Concrete (Pet Shop Boys album)

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Concrete
Concrete cover
Live album by Pet Shop Boys
Released 23 October 2006
Recorded May 8, 2006
Genre Pop
Label Parlophone
Producer(s) Trevor Horn
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Fundamental
(2006)		 Concrete
(2006)


Concrete is the seventeenth album by the British band Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 23 October 2006.

Originally due to be called Concert, on 20 September 2006, Pet Shop Boys announced that the album was going to be called Concrete, which was the title that they originally wanted for the album. It is the first live concert to be released by the band on Audio CD.

Contents

[edit] The concert

The performance recorded for the album took place at the Mermaid Theatre on May 8, 2006, as an exclusive for broadcast on BBC Radio 2's Sold on Song program. Attendance, totaling 600, was by invitation or through winning competitions held by Radio 2 and the band's official website. The event was hosted by the BBC's Stuart Maconie.

The May 27 Radio 2 broadcast included an interview conducted by Maconie, but excluded four songs from the running order ("You only tell me you love me when you're drunk", "After all", "Numb", and "Dreaming of the Queen"). The full concert was later broadcast on BBC 6 Music on August 28.

[edit] Song selection

Due to the presence of the orchestra, the setlist was composed to consist of songs originally recorded with an orchestra. Consequently, aside from an extensive selection of songs from Fundamental, various non-studio album tracks were chosen, including the arrangement of "Rent" from the Liza Minnelli album Results, originally arranged by Angelo Badalamenti; "After all", the portion of the band's Battleship Potemkin soundtrack that accompanies the Odessa Steps sequence from the film (performed with the scene projected on a screen in the background); "Friendly fire", from the Closer to Heaven musical; and "Nothing has been proved", the theme song from Scandal, also arranged by Badalamenti.

"West End girls" and "It's a sin" were the only exceptions to the rule, and were reworked to integrate the orchestra.

[edit] Personnel

Pet Shop Boys are:

Other musicians:

Guest singers:

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD one

  1. "Left to my own devices" (8:37)
  2. "Rent" (3:56)
  3. "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" (3:31)
  4. "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" (5:33)
  5. "Casanova in Hell" (sung by Rufus Wainwright) (3:40)
  6. "After all" (7:56)
  7. "Friendly fire" (sung by Frances Barber) (3:57)
  8. "Integral" (4:01)

[edit] CD two

  1. "Numb" (5:03)
  2. "It's alright" (5:03)
  3. "Luna Park" (6:21)
  4. "Nothing has been proved" (4:40)
  5. "Jealousy" (sung by Robbie Williams) (5:57)
  6. "Dreaming of the Queen" (5:28)
  7. "It's a sin" (5:18)
  8. "Indefinite leave to remain" (2:59)
  9. "West End Girls" (4:55)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] The concert

Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe
Discography
Albums: Please | Actually | Introspective | Behaviour | Very | Bilingual | Nightlife | Release | Fundamental
Soundtracks and scores: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording) | Battleship Potemkin
Remix albums: Disco | Disco 2 | Disco 3
Compilations: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Alternative | PopArt: The Hits | Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys
Live: Concrete
Singles: "West End girls" | "Love comes quickly" | "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" | "Suburbia" | "It's a Sin" | "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" | "Rent" | "Always On My Mind" | "Heart" | "Domino dancing" | "Left to my own devices" | "It's alright" | "So Hard" | "Being Boring" | "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" | "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" | "Jealousy" | "DJ Culture" | "Was it worth it?" | "Can you forgive her?" | "Go West" | "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" | "Liberation" | "Yesterday, when I was mad" | "Paninaro '95" | "Before" | "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" | "Single-Bilingual" | "Somewhere" | "I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more" | "New York City boy" | "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" | "Home and dry" | "I get along" | "London" | "Miracles" | "Flamboyant" | "I'm with Stupid" | "Minimal" | "Numb" | "She's Madonna"
Related Articles
Other projects: It Couldn't Happen Here | Reputation | Results | Spaghetti Records | Closer to Heaven
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