Video Version is good, but the Full Horror version is hands down the best. And obviously contains Paninaro on the flip, which makes it ones of the best 12” singles of all time. Just make sure you dash across the room in time to hit stop before Jack The Lad starts, as it’s really, really awful.
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Good bridge “don’t let them try to restrain you…” that bit. But yeah not a banger, has to be said.
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Chance to see PSB in a tiny venue in Blackpool.
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I wonder which song; I’m saying Rent.
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Enjoying Alternative loads at the moment. These tunes get a bit lost on the ‘further listening’ versions of the studio albums but, collected together, this is a smooth listen and works so well as an alternative career history for a more weird, wacky and showy version of Pet Shop Boys.
Loving Miserablism and Your Funny Uncle atm. I remember that second one from the It’s Alright 7”. Their own version of Losing My Mind is incredible too.
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The second bside collection, ‘Format’ is also very good. Tracks like ‘Hit And Miss’, ‘Sexy Northerner’ and ‘Always’ are amongst my favourite PSB tracks of all time.
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New (I think?) song on the Feel single, alongside some remixes.
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Anyone else enjoying the live set from the Radio 2 festival at the moment? Their last show for a very long time, according to our-man-on-the-inside Vernon Kaye just before they came on.
I missed the announcement of the results of that BBC poll a couple of weeks back, but here we go:
1 West End Girls (1984)
2 It’s A Sin (1987)
3 Always On My Mind (1987)
4 What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) (1987)
5 Left To My Own Devices (1988)
6 Suburbia (1986)
7 Go West (1993)
8 Rent (1987)
9 Being Boring (1990)
10 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (1985)
11 Heart (1988)
12 Domino Dancing (1988)
13 Love Comes Quickly (1986)
14 Se a vida e (That’s the Way Life Is) (1996)
15 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You) (1991)
16 Paninaro / Paninaro ‚'95 (1995)
17 Jealousy (1991)
18 King’s Cross (1987)
19 It’s Alright (1988)
20 Hallo Spaceboy (with David Bowie) (1995)
21 A New Bohemia (2024)
22 Can You Forgive Her? (1993)
23 In The Night [The Clothes Show theme] (1985)
24 So Hard (1990)
25 I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (1993)
26 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk (2000)
27 New York City Boy (1999)
28 Shopping (1987)
29 Love Etc (2009)
30 The Way It Used to Be (2009)
I didn’t end up voting because it was basically impossible 
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Watching it tomorrow because of the Paralympics but did see the Manics earlier. The place is a swamp!
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I was there as well, the weather was ridiculous. Hid away in a bar for most of the afternoon, but Manics and PSB were excellent. That PSB show is so good, pity that’s the last one.
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It looked so miserable on the TV so it would have had to be a really good bill for me not to leave if I’d been there. Which it was. 
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I do hope they do some gigs playing the last album, but I’m assuming they won’t.
The additional Further Listening cd of Behaviour is simply brilliant. B-side and extended mix utopia.
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Their house that hosted their old recording studio is up for sale (it s been a family home for a while)
Read Literally on my hols, and now reading vs America; both great insights and laugh out loud funny at times.
However, now sad that I’ve not seen PSB live.
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Had the vinyl out today. Astonishing that these four albums were released in about a two year period between 1989 and 1991.
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Hmm…