Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [Original Version] (1984)
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2017
- Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Original Version)
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Original Bobby Orlando production of what would become PSB's first hit!
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I have the zyx-12" with 5.00 minutes playtime. I'm so glad to be a child of the 80's. That was real electronic music. Handmade, outstanding, timeless.
Cheap claps? Yes. Cheap cowbell? Yes. So what? I freaking love it
Finally, the correct answer to this thread! ❤️
all the sounds made with the EMU2. every. single. sound.
masterpiece.
Soooo 80's! ;)
Same. Makes me just want to dance!
Many sounds of this track don’t fit into the mix. Some are too loud or not properly EQed, lots of disharmonies before the first verse on the pad sounds, the drums are way off at times and destroying the rhythm. Whoever mixed this track was either drunk or deaf.
The 2020 Guardian no.1 uk single poll sent me here!
As a DJ, I used to play that 12" when it came out. It took a whole year until a second mix was done and played on the radio. I always preferred this first mix by Bobby O'.
My wife and I were traveling on vacation last week and this version came on Sirius XM's 1st Wave channel, she never knew there was an original version of West End Girls, she really liked this version. I love both version, the original is funky, danceable and raw while the album version (common version) is polished, atmospheric and has a melancholy vibe to it.
I feel exactly the same - Both versions have a lot to love, and I love them both!
This is my favorite song of all time! This is the OG version KROQ used to play and then when all the other radio stations followed suit, it was replaced by a shorter, more polished, "sexy-smooth" version. Never again was the original played on radio after the new version came out. Some of the lyrics were changed and my favorite parts like the cowbell and the synthesizer sounds that sounded like they were saying I don't want it, I don't want it, u,u,u,u were replaced by horns and some lady. I can't believe I found this version, I didn't look hard enough before. This made my day, it made me feel good, it made me feel happy 🙂 Thank you Pet Shop Boys, KROQ and RUclips!
I'm happy to say that I played this 12" on the radio in Seattle in the '90s - I love playing this version whenever I can, so glad you like it, and finally found it!
My first steps on the dancefloor into Pacha Ibiza during the summer vacations in 1984, I can’t believed my ears how much this was beautiful.
Amazing memories!
Genau so war es damals!!!
Das war vor dem 85er Mix , der nicht so gut war... Aber, wer war denn schon 1984 in
Oldenburg und hatte das Glück diese tolle Version zu hören und mit in sein LEBEN zu nehmen 👈
Je suis belge....je découvre ce tube fantastique à la radio....c'était RADIO CITÉ, de BRUXELLES, animée par RAY COOKES....puis en discothèque à KNOKKE LE ZOUTE....J'ai 54 ans et je le chante toujours......UNFORGOTTABLE..........cette version est sublime surtout la partie musicale dès la 5è minute...congratulations & thank you so much MISTER MIKE BRADY....
My Dad recently gave me his copy of this record and it’s now one of my prized possessions. He would often play it during the weekends while I was growin up, great memories growin up with this song/version
Imo the best version. Love the underground vibe.
the reversed vinyl samples are awesome
NO. This version PALES in comparison to the later - better - version. In short, IT SUCKS. Too gimmicky.
@@91dodgespiritrthow can an original version of a song be gimmicky? It's the first incarnation of it.
To Mike and any other fans of this track - check out the article up on the BBC News site today titled "How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record shop" :)
I read that earlier this morning! Such a cool story!
I'd never heard of this mix until reading that story. Straight on discogs and bought a copy!
Awesome! First time I ever heard this 1st draft version. It's like hearing it for the first time (again). Reminds me of mindlessly racing my Fiat around on icy roads without the air filter to "hear the Ferrari noises" while the radio edit version of WEG's played on my AM radio - day dreaming of one day meeting a West End Girl of my own.
I love the low-budget vibes of the original!
This original version is still the best version. KROQ in LA used to play this song a lot in the 80’s. Those were some great times.
NO. This version PALES in comparison to the later - better - version. In short, IT SUCKS. Too gimmicky.
Wish they never got rid of the "Who do you think you are Joe Stalin?" Line in the other version.
Very interesting to hear this can see why folks love the original version that cowbell fits like a glove but I will always love the chart hit version. . still sounds fresh.
Remember hearing this in 1984 in a friend's flat in what was then West Berlin (Kreuzberg) at five in the morning after a long hard night's drinking at a mad pub called Riziko where Blixa Bargeld was serving behind the bar...I digress. I loved it but thought the singing on the chorus was awful and should have been redone. Truly wonderful to hear this again, many thanks, but the Stephen Hague version sensibly stripped away all the gimmicks and turned it into the beautiful slice of melancholy we all know and love.
Have you heard the "New Lockdown Version" PSB posted last week? It's another great take on the song.
@@DJMikeBrady I have now, thanks to you. Lovely deep lush chords - thanks for the heads-up.
@@douglasmilton2805 I love it - it's amazing to me that Neil's voice is still so perfect!
This is the best version
What a piece of vinyl
Man, I haven’t heard this version since I danced to it in the clubs when it was new. The song that sent them on their way.
