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The official Pet Shop Boys thread; New album "Super"
Topic Started: Oct 30 2008, 11:59 AM (18,107 Views)
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10/10 from German magazine Spiegel for the album! (Any German speakers wanna translate it for us???)

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,612366,00.html

Pet Shop Boys - "Yes"
(Parlophone/EMI, 20. März)

Gerade nach den unwahrscheinlichen Auferstehungen von U2 und Phillip Boa gab es keinen wichtigeren Termin als die Ankunft des neuen Pet-Shop-Boys-Albums "Yes". Eben noch hatten Neil Tennant und Chris Lowe uns gedankenversunken mit "Luna Park" und "I Made My Excuses And Left" vom tollen "Fundamental" allein gelassen, nun sind sie zurück, um in "All Over The World" gleichzeitig eine universale Empfindung und ihr eigenes Werk zu erklären: "It's sincere and subjective/ Superficial and true/ Easy and predictable/ Exciting and new." Keine Frage: Statt "Yes" könnte die Platte auch "Yes/No" heißen, bejahen und negieren die elf neuen Stücke die Möglichkeit der Liebe doch gleichermaßen. Liegt es an mir oder eher an dir? Die Mauer, die als Metapher in "Building A Wall" aufgezogen wird, trifft es auf den Punkt: "I'm building a wall/ A fine wall/ Not so much to keep you out/ More to keep me in."

Die folgenden Vergleiche mögen genügen: "Yes" verströmt eine ähnlich unterkühlte Melancholie wie Chris Cunninghams Video zu Björks "All Is Full Of Love", wie Kraftwerks "Radioaktivität", wie Gerhard Richters Gemälde "Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe)". Das formidable "Beautiful People", von Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) mit distinguierten Streichern begleitet, greift ganz tief ans Herz, "Vulnerable" zwingt selbst den rigorosesten Zyniker in die Knie und "Love Etc." ist eine Single, die es mit "Heart", wenn nicht sogar mit "Se a vida é" aufnehmen kann. Und dann zieht einem das erschütternde, unsagbar großartige "The Way It Used To Be" beide Füße unter dem Boden weg: "What is left of love here that didn't drift away?". Alle Träume zerbrochen, alle Scherben aufgekehrt. "Yes" ist nicht die größte Pet Shop Boys seit "Very". "Yes" ist die größte Pet Shop Boys seit "Behaviour". (10) Jan Wigger
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I don't have time to translate it all. Yes has a melancholic mood similar to Chris Cunningham's video for All Is Full Of Love and Kraftwerk's Radioaktivität. Beautiful People with its strings goes straight to the heart, Vulnerable brings the even most cynical to his knees, The Way It Used To Be is a magnificent song that sweeps you off the floor. He finishes saying that Yes isn't the best Pet Shop Boys since Very, it's the best since Behaviour.
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Thanks dear!
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I don't think I've looked forward to an album so much in YEARS!

Also looking forward to the special edition with the 2 CDs.

I want it NOW I tell thee!! :whip:
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I want it yesterday. :(
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Pet Shop Boys will be interviewed on GMTV on ITV1 between 9 and 9.30 am on Tuesday, March 17th.

On Wednesday, March 18th, they'll be interviewed on "The One Show" on BBC1 between 7 and 7.30 pm.

On Friday, March 20th, they'll be interviewed on BBC2's "Newsnight" which is transmitted at 10.30 pm.

On Thursday, March 26th, they'll be appearing on "The Graham Norton Show" on BBC2 which will be repeated on March 29th.

On Friday, March 27th, they'll be performing two songs on "The Album Chart Show" on Channel 4 at 11.45 pm.
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they're really pullin all stops this time around, aren't they. this sudden turnaround regarding the public and media stance amazes me, they've been put to oblivion for years, and suddenly it's bam! everyone's in love with them over again. they're definitely worth it, it's not just their music that remains fresh and exciting. i was looking at my collection of their re-issued albums the other day thinking the quality of artwork and packaging and their ability in compiling fine sets of rarities and fan favourites cannot be matched by any act.

q can fuck right off with their lame review of the album, they can stick their adoration over u2 and oasis up their retarded asses.
Edited by FuckBuddy, Mar 12 2009, 11:08 PM.
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There's an interview with the boys in Attitude this month. They talk about how it was to work with Xenomania and apparently Brian Higgins is a very forthright guy. He had this little gem to say to them: "You haven't made a good record since 1989."

