Unique PSB Ringtones
While there's no shortage of unofficial PSB cellphone ringtones circulating in cyberspace, the Pet Shop Boys themselves have turned quite a few of their songs into cellphone ringtones. (At one time they were readily available online, but I'm no longer able to locate them.) Three of these official PSB ringtones, however, are unique "exclusives"—that is, they're not even based on previously released material. Instead they originally existed solely as ringtones created in early 2006 specifically for that purpose by Chris and Neil. More than a decade later, the Boys gave them more widespread release as brief bonus tracks with the 2017 reissue of Fundamental.
There's really not much to these brief segments of music, which accounts for the great brevity of the following entries.
Answer the Phone!
Writers - Lowe/Tennant
First released - 2006
Original album - Fundamental 2017 reissue Further Listening 2005-2007 bonus disc
Subsequent albums - (none)
Other releases - (none)
An upbeat bit of technopop offered in both a standard and an extended version. It features a vocodorized vocal (Chris, perhaps?) singing the title phrase.
Water
Writers - Lowe/Tennant
First released - 2006
Original album - Fundamental 2017 reissue Further Listening 2005-2007 bonus disc
Subsequent albums - (none)
Other releases - (none)
A light, ambient , yet somewhat spooky loop of bell-like tones.
Where Are You?
Writers - Lowe/Tennant
First released - 2006
Original album - Fundamental 2017 reissue Further Listening 2005-2007 bonus disc
Subsequent albums - (none)
Other releases - (none)
Lovely and atmospheric. Neil sings, "Hello—where are you? Pick up the phone, please."
List cross-references
- Only the last of these tracks appears in any of my lists, that one being "Burning questions posed by the titles of PSB songs"
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