Definitely a suggestion for Gooey...he'd love this.

OMG BECKY...This compilation is Amazing! It's import only right now...but I have to say out of all of the BTM comps I have heard this one is complete quality as the others are...but this one goes a little beyond the others. It's Broken down into 2 disks one for Neil and One for Chris.

The two discs will feature one compiled by Chris Lowe, who describes his choices as "songs about love, friendship, sex, religion, hope and despair” and one by Neil Tennant whose tracks form "a sequence of music for late-night listening".



Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Back To Mine’ tracklisting runs:

CD1 (Chris Lowe)

1. Savage – ‘Don't Cry Tonight’
2. Mr Flagio - ‘Take A Chance’
3. Klein and MBO - ‘Dirty Talk’
4. The Flirts - ‘Passion’
5. Matia Bazaar - ‘Ti Sento’
6. Justice vs. Simian - ‘Never Be Alone’
7. Queen - ‘The Show Must Go On’
8. Celestial Choir - ‘Stand On The Word’
9. Carl Bean - ‘I Was Born This Way’
10. Dusty Springfield – ‘I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love’

CD2 (Neil Tennant)

1. Fairmont – ‘Traum’
2. Harold Budd/Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz – ‘Pulse, Pause, Repeat’
3. Biosphere – ‘Microgravity’
4. Vladmir Martynov – ‘Come in! 2’
5. Vladmimir Cosma – ‘Promenade Sentimentale (From Diva)’
6. Etienne Daho – ‘La Baie’
7. Vessel – ‘Tiny’
8. Craig Armstrong – ‘Laura's Theme’
9. Dettinger – ‘One, Two, Three, No Gravity’
10. Dusty Springfield – ‘Goin' Back’
11. Hans Joachim Roedelius – ‘Lunz’
12. Edward Elgar – ‘Sospiri’
13. jz-arkh – ‘DDRhodes’
14. Video Kid – ‘Video Kid’
15. Lobe – ‘Movement’
16. John Surman – ‘At Dusk’
17. Greig – ‘Melodie `Melody' (op 47/3)’

My own take on this comp is Chris' is definitely more disco oriented (as opposed to laid back track that prevail on these comps. Many of the songs sound like PSB songs though they date back to the early 80's There are also a few tracks that sound like they were influenced by the boys themselves. I have not heard any of these songs prior (except Queen)...they are all top notch. It's interesting to hear a 1982 dance track sound like a 1998 PSB track...the bass lines are almost similar.

Neils is of the chill out set you would expect on a comp like this...however he goes deeper...chillier. Mixing ambient tracks like Biosphere with piano and classical music. It's the stuff my friends and I am endeared to. Very personal and intricate...soft and fluffy. One of my favorites is 123 no gravity. Funny, a friend of mine played this for me befoe and claims I didn't like it but that was much more beat driven that the version that appears on this comp. It sounds like Neil singing. It makes you feel as though this type of music is right within their radar to make. However Chris isn't a chillaholic so probably that won't happen. This is my favorite of the 2 disks.

I am glad they broke it up...one faster / one slower. And dusty Springfield is on both My only complaints about this release is the packaging. The artwork is nice...very PSB...and very Back to mine...it's a nice blend (the other comps DID NOT have any special art work). The 2 diskc come in a seperate cardboard sleeve and say Back to mine Neil/Chris respectively. However those two sleeves slip into another cardboard sleeve which isn't very sturdy. ALl liner notes are on each smaller sleeve. This is the IMPORT release...not sure what the domestic will look like. AND AND AND no vinyl apparently will be pressed for this release either.

Below is a small description/interview about the comp...
"My album is for everybody who has been discriminated (against) or dispossessed by society", says Chris. "And I've missed house - I've missed the nineties out; I've concentrated on the eighties and now. And I've chosen records that aren't generally available on other CDs, because otherwise what's the point?" One song he's excited about having on it is an Italian disco record from the Eighties, "Ti Cento" by Maria Bazaar: "I heard it in a club in the Canary Isles and asked the DJ what it was". Likewise he's pleased to have "another favourite track from a long time ago", which he heard in a bar in New York, Savage's "Long Time Ago".

"I decided not to do a favourite-tracks-over-the-years sort of thing", says Neil, "but instead to choose a sequence of music that would be very, very late night, and primarily instrumental, and that tried to mix together electronic music, classical music and pop music in a sort of seamless way. So you could say it's basically a chillout album - it's very, very late night. Could be a listening-to-in-the-bath-with-candles kind of album. Very, very good for that. It'd be quite good to seduce someone to".

The Back to Mine organisation have... been unable to get some choices of Neil's on Warner Bros records: for instance, the Judy Collins version of "Send in the Clowns", or Lou Reed and John Cale's "A Dream" from Songs for Drella. ("It's a monologue - it's Andy Warhol having a dream, and you realise at the end of it that actually Andy Warhol is dreaming while he is dying"). But, much as he like these, he is now perfectly hapy with how his album sounds without them. "I really like it, anyway", Neil reflects. "I think Chris's will be more popular with the fans".'

Pet Shop Boys Chris- Gangsta Rap, DJing & Saturday Night Fever :: Skrufff.com

Despite being usually portrayed as the quiet one from synth-pop legends the Pet Shop Boys, Chris Lowe is as outspoken as he’s prolific as a producer and chatting to Skrufff this week about their new compilation for Back To Mine, he admits the project was an enlghtening new experience.

“It’s the first compilation of other people’s records we’ve ever done and the last, I think; I don’t think we will be making a habit of it,” he chuckles. “We’d never actually been asked to do one before, and when Back To Mine offered it to us we said we’d do it, as long as we could do one CD each, with no compromises being made. They’d never done that before but they agreed so for that reason we decided we’d do it. Also I didn’t want to do a chill out compilation because I’m not really a chill out type of person. I think mine’s probably the first one of the series that’s not really a chill out.”

Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): The press release says the CD is about ‘love, friendship, sex, religion, hope and despair’, sounds like quite a dramatic concept, how did you begin?

Chris Lowe: “It was actually quite a daunting prospect, initially, because there’s no point doing a compilation of records that everybody already knows. So that wiped out most of the nineties I thought, because there’s been compilations released almost every week of nineties stuff. I also wanted songs that I genuinely loved. I tend to like emotional songs and songs that move me. So I decided to go back to eighties electro but then I also didn’t want to just preclude things that I like that are current such as Justice vs Simeon’s Never Be Alone. I was hanging out in Kokon To Zai (trendy Soho clothes/ record shop) one day when I first heard that track and I just loved it so much. I happened to be DJing that night so I played that and it immediately entered into my canon of records that I love. I’m not a huge Queen fan at all, but I’ve always loved The Show Must Go On which is why that track is on there.”

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[Edited 5/4/05 15:45pm]

Love them
They'd have won the Org Mix Contest.

PANDURITO said:

But they didn't enter!!!!!

when did this come out? I haven't seen it. Back to Mine and AnotherLateNight are excellent excellent series. I will be checking this one out

It came out Last week. No one around here had even on order. I had to get it off of Ebay. Amazon says it will be released May 10 or July 12...depending on the listing.

I am hoping for a vinyl version to be made. I don't buy vinyl...but I'd buy this.

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PANDURITO said:

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