"Love is a bourgeois construct", the next Pet Shop Boys single from Electric, will be released digitally on September 1st in two bundles with a
CD single following on September 30th. A vinyl release will also be available
at a later date. Both the physical and digital releases include remixes of "Love is a bourgeois construct" from the likes of Little Boots and Dave Audé
plus two brand new B-sides, "Entschuldigung!" and "Get it Online".
Format information is as follows:
Digital Bundle 1 (released September 1st)
1. Love is a bourgeois construct (Nighttime Radio Edit)
2. Entschuldigung!
3. Get it Online
4. Love is a bourgeois construct (The Penelopes Remix Radio
Edit)
Digital Bundle 2 (released September 1st)
1. Love is a bourgeois construct (The Penelopes Remix)
2. Love is a bourgeois construct (Claptone Remix)
3. Love is a bourgeois construct (Little Boots Discotheque)
4. Love is a bourgeois construct (Dave Audé Big Dirty Dub
Remix)
5. Love is a bourgeois construct (Claptone instrumental)
CD (released September 30th)
1. Love is a bourgeois construct (Nighttime radio edit)
2. Entschuldigung!
3. Get it online
4. Love is a bourgeois construct (The Penelopes remix)
5. Love is a bourgeois construct (Claptone remix)
6. Love is a bourgeois construct (Little Boots Discothèque)
7. Love is a bourgeois construct (Dave Audé Big Dirty Dub)
8. Love is a bourgeois construct (Claptone instrumental)
9. Love is a bourgeois construct (Little Boots Discothèque
Dub)
9 comments:
An utterly fantabulosa song! Let's hope it gets them back in the charts where they belong. Jx
The whole album seems to get better and better with each listen!
The CD single will not be chart eligible and since they don't really sell on downloads I suspect it won't do much on the charts... The CD single of "Vocal" is fabulous though - great oversized fold out wallet, filled with mixes. But with this one including a couple of new songs, I'm even more excited. The biggest thrill about their singles is always to hear the B-sides (at least for me).
It "will not be chart eligible" - why on earth not? It's better quality that most of the crud that clogs up what passes for a "chart" these days! I just listened to that Ellie Goulding thing that's apparently Number 1 for the first time, and had to switch it off after 30 seconds... Jx
Well, the damn rules and regulations that originally ruined the CD single market in the UK are to blame. A CD single can not be too long, it can not combine b-sides and too many remixes etc etc. It is a ridiculous thing that apparently took effect because some bloody bands complained about the "pressure" of having to come up with extra tracks or b-sides for their singles to be able to compete with the artists that actually did bother!
Several similar acts, such as Erasure and OMD have released CD singles that were way too long or mixed material that did not fall under those rules - therefore, the CD sales could not be counted towards the singles chart. The new one from OMD is a good example - it features 5 b-sides and 4 remixes.
Ridiculous. So a downloaded album track by Shakin' Stevens (ffs) can make the chart at Xmas, but a brand new carefully put-together single - OK, call it an "EP" perhaps - by a still-credible artist cannot? I hate the rubbish way these things are regulated. Jx
Absolutely - I recently posted a blog about the US singles chart, but the UK one isn't much better!
Also, back in the 90's (if memory serves) only three formats could count towards the charts in the UK. A lot of artists used to release vinyl picture discs, limited CD singles etc but with those new rules most of them stopped and released two CD singles and a regular 12". Those who released more then three formats would see the extra formats excluded from the charts, despite actually selling them!
There have been loads of odd changes to the rules over the 60 years the chart has been in existence (at various points EPs and even, for some reason, a couple of albums made it in). This probably goes some way to explain why artists who sold shed-loads of hard copies in both eligible and non-eligible formats (such as Nana Mouskouri, Pet Clark and artists of that ilk) don't feature as high in the singles rankings. Jx
A lot of the single rules stemmed from a 1990's lawsuit. Someone looked at singles at saw that there was an hours worth of music and (I'm using American currency values here) the disk was $5. At the same time an album is coming out with 45 minutes worth of music and it's $14. There were also time rules enacted for what constitutes a single, around that time The Orb released one for the Blue Room that was a very long mix (IIRC) and Moby did one for Hymn that was one track that clocked in close to 40 min.
I feel that there is a big difference though - a CD single/EP usually features very different material then an album would (remixes, demos etc) so even though the running time may be 80 minutes, it's still not an album.
I personally like the types of CD single the best that feature a couple of new songs and a couple of really good mixes. I have grown rather tired of remix packages of 20 mixes or something - who has the time to get through them all? Kylie Minogue once said something along the lines of remixes having remixed themselves to death. I must agree - but I still love a really, really good remix of a good track. Sadly, these are almost never actually available on physical formats, and I am expected to pay around 40 pounds on-line for a promo CD of the remixes for the new Cher single. And of course I refuse to buy them digitally.
Such a shame how all the fun seems to have gone out of the music business, both in terms of charts, releases and even radio. Thank god we still get music videos!
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