Pet Shop Boys, Talk

1. For some reason I thought you’d been around a lot than 12 years, but then that’s probably a testimony to what you’ve achieved. I would consider it a compliment for people to think that way!

2. You guys started a lot of the techniques I hear on today’s records. Would you hold your hand up and claim a little bit of credit for that?

3. Do you think sampling has gone full stretch now, can it go any further, are we now oversampled?

4. This album ‘Bilingual’ contains a lot of latin rhythms, was that intentional?

5. Your music always has a depth to it and this album really reflects that!

6. On the single ‘Red Letter Day’ there’s another track ‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On’. Why didn't that track find its way on to the album?

7. When you give someone a track of yours to be re-mixed, do you just let them get on with it or do you give any direction at all?

8. Do you think your music is more rhythm driven these days?

9. Your songs do achieve the aim of coming back to the hook, the difference being that you make more interesting records!
10. ‘Discoteca’ opens the ‘Bilingual’ album, a song which I understand has been around for a few years. Do you have songs that take time to develop and you keep going back to them?

11. ‘Single’ has this real nice percussive section and also an irony in that song which crops up in a lot of your lyrics, that appeals to you doesn’t it?

12. Having travelled considerably making music and also sold records world-wide, do you think the British are still up there, at the cutting edge?

13. Would you in some respects consider yourselves entertainers now especially when you play live, it’s a real show?

14. ‘Metamorphosis’ is to me classic Pet Shop Boys, harmonies that arrive at you!

15. Neil you could probably put your lyrics in a very simple narrative form over a backing track, almost poetic, have you ever thought of doing that?

16. ‘It Always Comes as a Surprise’, is this autobiographical?

17. You’re also recognized as producers and at one time there was a ‘tag’ situation, where acts came to you to have your name on it, were you aware of that?

18. Chris you’ve managed a certain amount of anonymity in that you can still do your shopping and enjoy yourself, is that quite nice to be able to do that?

19. ‘A Red Letter Day’ features a Russian choir, why couldn’t you find that anywhere else?

20. Is that why you travel all over the world to record?

21. ‘Up Against It’ politics, are you saying protest isn’t worth it?

22. ‘To Step Aside’ has the line ‘If I decide to step aside I will try and forget all the tears I’ve cried’ which shows the lyrical talents you’ve displayed from the beginning. Where do the ideas come from?

23. What do you think it is that keeps you together?

24. There’s a quote from you Neil ‘We may have had the occasional scam, but never had any grand plans!’. Does that still fit in?

Release year:1997

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