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The official Pet Shop Boys thread; New album "Super"
Topic Started: Oct 30 2008, 11:59 AM (18,101 Views)
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Mar 17 2009, 09:06 PM
PSB need to thank Angela Becker!
It's true. She really gave them a kick up the arse promo-wise.
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And in retrospect Angela was managing Marge during the Confessions era so she must have been doing something right.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article2322974.ece

Met shock Boys :manson:

SYNTH pop Lords PET SHOP BOYS have penned a tribute track to police shooting victim JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES.

We’re All Criminals Now is a scathing account of the events which led to the 27-year-old Brazilian’s death on a Tube train in July 2005.

NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE’s most controversial track ever tells how De Menezes was gunned down at point-blank range in Stockwell Underground station after police mistook him for a suicide bomber.

London’s Metropolitan Police had been on high alert following the July 7 terror attacks two weeks earlier and after tailing de Menezes from his home in South London, shot him eight times after he boarded the train.

We’re All Criminals Now is the B-side to the Brit-winning duo’s latest single Love etc.

In it, frontman Neil sings: “Waiting for a bus in Stockwell/Cameras on my back/Suddenly hearing sirens/Sounding a panic attack.”

He goes on: “Got the bus to the station/Music playing in my head/Ran to get on the tube train/Police shoot someone dead”.

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The chorus voices fears that liberties are being eroded by measures such as the anti-terror laws that followed the suicide attacks which left 52 people dead and more than 700 injured.

Chris continues: “Hey, hey/Don’t ask me how/We’ve changed/We’re all criminals now/Hey, hey/Don’t ask me how/We’re blamed/We’re all criminals now.”

The duo have never been shy to voice their opinions and Neil has been a vocal critic of the Government.

On their 2006 album, Fundamental, two tracks were aimed at the powers that be.

Integral slammed the bid to introduce ID cards and I’m With Stupid attacked Britain’s close relationship with the US.

Neil told me yesterday: “The title of the song and the song itself sum up the way the Government treats the people of the UK.

“We are all under constant surveillance and are all treated as being potentially guilty, as if we are about to commit some kind of crime. We are all criminals now!”
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CD RIP IS OUT
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Mar 17 2009, 09:37 PM
CD RIP IS OUT
Oooh!! Where?!?
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I'll put a link in the thread in the hidden forum
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Let's rate "Yes."

Love etc - 8/10
All Over The World - 9/10
Beautiful People - 7/10
Did You See Me Coming - 8/10
Vulnerable - 7/10
More Than A Dream - 8/10
Building A Wall - 8/10
King Of Rome - 7/10
Pandemonium - 9/10
The Way It Used To Be - 9/10
Legacy - 6/10

And the bonus tracks:
Gin & Jag - 7/10
We're All Criminals Now - 6/10
This Used To Be The Future - 7/10
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Yes...lets! Teehee!

Love etc - 8/10
All Over The World - 8/10
Beautiful People - 6/10
Did You See Me Coming - 7/10
Vulnerable - 8/10
More Than A Dream - 9/10
Building A Wall - 7/10
King Of Rome - 9/10
Pandemonium - 8/10
The Way It Used To Be - 10/10
Legacy - 4/10

And the bonus tracks:
Gin & Jag - 7/10

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I reckon I'll be adding more to "King of Rome" soon. It's a real grower. Very elegant and understated.
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Am loving the dub CD muchly - especially the groove-tastic versions of More Than A Dream and Pandemonium.

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One question though...how come these are SO good and the actual official remixes of Love etc are utter poop :confused:


Edited by Fembot 1, Mar 17 2009, 10:48 PM.
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Some guy on Muzicmatters has the CD and is gonna rip it "in an hour or so".
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Stop fucking your stupid bear, you stupid Jap, and leak the thing instead.
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Neil and Chris are on BBC1's "The One Show" tonight at 7pm.

That's 5 million peeps watching... Might help the midweeks...(if they talk about the single that is!!!)


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Good news. No chance of a performance on that show though. :-(
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Even NME gives "Yes" 8 out of 10 this week! :clap:
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I'm having my first listen now!
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I'm at Vulnerable and Beautiful People is the only one I haven't loved so far.
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Mar 18 2009, 08:38 PM
I'm at Vulnerable and Beautiful People is the only one I haven't loved so far.
Yeah BP is nice, but nothing special. That and the last track Legacy are the only ones I'm not so mad on.



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