Pet Shop Boys "Nightlife/Release/Fundamental" Re-Issues

[omar]

Here we go. Finally an official release next month :

NIGHTLIFE:

Disc 1:

For Your Own Good
Closer to Heaven
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore
Happiness is An Option
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
Vampires
Radiophonic
The Only One
Boy Strange
In Denial (feat. Kylie Minogue)
New York City Boy
Footsteps

Disc 2:

Vampires (Demo) *
For All of Us (Demo) *
Call Me Old-Fashioned (Demo) *
Friendly Fire
Believe/Song for Guy (feat. Elton John) *
Sail Away
It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas (Fan Club Mix)
Nightlife
Playing in the Streets *
Tall Thin Men *
Radiophonic (Demo) *


Disc 3:

Somebody Else’s Business
Silver Age
Screaming
For All of Us **
The Ghost of Myself
Casting a Shadow
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore (The PSB Extension)
Was It Worth It? (Live) **
Lies
Paris City Boy (Full French) **
Positive Role Model
Somebody Else’s Business (Extended Mix) **



RELEASE:

Disc 1:

Home and Dry
I Get Along
Birthday Boy
London
E-Mail
The Samurai In Autumn
Love is a Catastrophe
Here
The Night I Fell In Love
You Choose


Disc 2:

Between Two Islands
Searching for the Face of Jesus
Time On My Hands
Motoring (Demo) *
Love Life **
Transparent
Sexy Northerner
The Night is a Time to Explore Who You Are (Demo) *
Closer to Heaven (Slow Version)
Run, Girl, Run (Demo) *
I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today
Always
Home and Dry (Ambient Mix)
Bright Young Things (Demo) *
Kazak *
A Powerful Friend (John Peel Session – 10/2/2002) *
If Looks Could Kill (John Peel Session – 10/2/2002) *


Disc 3:

Try It (I’m In Love With a Married Man)
Here (PSB New Extended Mix)
If Looks Could Kill
A Powerful Friend **
Party Song
No Excuse (Demo) *
Blue On Blue
Jack and Jill Party (Demo) *
Baby (Demo)
Flamboyant (Demo)
Miracles
Flamboyant (7” Mix)
Numb (Demo)
In Private (feat. Elton John)
Alone Again, Naturally (feat. Elton John) *
Reunion (Electro Mix) *
Bright Young Things
We’re the Pet Shop Boys
It’s a Sin (Barfly Version)



FUNDAMENTAL:

Disc 1:

Psychological
The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
I Made My Excuses and Left
Minimal
Numb
God Willing
Luna Park
I’m With Stupid
Casanova In Hell
Twentieth Century
Indefinite Leave to Remain
Integral


Disc 2:

Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
Ring Road (Demo) *
The Performance of My Life (Demo) *
One-Way Street (Demo) *
Girls Don’t Cry
The Resurrectionist
The Sodom and Gomorrah Show (Original Demo) **
Dancing in the Dusk (Demo) *
After the Event
The Former Enfant Terrible
No Time for Tears (Orchestral Mix) *
God Willing (Original Full Length Mix) *
I’m With Stupid (PSB Maxi-Mix)
Answer the Phone! (Ringtone) **
Where Are You? (Ringtone) **
Water (Ringtone) **
Numb (Single Edit)
One Night
A Certain “Je ne sais quoi”
Transfer (Visionaire Mix) *
Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate 7” Mix) **
Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate Mix)

The whole reissue program is called Catalogue 1985-2012. So the earlier albums will follow into next year. Track listings for the earlier cds will remain the same but have been newly remastered.

[discoginfo]

I found the release date was 28 July,
here are links to Amazon:

Nightlife:
http://amzn.to/2rWD0XY

Release:
http://amzn.to/2rWIG4d

Fundamental:
http://amzn.to/2sk0GWR

Hmm I was hoping for more discs for the 80s albums!

/JW
http://www.discog.info/psb.html

[omar]

Same here. But since Nightlife etc. have never been remastered they're getting the push first. I was hoping for mega deluxe editions of Please,Actually,Introspective and Behavior. Surely there must be enough material to fit on 3cds. Bit bummed that the earlier albums will have the same track listings.

[discoginfo]

Yes, could be laziness, could be tactic playing (not to make fans angry that they have to buy them again -- just like Saint Etienne did recently with there re-release of their deluxe packages).

[omar]

PSB fans will wait patiently for anything by the band, because they know the fans will buy it regardless.

[ZippY]

PSB fans will wait patiently for anything by the band, because they know the fans will buy it regardless.

I was a huge fan of them, until a couple of years ago. Have all their CD's and CD-singles until Super. But I don't feel the need (anymore) to go for this reissue series.
Still hoping for a boxset for the first 3 albums (something like the Blancmange boxset) ... actually

[omar]

I skipped Electric and Super. For me Elysium was their last good album. Don't know if i'll be buying the new remasters yet... Perhaps Fundamental because i adore Trevor Horn.

[negative1]

already mentioned here:
http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopi ... =5&t=41219

Although tracklisting has changed by a few tracks.

later
-1

[Fred Taghon]

The sets seem a little overstuffed with demos for my tastes. They can be an interesting curiosity for one listen but rarely anything beyond that. The glaring omission of the Almighty remixes of "Try It" or the equally superb Hitmakers remixes of "...Drunk" from the Brazilian promo is a bummer since they have never been commercially available.

The albums themselves aren't screaming to be remastered anyway. Certainly by 1999 the mastering process for CDs had come a long way from simply using the frequency-limited vinyl masters of the 80s. I will certainly be curious about the difference, if any. The only real change I can foresee is they will likely be slightly more compressed to be more in line with more current releases which means everyone will be complaining how "loud" they are (I personally don't mind some compression but admit if it's not done well the result can be harsh).

I will certainly preview these sets "just in case' some of the unreleased stuff is AMAZING, but at the moment have no intention of picking them up.

Disappointed the earlier albums will not expand to 3 disc sets as we all know there remain enough officially released mixes yet to be released on CD or that could benefit from remastering. I'm encouraged that they will be remastered again though, because as I stated in the other thread, the 2001 sets actually did not sound very good (very muffled and hollow) - the main album discs, that is. The bonus discs generally sounded very good.

[Aevion93]

Yeah, those remixes wouldn't be included in any case as the Further Listening sets are limited to their own remixes. I too wish they'd add extra material to the earlier ones, as I have these and while I'd love to have new remasters, I really can't justify the cost.

Hoping the mastering on the new sets is good. In saying that, anything would be better than the mastering on Electric and Super (and the awfully compressed single mix of Memory of the Future).

[omar]

Since there's a major reissue PSB underway now, maybe an album of unreleased remixes might appear next year. Who knows?

[moni]

Since there's a major reissue PSB underway now, maybe an album of unreleased remixes might appear next year. Who knows?

Let's get the released mixes that haven't been released on CD yet first.

[omar]

Since there's a major reissue PSB underway now, maybe an album of unreleased remixes might appear next year. Who knows?

Let's get the released mixes that haven't been released on CD yet first.

What i meant was for the mixes that were left off last time around on the 2001 remasters.