Pet Shop Boys-shopping

[TheLMAOChannel]

They are the best when it comes to sharp observant lyrics. They're up there with The Smiths, Steely Dan, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and of course Joy Division/New Order. How come bands these days don't really think about songs with lyrics other than sex and love?

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@photolitherland well fuck me sideways! what a coincidence! was it not just recently we talked/fought (cant remember, but had contact) on a science or news channel? Then i run into u here, in the boondock backwaters of an obscure yt vid. Freaky.

[szorbino]

Omg! After 24years of loving this, I've eventually realised it is political and obviously derived through Thatcherism as it was that era. Lordie, I am slowwwww! Still love it tho and wish they'd made a video. I think I'll do one. Now all you music tech kids, tell me what hard and software will do the job. BTW, what a Jammy subject to get to study, I was stuck with computing on BBC machines back in the day. Lol

[Araca661994]

I like this song, although I'm doing it for my music technology recording task in 6th Form.

I still like it :)

[starsound99]

Seen this tour at Glasgow secc...brilliant!!!

[simposayerman]

This song is about government corruption!!

[rynnya1]

izeyb0i shut up.

[kuf76]

All you guys saying that you've used Macs and Logic are sooo lucky!!! Ive had to use cubase 4 and a PC!!!:(

[stephenpaultaylor]

one of my fave pet shop boys songs :D

[Chianagirl]

they sound like theyre falling down the stairs lol and this pic is in my book

[izeyb0i]

these guys are shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiit.

[rynnya1]

@izeyb0i shut up. That will be one think you can do well ;]

[ASS3464]

I remember this song from when I was 7. We found it in the glove compartment of my 93' Topaz which I still have. Only 50k miles on it. little rust. Red/Gray two tone. V6 engine. Why the hell is everything on here about fucking music tech? I wish I took that in school. Im from the US.

[aSAMatic]

Actually been pretty lucky with software. Using Macs and Logic 9 (which is awesome X)). I'm almost there with mine, but it is starting to wear thin on me this song.

[sausagepeel]

After trying to recreate this in music tech, and listening to it over and over... I definitely want to kill myself.

[ItsGrimUpNorth7]

Thatcherism...

[RobLowth]

Yeah it snot A level music, dont kid yourselves haha Its A level music tech

[10R8]

@RobLowth .... Btw ive taken Music and Music Tech and I can tell you Music Tech is a dam sight harder than Music.

[RobLowth]

@10R8 I take both too. Music tech is such a doss subject haha. The exams are like music gcse

[10R8]

@RobLowth Btw loving your blogs :)

[RobLowth]

@10R8 lol cheers. show some mates if you think they would like them too :) x

[10R8]

@RobLowth Tbh can't argue with you there about the exam, imo its actually easier than GCSE music :P Coursework's harder though, simply becuase of the sheer amount. Btw will be posting all of mine up ( inc music composition) within next few weeks. What brief did you do for music??

[GanEdenAustralia]

@RobLowth ???

[Ampcharger]

Yeahh music tech 09, my teacher is a cunt.. and we're using broken old computers and cubase.. fuck this.

[crunchmatch]

@Ampcharger we used new macs and logic, and it was still horrendous. i feel for you though

[botang93]

A level moosic 09 wheyy

[moonsta27]

lame

[IndianMetalHead333]

Sampling 2:43 - 2:45 "POTATO WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

[Exoking]

Music Tech :P

[jimbob298]

Yep.

[gibsondanny]

does anyone have any idea about that wierd synth at the crash. The one that does a high glissando... thats the only bit i need

[Brunette0423]

thankyouu :)

[JamieandhisIbanez]

hey what did you people use for the starting bit? the backing i cant describe it lol. ive got a sort of piano thing atm

[JamieandhisIbanez]

A Level Music Tech 2009 FTW :D :D

lol :)

[gibsondanny]

hell yeah

[Brunette0423]

i love how all the comments are about music tech haha, allllllllllllllllll i can think of when i hear this is music tech! the wierd fx thing near the end, at like 2:43 is driving me crazy i cant do it :(

what software are you all using for it? we're using sonar 6 and a bit of Reason for patches nd stuf :)

[SuperMonkeyNuts]

If you have a wind sound on what your using, try get that and edit the treble, mid, attack etc, can get it to sound like part of the whippy FX thing, its just hard to get the other bit right. Need to get it done D:

[Brunette0423]

ahh thanks i shall try that!

