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.
The re-recorded version of “West End girls” by Pet Shop Boys first entered the UK Official Singles Chart on November 16, 1985, at number 80. It entered the Top 40 the following week, and eventually reached number one on January 11, 1986. The single was originally released in 1984 but only became a club hit in the US before being re-recorded and re-released in late 1985, becoming a major global success. It is being celebrated by BBC Radio 2 as part of “Pet Shop Boys, Forty” from 8pm GMT this evening. The DJ presenting the show, Gary Davies, gave the hit version of “West End girls” its first play on the BBC back in 1985.
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