What's New? – Recent Updates & Additions
January 18, 2026
PSB Songs Performed by Other Artists
Thanks to Julián Puga for letting me know that Ghost's 2018 cover of "It's a Sin" appears in the trailer for the videogame Lords of the Fallen II. I should also point out that their remake was very recently re-released as a single in its own right. I've noted these facts in an expansion on the pre-existing entry for this recording in my list of Pet Shop Boys songs performed by other artists.
January 15, 2026
Updates/Corrections
Song Annotations
The Current 10 Most Collectible PSB Releases Based on Highest Prices Paid
My 5 Least Favorite PSB Videos
My 4 Least Favorite PSB AlbumsI have a number of updates to call out this morning. So I extend my thanks to:
- Felix Rowe (whose name I've added to my Thank You page) for several valuable suggestions, including a possible punning connection between the title of the song "Get It Online" and the classic T. Rex hit "Get It On" and the fact that "rock" (as in the song "At Rock Bottom") may be an allusion to a common slang term for crack cocaine. I've noted these observations in new annotations for those two songs.
- Henrik S for providing a possible alternate interpretation of the line "You can come and go and still be here" in "Dreamland," which I've used to expand the existing annotation for that line in my commentary on that track.
- Danny Edmunds for alerting me to a recent sale price for the notorious (and extremely rare) "The Truck-Driver and His Mate" promo 12-inch vinyl disc that earns it a spot in my list of the current ten most collectible PSB releases based on highest prices paid. This, incidentally, is at least the second visit of that item to that list; it had been listed there some years ago but had been "pushed out" by other releases fetching higher prices.
- Robert Schulz aka DJ Lazy Lodger (whose name I've also added to my Thank You page) for reporting a typo, now corrected, on my page devoted to my least favorite Pet Shop Boys music videos.
- Raymond Merkh for sharing an observation that has inspired me to reorder my recently revised list of my least favoirte PSB albums.
January 12, 2026
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to Nigel Brand for clarifying a point related to my update yesterday concerning "Memory of the Future," Erich von Däniken, and his most famous book, Chariots of the Gods? I've now made the appropriate adjustments to the pertinent annotation for that song.
Also, thanks to Des for pointing out that I needed to add Disco 5 to my list of subsequent albums in the Disco series on my page for the album Disco, as well for a perhaps inadvertent nudge inspiring me to add Disco 5 to my list of least favorite Pet Shop Boys albums, replacing Disco there.
January 11, 2026
Song Annotations
Thanks to Soti Dimadis for alerting me to a couple of interesting items related to "Memory of the Future" that I've drawn upon to create two new bullet-point annotations to my commentary on that song. One involves the Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who passed away only yesterday, and the other comes from the field of psychology.
January 9, 2026
My 5 Least Favorite PSB Videos
Thanks so much to Paul Lefrere for suggesting that I revisit several of my lists to see whether I should make any changes in light of more recent Pet Shop Boys releases. Considering his suggestions, I found only one list for which, yes, I determined I should update: my five least favorite PSB videos. I've now deleted the music videos for "Rent" and "Paninaro" from that list and replaced them with those for "Feel" and "All the Young Dudes." Thanks again, Paul!
Song Annotations
Thanks to Matteo for recommending that I mention the recent lawsuit involving "Go West" and its deletion from the pending Dreamworld Blu-ray on my page devoted to that song. I've now added a new bullet-point annotation briefly summarizing the matter as best I understand it.
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to C.M. for noticing that the same typo noted just below (January 8) also appeared in one of the annotations on my page for "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" itself—an obvious example of careless cutting and pasting on my part. I've now made this correction as well.
January 8, 2026
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to Tom Scarlett for catching a longstanding typo, now corrected, in the entry for "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" in my list of Pet Shop Boys songs that contain literary references, one that had given Marcel Proust an impossible lifespan. I always get a kick out of the way that such errors can go unnoticed (or at least unreported) either by me or anyone else for such a long time.
January 6, 2026
PSB Concert Tours
The Pet Shop Boys' official website has announced a second Dreamworld show in Chile, this one on February 27 in the capital city of Santiago. I've updated my PSB Tours page accordingly. Meanwhile, their site also reports the excellent news that Neil is recovering nicely from his recent gastrointestinal virus and that he should be able to perform at this evening's show scheduled for Tokyo—which, in light of the time difference, will have already taken place by the time I post this.
January 5, 2026
Major PSB VHS/LD/DVD Releases
The Pet Shop Boys have announced that the much-delayed Dreamworld Blu-ray/CD set is now scheduled for release in late February and that, as a result of legal challenges, will definitely not include "Go West." I've now appropriately modified its entry on my page devoted to major PSB VSH/LD/DVD releases.
