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The Pet Shop Boys are a British synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. Consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.
- 1981–present
- London, England
The latest news, tour dates, merchandise and music from the legendary pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Find out about their new album "Nonetheless", their Dreamworld shows and their remastered hits on Spotify.
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Apr 26, 2024 · (April 25) Photos. 5. By LOUISE DIXON. Updated 9:16 PM PDT, April 25, 2024. LONDON (AP) — Chicken Kiev, AI-generated press releases and the annoyance of fan selfies while performing — there was a lot on the minds of the Pet Shop Boys as the iconic British duo prepared to release a new album.
- The Truck Driver and His Mate
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
- Integral
- Shameless
- Heart
- Flamboyant
- Dreaming of The Queen
- Will-O-The-Wisp
- My October Symphony
- Pandemonium
Pet Shop Boys’ albums and B-sides are remarkably filler-free, which makes compiling this list hard, even if we exclude their cover versions (hence no Always on My Mind). Case in point: the homoerotic electro-glam stomp of the B-side to Before, as good as anything on Bilingual.
It certainly wasn’t the first song written about the downside of touring, but Yesterday, When I Was Mad is definitely the wittiest. A protracted, waspish whinge about backstage visitors, critics and petty arguments over hotel rooms, restaurants and meet-and-greets, it’s very funny and very aware of its privileged preposterousness.
“If you’ve done nothing wrong / You’ve got nothing to fear / If you’ve something to hide / You shouldn’t even be here.” Integral is the best track from Fundamental, with the producer Trevor Horn constructing a dramatic, distinctly Frankie-ish dancefloor pulse. The lyrics about immigration and the right’s quest for a “sterile, immaculate” Britain fe...
Lyrically and musically ferocious – the sound is deliberately brash and trebley – Shameless gleefully blasts celebrity culture (“We have no integrity”). It is either weirdly prescient, or the work of people complaining with no idea how bad things are going to get; Shameless predates reality TV and the web.
Take your pick from the album version, the 12in, the Syndrum-infused disco mix, Shep Pettibone’s jittery remix or a beatless, balladesque live reading – in a medley with Go West – on 2019’s Inner Sanctum. Subsequently dismissed by Chris Lowe, Heart is slight in comparison with, say, Being Boring, but lovely nonetheless.
Like Discography’s DJ Culture, this is a new track appended to a best-of that is far better than those tracks tend to be. Produced by the German duo Tomcraft – who give its electronics an impressively steely sound – it features lyrics that admire the “courage” of a glitzy celeb and rhyme “tacky” with “Issey Miyake”.
In which the Aids crisisand the separation of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, are conflated with a dream in which Neil Tennant is presented to the princess naked, surrounded by autograph-seeking fans. Dreaming of the Queen is at turns funny and desperately sad, its melody and ambience haunting.
The opening track of Hotspot is punchy, muscular and rooted in big-room house. The lyrics are appealingly ambiguous: the narrator spots an old flame and veers between admiration – “You’re such a handsome thing” – and withering speculation that he has “gone respectable / With a wife and a job and all that”.
House pianos and bassline, washes of synth, gorgeous melody, 3am mid-tempo disco atmosphere, complete with Johnny Marr unleashing his inner Nile Rodgers … and it’s about a Soviet composer questioning the artistic validity of the music he composed in praise of the Communist party after the fall of communism. Fabulous.
Pandemonium is prime 00s Pet Shop Boys. A glam-facing rhythm, a pile-up of pop hooks, one killer line after another – “When you think about it, it’s quite an achievement / That, after all, I still love you” – and a rare example of Xenomania’s production living up to the standards they set working with Girls Aloud.
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Apr 26, 2024 · As well as the new album, the Pet Shop Boys have extended their ongoing Greatest Hits tour, written a musical based on The Emperor’s New Clothes, and will stage their third residency at...
Feb 3, 2024 · ‘Music has ceased to be ageist’: Pet Shop Boys on 40 years of pop genius – and their hopeful new album. Laura Snapes. The pandemic was but a minor blip in Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s four...
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