[SuperMonkeyNuts]

I got it all perfect today :)

Sounds almost the same as the original - Take wind for the swoopy sound, play around with the settings on that (treble bass blah blah) then add flange (i think thats what i did) and play around untill your smiling. Then get a hand clap from drum set and add a fair bit of reverb with short resonance and whack a bit of overdrive on it, again play around until yer happy. Hope that helped :)

[Brunette0423]

I have double music tech tomorrow, so i will have a mess around with it all and try those things :) thankyou for the help! :)

[LuKeSoloist]

@SuperMonkeyNuts Pretty much got exactly the same as you there, apart from I heavily edited a snare drum for the clap, dont know why, but its too much effort to change now, im happy with mine X-D

[JamieandhisIbanez]

cubase 5 for me

[0AmericanBurger0]

5 STARS ALL THE WAY..... This song is an unsung hero :( but it's a hero to me :D

[EmperorZhang66]

anyone know where the vocoder is in cubase and what the hell happens in that wierd breakdown bit. :s

[lukenonline]

heyyy yeah we were doin that today... well its a sample of someone saying 'work it' and then pitch shifted (sped up) and increasingly higher pitches.... it think.. d theres that weird piano thingumy.. aand a few other bits beside :s

[EmperorZhang66]

Thanks :)

[lukenonline]

oh and its a 7/4 bar :D

[vr43kx]

@lukenonline technically 4/4 then 3/4

[samhable]

i quite like this song lol

[ben5r]

what synth do you use for synth1 and bass? and synth 3?

[Legless1000]

Anyone doing music tech here, you aren't allowed to ask for help or give it (controlled coursework?) so stop asking for - or giving - help to anyone.

Personally, I prefer this to Tainted Love - I just like the song better lol (plus it has some more interesting parts, like the vocoder)

[crazybisuit3]

don't be a retard

are you saying that if you needed help you wouldn't ask?

[Legless1000]

Yes, I wouldn't ask for help - and if I did need help, I'd ask someone who knows, instead of some random person who probably has no clue what they are saying here

[nwjakester]

ur allowed 2 share sounds cause dat counts as research but ur not allowed to actually do it without bein supervised

i no most da sounds 4 cubase so if any1 needs help jus ask

[NeonNightz]

This is true.

I'm doing Music Tech A-Level aswell

:')

[lukenonline]

not true actually, your allowed to do any research you want outside of suppervised 'writing time' you can even continue work on it outside of lessons and use that work as 'notes/reference' during writing so :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP­PPPP

[will6622]

im doing music tech and am stuck on the drums and what to sequence them to ... can anyone help?......

thanks

[RaspyPaspy]

Haha, everyone on this page seems to only be watching it because of music tech! I really wouldnt have picked this song at all, tainted love was so much better...

[TheScottyg93]

this song is amazing only jokin its queer cnt believe we have to do this for music tech i wish i was a year older so i could of did tainted love it was a much better choice damn you invigilators!!!

[mishabruml]

@TheScottyg93 lol thats exactly what i was saying today in music tech... but after youve listened to it about 300 times it becomes catchy lol

[furbitoo]

any problem with that in that case? i've never heard such a silly comment. tell me some of your favourite proheteros singers please! i'm yearning your accurate answer....

[TheRamones92]

actually pal the reason i watched it is cause my best mate said we have to study this really terrible song in music tech and he sent me the link to it so i thought id be polite and watch it. sadly i cant get the minute of my life back that i lost watchin this gay shit

[drummer0boy]

how far has everyone got in their shopping sequence (say in bars if you can) i have got to the end all i need to add is pad, fx, and vocals yey me...but after iv finished im destroying this CD, iv played it so much its just becoming noise.

[liampowell93]

same lol i hate it sooooo much lol... i'm screwed in this thing, i've done the drums all the way through, all the main riffs and doubled it up and some of the other stuff, but tbh i've done fuck all lol i need help with which voices to use as well, what program you using?

[TheRamones92]

this song is as gay as this band

[aSAMatic]

yeah I'm doing this in Music Tech at the moment... I really like this song; really grown on me =)

[DJFVLK]

OW OW

UH OW OW

UH OW OW

UH OAWH-OW!

[Joe2142]

i find making the structure easy but im shit at making it sound right

[AWLion]

For music tech students looking for a studio version of this song to work with. Just look at my profile, i'm a music tech student myself and just thought it would be easier to put on a version we could rely on :-)

[curtismate]

your not alowed to take coursework out of the class for tech tho. also, people doing this on sebelius ? good luck !

shouldnt be too hard tbh, we not doing it for a while but cubase is a pretty rich library of sounds so it can be done

[poshjosh1993]

i really want to go shopping after listening to this song!!!! i do need some new briefs!

[YHWwrestling]

if our fucking school gave us fucking laptops i could work

[YHWwrestling]

WOW, long time i havnt heard dis tune. its a classic

[kingnecro4]

i like the dancing anyone wanna start a dance group inspired by SHOPPING xxx

[akeba]

SHUT UP!

