Pet Shop Boys - West End girls long 'n rare DEMO - (day 1 fairlight) - Rare demos tape 2 - Track 05

Pet Shop Boys
West End Girls
Ultra rare demo!
Sam West Studio Demo. (day 1 fairlight) Tape 2 - Track 05
Note: Sarm West studio tape containing early mixes of "Opportunities," "West End Girls," "One Of The Crowd," and "Don Juan."
About West End Girls: The first official Pet Shop Boys release on a label was this single, produced by famed Hi-NRG mogul Bobby Orlando. It was not a huge hit in the Boys' home country, but it did fairly well in the States and in Italy.
Under the Bobby O influence, "West End Girls" was remixed and repackaged several times, saturating the world's record stores with multiple formats of this single, as well as the follow up, "One More Chance", and several instrumental b-sides including "Pet Shop Boys", "To The Pet Shop Boys" and "Theme For The Pet Shop Boys" (essentially the same track). It was even megamixed all of the above tracks together with a version of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night", that was covered by a German singer not otherwise involved with the band.
The Bobby O Version of the song also features a verse that is not heard in any of the band's subsequent versions. One of the couplets in the verse reads, "All your stopping, stalling and starting / Who do you think you are, Joe Stalin?"
Bobby O and his various affiliates continued to issue repackaged and remixed version of these original songs until roughly the mid-nineties.
After a legal battle with Orlando, the Boys ended up signing with Parlophone Records in the UK, and "West End Girls" became their leadoff single to their first album, which was of course "Please". It was rerecorded and produced by Stephen Hague, and was a more polished and full sounding cut, doing much better on the charts than the first incarnation. The singles featured remixes by Shep Pettibone. The b-side, previously recorded (but not released) with Bobby O was "A Man Could Get Arrested".
Barbarella1984 - 2013

[@ctspf]

What a rare version of West End Girls! It has a raw charm. Thanks for sharing!

[@adrianrojas7871]

Wow This is amazing Excellent information I'm a big fan of Bobby Orlando and of course I love pet shop boys Thanks for sharing

[@88feji]

Love this stripped down version ... this feels even more synthwave than the single version ...

[@williamwriglie1986]

Thanks a lot for this really rare version! Simply great!

[@ERMANGEZER]

very very rare thank you barbarella:)

[@barbarella19844]

youre welcome =)

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

Such a raw sound. Very cool.

[@californio7625]

Sounds like a 1983 demo before the 1984 single

[@barbarella19844]

sure, I'm trying to update frequently

[@sergioandreslopez1310]

hallazgo demo de la mejor cancion sintpop de la decaf del 80👏👏👏👏

[@rikkot]

Trip back in time

[@amulpatel]

oh my god.. i am in psb heaven! CMI-forever

[@barbarella19844]

💜

[@williamwriglie1986]

Please more rare stuff about the PET SHOP BOYS!

[@Hulk2k6]

Sounds like A damn 1983 Atari game!

[@stefankrautz9048]

Hey now I recognise where Depeche Mode got their Bass for Everything Counts from. Sampled from a Fairlight into an Emax Emulator. :)

[@michaelgranaldi8109]

It was probably a Minimoog. The didn't have an Emax at that time and they never used a Fairlight. They used the Synclavier.

[@gamingwithcallum6087]

@@michaelgranaldi8109 they did. There’s a Fairlight sample in people are people

[@chrisk5571]

Fairlight 2 was crap....Fairlight 3 was the dog's bollocks! This is Fairlight 2.... Emulator II was okay....Emulator 3 - a lot better but cheaper machines were out by then of the same quality... You can get Fairlight 2 sounds for the PC / MAC - > And I also have the Emulator 2 + 3 Factory samples on CD...which load into Kontakt 5.... What I think makes these old tracks special - is the fact that people had "small" storage devices.... So - you would have a handful of "treasured" samples - drums, etc....which took years to collect! These days - we get CD images with 50,000 samples on them - so when we look for a kick or snare - there's a quarter of a million to choose from! This is not good for creativity!

[@nelsonserrano5046]

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[@barbarella19844]

=)