Not so much. It stalled at number 133 in the uk charts and they were dropped by their record label 😣
Yes, but the re-recorded version
@@easterislandhead9579 They couldn’t have re-recorded it if it had never been done in the first place.
I love this version a lot
Gotta say this version is intriguing but ultimately… the word ‘dodgy’ springs to mind.
Only needed a tweak and it’s the majestic timeless classic released in 1985.
Love the raw Vocals, so unique singer.
The Best Version. Never should of been remade. Love The Cowbell.
Yeah.. why did they remake this? And have a smash hit single that went to number one all over the world and start a career that made them one of the biggest bands in the world. Idiots.
@@mooghead exactly!
NO. This version PALES in comparison to the later - better - version. In short, IT SUCKS. Too gimmicky.
This was made for dance clubs not the pop circuit that the 1985 version was made for.
ROBERT PHILLIP ORLANDO EN LA PRODUCCIÓN Y ARREGLOS DE ESTA MARAVILLOSA VERSIÓN...
Wow. I didn’t know there was an earlier version than the album version.
same this hits
the first version is always th best for me! I love it!!! I could listen to it for decades...
I have heard it at Pacha Ibiza in 1984 and still love it.
Wow, I grew up with West End Girls and never knew there was a longer version! I was just watching an old episode of “Moonlighting”, and it featured this song with some lyrics I’d never heard before, so I just had to look it up! 🤯
Wow - it was on Moonlighting??? How cool, I never knew it was featured there!
Yep that's the one! and in my humble opinion the best of all
My favorite too!
Wow..... the Bobby Orlando Version
Yep! I love how raw it is compared to the Stephen Hague version!
First time I ever heard the song it was this! Fall of 1984 in Ann Arbor MI
This is the real deal...raw and not digitally messed about with.... this is by far the best version...... the 1980s at it's best....
I love this version the best. It has such a raw and real sound to it (even tho we’re talking about entirely electronic instruments lol) and very icy in keeping with the grim lyrical subject matter. One of the best songs of the 80s!
The only problem with this track: not enough 808 cowbell.
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Ive never heard this before 😃
First time learning of this version, brilliant
La meilleure version remixée 🎉
Never heard this version before, it's great! Thanks for the presentation !
Yeah. Missing DAT deep bass. The overlapping electronic drums get in the way of the vocals. The 2nd recording was a massive improvement
I love Cow Bell ! This version makes me feel like I died and went to cow bell heaven. Thank You 😂
Thanks Mike!👍🎵🎵🎵
Brigitte V Thanks, it's my pleasure!
I for one have never been able to appreciated the album version on its own merit since KROQ indoctrinated LA with this classic gem
I remember Jed the Fish started playing this on KROQ
Love PSBs so much but this goes to show why songs need good producers. In fact would we know the PSBs if they hadn’t been fortunate to get this redone? They could have been an unknown could have beens
Neil can hardly keep up with the backing track! Interesting, and thanks for posting, but not a patch on the later version.
Love this bass!
It sounds like an Amiga MOD file, with those cheesy hand-clap samples and synthesized cowbell!
VWestlife Radically different from the one that got released a year later, isn't it?
Lots of great 80s singles featured the cowbell sound, like Criticize by Alexander O'Neal for example.
@@DJMikeBrady They changed Opportunities as well, by getting rid of the weird bits like the vocoder section.
I love the original Opportunities too!
@@DJMikeBrady The originals are more interesting but you can understand why they wanted to make them more commercial in order to sell records.
I got this version in 1984 on tape from a girl that I never dated...
Interestingly enough, several girls I never dated got this on a tape from me! :D
@@DJMikeBrady LOL well she was an art student which was intimidating for me at that age and she lived in a squat, wow so adventurous 😁 I was a shy country boy back then, but my friends studied fashion and I dressed like they told me, very new wave 😉 I remember she played the song, and i was like gee I like this and she taped it for me. Great music in my car! It was in the middle of the winter freezing and snowing. I got stuck with my car, the parking place was meters lower than the street, after much slipping i got out 😅
thanks for posting this but.... I've loved PSB since what I thought was day-one but never heard the original version until now 40 years later and I'm appalled. I always thought they could do no wrong but he sounds like he's thinking of rapping and it really does sound like a thin copy of blue monday. I'm sure glad they re-did it fast!
Thank you. Every other post seems to think this is the better version.
Sounds like Blue Monday’s anaemic second cousin. The remixer done good.
Completely re-recorded
I love this version
Sounds like he's singing in a cupboard
Thx a lot for uploading 🤗
Thx a lot for uploading 🤗
It's his closet🤔
(ps. love your turntable, wished my cd player looked like that)
I always thought, this is the 2nd version.
#EddyTempleMorris sent me here via this mornings #VirginRadio post #ChrisEvansBreakFastShow 10am+ on Monday 11.1.21 :)
Would have been a decent demo but it is easy to see why they needed a new producer and a re-record of this. The later version is better in every way.
