Back To Mine (Anniversary Edition)
Pet Shop Boys
DMC UK, 2005
2 CD
Catalogue #: 20
EAN: 0689781702022
UPC: 689781702022
You save: 20%
DJs: Neil Tennant; Chris Lowe .
Recording information: 1966 - 2004.
This installment of the BACK TO MINE mix series presents a special two-disc collection by the Pet Shop Boys. Keyboardist Chris Lowe compiles the first set, which begins with tracks much in the vein of the Boys' own synth-pop, including Savage's "Don't Cry Tonight" and Mr. Flagio's "Take a Chance." As the disc progresses, the songs get more eclectic, most notably with Queen's melodramatic "The Show Must Go On" and "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love," a smooth closing ballad by one-time Pet Shop collaborator Dusty Springfield.
Frontman Neil Tennant's set goes even further afield, blending together ambient, electronica, classical, and pop. Fairmont's dreamy techno tune "Traum" opens the disc, followed by "Pulse Pause Repeat," a hauntingly minimal track by Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, and Daniel Lentz. Later, Springfield appears again, this time with the gentle, string-laden "Goin' Back," and Tennant wraps things up with Emil Gilels's spare, solo-piano rendition of Edvard Grieg's "Melodie Opus 47 No. 3." Although none of the songs on either disc should surprise Pet Shops Boys fans, the duo's BACK TO MINE outing does reinforce the pair's impeccable taste.
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Pet Shop Boys
Formed in the mid-1980s, the British electropop dance duo Pet Shop Boys neatly summed up the age of WALL STREET player Gordon Gecko's greed-is-good dictum and Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics policy in one of their early singles, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)." However, unlike most of their companions in the 1980s charts, they proved to have remarkable staying power, scoring hits throughout the decade and well into the '90s, and undertaking intriguing and successful collaborations with iconic pop artists like Dusty Springfield and Liza Minnelli. Their later projects included scoring a West End musical and a 2004 live soundtrack to the classic 1920s Russian film, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN.
