#petshopboys

[1980sand1990smusicclassics]

"Disappointed" is the fourth single released by English alternative dance group Electronic.Like their first single "Getting Away with It", it features Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys as well as founding members Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.

It was released on 22 June 1992 on Parlophone soon after the demise of Factory Records.

The single was assigned the Factory catalogue number FAC 348, and the logo of the label remained on the artwork.Upon the song's release, it reached the top 20 in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

It also peaked within the top 10 on three US Billboard charts - US Dance Club Play, US Maxi-Singles Sales & US Modern Rock Tracks.In July 1992, the song was featured in the soundtrack of the live-action/animation hybrid mystery movie Cool World and its inclusion both in the film and on its soundtrack album was advertised on the US single release.

The song was based on a piano riff by Marr's brother Ian; and worked up into a full backing-track by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.They decided to ask Neil Tennant to complete the song and he wrote the lyrics and vocal melody.Some of the words ("Disenchanted once more...") were partly inspired by Mylène Farmer's 1991 hit "Désenchantée".

Tennant travelled to Manchester to record the lead vocal and a few weeks later went to Paris to attend the final mix of the song by Stephen Hague."Disappointed" was conceived just before the recording of New Order's sixth studio album Republic, and was performed live in December 1991 on Electronic's European tour: in Glasgow (sung by Bernard Sumner) and in London (sung by Tennant when Pet Shop Boys guested on three songs).

"Disappointed" was the last Electronic single to be released on all four major formats (7-inch, 12-inch, CD, and cassette).The content of the single was more dynamic than its predecessors, however; it had only one remix of the A-side (by 808 State; titled "808 Mix" in the US and "12-inch remix" in the UK), an additional treatment of a 1991 album track ("Idiot Country", with Ultimatum), and an earlier mix of "Disappointed" (called "Electronic Mix" in the US).The A-side of the single is itself a remix since producer Stephen Hague reworked the "Original Mix" for single release.

Although Electronic would enjoy three more top-twenty singles in the United Kingdom, "Disappointed" was the last major commercial success for the band on an international level, becoming a dance chart hit in the United States and reaching the top 20 in Germany as well as number six in the UK, their highest-charting effort there.

Until the release of Get the Message – The Best of Electronic in 2006, the track was not available on an Electronic album release.

However, since "Disappointed" was featured in the 1992 film Cool World, the song was available on the soundtrack album Songs from the Cool World.Roger Morton of NME was negative in his review, calling the song "effortless in the worse sense" and one that "drifts off into a no man's land of half-hearted disco miserablism".

He commented that Sumner and Marr "have programmed in the garagey synth lines and soft pedal Italian piano, and left out any semblance of melody", while Tennant "murmurs a few lugubrious lines with the enthusiasm of a narcoleptic jellyfish".

Andrew Mueller of Melody Maker felt it "sounds as if minimum effort was exerted over its creation" and concluded, "This sounds like a Pet Shop Boys album track. This yaws where they have stretched.”

"Electronic - Disappointed (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

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[periodictableofsynthpop]

Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys) . . . #chrislowe #psb #petshopboys #synthpop #80s #80smusic #1980s #1980smusic #ptos https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsL7chuZdb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#chrislowe #psb #petshopboys #synthpop #80s #80smusic #1980s #1980smusic #ptos

[psbellbunny-tubelinha]

Neil Tennant (Performance Tour 1991)

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[elenatria]

Paralyzed in the Purple Zone.

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[8bitbearalbum]

Pet Shop Boys Introspective

64x64 pixel art

#petshopboys #psb #alwaysonmymind #hinrg #synthpop #indiedance #8bit #pixelart #pixel #nes #gameboy #chiptune #8bitmusic

[8bitbearmusic]

8-Bit version of Always On My Mind, great song from Pet Shop Boys

#petshopboys #psb #alwaysonmymind #hinrg #synthpop #indiedance #8bit #pixelart #pixel #nes #gameboy #chiptune #8bitmusic #Youtube

[musikblog]

Die Pet Shop Boys haben gestern neue Single „Loneliness“ veröffentlicht, ein erster Blick auf das für den 26. April angekündigte neue Album „Nonetheless“. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) Überall, wo man gehäuft auf Boomer trifft – beispielsweise Weißes Haus, Reichstag, Number 10 oder im Kreml – gellt […]

https://www.musikblog.de/2024/02/pet-shop-boys-loneliness-neue-single/?feed_id=781

#ElektroPop #News #SynthPop #PetShopBoys

[berenixium]

It’s Alright - (Pet Shop Boys, actually) - #SoundCloud #Music #PetShopBoys

https://soundcloud.com/pet-shop-boys-actually/its-alright

#SoundCloud #Music #PetShopBoys

[zoso418]

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2019)

#youtube #petshopboys

[eric-sadahire]

I wish every pet owner would release an album of songs they make up for their pets

#Ruffcuts #songlists #petowner #iwish #newalbum #petsongs #same #goingplatinum #songswesing #madeup #oddly specific #petshopboys #newesttrend #acrylic #artists on tumblr #dailyartwork #artoftheday #painting #outsiderart #lowbrowart #kunst #artwork #flomm #flommist #beercoaster #beermat #bierdeckel #perspective

[1980sand1990smusicclassics]

"Getting Away with It" is the first single by the English band Electronic, which comprised Bernard Sumner of New Order, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and guesting vocalist Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. 