Tracks by Other Artists That Sample the Pet Shop Boys
Thanks to longtime site visitor Soti Dimadis for raising serious questions about my latest addition to my list of tracks by other artists that sample the Pet Shop Boys (see January 3 below). After some thought, I've come to agree with his reservations, so I've moved #37 in that list from the "certain" group down to the "possible" category.
January 4, 2026
PSB Concert Tours
The Pet Shop Boys' official website reports this morning that their appearance this evening at Japan's Rockin' On Sonic Festival has been canceled on account of Neil suffering from what's described as "an acute gastrointestinal virus." We certainly wish Neil a very speedy recovery! In the meantime, I've revised my PSB Concert Tours page to note this cancellation.
January 3, 2026
Tracks by Other Artists That Sample the Pet Shop Boys
Happy New Year! For my first site update of 2026, I extend my thanks to Jared Schiller (whose name I've added to my Thank You page) for telling me about an obscure dance track from 2018 that very strongly sounds as though it repeatedly samples a snippet of Neil's background vocals from "Love Comes Quickly." I've added it to my list of tracks by other artists that sample the Pet Shop Boys at #37.
December 30, 2025
Personal Observations
I've heard from a couple of my U.S. site visitors, who ordered my book Pet Shop Boys: Song by Song Volume 1 (1984-2004) from Amazon US, letting me know that they've now received their copies. And I've heard from a few others from countries aside from either the U.K. or the U.S. who have also received copies that they ordered from various sites. I'm so glad that it's now reaching more people. Thanks so much, and I hope you all like it!
December 28, 2025
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to Rob for catching a typo, now corrected, here on this page.
December 26, 2025
Wayne's "PSB Dreams"
I hope all of you who celebrate the holiday had a wonderful Christmas! As a slightly belated holiday gift (if you can call it that), I'm sharing the latest of my "PSB Dreams" from last night. If you're interested in that sort of thing, I invite you to read about it.
December 21, 2025
Indexes, Expanded Bibliography, Addenda, and Errata for My Pet Shop Boys: Song by Song Books
Thanks to Nigel Brand for alerting me to a second unfortunate error, concerning the original release format of "Run, Girl, Run," in my recent book Pet Shop Boys: Song by Song Volume 1 (1984-2004). I've now recorded this error on my downloadable, printable file of additional material for the book, which is accessible from a special page in my "Extras" section.
December 20, 2025
Updates/Corrections
Thanks so much to Matteo for noticing a "chronology error," so to speak, on my PSB Concert Tours page. I've now made the requisite correction.
December 19, 2025
PSB Concert Tours
The Pet Shop Boys have announced a Dreamworld show for São Paulo, Brazil, on March 3. I've updated my PSB Concert Tours page accordingly. (The same announcement mentioned that there will also be a show in Santiago, Chile, sometime before the Brazil concert, but its precise venue and date have yet to be revealed.)
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to mcstunko (whom I've just added to my Thank You page) for reporting a longstanding typo, now corrected, on my page for the song "Integral."
December 17, 2025
Mixes/Versions
Thanks to Nenad P. for providing information confirming that the newly released "Pet Shop Boys Remix" of "Ich bin Musik," performed by Frances Barber, which appears as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Disco 5, is indeed different from the "Radio Edit" originally released on Musik. I've therefore made a few appropriate updates on the pertinent pages of my website.
December 16, 2025
The Official PSB Christmas Cards
I've updated my page devoted to the Pet Shop Boys' Christmas cards to include the 2025 card, officially unveiled today. They also posted a fully animated version of it with audio on YouTube.
December 12, 2025
On This Day in Pet Shop Boys History
Thanks to Andrew Shaw for catching and reporting an apparent error on today's "On This Day in Pet Shop Boys History" page, which I've now corrected.
December 11, 2025
Breaking News!
Annually 2026, scheduled for shipment April 16, 2026, is now available for pre-order (along with other related merchandise) from the Pet Shop Boys' official website!
December 8, 2025
PSB Songs That Have Been Used in Films and "Non-musical" TV Shows
Thanks to Mark Müller for pointing out that while "West End Girls" is included on the motion picture soundtrack album for the 2014 film Pride, the song doesn't actually appear in the film itself. This has led me to make a significant adjustment to my inclusion of this film in my list of Pet Shop Boys songs used in films and non-musical TV shows; I've demoted it to a "Worth noting" statement at the end of my entry for that song at the start of this list.
