Out Now: Pet Shop Boys, YES / ELYSIUM – FURTHER LISTENING Expanded Editions

Back in July, we here at Rhino proudly announced that we were going to be making Pet Shop Boys fans very happy by resuming a past tradition with the duo’s back catalog: delivering expanded editions of their albums with a disc of Further Listening material, including B-sides, demos, and remixes.

At that time, we trotted out new multi-disc versions of NIGHTLIFE (1999), RELEASE (2002), and FUNDAMENTAL (2006), and today brings two more entries in the reissue campaign, which you can read about below.

YES (2009): With guest appearances by Johnny Marr and Phil Oakey, this album not only earned the Boys a nomination for Best Electronic / Dance Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards, it also helped them break a Billboard record when the single “Love Etc.” gave them their ninth chart-topping single on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

Listen to “Love Etc.”

ELYSIUM (2012): Co-produced by Andrew Dawson, known in particular at the time for engineering Kanye West’s 808S & HEARTBREAK, this was definitely a different-sounding album for the Boys, but it’s one that Neil Tennant has described as “the Pet Shop Boys’ most beautiful album,” so if it’s escaped your notice up to this point, now’s a good time to remedy that situation.

Listen to “Leaving.”

Here’s the full track listing for both reissues, so you can see just how much Further Listening will be in your immediate future:

Yes / Further Listening: 2008-2010

CD1

1. Love Etc.
2. All Over The World
3. Beautiful people
4. Did You See Me Coming?
5. Vulnerable
6. More Than A Dream
7. Building A Wall
8. King Of Rome
9. Pandemonium
10. The Way It Used To Be
11. Legacy

CD2

1. Gin And Jag
2. This Used To Be The Future (With Phil Oakey)
3. We're All Criminals Now
4. Gin and Jag (Frisky Mix)
5. Beautiful People (Demo)
6. My Girl
7. The Loving Kind (Monitor Mix)*
8. Love Etc. (PSB Mix)
9. Did You See Me Coming? (PSB Possibly More Mix)
10. The Former Enfant Terrible (PSB Bring It On Mix)
11. Up And Down
12. Brits Medley**

CD3

1. I Cried For Us
2. It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas (New Version)
3. All Over The World (New Version)
4. Viva La Vida/Domino Dancing (Christmas EP Mix)
5. My Girl (Our House Mix)
6. Leaving (Demo)
7. Together
8. Glad All Over (From "Together" CD Single)
9. The Dumpling Song (Demo From My Dad's A Birdman)*
10. Wings And Faith (Demo From My Dad's A Birdman)*
11. Night Song (Fan Club Download 2010)**

* Previously unreleased
** Previously unreleased on CD

Elysium / Further listening: 2011-2012

CD1

1. Leaving
2. Invisible
3. Winner
4. Your Early Stuff
5. A Face Like That
6. Breathing Space
7. Ego Music
8. Hold On
9. Give It A Go
10. Memory Of The Future
11. Everything Means Something
12. Requiem In Denim And Leopardskin

CD2

1. Vocal (Demo)*
2. She pops (Demo)*
3. Inside
4. In slow motion (Demo)*
5. Listening
6. Hell
7. The Way Through The Woods (Long Version)
8. I Started A Joke
9. In His Imagination
10. Leaving (Believe In PSB Mix)
11. Leaving (Side By Side Remix)
12. Leaving (Freedom Remix)
13. Memory Of The Future (New Single Mix)

*Previously unreleased