It was first released in 1989.

Musically, Bernard Sumner wrote the verse and Johnny Marr wrote the chorus.

The lyrics, co-written by Tennant with Sumner, are a parody of Marr's Smiths partner Morrissey, and his public stereotyping as morose and masochistic (Pet Shop Boys would further satirise this trend on their 1990 song "Miserablism").

Morrissey, for his part, criticized the song in a 1991 interview, calling it "totally useless" and joking that the song had a "very apt title".

In a 2021 interview with Music Radar, Marr revealed that Chris Lowe also worked on the track, citing the bassline as his work. 

ABC and The The, Drummer David Palmer programmed the track's drums.

Two music videos were made for "Getting Away with It".

The first, directed by Chris Marker and produced by Michael Shamberg for European use in 1989, featured Sumner, Marr and Tennant in a studio environment miming to the single edit of the song.

Additional footage of Marker's muse Catherine Belkhodja, strolling among peacocks through Paris Zoo and also singing to the track, was left out.

The second video, shot in 1990, was made for the US release.

Sumner and Tennant appeared, alternately, against a series of coloured backgrounds, with artistic effects superimposed.

Two women's faces are also panned in close-up.

The later version is available on the 2006 Get the Message DVD.

Electronic - Getting Away With It (1990 Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

#electronic #bernardsumner #bernard sumner #johnnymarr #johnny marr #neiltennant #neil tennant #petshopboys #pet shop boys #chrislowe #chris lowe #neworder #new order #thesmiths #the smiths

[periodictableofsynthpop]

SynthFact 052 . . . #petshopboys #psb #softcell #daveball #davidball #synthpop #80s #80smusic #1980s #1980smusic #ptos https://www.instagram.com/p/CkqQPpVOBTl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#petshopboys #psb #softcell #daveball #davidball #synthpop #80s #80smusic #1980s #1980smusic #ptos

[psbellbunny-tubelinha]

Day 7 - Hotspot Pet Shop Boys Week

#petshopboysweek #petshopboysweek2023 #PetShopBoys #petshopboysdrawing #petshopboysinspiration #pethead #petheadart #petshopboysfanart

[elenatria]

Neil introduces "from Blackpool, Lancashire, the one and only Mr Chris Lowe" and breaks into laughter mid-song as Chris messes up and plays out of tune (proof that he's playing live lol). They both crack up as if it's just the two of them watching TV on a Sunday afternoon, as if the world isn't watching. "He can't remember the chords," Neil jokes and adds "We were NEVER being boring, particularly in the end."

One true Lowetennant moment. 💗💗

#petshopboys #neiltennant #chrislowe #edinburgh #edinburghhogmanay #concertinthegardens #beingboring #end #psb #2022 #newyearseve #lowetennant #Youtube

[jamieroxxartist]

#PetShopBoys #GoWest

#PetShopBoys #GoWest #Youtube

[unblogparaloschicos]

Música: New York City Boy (1999)

Si hay un grupo que ha aportado música y color a la vasta cultura LGBTQ, ese es sin duda el británico Pet Shop Boys. En 1999 publicó su séptimo álbum de estudio, titulado “Nightlife” y este tema fue parte de ese proyecto. El video que lo presenta no da pista alguna de que su protagonista sea gay (la idea general reside en ponderar la magnificencia neoyorquina, celebrando especialmente la su vida nocturna), pero es notable que el joven (interpretado por el actor Freddie Findlay) manifieste más fascinación en los bailarines del Studio 54 (mítico club nocturno ubicado en Braoadway) que en las chicas prostitutas que intentan seducirle.

Aquí, por si te interesa la letra: 

When you're a boy Some days are tough Lying on your bed Playing punk rock and stuff Home is a boot camp You gotta escape Want to go and wander In the ticker-tape You feel the deals is real You're a New York City boy So young, so run Into New York City

New York City boy You'll never have a bored day Cause you're a New York City boy Where Seventh Avenue Meets Broadway

The street is amazing The hoochies unreal Check out all the hardware At the latest deal Hear a song That's the bomb! If you don't get the mix It's gone eighty-six You feel the deal is real You're in New York City

New York City boy You'll never have a bored day Cause you're a New York City boy Where Seventh Avenue Meets Broadway New York City boy This is your reward day Cause you're a New York City boy Where Seventh Avenue Meets Broadway

Then as the evening falls You can return its calls

You feel the deal is real You're a New York City boy So young, so run Into New York City

#Música #NewYorkCityBoy #1999 #PetShopBoys #adolescencia #FreddieFindlay