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PPM Reader Ranking Of The Pet Shop Boys Studio Albums
When running the review of the latest Pet Shop Boys album in the last two posts, there was a lot of commenter input on the albums that I missed after 1993 . though I have the 2002, 2006, and 2024 … Continue reading
I Bought The New Pet Shop Boys Album On CD… Finally. [No, That’s Not The Title] [part 2]
[…continued from last post] The third single from the album was the apparently synth-free sweeping ballad, “A New Bohemia.” Though the band swear there’s electronics on every track, the orchestra carried the weight here with producer James Ford contributing what … Continue reading
I Bought The New Pet Shop Boys Album On CD… Finally. [No, That’s Not The Title] [part 1]
I certainly have gone on about how I stopped buying Pet Shop Boys cold before their singles campaign for the “Very” album was fully over. Yes, the dull, soulless daaaaaance music remixes were giving me headaches so if I couldn’t … Continue reading
A Young Person’s Guide To Pet Shop Boys – “Always On My Mind”
I was all-in on Pet Shop Boys by the point that anyone else would be. I hadn’t heard them until “West End Girls” was released in its second recording on EMI on 1985 and managed to make the duo one … Continue reading
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Tagged 12" single, 1987, 1988, Japan, Japanese Pressing, New Wave Cover Version, Pet Shop Boys, promo only
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With “Release,” Pet Shop Boys Made Their Laurel Canyon Album Thirty Years Late [part 2]
[…continued from last post] After the five worst Pet Shop Boys songs I’d ever heard, I was astonished when “The Samurai In Autumn” emerged from the speakers. It proffered a subtle, glitchy, rhumba beat over a classic PSB sustained string … Continue reading
With “Release,” Pet Shop Boys Made Their Laurel Canyon Album Thirty Years Late [part 1]
I’ve mentioned that I went off Pet Shop Boys almost through their “Very” campaign back in 1993-1994. This was primarily down to their techno DJ styled single remixes which were very [a bitter “hah!] repetitive and reductive. So by some … Continue reading
Review: Pet Shop Boys’ “The Most Incredible Thing” Lives Up To Title
The Most Incredible Thing: The Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos from Arthur Cauty on Vimeo. Well, thanks to djshelf’s super timely comment, we found out about the Charlotte Ballet staging the American debut of “The Most Incredible Thing;” … Continue reading
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