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...
Has anyone else seen the 2 minute clip taken in Bogota from Neil and Chris and featuring a new mix of Heart..? Could this be a taster of an upcoming Disco 5 or is it to be part of the next Annually CD.. Either way it sounds fresh !!
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I wonder if they had a go at a lockdown sessions type album of reimaginings of their hits back during COVID, but decided against releasing it? I know they were writing at the time, but they are endlessly prolific.
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.
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On December 6, I finally received my refund of €8.61 for the Annually 2023 VAT+customs fee. Only 8 months later....
Now I'm waiting for the refund for the Relentless VAT + customs fee
:clap: :clap: :clap: :mrgreen: They are very fast. Only 8 months!!!!!
Edit: Deleted by myself 😉. To prevent unnecessary misunderstandings.
(To the moderators: if it’s needed, you can remove this thread)
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Did you take the U1 while in Berlin?
Apparently it' such a party train from Uhland to Warschauerstraße 😉
No, not really. Just another dull metro line filled with people trying to get on with their lives. You'd have to be on a another level of consciousness to experience it as a party train....
It's funny to see on social media (ex: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc) short clips of PSB like we've never seen before. They look like they were having a good time in South America, we have been watching Neil walking down the streets and hanging around in a bar, high-fiving at a rodeo or Chris...
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Soon they probably do a tiktok challenge
I mean they have. (If you're being sarcastic, remember Poe's law)
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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Imagine a triple whammy:
Disco 5: Remixes of other artists
Disco 6: New versions of older tracks
Disco Live: the classic performances they've been putting out on YT recently.
Anyway.
Disco 5 seems to be in the loop
Disco 6, nah, but perhaps a bonus CD for Annually.
Disco Live... no chance.
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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Greetings,
Oh come on!
Well I can think of five things in a split second that would make it better: adding all the extended mixes (of BB, This Must Be..., Seriously, So Hard & Jealousy).
Trevor Horn has a new album out called Echoes – Ancient and Modern and did an interview with Paul over at the SDE site:
The bit about the Pet Shop Boys comes towards the end when Paul asks:
You did some great work with the Pet Shop Boys. You seemed to get along really well with them. If they...
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Well, they're not a nostalgia act. I guess that's what it's about.
Opportunities in a commercial was not about 80's nostalgia.
Sleaford Mods covering West End girls neither.
When they've released tracks written in the early days (New Boy, Powerful Friend) it was always treated as any other track they'd...
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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Quite a few of the scenes in Can You Forgive Her? where shot near where I work in London (near Bank in the City). The image of them walking in the grey crowd was shot looking south down London Bridge in the morning with all the commuters walking over into the City.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Does anyone have an excact number of how many unique tracks are released credited or co-credited to Tennant/Lowe (or Lowe/Tennant), performed by any artist (including PSB themselves, of course)?
I know that there's a list on Geowayne.com called PSB Song Chronology with 379...
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With Relentless being Lowe/Tennant I wonder how many more Lowe/Tennant tracks there are ?
I put together a Pet Shop Boys Halloween playlist and realised there’s loads to go at. They are masters of the macabre!
Over the years Neil has taken lyrical inspiration from various spooks and ghouls and historical horrors. A number of their songs address different forms of madness or psychosis,...
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How good Vampires worked on Montage, the version was better than the one in Nightlife and the backing vocals were so amazing:
The lost 1992 album. Yep, they had sort of enough material for a 1992 release. Let's pretend there was no Discography. Streets and DJC would've been non album singles for quite a while and Was it worth it would've been a regular album track. Instead we get the top-10 hit Crying Game featuring Boy...
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Just came to mind that they had Confidential ready in 1992 as well but I'm far from sure it would've been good for the album, at least not with Neil's voice. With Tina it would've been a smash on the album but she didn't record her version until 1995.
I tried to make a list of Neil's solo songs he did in the 1970's (and in the 1980s before meeting Chris). I've gone through the 100 Lyrics book and sifted through most of the FL booklets. I guess, because of general lack of detailed information, I put a song on the list without concern if the...
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So Neil had material for at least two albums written in the 70's
N&C demoed enough songs for two albums in Ray Roberts studio
They recorded enough songs for an album with Bobby O
They (almost) had enough material properly recorded for an EMI album even before the Please sessions started.
It's almost that time of the year to start my training program for the big one and this time I've decide I want to listen to music to kill that boredom of long runs (yes I'm being careful and have bone conducting headphones, no It's not usually possible run with someone).
What...
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Thanks everyone for your responses.
I suspect that some of my running might have to be on treadmill, which i found boring as hell.
I normally run without music (traffic etc) but have recently got myself some bone conducting headphones and thought I give it a shot, especially once it comes to...
Haven't heard it yet...but there you go...
(edit: I've heard it - it's about as exciting as you'd expect - i.e. not - he sings a couple lines from West End girls in the back third of the track, if you can sit through the first 2 thirds! :lol: )
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It's hard to call it music. It's impossible to listen to.
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