Concrete

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共17首歌曲

艺人: Pet Shop Boys
语种: 英语
厂牌: Parlophone
发行时间: 2006年11月21日
专辑类别: 现场专辑

专辑介绍

★ 在成军25年的时间点上，PSB于2006年底有著一连串的发行计划，除了在美加地区的巡迴演出，他们将陆续发行单曲?Numb?、全新 DVD作品?A Life In Pop?与新书?CATALOGUE?。此外他们最受瞩目的，莫过这张多年来的首张现场专辑?CONCRETE?。这套双CD收录了他们2006年5月8日，与BBC演奏会管弦乐团(BBC Concert Orchestra)在伦敦Mermaid Theatre的演出实况。PSB绚丽浮夸的作品风格，在管弦乐的帮衬下更添感染力。特别嘉宾的安排，也在现场掀起一波又一波的高潮。

★ 最新专辑因为有PSB跨刀助阵，而引爆话题的Robbie Williams，礼尚往来亲自上台演唱?Jealousy?。Rufus Wainwright在?Casanov In Hell?中则是一如过往的善感低迴，谁也料想不到，当他们两人唱著PSB的作品时，会是这般的相称动人。由Frances Barber演唱的?Friendly fire?，则是选自当初PSB与剧作家Jonathan Harvey共同合作的音乐剧?Closer To Heaven?。此外PSB当初分别与Liza Minnelli与Dusty Springfield合作的?Rent?及?You Only tell Me you Love Me When You’re Drunk?，也再度于舞台上绽发璀灿的光芒。除了?Fundamental?中的部份曲目，PSB捨弃排行榜金曲，选择珍贵罕见的曲目演出，优美动人的管弦乐、再加上一流的客席歌手与主唱Neil Tennant串场时的感性告白，?Concrete?是PSB有史以来最独特也最动人的作品。

by David Jeffries

With a generally deadpan singer and another guy behind a bank of synthesizers, the Pet Shop Boys just aren't built for live albums, even if the songs are exquisite, there's an orchestra behind them, and some very special guests appear. While the duo can deliver in a live setting, the experience relies heavily on the visual, check the Performance or Somewhere concert videos for proof. Still, for fans, Concrete must exist since it captures the duo's May 2006 appearance at London's Mermaid Theater, an invite-only affair with the BBC Concert Orchestra as backing band. The song selection doesn't read like a greatest-hits compilation because save &It's a Sin& and &West End Girls,& everything here was originally recorded with various sized orchestras. Singer Neil Tennant is obviously proud of the high-profile arrangers the duo has worked with in the past and pays respect to them between the music with special mentions for Craig Armstrong, Angelo Badalamenti, and Anne Dudley whose former partner in Art of Noise, Trevor Horn, is musical director here. These little interruptions make the album like a PSB episode of Storytellers as Tennant brings up some points of interest, like how the fascinating Badalamenti arrangement of &Rent& played here is from the Liza Minnelli album that the Boys curated, Results. Other bits from the fringe of the catalog include selections from the duo's The Battleship Potemkin soundtrack and their musical Closer to Heaven, but more interesting is hearing guests Rufus Wainwright and Robbie Williams pull the bittersweet out of &Casanova in Hell& and &Jealousy,& respectively. As a one-off show with a &pick-up& band, it isn't surprising that some tracks are executed brilliantly (&The Sodom and Gomorrah Show,& &Dreaming of the Queen&) while others stumble and fall (&Numb,& &It's a Sin&) but there's often a good dialog going between the duo and orchestra, and only &It's Alright& sounds exactly like the studio version. While that's probably not enough to keep everyone occupied, fans and fetishists will embrace this curio.

Concrete

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