I think this Is the best version
@@Juppalieu me too
wow. sounds like a rough demo. the finished song is so much better!.
I think Neil would agree with you. Check out the article up on the BBC News site today titled "How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record shop" :)
The Beginning!!!
Surprenant ! Un petit côté new order au début...
Questo era il futuro e lo è
Best version!
Thank goodness they re-recorded it, this version is weak, the chorus especially. It certainly deserved a better production.
This is more pure 80s sounding than the re-make which is almost like a taste of the 90s in 1985.
This is the version I first heard, so the final version always seemed too slow. lol
Maybe, but this version sounds too immature, too. Neil's voice (not the greatest on earth) can be felt as annoying. PSB were right when they decided to have it remixed!
Didn’t this version until I heard about on a Portuguese radio program about music history. I prefer the second version tough.
I recorded this off a local radio station (County Sound from Guildford, UK) at the time and was quite disappointed with the re-mix (Jan 1985) that made it in to the UK top 40 as it didn't have all those cue points of breaking glass and percussion noises etc. that made this so disitinctive. Great to hear again, a nice peice of nostalgia.
Ha, County Sound - blast from the past!
I mean, all those noises ("A-wah-wah! A-wah-wah! A-wah-wah! Uh! Uh! Uh!") are what make it so obviously a Bobby O production, and that extraneous nonsense is the difference between charting at number 121 and charting at number 1. Only the Gregorian choir is salvageable from all the noise.
The Flirts went through about 40 iterations through 40 singles, none of them did anything in the charts, the dead hand of Bobby O again.
Inner city life
Inner city pressure…
London's West End is London, England's answer to Broadway in New York City, USA.
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Yes, that dwaerved a pop producer amd a re-release.
Spotify has the wrong one 😢
This original version sounds like a home demo version. The British Stephen Hague produced hit version sounds like a finished product.
80s ♡ )
Stark 💪
I actually prefer this version. Not that I dislike airplayed version. Just depressing it is nearly 40 years ago ...
The TR 808 sounds 😀👍
I think that today's 'singers' should play CHEAP music like that... Maybe they'd do better than with sophisticated means... Long live PSB ;)
Would like to hear this version @ -2.4 pitch
HOT AS F***!!! 🔥🔥🔥
There's a weirdo that keeps saying _I love the underground vibe_ in the comments
lol
Total lacks the atmosphere of the 1985 version, which is one of my very favourite tracks. And the cowbell is SO annoying! Thanks for posting this.
It's fascinating to me how different they sound, given the short time between the two.
I’d imagine if you’re on acid and listen to the 1985 version it sounds like this
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Glad they found someone to clean up this mess. Wow, this was very crude.
This sounds like Gachi Muchi
are the claps programmed or played live? They sound a bit off time lol. Prefer this version somehow
Sounds like he's singing in a cupboard
420 since this song came out .
His vocals are not as good on this version. It's always strained but it has not been fiddled with enough here, particularly in the chorus. I'm sure it was a rushed session anyway, as Neil was on assignment for Smash Hits in New York, and took the opportunity to squeeze the Bobby Orlando session in. 'The Finland Station' is STILL such a naff lyric. Am I right that some of this version ended up on the 1985 extended 12inch mix?
It sure sounds like it... I've never owned the 1985 EMI 12", but I recall from the Disco EP that it was very similar to this one. Been ages though, so I need to track that down again!
This is an interesting, but very overproduced, early mix of the song, but under no circumstances is it better than the later version. Thank god they re-recorded it with Stephen Hague.
This sounds more authentically 80s than the famous version, but the famous version is more ethereal and atmospheric.
@user yeah everything but overproduced. the extreme rawness is part of its appeal.
Nothing sounds overproduced about this...compared to the revamped version the entire globe is used to, this version is very bare bones in comparison with minimal synths and basic drum machine effects...the 1986 #1 smash has all the familiar mid 80s effects from the use of Fairlight CMI, Emulator, DX7 keyboards and DSX drum machines...safe to say, BOTH versions are brilliant on their own merits...👍🏿😎
If anything it's underproduced.
god this sounds thin. it's as if he was trying not to wake up next door.
So many things about this recording are fascinating to me - including what you brought up. When you compare to the version that came out a year (or less) later, it's really incredible how different they are.
Rushed.
made in france !
fantastic, the only good version
2nd British Invasion babaay haha
Cheap claps? Yes. Cheap cowbell? Yes. So what? I freaking love it
Bad Bunny & Sech: Ignorantes
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Lots of chin-strokers pretending that this is the best version as its more obscure, but it simply isn't. Easy to see why it stalled.
I think Neil would agree with you. Check out the article up on the BBC News site today titled "How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record shop" :)
Not chin stroking, I actually enjoyed this version. But I understand why the released version sounds like the way it does
wtf, sounds like Neil can't sing
1985 version is better
NO. This version PALES in comparison to the later - better - version. In short, IT SUCKS. Too gimmicky.
I think Neil would agree with you. Check out the article up on the BBC News site today titled "How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record shop" :)