lalolalo wrote: ↑Mon 30 Sep 2024, 7:03 pm
And, on subject, have you seen the cringey reel of Bono singing Happy birthday to Michael Douglas?
Man that guy keeps fitting How can you expect to be taken seriously?? even 35 years later.
Has anyone ever asked the boys whether it's more than just coincidence that a song seemingly about Bono is a double A-side with their cover of a U2 song? If it's an in-joke that they never let on about, it's a pretty hilarious one.
But yes, the Brothers In Rhythm 12" is one of my all time favourite Pet Shop Boys tracks and a sure-starter on any "best of" PSB CDR I'd pull together. (I don't do playlists, and I doubt it would even be on Spotify, would it?)
Retro.
"Politics are too emotional now. Contemporary culture generally is too emotional, really... I'd rather people looked to the truth." (Neil Tennant)
Dog wrote: ↑Sun 29 Sep 2024, 12:41 pm
1. The tracks would have to be what they considered to be recordings of “master quality”
2. They would include their own twelve-inch mixes
3. They would not include remixes by other people
4. They would sequence the tracks in the chronological order in which they were recorded
5. If the CD time was over 78 minutes they’d jettison those tracks which they thought seemed redundant, less interesting or which they particularly disliked
I instantly thought about two tracks that could fit the rules: Bounce (Introspective) and Only Love (Release). They kind of missed it to release them.
As for Bounce, it is mentioned in the booklet of the Introspective FL. When they thought about about expanding the batch with the 2017 releases, they may have considered to include it (maybe some Liza/Dusty Demoes as well?).
Only Love is a track that was considered "quite good" by Neil. But Release already has 2 CDs of FL and maybe they keep it to work on it in the future. The last thought is only a possibility of course.
A blues would be in B flat, pain defining wisdom,
but the soul is in the high hat, programmed in the system.
After seeing the tracklisting for Release, I really felt like the sets for Nightlife and Yes were a bit lacking. Would've loved to see some of the Montage mixes on Nightlife and perhaps the Yes etc. mixes on Yes.
Now that I know their singles will be reissued digitally at some point (fingers crossed for the video version of Seriously!), I think I'd be more interested in unreleased material for the Further Listening sets. Really looking forward to the sets for the x2 albums, if they eventuate.
Dog wrote: ↑Sun 29 Sep 2024, 12:41 pm
1. The tracks would have to be what they considered to be recordings of “master quality”
2. They would include their own twelve-inch mixes
3. They would not include remixes by other people
4. They would sequence the tracks in the chronological order in which they were recorded
5. If the CD time was over 78 minutes they’d jettison those tracks which they thought seemed redundant, less interesting or which they particularly disliked
I instantly thought about two tracks that could fit the rules: Bounce (Introspective) and Only Love (Release). They kind of missed it to release them.
As for Bounce, it is mentioned in the booklet of the Introspective FL. When they thought about about expanding the batch with the 2017 releases, they may have considered to include it (maybe some Liza/Dusty Demoes as well?).
Only Love is a track that was considered "quite good" by Neil. But Release already has 2 CDs of FL and maybe they keep it to work on it in the future. The last thought is only a possibility of course.
Only Love is unfinished, so maybe it will appear fully formed someday. In the FL booklet they say they’ve never recorded Bounce properly, so again maybe they will come back to it.
Nothing is missing from them, but they could have a further expanded version of the albums.
Look at any other artist. Demos, rehearsals, live versions, other unreleased songs (Bounce, You've Got to Start Somewhere), alt versions, unreleased remixes, instrumentals, and so on. There is a plethora of yet to be released material from each and every album and era.
I think they should scrap the FL series and just bring out a left of field ultra expanded deluxe version of the 80s albums.
90s albums to be considered also. (I won't complain in the 2000s albums are given the same treatment)
Look at SAW they released versions of albums with only the backing vocals present with the instrumentals.
They could easily re-do their FL albums with different tracks. Even if the material is a bit rough.
I mean imagine New Boy, Everybody Will Dance, It's Not A Crime in their original glory. And the whole 'Please Return Tape' ep released including In The Club Or In The Queue and the high-RNG version of Rent.
Oh, and I want to hear the motown version of It's a Sin!
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