Pet Shop Boys “Back To Mine” compilation is released in the UK today (April 25). As previously reported, it’s a double-CD set, one CD of Chris’s choices and one of Neil’s. The track-listing of each CD is as follows.
Chris: “Songs about love, friendship, sex, religion, hope and despair.”
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
Neil: “A sequence of music for late-night listening.”
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)
Pet Shop Boys’ “Back To Mine” is the 20th release in the series and the first to be a double-CD. Previous artists who have compiled CDs in the series for “after-hours grooving” include New Order, Primal Scream, Richard X, and Everything But The Girl.
Neil has been interviewed by Jake Shears on his “Queer The Music” podcast, talking about the lyrics and the making of the PSB song “It’s a sin”, Pet Shop Boys’ creative process, collaborators and much more. The season finale episode is out now and available at the link below.
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