PET SHOP BOYS
RELEASE “SMASH –
THE SINGLES 1985-2020″
ON JUNE 16
Pet Shop Boys announce the upcoming release of “SMASH – The Singles 1985-2020” – the complete collection of their singles from across 35 years of the duo’s acclaimed career.
Available in a variety of formats, the collection will be released on June 16viaParlophone and is available to pre-order now HERE. The package includes all Pet Shop Boys’ hits starting with their debut single “West End girls” and continuing through such iconic tracks as “Love comes quickly”, “It’s a sin”, “Always on my mind”, “Being boring”, “Suburbia”, “Opportunities”, “What have I done to deserve this?”, “Rent” and “Heart”.
Hit singles released between 1993-2003 include “Go West”, “Se a vida é (that’s the way life is)”, “New York City boy”, “Can you forgive her?”, “I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it any more” and “Single bilingual”, while songs released in the most recent period of their career include “The Pop Kids”, “Monkey business”, “Dreamland”, “Love etc.”, “I’m with Stupid”, “Vocal” and their most recent single “I don’t wanna”.
“SMASH The Singles 1985-2020” will be available in a variety of formats including 3CD box set, 6LP vinyl box set and digitally, as well as two special limited edition formats available exclusively via the Pet Shop Boys’ store – 6LP white vinyl box set and 3-cassette box set. A 3CD/2Blu-ray edition will also be released which includes the complete video collection of the singles.
Pet Shop Boys commented: “As we start work on a new album, and later this year continue our ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour, it seems like a good time to take stock and bring together every single we’ve released.”
Ahead of “SMASH”, Pet Shop Boys will publish the 2023 edition of their ‘Annually’ book on April 14. This year’s 64-page hardback book will include an exclusive CD EP titled “Lost”, comprising four tracks recorded in 2015. The songs will also be available on digital platforms in mid-April. From May, the duo will play more dates across the UK and Europe as part of the ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’ tour. The shows include a date at The Eden Project in Cornwall and headline performances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Madrid and Porto.
CD/Digital/Streaming tracklisting
CD1
1. West End girls
2. Love comes quickly
3. Opportunities (Let’s make lots of money)
4. Suburbia
5. It’s a sin
6. What have I done to deserve this?
7. Rent
8. Always on my mind
9. Heart
10. Domino dancing
11. Left to my own devices
12. It’s alright
13. So hard
14. Being boring
15. Where the streets have no name/I can’t take my eyes off you
16. Jealousy
17. DJ Culture
18. Was it worth it? (7” Version)
CD2
1. Can you forgive her?
2. Go West
3. I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing (7” Version)
4. Liberation
5. Yesterday, when I was mad (Single Version)
6. Paninaro 95
7. Before
8. Se a vida è (that’s the way life is)
9. Single bilingual
10. A red letter day
11. Somewhere
12. I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it any more
13. New York City boy (US Radio Edit)
14. You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
15. Home and dry
16. I get along (Radio Edit)
17. Miracles (Radio Edit)
18. Flamboyant (7” Mix)
CD3
1. I’m with Stupid
2. Minimal (Radio Edit)
3. Numb (Single Edit)
4. Love etc.
5. Did you see me coming?
6. It doesn’t often snow at Christmas (New Version)
7. Together (Ultimate Mix)
8. Winner
9. Leaving
10. Memory of the future (New Single Mix)
11. Vocal (Radio Edit)
12. Love is a bourgeois construct (Night-time Radio Edit)
13. Thursday (feat. Example) (Radio Edit)
14. The Pop Kids (Radio Edit)
15. Twenty-something (Radio Edit)
16. Say it to me (New Radio Mix)
17. Dreamland (feat. Years & Years)
18. Monkey business (Radio Edit)
19. I don’t wanna (Radio Edit)
