Official PSB ringtones
While there's no shortage of "unofficial" PSB cellphone ringtones circulating in cyberspace, the Pet Shop Boys themselves have turned quite a few of their songs into cellphone ringtones. (At one time these were readily available online, but I'm no longer able to locate them.) A few of these ringtones are "exclusives"—that is, they're not even based on previously released material. Instead they exist solely (as far as we know) as ringtones created by Chris and Neil. The following list starts with these "exclusives," complete with brief descriptions, and then follows with an alphabetized list of previously released songs that have been "ringtonized." (And many thanks to David Elliott for informing me of these ringtones and providing this list!)
Ringtones that exist exclusively as ringtones:
- Answer the Phone
An upbeat bit of technopop offered in both a standard and an extended version. It features a vocodorized vocal (Chris, perhaps?) singing the title phrase.
- Water
Nine seconds of ambient, light, yet somewhat spooky sound.
- Where
Are You?
Lovely and atmospheric. Neil sings, "Hello—where are you? Pick up the phone, please."
Ringtones based on previously released material:
- Always on My Mind
- Before
- Being Boring
- Can You Forgive Her?
- DJ Culture
- Domino Dancing
- Flamboyant
- Go West
- Heart
- Home and Dry
- I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
- I Get Along
- I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- I'm with Stupid
- It's a Sin
- It's Alright
- Jealousy
- Left to My Own Devices
- Liberation
- Love Comes Quickly
- Minimal
- Miracles
- New York City Boy
- No time for tears
- Numb
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Paninaro '95
- Psychological
- A Red Letter Day
- Rent
- Se A Vida E (That's the Way Life Is)
- Single-Bilingual
- So Hard
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- Somewhere
- Suburbia
- To the Shore
- West End Girls (two versions)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
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