they still wouldn't let them use 'cant take my eyes off you' though it says it's on the disc on the box, it actually isnt on the disc. if u get me.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh dear. "Love etc" is on the internet.
It's a stinker.
― what you know about hat? I know all about hat. (edwardo), Friday, 6 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"A stinker's" a bit too much. I'd say it's good some good bits and some parts that really don't work. Like the first verse.
― daavid, Friday, 6 February 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7879322.stm
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
it's great. it wipes the floor with BEFORE or I'M WITH STUPID as a first single off an album to name two. lovely artwork too.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
it's good I think, not a stinker by any means. agree with daavid that the start/first verse doesn't quite work but after that I think it's pretty great
― Local Garda, Sunday, 22 February 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"I remember on Pop Idol, Pete Waterman told someone, very sympathetically, 'The thing is, you're more of a Depeche Mode kind of artist.' In other words, 'What are you doing here, pet?'
He's so right. I wish they'd kick Simon Cowell's ass.
― u s steel, Sunday, 22 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Gui Boratto and the Pet Shop Boys have hit twice with the German Film Star mix and now this Love Etc. remix. Would be great to hear Disco 5 or whatever they're on completely remixed by Boratto.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 22 February 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Just because they named their new CD "Yes," does not mean that British electro-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys, will agree to just about anything.
PETA has asked the Pet Shop Boys to change the band's name to Rescue Shelter Boys.
The band has turned down a request from an animal rights group to rename itself the Rescue Shelter Boys.
The organization, the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA), sent a letter to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe acknowledging that its request, at first blush, might appear "bizarre."
But, by changing its name, the band could raise awareness at every tour stop of the "cramped, filthy conditions" that breeders keep animals in before selling them to pet stores, PETA said in its letter. Read how the Pet Shop Boys got their name
The duo, which has performed under its current name for more than 20 years, reproduced PETA's written request in full on its Web site.
The musicians said they were "unable to agree" to the request "but nonetheless think (it) raises an issue worth thinking about."
The animal rights group said it was pleased the Pet Shop Boys had drawn attention to the issue by posting its letter so prominently on the band's site. Talking about its campaign on a blog entry, a PETA staffer wrote:
"I think I may have to stick "West End Girls" on my iPod right now to celebrate."
"West End Girls" is one of the many hits the group has had in its long career.
PETA is no stranger to oddball campaigns. A recent one was aimed to re-christen fish as "sea kittens" because "who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/10/peta.pet.shop.boys/index.html
― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
How many songs about pet-shopping have they actually done, though?
I want a dog,A chihuahuaWhen I get back to my small flatI want to hear somebody barkOh, you can get lonely
Don't want a cat,Scratching its claws all over myHabitatGiving no love and getting fatOh, (oh oh) you can get lonelyAnd a cat's no help with that
(Bulldog, hound, pug, labrador,Collie, retriever, Dobermann-pinscher,Husky, dalmatian, St. Bernard and dachshund,Mongrel, beagle, cocker spaniel)
― xhuxk, Friday, 10 April 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
my God, I love that song so much
(the original b-side, that is)
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Friday, 10 April 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw them tonight. It was excellent.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Me too.
― toby, Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh cool, you were at the Boston show? I thought they were really great. The Coldplay cover threw me but they made it about 1000x better than the original version.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 6 September 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I see them on Wednesday! Looks like they have a higher budget too.
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 September 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The whole thing was pretty impressive. You'll have a great time.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 6 September 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Higher budget than the Cubism set...?
― Young Scott Young (sic), Monday, 7 September 2009 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was at the Boston show. The Coldplay cover was amazing, I thought (and I don't like the original). Was also really impressed with how impressive they made such a minimal stage show.
― toby, Monday, 7 September 2009 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Love how they make Viva La Vida sound like a Tennant/Lowe song without changing that much - the 4/4 pulse, the rush into the chorus, and the lyrics about leadership (a v Tennant theme) all sound both more joyous and more profound than they do in Coldplay's hands. Because of Tennant's preoccupation with Russian history, it suddenly makes me think of the 1917 revolution.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 7 September 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
do they segue Did You See Me Coming into Viva La Vida because that would make a lot more sense to me than performing it entirely separately given how Did You See Me Coming is blatantly inspired by the latter
― unban dictionary (blueski), Monday, 7 September 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
A wildly good cover. I didn't realize how much I loved Neil's voice!
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
So Coldplay really are the new U2, then.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 September 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
They played "Do I Have To?" WOW
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 September 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Cunga, Sunday, 3 January 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
some big fucking balls to segue into 'can't take my eyes off of you'
think it works though
― waka flocka flame for all time (dayo), Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Did these guys do any production work for anyone other than Liza & Dusty?
― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― black bloc bologna (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
Thank you!
― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes was so great.
― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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'
― black bloc bologna (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the George Washington of butts (sic), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the George Washington of butts (sic), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Monday, 11 April 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the George Washington of butts (sic), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp those two RW songs are so obviously PSB-produced that credits are sort of redundant.
― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
This is helpful! I love "Results," it was like getting another PSBs album after I thought I wore them all out.
― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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 George Washington of butts (sic), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The second half of "Actually" is so STRONG and DELICATE
― Abarham Lincoln posing (Abbbottt), Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
did you guys know that there are 70 ilx threads with "pet shop boys" in the title? this seems very excessive.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
PSB are old-ilx
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
70 does not seem enough, imo.
I was listening to them this morning and it was the perfect way to start off the day.
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLFi6MwmPI
deep spacey remix, ft. very nice vox and lyrics
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 26 July 2013 07:15 (ten years ago) link
Hm..
Neil Tennant in critical condition in German hospital.
http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=50728_0_2_0_C
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
oh my god
― frogbs, Friday, 7 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
So it seems like this probably isn't true.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
oh thank god
― frogbs, Friday, 7 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Ok I got scared.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link