Old 23rd September 2003, 16:50   #1
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Pet Shop Boys

Any thoughts on the muscular petshop boys? What's your favourite album? Mine (without hesitance):


Also, has everyone got Disco 3 yet??? If not, why??? Being Disco 3-less is a tragedy.

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Old 23rd September 2003, 18:10   #2
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My favourite PSB albums are:

1. Actually




2. Nightlife

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Old 23rd September 2003, 21:21   #4
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Perhaps the thieves didn't fancy the nobbly bits (sorry I couldn't resist a pun). Wholesale theft of CD's should be a capital offense (it probably is in Texas).

Good album BTW. I have the rare blue dimply case.

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Old 24th September 2003, 08:41   #5
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Introspective



Relentless (limited edition dance album that came with Very)

Behaviour nearly makes the mark, disco 3 is very good if you remove the apalling Try it - but it does resort to banging towards the end.. and then has a piano track (London).

PSB are great when doing more dance orientated stuff - Release with guitars, didn't work for me at all..
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Haven't heard all of their albums, but Very is excellent.
And yes, Disco 3 is superb, so is Alternative (b-side compilation)
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Old 24th September 2003, 15:08   #7
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disco 3 is very good if you remove the apalling Try it - but it does resort to banging towards the end...
Surely you're not referring to the excellent Blank & Jones remix of Home & Dry??

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Old 24th September 2003, 15:13   #8
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I really like Blank & Jones' version of Home And Dry
Try It was also a very good song, my fave song on the album is probably Positive Role Model because it's so infectious and there's this awesome sample of a Barry White song (which was widely used in Ally Mc Beal, take that Cylob )

Only track I hated on disco 3 was the remix of Sexy Northerner, plain awful.
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Old 24th September 2003, 15:27   #9
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Positive Role Model. What quality. I must give it some airplay, it's a great track for Halo or any social occasion. Infectious definitely.

Which Barry White song then 'seer??? I'm ignorant of his work. He was the large black guy who ate raw liver right?

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The song PSB sampled was one of White's major hit called " You're the first, the last, my everything"
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we had a new testing server at work and they were looking for names for it.. I said jokingly Barry White and thats what it was called - they put a big picture of him as wallpaper..
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Old 25th September 2003, 07:44   #12
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The only PSB stuff in my collection is as follows..

Original Disco album, on cassette of all things, amusing story connected with this, unprintable here sadly

Very Relentless, the super limited double edition of Very with the dance album that's mentioned above in wierd flexi bubble packing, Relentless is the better album by far I think, if only to hear Neil Tennant do "white boy rap"...

Greatest Hits, Inherited this from my GF, a good package.

Original CD single of So Hard, probably my fave PSB track ever, great use of analogue synths

Original CD single remix of So Hard, by the KLF, very hard to get a hold of, great remix

Some other CD single whose name escapes me at the minute, blue cover and it had a remix of "music for boys" on it by Altern8, forget the original track...
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Old 25th September 2003, 09:50   #13
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Just out of my curiosity, are Pet Shop Boys a Newcastle-based band?
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No, I think they are more southern England, not sure exactly,I may be wront, One things for sure neither of them speak with the very distinctive Newcastle accent.
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Some other CD single whose name escapes me at the minute, blue cover and it had a remix of "music for boys" on it by Altern8, forget the original track...
DJ Culture by any chance?

Question 'seer: If I obtain the Barry White track will it ruin "Positive Role Model" or enhance it? It could be a risk you know. And it won't change my views on Ally McBeal. I don't know how you got into it.

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DJ Culture, that's the one, remixed by The Grid if I remember rightly...
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No, I think they are more southern England, not sure exactly,I may be wront, One things for sure neither of them speak with the very distinctive Newcastle accent.
I just got to know that the Pet Shop Boys aren't a localized UK band (unlike FGTH from Liverpool). One of the artists, Neil Tennant, was Newcastle-born and raised though.
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DJ Culture by any chance?

Question 'seer: If I obtain the Barry White track will it ruin "Positive Role Model" or enhance it? It could be a risk you know. And it won't change my views on Ally McBeal. I don't know how you got into it.
Well, one thing is for sure : Tennant and White have radically opposite voices Tennant uses a lot of falsetto while White has a very deep voice. I don't see how it would ruin the effect though, and heck if you don't like it, just delete it from you hd
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Old 26th September 2003, 11:09   #19
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Once downloading a track I can't just delete it! No sir! If I don't like it on a first listen it'll be classed as a B-Side. If I still don't like it on a second listen it'll become a C-Side. If I don't like it on a third listen, then it'll be wiped out and stamped on.

I will take a chance on Barry White's track, I'm amazed the PSB's could derive anything from him.

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WOW

Thanks to amazon.fr, I've just had an opportunity (let's make lots of money !) to flesh out my PSB discography : bought Please, Behaviour and Bilingual in their rereleased editions (each record accompanied by a bonus disc containing the b-sides and remixes of the era) for € 9 each.

6 PSB albums for just € 27, yay for me

I'll post opinions on these albums later.
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I may check out some PSB B-Sides as well. I have a good supplier.

