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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...
So, excluding the remakes of old tracks and demos we have the following original or cover versions:
1. Party in the blitz
2.Through you
3. Sense of time
4. If Jesus had a sister
5. It's not a crime
6. I've got plans (involving you)
7. Everybody will dance
8. All the young Dudes
9. Beauty has...
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Pet Shop Boys | BEDLAM
I kept thinking about comments from @Ramzy, @retrofuturist, @telys, and @jasonjohn, about these songs as a group not telling a consistent tale, being too stylistically erratic, being overly long as a collection, and not imparting enough of Neil's angle on life. Pressing...
Pet Shop Boys have recently passed 2 million followers on Spotify and 1 million followers on YouTube! Thanks to everyone who’s been listening to our music. xx
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I'll reply to each statement in order:
- I know O Son do Camiño was broadcast on Spanish TV. A lot of international Petheads managed to watch it live because we organized streaming parties, something no local fans decided to help us with. Besides that, both Brazil and Argentina also had...
There haven't been all that many remixes... so few in fact that we can fit them in a single poll, so here we go!
Retro. :)
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Boy Harsher sounds nice and cool at first, but then when you realize it's just an eternal loop of music with just the vocals and some synth lines on top, it loses its charm for me. Also the fem voices and the early fade out as a lazy and not creative way of ending it are missed points for me.
The...
Hey there! Today is the last full day of my current Rating Project poll on the six most recent songs released by the Pet Shop Boys. If you haven't voted yet, please take a few moments to visit my Commentary site at and make your choices right there on my home page, rating these songs on a scale...
My apologies if this has already been covered as there's so many topics here.
Just wondering what the resident PSB experts thought of James Ford's production of Nonetheless. The boys themselves kept throwing around the word fresh in interviews.
I will say, James Ford's production definitely got...
I came across this again on youtube,I posted it years ago here, thought I'd post it again,
not only is the feel of the song the same....and what with the New York lyric and pretty much a similar bass line
def a bit interesting. not sure if they came across this somehow....me in my fascination with...
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Both songs suck equally.
LOL :) The best thing that can be said about New York city boy. What a nightmare :)
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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I am usually a very self-disciplined person. I did not cry a single tear in my father's funeral and when I lost two beloved friends in the past...
But PSB songs are a different story...I still do not cry (maybe I am lacking tear glands) but they haunt me to the point of depression.
Singles:
#64 West End Girls
#52 What have I done to deserve this?
#45 Suburbia
#39 All the Young Dudes
#37 Always on my Mind
#33 Left to my own Devices
#25 Go West
#19 It's a sin
Albums:
#79 SMASH
#69 PopArt
#55 New London boy / All the young dudes -...
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All those non-PSB fans googling for a best of... collection, and probably typing in ultimate - Smash , Discography and PopArt don't immediately spring to mind as best of collection titles. Then it self perpetuates online.
Speaking of which, maybe the next PSB album should be called Perpetuity ....
Does anyone else watch the addictive and compelling show “Industry” which airs on HBO and Max here in the U.S.? It’s about relationships, power, sex and back-stabbing at a huge investment bank in London. I came a little late to it and I’m currently near the end of its third season.
Anyway, this...
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Weird, I just heard about this show this morning with people likening it to This Life , the lawyers-living-together TV drama in the 90s.
A rather surprising IG-story PSB mention from Kim Nam-joon of the Korean K-Pop band BTS. More commonly known as RM to his 46.9 million(!!) Instagram followers.
Funnily enough, PSB posted a picture today also, celebrating 2,000,000 followers on Spotify. Wonder if they'll get some new BTS-Army...
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A rather surprising IG-story PSB mention from Kim Nam-joon of the Korean K-Pop band BTS. More commonly known as RM to his 46.9 million(!!) Instagram followers.
Funnily enough, PSB posted a picture today also, celebrating 2,000,000 followers on Spotify. Wonder if they'll get some new BTS-Army...
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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I wondered if, as well as having to wait to get permission to put the 'Imagine' documentary on there, maybe they also delayed the release in order to record another more recent night of the tour including the 'Nonetheless' tracks - then we'd get the Copenhagen night with the 'Hotspot' tracks from...
I’ve seen this 12” pop up online a few times now and not sure if it’s a genuine official 1984 release? It’s on ZYX records which produced all those terrible remixes in ‘86 and ‘88. The cover says Extended Mix 5.00 but isn’t the original 1984 extended mix nearly 8 mins in length? It has ‘Pet Shop...
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I'd argue the Belgium edition (red and blue, unique photo of them) is The One, and the single mix being the Kordak version (the Bobby 'O' one is frankly a mess).
On that Belgium ‘speakers’ 12” - isn’t the short version of OMC on that the Kordak mix?
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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Wednesday 29th at 9pm! (Still using Always on my mind in the trailer...)
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...
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It's A Sin
Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Music and Lyrics: Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant
Arranged by: Ian Faulkner
Lead Choreographer: Simon Harrison
About: Written in a hymn-like style, It's A Sin is a camp exploration of sex, specifically gay sex, through the lens of a strict religious upbringing. It...
Hey there! I'm now running the latest installment of my ongoing Rating Project, in which I ask you to rate Pet Shop Boys song on a scale of 0 to 10 as they compare with the PSB catalogue overall. This time around I'm polling you on the six PSB songs released since my previous poll this past July:...
Can anyone help me identify a track with a very similar hook to ‘Closer to Heaven’?
It dates from 1984 or before and was on a tape made by a New York pal of the manager whose London bar I worked in with what was being played in NY clubs at the time.
What’s the first Pet Shop Boys music you’ve played or going to play this year?
I’ve just given “Electric” a very loud airing this morning
I know it divides us, but it’s a cracking set of tunes
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Devices single version to feel on top of the World, Nervously because I was feeling anxious about women and Love is the Law to try to find the meaning of love.
« 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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Absolutely. I always talk about the Annuallys and the wealth of information it gives when I talk with friends about music.
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.
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...
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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...
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