Not new so may have already been discussed but enjoyed this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016gwh
(Neil Tennant's This Cultural Life).
― djh, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:33 (four months ago) link
Just started reading this: https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/bodie-a-ashton/the-pet-shop-boys-and-the-political-queerness-culture-identity-and-society
Will report back!
― djh, Sunday, 18 February 2024 11:46 (four months ago) link
The new album is available in a 2-CD version that includes an EP of "2024" versions of some of their hits, including "Being Boring".
On the one hand, yeah, I'm going to buy that version but, god, doesn't that feel a bit shit, somehow?
― djh, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:06 (three months ago) link
Volume 1 - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/205aTQBpnwJEwUZzQMMS6W
Volume 2 - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Vo5riagO7TOdB92H8fvuJ
The latter still a bit a work in progress but without any real criteria for it.
― djh, Sunday, 25 February 2024 22:42 (three months ago) link
Album is good!
― imago, Friday, 26 April 2024 08:11 (one month ago) link
Mouthing off about Taytay like he's got a record to sell eh lol
Look forward to checking new album out later.
The Swift comments are in this interview, about 35 minutes in, which is great and often very funny. Predictably they’re a lot more nuanced than reported, not that he’ll care too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3o8CUgHRc
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 26 April 2024 08:35 (one month ago) link
IT's fine, ultimately not much better or worse than Hotspot.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:42 (one month ago) link
Pleasantly surprised by the new album. Hotspot ended up rivaling Elysium as my least favourite album they've done. Only Will-O-The-Wisp and Dreamland stood out. I like just about everything on the new one and really enjoy how lush and refined it all sounds.
― kitchen person, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link
"Loneliness" and "Feel" are the keepers, "Love is the Law" too.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:08 (one month ago) link
The Schlager Hit Parade is the only one I'm not totally sold on after a couple of plays. This is the album that should have followed Electric.
― kitchen person, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:36 (one month ago) link
I’m three songs in and I can definitely say it’s a new Pet Shop Boys album
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
Neil's voice is getting a bit thin and "Loneliness" is a terrible album opener. But it's... alright! I have a feeling I'll be listening to "Why am I dancing?" and "New London Boy" quite a bit.
They released an EP of jokey songs before the pandemic that was just abysmal, and so I'll be basically glad whenever it's better than that.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:36 (one month ago) link
I feel like I haven't heard "1980s rapping Neil" (as on New London Boy) for a while
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link
This is much better than Hotspot, which I found listless and actively embarrassing in several spots. Best for me since Electric.
― Davey D, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
I quite enjoyed that the bonus disc for "Nonetheless" was "Furthermore".
Saw them play some tracks on a Vernon Kay presented thing a few weeks back and found it a bit cringey.
― djh, Friday, 26 April 2024 18:10 (one month ago) link
The new album sounds like one of those drugstore-dollar-bin "greatest hits" albums where a Sixties act re-records their old songs, and you buy it by mistake and get those uncanny-valley "this is the song I like...but it's not quite right somehow" shivers.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
This happened to me precisely with a George Jones comp.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:05 (one month ago) link
I think the re-records are just the arrangements for the new tour with vocals added
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 April 2024 09:36 (one month ago) link
'I’d love to be in the House of Lords, because it’s a job, isn’t it?'The most successful British pop duo in music history on tantrums, touring when you turn 70, and why it feels unreal to hang out with Liza Minnelli — over Lunch with the FT: https://t.co/ujKxMKGSJW— FT Weekend (@ftweekend) April 26, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:40 (one month ago) link
A producer for an earlier album, Stuart Price, worked with them in Berlin and made them go out for dinner in week two to the same places they’d been to in week one, in the same order. He also made them record all the tracks in alphabetical order. “And we did, didn’t we?” Tennant marvels. “And then we put them on the album in alphabetical order. It’s actually quite a good logic. It worked out quite well.”
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:51 (one month ago) link
They must have cheated a little bit but so close:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_(Pet_Shop_Boys_album)
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
Maybe “Bourgeois Construct” was the working title for track 3…
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link
The first few songs are the weakest for me. Once it gets to New London Boy it gets really good and stays as such. I have a lot of time for the freestyle getup on Dancing Star.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 28 April 2024 12:29 (one month ago) link
yeah I feel like it's missing a really great single up front, something like that would do wonders for this album. it's still quite good I think, especially given the point in their career that they're at. Neil's voice still sounds pretty good to me!
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2024 18:03 (one month ago) link
Hilarious interview.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link
Aw, teasing the idea that we could have a George Michael cover of "End of the World" is really too much. I agree it's a hidden gem though - that segue at the end of "Nervously" gets me every time.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:41 (one month ago) link
He may dislike it because that's Tennant playing the twang guitar.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:42 (one month ago) link
Directed by Andrew Haigh and filmed in Margate in the spring of 2024, the official video for Pet Shop Boys’ new single, “A new bohemia”, is premiering exclusively on @NOWNESS today. Link to watch below.https://t.co/dsE3puO1OP pic.twitter.com/CCklIlwhAq— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) June 4, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 22:22 (two weeks ago) link
That song doesn't feel like a single at all to me.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 12:35 (one week ago) link
It doesn't.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 12:35 (one week ago) link
Not single material for sure. But being of a certain age, I have to admit that song (and video) got me.
― daavid, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 18:29 (one week ago) link
Still playing the new album a lot. Every time they put out something that doesn't really do it for me, they always win me back round with the follow-up. Fundamental after Release, Electric after Elysium and now this one coming after Hotspot which could be my least favourite album of theirs. Feels like they're a band I can never truly write-off and I was worried after Hotspot, that terrible EP and the never-ending Cricket Wife single.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 6 June 2024 00:45 (one week ago) link
Good b-side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mffClF45eS0
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:45 (one week ago) link
(And the dance remix is much better than the single.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:53 (one week ago) link
Liking "I've Got Plans (Involving You)".
― djh, Saturday, 8 June 2024 18:07 (one week ago) link
A silver sliver of PSB cover of "Go West" passed through recent installment of Democracy Now---perfect placement of wistfulness x certainty---and I still can't get it out of my head, my head, not that I want to.
― dow, Saturday, 8 June 2024 20:11 (one week ago) link
Oh yeah, here 'tis:
Meet the Pro-Ceasefire MP Candidate Banned by U.K. Labour Party for “Liking” Jon Stewart Skit on IsraelSTORY JUNE 03, 2024Watch Full Show
― dow, Saturday, 8 June 2024 20:24 (one week ago) link
Has "A New Bohemia" got a hint of Oasis about it or am I imagining that? (I can't really describe why I think that).
― djh, Sunday, 9 June 2024 21:24 (one week ago) link