Pet Shop Boys

So Coldplay really are the new U2, then.

"Viva La Vida" is mixed with the "all day all day's" from "Domino Dancing". And yes the show was amazing. Loved the visuals and the song choice. "King's Cross", "Do I Have To", "Suburbia", wow! And from the new album, "The Way It Used To Be" and "All Over The World" sound great.

They played "Do I Have To?" WOW

The artists I was listening to last night went the Replacements>the Troggs>James>Divine Comedy>Junior Boys>Magnetic Fields> and then ended with the Pet Shop Boys.

I tried to figure out what the connection was, and then I realized this was some sort of perfect hetero-to-homo slope. Lastfm probably has a graph for this and everything.

some big fucking balls to segue into 'can't take my eyes off of you'

think it works though

Did these guys do any production work for anyone other than Liza & Dusty?

yes, Cicero! the first signing to their old Spaghetti label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYcp6wtnPLI

and they wrote this song/music (tho don't seem to have actual producer credit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rVl-q8OQE8

:D

Thank you!

Yes was so great.

plus of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3eEzLSlKY

+ Boy George's cover of 'The Crying Game', Tina Turner's 'Confidential', Robbie Williams 'She's Madonna' and 'We're The Pet Shop Boys', Kiki Kokova's cover of 'Love To Love You Baby' and Sam Taylor-Wood's cover of 'I'm In Love With A German Film Star'

their Bowie remix is actually a new production with new singing from Bowie IIRC

produced the Boy George version of The Crying Game from the Crying Game fillum

wrote and produced I'm Not Scared (and did the 12" remix)

also wrote but didn't produce Falling for Kylie (their own demo is on the Very re-release) and a few songs for the last Girls Aloud album that I've not heard

xpost

the Sam Taylor-Wood is credited as Sam Taylor-Wood & Pet Shop Boys iirc

Robbie Williams ... 'We're The Pet Shop Boys'

btw for folk who don't know: this was a song by My Robot Friend, that the PSB covered for a b-side, then Robbie covered with them producing

the single of She's Madonna is also cover-credited to Robbie Williams With Pet Shop Boys

They didn't produce this, but it's a great version of a song they wrote--like it even more than Dusty Springfield's original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErjqOlHWqU

http://991.com/newgallery/Robbie-Williams-Shes-Madonna-390510.jpg

"produced by" in tiny letters it turns out

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2008/sam-taylor-wood-im-in-love.jpg

xxp those two RW songs are so obviously PSB-produced that credits are sort of redundant.

This is helpful! I love "Results," it was like getting another PSBs album after I thought I wore them all out.

do you have Disco 3 and Disco 4? 3 is half a new studio album, 4 is a compilation of some of thei remixes of other people

The second half of "Actually" is so STRONG and DELICATE

did you guys know that there are 70 ilx threads with "pet shop boys" in the title? this seems very excessive.

PSB are old-ilx

70 does not seem enough, imo.

I was listening to them this morning and it was the perfect way to start off the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLFi6MwmPI

deep spacey remix, ft. very nice vox and lyrics

Hm..

Neil Tennant in critical condition in German hospital.

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=50728_0_2_0_C

oh my god

So it seems like this probably isn't true.

Side-Line seems like a questionable source, the text of the report had no specifics and no other news organizations have picked it up...so probably not.

oh thank god

Ok I got scared.

Chris Lowe on Australian soap Neighbours... totally forgot about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JWScLDoLe8

Neil Tennant reading a chapter of Moby Dick:

http://www.mobydickbigread.com/chapter-11-nightgown/

I bought 'Introspective' recently and have been listening to it quite a bit. It's great, isn't it?

It is indeed, although I prefer the 7" version of 'It's Alright' to the album version. They should have used that version as the basis for the Introspective version!

Otherwise, the definitive versions of 'Left To My Own Devices', 'I Want a Dog' and 'Domino Dancing' and 'I'm Not Scared', and a different but just as good take on 'Always On My Mind' ... great stuff!

some days I just loop "Left to my Own Devices" and "Tryouts for the Human Race"...man I wish there was more music like that out there

I mean, please show me some

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jEuHbB0GQ

Their worst single, alas. They can't have it both ways: singing from the POV of a Trump supporter, then having the supporter endorse Tennant's POV (the chorus).

Really not feeling this at all although I'm enjoying seeing one of their self claimed lifelong fans on Facebook claim they shoudln't start singing about politics as it will alienate their fanbase!

Hahaha... christ, that's funny. They've only been doing that since ever!

Anyway, no - it's not one of their better singles and falls well within the "lighters aloft" section of their discography alongside 'Winner' ... on the plus side, it's not a painfully slow, sombre ballad, which was what I was expecting.

"I'm With Stupid" was similarly stupid.

It makes sense, really. They give you a stupid song about a stupid president, and then give you a more stupid song about a more stupid president.

Without having heard the song (I'm not eager), I'm thinking that if this is an itch they couldn't help but scratch, they nonetheless had the wisdom this time to put it on a separate EP rather than on the forthcoming album.

That song sucks.

Oh right, this isn't destined for the new album at all but a completely different thing recorded with a completely different producer.

It's just their fan club EP for the year, but they're releasing it digitally for all. Understandable move, really.

PHEW DONT PANIC

It is *wildly bad* though - and just to rub it in, some echoes of Hey Headmaster, an all-time fave.

Lyrics are bad but might’ve worked with a less structured (and boring) backing

This is terrible. I don't necessarily agree that they should stay away from politics/social commentary but could they at least tone down the obviousness? It just doesn't work.

Songs like "Shopping" work so well precisely because you could listen to them without even realizing they're political (almost, anyway).

Also, Tennant using phrases like "WTF" annoys they hell out of me.

I'm no fan of "I'm with Stupid" either but at least the intent there was to make it plausible that it's about a couple's relationship.

According to Popjustice, the new EP contains 3 satirical songs and a sad one. That's the only one I'm looking forward to, TBH.

"Did you see me coming" probably has a couple of meanings too

Neil Tennant's lyrics book had me pondering why there were so few of the 'out in the city/hedonism' early songs (no Why Don't We Live Together, Later Tonight, I Get Excited etc) and so many of the 'from the pov of a Russian spy' ones. I have a dreadful feeling NT thinks those are what he's best at.