[LewisJordanB]

IJUZLUVTHIZCHOONITZTHABUZINESS

i think im going to start a band, anyone living around the hertfordshire county interested? we would be like pet shop boys/westlife. i think we could make it to the top!

xxxxxxxxxxx

[kingnecro4]

i think its a string with tremolo at the beginning

[poshjosh1993]

iLOVETHISSONG!!!!

[kingnecro4]

SHOPPING

[kingnecro4]

i agree you guys are failures hahaha

[poshjosh1993]

you all suck and i hope you flopped your music tech a level..fuckers!

[soroshsrya]

guys who knows all the instruments it would be great if someone listed them

[LewisJordanB]

ahahahaha

your gonna fail your AS!

[jjcvk]

hey what the bloody hell have people done for the whiplash sound in the intro!??!? i think it's a snare with averb on it, but its bloody solid! >=[

[dannypp1]

its probably just a sample of a whip with a snare on the end. It could also be reverse reverb, where it basically just plays the sound backwards. gives you the tail of the snare dying then the crack

[hannahismee]

Whats everyone used for the first bar?

[jjcvk]

as in the bass?? i use 'pluck bass' with a compressor and limiter :)

[RsXdRiFt]

erm i used reason nnxt synth something like distortedbass for the bass and then the nn19's melstringslow for the 'synth 2' as they call it

[nofate666]

after spending an hour making the first few bars of this i found myself humming it when i left my music class.

i then realised what i was doing. i wanted to die.

best of luck to all fellow music tech-ers^^

[hilla187]

i might actually kill myself if i have to listen to this fucking song again. damn music tech!!

[finlaar11]

i agree with u all, just trying to find an instrument for the first bar is hard enough

[Xzii666]

lol it's great how everyone here is doing music tech XD

Bloody song, if I have to listen to it once more I swear I'm gonna stab a kitten. XD

[rickyvangooberblat]

if you do music tec rate me,

and tell me how much your gonna "LOVE" this song and which program you are using, ;]

Stupd rules tho, i wish i could use FL with cubase at school =[

[AlastaaCox]

Too right. HATE DOING THIS FOR MUSIC TECH!!! >:|

[crubbish123]

ya were using logic 7 express/ pro (depends which mac u go on we switch around )

ive set up a site where we cna all talk about music tech and shiz u know synth ideas ect have a look and sign up

please dont mark as spam am only trying to help

[greataskate]

whats the site?

[jjcvk]

whats the site??!

[Xzii666]

whats the site? hehe :)

[soroshsrya]

site ?

[DylanKershawStudios]

Who here uses protools :D?

[DylanKershawStudios]

Hahaha everyone is on for music tech LOL i like the song we're doing :D

[jmistry123]

found the kit on cubase guys, gonna be alright to recreate

[alterofmetal]

music tech. fuck.

[cfcno6]

i dont know whether to do do it on sibelius or logic :-/

[XxMaxMoviesxX]

"S-H-I-T-T-I-N-G!!!!"

lol Im gonna despise music tech after this! :(

[crubbish123]

likewise we cud have got something with at least one real instrument !!!!!! its gonna get so frickin annoying !!

[Sarah010492]

Gotta try and do this on Sonar.

[hannahismee]

Sounds like placebo guy singing...

[samster263]

i hate this stupid song

[lffinnett]

Is any1 going to be doing this song on either Sibelius or Cubase?

[vorlek]

this is way easier (and a better song) then last years ^_^

[MertonSmurf]

allow the fact that no combination of sounds on cubase can sound crap/ accurate enough to sound like this :)

[rimskykorsakov08]

hey woodhouse people!

this song is stuckkk in ma head grrr

to be fair everyone at some point has inadvertently said "we're s-h-o-pp-i-ng, we're shopping"

who's up for doin a metal song instead?

[lffinnett]

ME!

This song is shitt!

[Robster881]

Problem with doing this song using Logic 8... is the synths don't sound crap enough...

[Breeg992]

amen to that. i've made this song sound so cool with some of the effects! sadly that doesnt get marks. oh and the drums....hell to do

[Alm1ghtyAv3ng3r]

Logic sounds are a bit crap anyway compared to Reason 4's Thor, Malstrom and subtractor.

I use reason at home and Logic on imacs at school - i'm gonna do this one on reason gonna be a lot easier 4 everything e.g. real kit sounds and percussion, lead synths, pads etc

[myheadissore]

malstrom is terrible

i reckon the best one is the NNXT

[Alm1ghtyAv3ng3r]

malstrom isn't terrible, they all have different purposes

i agreee thor and NNXT = probably the best way to go!