What a f*cking twat. :manson: Could he really be that ignorant about the wonderful music they've made since then?
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I'm glad they could put their pride aside and look past his very ignorant comment so they could make beautiful music together. Brian Higgins sounds like a giant ass though by all accounts.
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well, the entire music industry had written them off ever since the mid 90s. for some strange reason they're cool again, even though they've never come up with a dated sound. xenomania seem to value everything according to chart positions and hard sales. the pet shop boys may have not had a crossover hit in a decade, but they've never stopped being proper popstars for all this time.
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Mar 12 2009, 11:34 PM
well, the entire music industry had written them off ever since the mid 90s. for some strange reason they're cool again, even though they've never come up with a dated sound. xenomania seem to value everything according to chart positions and hard sales. the pet shop boys may have not had a crossover hit in a decade, but they've never stopped being proper popstars for all this time.
I'm not even sure why he says "1989". The "Very" album was a big success and that was in the 90s! Anyway, you're right. He probably dismisses anything that wasn't a commercial hit. I've lost a lot of respect for him after that comment. They've never made bad music. It hasn't always worked out 100%, but all of their albums have been littered with wonderful songs.
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You can hear longer clips from "Around The World" and "Beautiful People" on the official site. Just go to the Product section!
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You can hear longer clips from "Around The World" and "Beautiful People" on the official site. Just go to the Product section!
Ooooh! The former sounds fab. The latter is very "Last Shadow Puppets"...

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Edited by Fembot 1, Mar 13 2009, 12:16 AM.
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You can hear longer clips from "Around The World" and "Beautiful People" on the official site. Just go to the Product section!
Ooooh! The former sounds fab. The latter is very "Last Shadow Puppets"...

:dance:

Yes on both counts!!
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There's an interview with the boys in Attitude this month. They talk about how it was to work with Xenomania and apparently Brian Higgins is a very forthright guy. He had this little gem to say to them: "You haven't made a good record since 1989."

What a f*cking twat. :manson: Could he really be that ignorant about the wonderful music they've made since then?
that's funny. I'll take Behaviour and Very over any 1980's album, and I love Actually.
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Mar 13 2009, 10:06 AM
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There's an interview with the boys in Attitude this month. They talk about how it was to work with Xenomania and apparently Brian Higgins is a very forthright guy. He had this little gem to say to them: "You haven't made a good record since 1989."

What a f*cking twat. :manson: Could he really be that ignorant about the wonderful music they've made since then?
that's funny. I'll take Behaviour and Very over any 1980's album, and I love Actually.
Same here. Both of those albums are fantastic. I know "Release" gets a hard time too, but there are also a lot of excellent songs on that album. Same with "Fundamental".
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I don't think they've ever released a *bad* album. Sure there are ones I'd take to a desert island over others, but their quality control has always been superior to most artists in that respect.

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I don't think they've ever released a *bad* album. Sure there are ones I'd take to a desert island over others, but their quality control has always been superior to most artists in that respect.

Totally. They never just chuck any old shite out there and hope for the best. That's not their style at all.
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Rave review from the BBC! :clap:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/v3dp/

Reviewby Jaime Gill
13 March 2009

Like greatest hits albums, outstanding contribution awards are often last rites for a music career, proof that the recipient's finest work is long past. But for anyone who has followed the Pet Shop Boys' unlikely, dazzling journey, it will not be a total shock that these canniest of pop operators have used their Brits recognition as the springboard for their most vivacious, consistent and adorable album since 1993's Very.

Kicking off with the wondrous lead single, Love Etc, with its tingling electronic sheen and ravishing melody, the Xenomania-produced Yes is as inventive and flamboyant as the strained Fundamental was falsely rumoured to be.

There are fumbles - notably, the closing ballad Legacy, which aims at grandeur and profundity, but unravels over six long, long minutes into a dog's breakfast - but for every mis-step there's another where the boys sound on their old sure-footed, imperial form.

The most insatiably poppy numbers, all echoing Very, are the
irrepressible Pandemonium, the lavish All Over The World and the sugar rush of Did You See Me Coming?. The latter, destined to rub up in their back catalogue against the similarly innuendo-ripe So Hard, Rent and Love Comes Quickly, is a joyous reminder that Neil Tennant is one of the few middle-aged men still able to tap into the inner teenager at the heart of great pop.

But few bands are as equally at home in a pool of stately introspection as in a fizzy hot tub of hedonism, which is where the sumptuous King Of Rome and heartbreaking The Way It Used To Be come in. Built on a fluttering synth hook, over which Chris Lowe piles his trademark orchestral flourishes and electro squiggles, this last song joins Love Etc as the most perfect fusion of Xenomania and Pet Shop Boys sensibilities here.

The Pet Shop Boys needed neither the Brit award nor this album to cement their status as one of the finest pop acts of all time, with their remarkable combination of thrilling pizzazz and searing intelligence. But for us grateful fans, Yes is a wonderful vindication, and their finest album in many, many years.
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It's so insane. PSB with Xenomania sound better than I could have EVER dreamed. YES FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR
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