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Pet Shop Boys ‘Format’ Available for Pre-order.

The UK’s most successful duo of all time need no introduction – The Pet Shop Boys’ 12 UK Top 10 albums (with 7 certified platinum and total sales over 2.5 million records) and their 40 UK Top 20 singles (with 5.4 million sold in the UK alone) simply speak for themselves.

Their mountain of hit singles also contain a perhaps less well-known but equally exquisite collection of b-sides and bonus tracks. To celebrate this prolific song-writing and recording, an incredible 38 b-sides and bonus tracks have now been collected together from singles released between 1996 and 2009, to create ‘Format’.

Available digitally and as 2CD in a lift-off lid box, all tracks on ‘Format’ have been remastered and the box booklet features an interview with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe by Jon Savage (author of ‘England’s Dreaming’ and ‘Teenage’).

‘Format’ follows on from the 1995 release, ‘Alternative’, which collected the duo’s b-sides from 1985 to 1994.

Pet Shop Boys are currently working on their 11th studio album which is due for release in the fall of this year.

Pre-order at Amazon.com (here).

Track Listings

Disc 1

1. The truck-driver and his mate (2012 – Remaster)
2. Hit and miss (2012 – Remaster)
3. In the night 1995 (2012 – Remaster)
4. Betrayed (2012 – Remaster)
5. How I learned to hate rock-and-roll (2012 – Remaster)
6. Discoteca (New version) (2012 – Remaster)
7. The calm before the storm (2012 – Remaster)
8. Confidential (Demo for Tina Turner) [2012 - Remaster]
9. The boy who couldn’t keep his clothes on (2012 – Remaster)
10. Delusions of grandeur (2012 – Remaster)
11. The view from your balcony (2012 – Remaster)
12. Disco potential (2012 – Remaster)
13. Silver age (2012 – Remaster)
14. Screaming (2012 – Remaster)
15. The ghost of myself (2012 – Remaster)
16. Casting a shadow (2012 – Remaster)
17. Lies (2012 – Remaster)
18. Sexy Northerner (2012 – Remaster)

Disc 2

1. Always (2012 – Remaster)
2. Nightlife (2012 – Remaster)
3. Searching for the face of Jesus (2012 – Remaster)
4. Between two islands (2012 – Remaster)
5. Friendly fire (2012 – Remaster)
6. We’re the Pet Shop Boys (2012 – Remaster)
7. Transparent (2012 – Remaster)
8. I didn’t get where I am today (2012 – Remaster)
9. The Resurrectionist (2012 – Remaster)
10. Girls don’t cry (2012 – Remaster)
11. In private (7-inch mix) (2012 – Remaster)
12. Blue on blue (2012 – Remaster)
13. No time for tears (7-inch mix) (2012 – Remaster)
14. Bright young things (2012 – Remaster)
15. Party song (2012 – Remaster)
16. We’re all criminals now (2012 – Remaster)
17. Gin and Jag (2012 – Remaster)
18. After the event (2012 – Remaster)
19. The former enfant terrible (2012 – Remaster)
20. Up and down (2012 – Remaster)

Madonna Officially Announced Name Of Her Upcoming Album

Madonna officially announced the name of her upcoming studio album, which is “M.D.N.A”, which stands for Madonna DNA. The albums first single, “Give Me All Your Luvin’” is to hit radio in the U.S. on February 7th. The album is sent to be released in early Spring provided no one hacks the computers over at Interscope/Universal Records.

Visit Madonna.com for the latest news and updates

10 Things To Look Forward To In 2011…

10. Lady Gaga falls off of the music charts.

9. ‘Green Lantern’ hits theaters on June 17th.

8. Anything James Franco.

7. One World Trade Center will be topped-out by the end of the year.

6. ‘Thor’ hits theaters on May 6th.

5. April release of the iPad 2.

4. Return of ‘White Collar’ on USA Network, January 18th.

3. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ hits theaters on May 20th.

2. ‘Star Wars’ series to be released in early Fall on Blu-ray.

1. Kick off to the 2012 Presidential Election with two big questions… Who will challenge President Obama for Democratic nominee and who will the GOP select to run against the democratic opponent?

Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

‘Factory Records: Communications 1978-92’ celebrates 30 years of arguably the most important music label in the UK, if not pop history, by collating rare and obscure tracks from a diverse range of acts; as well as a dedication to the label’s founder, the late Tony Wilson. The collection features 63 tracks including cuts from New Order, Joy Division, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Electronic, A Certain Ratio, Section 25 and many others. Sleeve notes written by Paul Morley.

‘Factory Records: Communications 1978-92’ box set is available From Warner Music UK, (Rhino Records in the US).

The collection is now available on iTunes, (click here) to visit the Factory Records page.

Track listing:

DISC ONE
1. Joy Division: Digital

2. A Certain Ratio: All Night Party

3. OMD: Electricity (Original version)

4. Joy Division: She’s Lost Control

5. The Distractions: Time Goes By So Slow

6. Joy Division: Transmission

7. The Durutti Column: Sketch For Summer

8. X-O-Dus: English Black Boys

9. Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart

10. A Certain Ratio: Shack Up

11. Section 25: Girls Don’t Count

12. Crawling Chaos: Sex Machine

13. A Certain Ratio: Flight

14. The Names: Night Shift

15. New Order: Ceremony (Original 7″ version)

16. Minny Pops: Dolphin’s Spurt

17. John Dowie: It’s Hard To Be An Egg

18. Crispy Ambulance: Deaf

19. Section 25: Dirty Disco

DISC TWO
1. New Order: Everything’s Gone Green

2. ESG: Moody

3. Tunnelvision: Watching the Hydroplanes

4. The Durutti Column: Messidor

5. A Certain Ratio: Knife Slits Water (LP version)

6. Royal Family and the Poor: Art on 45

7. Swamp Children: Taste What’s Rhythm

8. New Order: Temptation

9. 52nd Street: Cool As Ice

10. New Order: Blue Monday

11. Cabaret Voltaire: Yashar (John Robie Remix)

12. Quando Quango: Love Tempo

13. The Wake: Talk About The Past

DISC THREE
1. New Order: Confusion

2. Marcel King: Reach For Love

3. Section 25: Looking from A Hilltop (12″ Restructure)

4. Stockholm Monsters: All At Once

5. Life: Tell Me

6. The Durutti Column: A Little Mercy (Duet)

7. James: Hymn From A Village

8. Kalima: Trickery

9. A Certain Ratio: Sounds Like Something Dirty

10. Quando Quango: Genius

11. Happy Mondays: Freaky Dancin’

12. Miaow: When It All Comes Down

13. The Railway Children: Brighter

14. Biting Tongues: Compressor

15. New Order: True Faith

16. Happy Mondays: 24 Hour Party People

DISC FOUR
1. New Order: Fine Time

2. Happy Mondays: WFL (Think About the Future)

3. Revenge: Seven Reasons

4. Happy Mondays: Hallelujah (Club Mix)

5. Electronic: Getting Away With It

6. Happy Mondays: Step On

7. Northside: Shall We Take A Trip

8. England New Order: World In Motion

9. Happy Mondays: Kinky Afro

10. The Durutti Column: Home

11. Electronic: Get The Message (DNA remix)

12. Northside: Take 5

13. Cath Carroll: Moves Like You (Remix)

14. The Other Two: Tasty Fish (12″ mix)

15. Happy Mondays: Sunshine and Love (Lionrock Remix)

Source: Warner Music UK
Photo: Warner Music UK