Pickles Incredible string of remixers they’ve worked with - pretty much anyone who’s anyone back in the day Knuckles, Morales, Tenaglia, Sasha, Farley and Heller, BIR, Jam and Spoon…
apyssjw nicksneddon http://sbradyman.angelfire.com/bradyman/sasha_PSB-radio1.htm Was the first time sasha was on radio 1 (I think from memory). No idea about coxy etc. PSBs were probably the first group I got into as a kid.
DPM I love the ‘Actually’ album, Love Comes Quickly, Why Don’t We Live Together, then the Disco album with Paninaro on it. Wicked tracks…
Kumquat There’s some new remixes of ‘West End Girls’ getting released in November. The Micheal Gray one is nice. https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/pet-shop-boys-west-end-girls-inc-michael-gray-ben-liebrand-moplen-remixes-high-fashion-music/
Dubman Smallman1 Well & truly shit. He talks rather than sings. West end girls is a good pop record though.
baggers44 Smallman1 heresy Edward - genuinely groundbreaking, fresh and edgy at the time…opened up a whole new horizon for some of us
seanc80 West End Girls is probaly one of my all time favourite tracks however aside form the Sasha remix whish loses the baseline really rendering it pretty insignificant, there are no great remixes that i have heard. Are there any? The ones on Simon’s link above are not for me.
bosstrabs Bizarre that there are so many loosers in this thread dissing the Pet Shop Boys. It’s really akin to saying ‘Giorgio Moroder - load of old shite’ or ’Depeche Mode’s Violator? Utter wank’. No appreciation for what they did in bringing house music to audiences who hadn’t engaged with it before.
bosstrabs alistair West End Girls, Love Comes Quickly, Being Boring, Rent, Left to my own devices, Domino Dancing, Suburbia, What Have I done to deserve this, Heart and It’s a Sin. Agree with the exception of Heart. I think it may have been their only number 1 (can’t be arsed checking) apart from West End Girls but even Tennant dismissed it as throwaway and I tend to agree.
alistair bosstrabs it was one of four UK number ones, the others being Its a Sin, Always on my mind and West End Girls. Love Heart (esp Shep’s Disco mix) including its marvellously eccentric wedding video with Ian McKellan and Patrick McNee
alistair bosstrabs you knew this was their imperial phase, because they were penning big hit records for the likes of Eighth Wonder, Dusty Springfield and Liza Minelli.