Love Comes Quickly and Before have been played alot recently. Such good tracks.

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somehow i always end up listening to "rent" is by far my most fav pet shop boys track - reget i only have one album - the singles collection- used to have more of them but tapes and magnetic fields (put them on top of my vcr) don't go together - all tapes lying there are now blank tapes

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Yes, all forms of magnetic media are flawed. When you think about it, it was a freakish invention anyway. Videos don't respond well to extremes in temperature - yet I have 1,000 up in the atic. Oh well!!! Probably 1,000 blank tapes by now.

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Who likes 'Very'??? Not me (for one). The PSB's crappest album?

Yes.

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I do
I really like Very, in fact, it was the first studio album I got (I first got "Discography" then "Alternative"). Some of my absolute faves by PSB are on it : "Dreaming Of The Queen", "The Theatre", "Young Offender".
Of course, some songs are much less good (One In A Million, A Different Point Of View, To Speak Is A Sin) but heck
In fact, I think Very is much better than Behaviour (which is often deemed PSB's best)
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Very was the 206th CD I purchased, probably one of the most mundane albums in my 1994 lot. However, I haven't listened to it this side of the millennium, I may have missed something (always possible).

I rate Introspective to be their greatest hour (head and shoulders above the rest). One of the best albums of all time?

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ive only got:





I couldnt pick between the three..


god knows why i havnt bothered getting the rest.
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Old 28th October 2003, 10:20   #28
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I realize I forgot to give my opinions about the albums I bought recently (see above posts)

So here we go

- "Please" : PSB's first album released in 1986. The first half of the record contains all the kick-ass songs which started PSB's fame : West End Girls, Opportunities, Love Comes Quickly, Suburbia and the lesser known but excellent Two Divided By Zero. The second half of the record sounds more outdated especially the synths on Tonight Is Forever and the drum sounds on Violence (This version is terrible compared to the superb "Hacienda version" on Alternative. Still, there is a nice piano/voice song called Later Tonight which is beautiful. Excellent album anyway

- "Behaviour" : PSB's fourth album released in 1990. This one was a bit of a letdown actually ( ). It is often hailed as PSB's best but I found the songs kind of weak on it. The record starts excellently with one of their best songs ever "Being Boring", followed by another very good one "This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave" but then it falls flat until "My October Symphony" arrives. "Nervously" isn't very good either but the penultimate song "The End Of The World" is very catchy (so much it seems a bit out of place on this record). The finale with "Jealousy" is really the saving grace here, along with the previous song. A so-so record but of course, average stuff by PSB still beats the crap of most stuff you can hear anyway.

- "Bilingual" : PSB's sixthalbum released in 1996. I didn't get this one at the time because I had bought a copy of the 'Before' single which was very cheap (wrong label from the store ). I hated the song at the time so I didn't bother getting the album. It was a mistake. Bilingual is very good, especially if you like Spanish/Brazilian sounds but it's an odd album because of its sadness mixed with music usually associated with parties and happy stuff. Great moments : "Metamorphosis", "Electricity" (a rap track !) "It always comes a surprise" (fabulous love song). Suprisingly, the poppier tracks " A red letter day", "Up against it" are not necessarily the best, but "To Step Aside" is fantastic. And I now like 'Before' . Only bad track is "Saturday Night Forever", wonder how this one made it. Bilingual really sounds like a one-off but it's well worth it.
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Before is such a good track 'seer. Top quality. I'm not so sure about the rest of Bilingual though....

sidd - I'd strongly recommend Disco 3 (a gem). Then you'll have the 3 best (in order):

Actually
Instrospective
Disco 3

Sorted.

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Introspective
Relentless

and the sub is Disco 3
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ok, ill hunt for it next time i feel like listening to that sort of thing.. i cant get out of augie march mode right now..
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You still have just the 3 tracks?

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nope, i found both their albums on soulseek

btw cylob, if your searches in soulseek arnt working, put a star before each word, like "*augie *march". Works like a charm. Who knows why.
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Cheers sidd. You're worth your weight in kryptonite.

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Tried it (to no ovail). But then I didn't use the quotes. Hmmm. At the minute I'm not searching at all, I just browse other users' files. It's a case of 'I'll have this album now, and that one later'.... You get to know people's tastes and who's got what.

When I'm sorted I'll be sharing rare tracks and nothing else. For instance, there must be all manner of PSB b-sides and live material around. Videos even.

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the PSB boys double album called Alternative.. is all b-sides - 30 tracks... mmmm its in a "Cylob friendly format" in my big cd case... you can borrow...
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hmm.. i meant it without the quotes anyway. Its probably all n my head, but it seems to be working for me.

I dont mind anymore... now i have augie march on CD, im content for a week or so.

Serious man, you really have to get into this band. The lyrics are so well thought out. When i got the second album and looked at the linear notes i just flipped. All the lyrics are written out like its poetry. There is even a first line reference at the end.
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I did search for Augie March (3 or 4 times). Came out empty-handed. I'll try again over the weekend, hopefully the music gods will be shining over my street. I don't give up easilly.

orac, cheers for the PSB b-sides.

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Alternative is fabulous, some of the best PSB songs are on there
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