Who are the Pet Shop Boys really?

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Well, I know you are many here who saying you don't know the Pet Shop Boys and therefore I thought I would introduce them for you. I think it would be the best if I started there, so you all know what am I really talking about when I will advertize my forum and get members. Okay, here we go:
The Pet Shop Boys is an English synth-pop duo formed by the guys who are called Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant. Before the music career Neil worked as a journalist on the pop magazine Smash Hits meanwhile Chris studied architecture.
They both met in an electronic shop when Neil was looking for parts to his keyboard. They started chatting a bit about music and found that they had the similar interest in music and making music. Soon the first single released and it was called West End Girls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAHfoIfo_7A
At first they didn't succeed in making the song to a hit. Then they wrote another song called Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) and succeeded much better with that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMiwRj_ ... re=related
They also released the singles Love Comes Quickly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMoYSJ2l ... re=related[/youtube]
and Suburbia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbikoW0Fn4
At last, 1985 the first album came out. It was called Please and the title was meant like a pun, because you would go into a record shop and say: "Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, please?"
After Please they releleased their second album and called it Disco. It contained remixes of four of the singles from the album Please and two single b-sides.
Their third album came out 1987 and it was called Actually. Even this time the album title was meant like some kind of pun, because the same year they released "Always On My Mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2pNF_IXfyI
The song is a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Always On My Mind". Pet Shop Boys decided to make their version as different from the original as possible.
Well, the album and that single were released the same year and then the single wasn't there on the album and it was the meaning, because when they released the single they wrote" Not from the album Actually!"
Here is also a movie about the Pet Shop Boys and the songs they sing come from the first album Please and Actually:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=3
Here is also a documentary about the Pet Shop Boys which is called A Life In Pop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmjTNJh ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te7xsyGG ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a-riw3P ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXhK_NhJ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnFNf7Gf79I
The picture: This is the way Pet Shop Boys look. It's Neil Tennant on the left and Chris Lowe on the right. Chris is the sitting guy with the peaked cap and sunglasses.
petshopboys113.webp
 
Just to note, when you use the YouTube tag, you only use that number after the "v=". When you use the entire link, the video doesn't appear. 😉
 
Whenever I think of the pet shop boys I think of one of the most camp songs ever made - go west.

Other than that, I don't like them.
 
Yep, they did a cover of Go West which from the beginning was made by Village People!
 
Here comes a bit more:
I told you that Disco was a remix album with remixes on the singles from Please and two b-sides. Here comes the two b-sides:

In The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JH3U97Hz7U

Paninaro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ORZk-FX ... re=related

So, Actually was their third album and from that they released following singles:

It's A Sin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszy6_NMOD0

What have I Done To Deserve This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hJz7GJrfc

Rent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvXseMZ ... re=related

Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tyZRFk ... re=related
 
Their fourth album was an EP, called Introspective and from that these singles came:

Left To My Own Devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfanwfSaG-w

Domino Dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf1bqtrrMo

I'm not scared
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dj3ymyC ... re=related
This wasn't a single from that album, but it was still a cover on the song with Eighth Wonder. Here is the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3eEzLSlKY

Always on my mind/In my house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apkXKEEwms

It's Alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNTedwR548
 
After Introspective they made an exclusive Japan release called In Depth. It contained these singles:

1. It's Alright
2. One of the crowd
3. Your funny uncle
4. Always on my mind
5. Domino Dancing
6. Left to my own devices

Their fifth album was called Behaviour and contained these singles:
Being Boring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbQzhTCtKyU
Where the streets have no name/Can't take my eyes off you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSjWyvZIjI
How can you expect to be taken seriously?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaYf7fQI6s
So hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDozZHS8eo
Jealousy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGj6T5xD ... re=related
 
Their sixth album was called Discography and was a collection of their biggest hits:

1. West End Girls
2. Love comes quickly
3. Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)
4. Suburbia
5. It's a sin
6. What have I done to deserve this?
7. Rent
8. Always on my mind
9. Heart
10. Domino Dancing
11. Left to my own devices
12. It's alright
13. So hard
14. Being Boring
15. Where the streets have no name/Can't take my eyes of you.
16. Jealousy
17. DJ Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KksT6DudUBg
18. Was it worth it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agio5z-f ... re=related

Their seventh album was called Very Relentless, but Relentless was an exclusive release which only was released in a limited edition. Anyway here comes the singles from Very:

Can you forgive her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xMcz6i0 ... re=related
I wouldn't normally do this kind of things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1_2tz9 ... re=related
Liberation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBHan-Pc ... re=related
Yesterday when I was mad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uma4chj-XmE
Go West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39KZ2afBtLU
 
Their eighth album was called Disco 2 and here is the single from that album: Absolutely Fabulous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjDMmjgKec
Their nineth album was called Alternative and it was a double collection album with all their single b-sides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0niojpouog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Pxs_f7 ... re=related
Their tenth album was called Bilingual and contained as the title says two languages. English and Spanish. Here comes the single from that album:
Se A Vida E (That's the way life is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5E7coA ... re=related
A Red Letter Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOLBi4s ... re=related
Single
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZk1TV5ug1I
Before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq-pFb78pBY
They released a triple collection album called The Original which contained Please, Actually and Behaviour. They released a second version of Bilingual which was called Bilingual Special Edition containing remixes of earlier released songs. They also released an album called The Essential Pet Shop Boys. It was an album with some remixes of earlier released songs.
Their eleventh album was called Nightlife and here comes the single from that one: I don't know what you want, but I can't give it anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpf4b1_u7Zg
New York City Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VivCPcELkdA
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_gBifL0Mg
 
They wrote the music to this musical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_to_ ... cording%29
So their twelveth album was called Closer To Heaven containing the music from the musical.
They also re-released six of their earlier album and called them Further Listening. The albums were released like double album with each extra materials which haven't been released before. They were in order: Bilingual, Very, Behaviour, Introspective, Actually and Please.
Their thirteenth album was called Release and hee comes the sigles from that one:
Home and dry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhuAkHHmklI
I get along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6s7WnXCR7c
London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZeYss30Zs
Their fourteenth album was called Disco 3 and it was an album with remixes. Their fifteenth was called PopArt - The Hits and it was a double collection of their biggest hits. Here comes the singles:
Flamboyant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcqDjFBG ... re=related
Miracles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaRwOzc3II
Their sixteenth album was called Battleship Potemkin. It was an album on which they played together wiyh a symphony orchestra- This album was exclusive released in Russia.
Their seventeenth album was called Fundamental and there also is a double album called Fundamentalism with extra remixes on the songs from Fundamental and the Pet Shop Boys own version of In Private together with Elton John. Here comes the sigles from Fundamental:
I'm with stupid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q32JAfaEPbk
Minimal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seKED39Q ... re=related
Numb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7dEkMo ... re=related
Their eighteenth album was a live album called Concrete containing a live recording from Mexico City.
Besides the albums they also have released some videos from live concerts at different places. Well that was all for this time. Thank you so much for me.
 
It's for that I can't post to many urls at one and the same post. I got a warning with red text about that. That's why I had to share it up. ~wink~ ~cool~
 
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