Uh oh, someone here isn't going to be happy!





Gwen McCrae cover? Well I guess that's technically true, although Elvis was the first to have a hit with it.


Speaking of which, anyone seen the recent Elvis movie where Tom Hanks plays a c**t?
SPOILER ALERT: Elvis dies on the toilet. But also SPOILER ALERT:
And once you've seen the film, watch the Honest Trailer.
And if you like Honest Trailers: remember when we briefy got excited about Wonder Woman 1984 here...until we saw the film? The Honest Trailer for that is absolutely perfect.

Since it's not completely off topic, do any of you fellow Pet Shop Boys fans have thoughts regarding their setlist?

I personally think 4 cover versions is too many. Always on My Mind and It's Alright are iconic, so deserve to be there. But I would have thought Go West would get the nod over Losing My Mind and Where the Streets have No Name. The latter 2 songs always struck me as being given "the PSB treatment" compared to the inspired versions of AoMM, IA and GW.

I understand the focus on the first 2 album's era, especially as their mainstream profile in the U.S. was far higher at that point than any other. But 7 (8 if you count AoMM) songs out of 19 seems a bit high. I would drop Heart. It may have been a UK #1, but feels like the runt of that period's litter now. There are plenty of tracks since then that did damage to the club charts even if they weren't troubling the pop charts here. And two of my favourite albums by them aren't represented at all (A Red Letter Day from Bilingual and Pandemonium from Yes, at the very least). And I love non-album single Flamboyant.

The last thing I would say is that I held out hope they'd include one of their underappreciated dance/electro oriented tracks that wasn't necessarily a pop hit. I know it was a long shot, but given their touring partners, I thought they might slip one of these beasts in:

Forever in Love

Euroboy

The Resurrectionist

Fugitive

Axis

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SEP 28 2022 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA

Setlist.fm

Nothing new added to the pool. It was a good run.

An Excellent show at MSG in NYC, I missed the show in Barclay center in Brooklyn Friday night, NO put a great show, barney was in a good mood and very thankful, great show by NO, then after that PSB put on an Incredible show, what a combination of artists, hope they do it again, one thing sad I notice was that all the fans are very old now , I dont think I saw that many young people there, all 50s and above, are they going to tour in Europe with this Line up ?

UK Unity Gig next year would be awesome - fingers crossed.

Nice lasers.

SEP 30 2022 at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL, USA

Setlist.fm

Sorry Chicago. Not only were there no new songs added to the pool, the 13 song set was the shortest of the tour so far. Based on the announcement of the earlier start time, were sound curfew considerations to blame?

Edit: The setlist I linked to on the night was later edited to include the missing 14th track.

Edited by user 06 October 2022 10:28:33(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

OCT 2 2022 at Minneapolis Armory, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Setlist.fm

Back to a 14 track set with 2 song Joy Division encore.

I am.

You're correct. My post linked to Setlist.fm that night, but an edit was later made to include the missing track.

OCT 7 2022 at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Setlist.fm

California Dreaming certainly a surprise.

Does Silent Face video has more LA footage as well? I have seen this live a few times I don't recall some of the footage. Love opening tribute to LA as well.