entschuldigung and Get it online should've been on the...
Wouldn't it be great if during this period of time if the boys released a collection of updated unreleased songs (Similar to how they re-did New Boy and finally released it) maybe as a bonus EP.
1.In The Club Or In The Queue
2.New Boy
3.All My Wasted Time (Bubadubadubadum)
4.BOUNCE!
5.Oh, Dear...
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Thanks yall (I'm from Austin Texas, have to say yall )! It is a nice little instrumental ... definitely feels like it could have been reworked with some lyrics and been a fine little pop track.
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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I haven’t posted on here in so long but as someone diagnosed with ASD, yeah I absolutely see it. Why do you think PSB has such an obsessive collecting community, so bent on analysis, so endlessly fixated? I’m as big of a Smiths and New Order fan as I am with PSB, but never in my life have I seen...
It was the year of the Poll Tax riots, of “No, No, No!”, of Adamski and Sinéad, and Mandela’s release.
Yet it was another epochal release that forced a synthpop duo to refresh their sonic soundscape.
“We were listening to Violator by Depeche Mode, which we were deeply jealous of” admits...
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I know. I'm sorry. I was a d**k. I'd like to quote ICHH It's only a laugh, no harm done.
On the other hand PSB missed the obvious single... October Symphony would've been a huge hit in large parts of Europe back in 1991.
Darn, Youtube's got a handful or so of some really great versions/covers of Love comes quickly. That song has always been a favourite of mine (and of PSB as well, it seems from interviews). But recently it's grown on me even more. It seems to be a song that can take on a multitude of genres/styles and every time...
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Its a song that the boys have done amazing live versions of - I wonder how many tours they've played it on .
Super version is pretty epic ,
Release tour might be my favourite
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...
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I'm obviously hearing something different. I've listened to it and if I never hear it again it'll be too soon. Modern mumble rap
N&C trying to write a single for Popart GH leading them to have a bunch of tracks enough for a complete album. Going through the Release FL booklet it's fascinating to read how the boys are desperately trying to write a couple of singles for the GH. In the end they end up with so many tracks that...
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Reunion is a great song. Weird that they tossed it aside.
Pet text: Neil tells us he invaded Jake Shears' dressing room... and damn, Jake looks good. Remember he's 45! Quite ripped. I want a body like that . Actually, I'm not that far away... ;)
Attribute (a worldwide fan-based tribute album to The Pet Shop Boys)
01. West End Girls - Ryan Schmidt
02. This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave - Brand New Idol
03. Being Boring - Kismet
04. I Want A Lover - S2S
05. It Always Comes As A Surprise - Yuri Kononov
06. You Only Tell Me You...
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Greetings,
It's probably simplest just to put it on Bandcamp or SoundCloud.
If you would rather get it on Spotify, RouteNote is a good free way to do that.
As has previously been rumoured, PSB are the subject of one of the new BBC 'imagine...' documentaries by Alan Yentob.
Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are the most successful duo in UK Music history. They have sold more than 50 million records, produced over 40 Top 40 singles, four...
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I wonder when these are going out? I've got it in my head that the album will come out in April...
What are the odds of a single release in 2023? Probably pretty low, and they'll go for a January single?
Must be sent by the end of the week
As we know, some letters will be selected to be included in the yearly publication.
Questions will be answered by Neil and Chris.
Send them via either of the below options:
Facebook comment
Instagram comment
X reply
Email to info@beckerbrown.com w/ subject...
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I just sent in four questions. I asked about pets these days. What else we may expect in 2024 that they can talk about but not announced yet.
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