And speaking of both WEG and that particular list, thanks to Rory Simpson and Regis P. for letting me know that an instrumental segement of that track appears in the new BBC Three documentary Matthew Perry and the Ketamine Queen. (Rory was the first to tell me, but I wasn't able to act on his input immediately. Before I had a chance to so so, Regis contacted me about it as well.) I've noted this as well in the entry for that song at #1 in that list.
December 5, 2025
PSB Songs That Have Been Used in Films and "Non-musical" TV Shows
Thanks to George "Jammer" Dashevsky for telling me that three Pet Shop Boys songs—"Go West," "Heart," and "It's a Sin"—were used in three different 2014 episodes of the popular Russian television sitcom Fizruk (Физрук) about a former gangster turned high school P.E. teacher. I've noted these occurrences in the respective entries for those tracks in my list of PSB songs used in films and non-musical TV shows.
December 3, 2025
Mixes/Versions
Thanks to Harald Ihle for pointing out (and providing the necessary evidence) that the "Vocal" mix for the Pet Shop Boys' original 1997 release of "It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas" is also "officially" known by two other names: the "Fan Club Mix" and "Radio Mix 1." I've therefore noted these alternate titles in my mixes/versions section for that song.
December 2, 2025
PSB Songs That Have Been Used in Films and "Non-musical" TV Shows
Thanks to Zazou2 (Laura C.A. Moloney-Kenny) for letting me know that "West End Girls" can be heard near the end of a recent episode of Alan Carr's U.K. TV comedy Changing Ends. I've noted this fact in the entry for that song at #1 in my list of Pet Shop Boys songs used in films and non-musical TV shows.
December 1, 2025
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to Angela Gilham for reporting an outdated link on my page that lists "The Pet Shop Boys' 'Ten Commandments of Pop'." I've now updated it appropriately.
Thanks also to Harald Ihle for alerting me to a problem in my top navigation bar whereby the pulldown link for "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" wasn't working. I've now fixed it, although it may take exiting your browser and refreshing the page and/or frame in order for the fix to take effect on any given computer.
In recognition of this assistance, I've now added both Angela and Harald to my Thank You page.
Incidentally, speaking of "I'm in Love with a German Film Star," I greatly appreciate long-time contributor Nigel Brand catching a similarly long-time error on my part, in which I had mistakenly assumed a female film star being the object of its narrator's attentions. As Nigel correctly pointed out, the song's lyrics never explicitly indicate his or her gender. I don't know why I had assumed that the German film star was female. Maybe I was so mesmerized by Ms. Taylor-Wood's (now Taylor-Johnson) pseudo-lesbian Marlene Dietrich drag on the sleeve artwork that I had assumed lesbian overtones. At any rate, I've now revised what I say about that song to eliminate those references. Thanks so much, Nigel!
November 29, 2025
Pet Shop Boys' U.K. and U.S. Pop Chart History
Thanks once again to John McFadden, this time for pointing out that I hadn't yet added Disco 5 to my Pet Shop Boys' U.K. and U.S. Pop Chart History page, an oversight that I've now rectified. While there I noticed that I had also failed to include the Sleaford Mods' remake of "West End Girls" to the table farther down on that same page concerning "Charted UK/US Singles by Other Artists That PSB Wrote and/or Produced." I've now made that belated update as well.
November 28, 2025
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to John McFadden for letting me know that Disco 5 has debuted on the U.K. compilation albums chart at #7 and the vinyl albums chart at #15, facts that I've now noted on my page devoted to this latest Pet Shop Boys release.
November 22, 2025
PSB Concert Tours
As just announced on the Pet Shop Boys' official website, they will be headlining the Viña Del Mar International Song Festival in Chile with a Dreamworld show in late February. I've added this concert to my PSB Concert Tours page, although the precise February date apparently won't be announced until this coming Monday.
UPDATE: I've now updated my entry for this show with its precise scheduled date: February 23, 2026.
November 20, 2025
Personal Observations
Roughly three weeks after its U.K. publication, I finally have my very own copy of my new book Pet Shop Boys: Song by Song Volume 1 (1984-2004). Woo-hoo!
Song Annotations
Thanks to Andrew Shaw for pointing out that, as Neil does near the start of "The Secret of Happiness," Michael Jackson whispers the word "butterflies" at the beginning of his 2001 song "Butterflies." Andrew believes this is more than a coincidence, while I'm not nearly so confident about that. Either way, however, we agree that it's well worth mentioning in a new second bullet-point annotation to the Pet Shop Boys song.
Updates/Corrections
Thanks to Jeff Schapira for catching and reporting a typo, now corrected, on my page devoted to the most collectible PSB releases based on the highest known prices paid for them.
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