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"Music for Boys" 1991 Alternative: Tennant, Lowe B-side of "DJ Culture." Also on Behaviour: Further Listening 1990-1991. "My Girl" 2009 Christmas (EP) Mike Barson: Cover of a Madness song played at a fundraiser for the family of the late Dainton Connell. Also on Yes: Further Listening 2008-2010. [23] "My Head Is Spinning" 1993 Very Relentless ...
"Paninaro" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, originally a B-side to the 1986 single "Suburbia". [2] In 1995, a re-recording titled "Paninaro '95" was released to a wider market, to promote the duo's B-side compilation album Alternative, [3] though only the original version was included on the compilation.
Pet Shop Boys signed with Parlophone, a subsidiary of EMI Records, in March 1985. [10] By that time, Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant had been writing songs together for over three years. Their music was influenced by Italian disco, the emerging American hip-hop scene, and American producer Bobby Orlando's lo-fi electronic dance music.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
"West End Girls" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song's lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life in London which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by ...
"Suburbia" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their debut album, Please (1986). It was re-recorded with producer Julian Mendelsohn for release as the fourth single from the album. Peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart , "Suburbia" was the band's second top 10 hit after " West End Girls ", [ 5 ] and in their view it ...
In February 1989, following the song's inclusion on Introspective but before its release as a single, the original version by Sterling Void was re-issued and reached number 53 in the UK singles chart. Void remixed the Pet Shop Boys recording on the second 12-inch single, titled the "DJ International Mixes".
For the Pet Shop Boys' first tour in 1989, filmmaker Derek Jarman created video projections to be shown during the performance of different songs, including "King's Cross". Some of the footage came from the 1987 music video for " Rent ", featuring Chris Lowe disembarking from a train at King's Cross.