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.
He’s 66 today. Happy Birthday, Chris!
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