Propellerhead Record + BV512 Vocoder is going to = FUN!

[jjcvk]

we've just got 23 macs updated with logic 9. still, it's a bitch to find decent samples =/ any ideas?

[Robster881]

I've just been going through till I find pre-sets that sound closish and editing them

[FranticVideos]

Would someone please upload the album version of this song? I dunno if i'm the only one having a problem but i'm finding it real hard to find the original, much obliged x

[TheL33tMoose]

Not looking forward to doing to doing this in Music tech.... =(

[friendstroopsout]

only metal guitarists and romantic piano players do music tech and this song suits neither of them!

[DJFVLK]

I play no instruments and I do it.

I can't even read music.

[soroshsrya]

why did you bother :/

[DJFVLK]

Why did I bother to do what, soroshsrya?

[soroshsrya]

doing music tech when you cant read music or play music

how do you think music is done

sorry i dont mean to be rude but why bother ?

[DJFVLK]

Because the teacher said when we were "browsing" lessons that that was no problem.

I'm learning during the lessons, so it's not so bad. Sequencing on the keyboards is fine for me, too.

[Alm1ghtyAv3ng3r]

thats a little bit harsh, i like a bit a bit of all music - and not evryone in my Music tech class is gonna be a metal head or a piano player.

[rickyvangooberblat]

I agree =[ metal guitar is going to be sad hes getting no action yet the entire course is even worse, so make the most of this its more upbeat than the course!

[Pheliam]

I feel like slaying me some examiners. If we kill them all, will the new ones still insist upon this song? :P

[kirstymarielord]

Ditto. This bloody songs driving me insane!

[gimgem18]

i think this is miint :D

[ashc1153]

james i agree. this is shit!!

[talkischeap441]

its proper gaaay pal,

james :(

[richsnowden]

Music tech are having a joke? arent they?

[kirstymarielord]

agreed.

[Brasinglesa]

This is not exactly the kind of music I would choose...-.-'

greeat... Somebody get me out of doing it

PLEASE!

[wilzboi4lyf]

they could of chosen a better song for music tech seriously

[kirstymarielord]

Definately!

[Pheliam]

Why did you comment 3 times?

[kirstymarielord]

I was commenting on other peoples comments.... don't know why it came up like this..... :S Suppose it just reinforces the fact that I'm annoyed that this song is for my music tech course work :(

[grantclayton]

I Frickin Hate This Song Now!!!

Heard It Well Too Much

How Much Better Was Last Year's Songs!?

Not Impressed Edexcel...Not Impressed...

[friendstroopsout]

last year they did tainted love and thats a fuckin classic!

why dont we get good songs that arnt so weirdly complicated?!

[SKYLINE12345671]

god damn exam board :'( I frickin hate this XD

[NilByNose]

Urgh! my schools waiting for the original to come over from america :s all we've got is the remastered one!

stupid exam board! :D

[XxTara2007xX]

allow doiin this crap fo music techhh lol:/

[adamj123454321]

tbh, this song is bullshit :L i only listen 2 it for tech, really gay song but i suppose it might grow on me sooner or later =]

[danhaycocks]

Been starting to sample this for the last week now and it is growing on me alot.

[CrystalNeko]

Looool at all the comments from Music Tech people!

I dropped it a few days back, only listened to this video because all my friends from Music Tech were raving on about it. Personally I think it's rather catchy =P

[DJFVLK]

Not a bad song, eh?

[Sarah010492]

Music Tech... =| lol

[x0FI0x]

omg i am actually sick to death of this song already... why did they have to use this for music tech guys seriously?! why?!!!

hi to all the tewks school music tech group xD have fun listening to this song.. isn't it just the best!! xD hehe

xxx

[RyanLovesEm]

doing this in music tech, i hated it but its kinda growqing on me

[gibsondanny]

everyone in my music tech thinks this is shit. i did at first but it's really growing on me

[Twigster3007]

I totally agree! :)

[SophieElisellwood]

woo music tech looooool. this is an alright song tbh could have been worse. Bath FTW!

[Twigster3007]

Hehe, this is funny, all the Music Tech crew! XD It's actually a very catchy song

[rickyb3dia]

are we music tech ppl the only people who have to listen to this song??

[Robster881]

Pretty much... the intro bass sound is a bitch

[kirstymarielord]

OMG yeah! I can't find that bass sound anywhere!

[soroshsrya]

plucked bass guitar with compressor and limiter (lots of attack ) then double it with a synth bass

[FranticVideos]

haha yeah i got it for music tech too, its a grower :) S H O PP xD

[tropicalscrot]

I can't believe we have to do this shit for music tech lol.