Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

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Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:23pm

I'm right now listening to Liza and the PSB take on Losing My Mind from Sondheim. Its SO 80s thats its hilarious and also Liza is hamming it up. Has anyone heard this? its great...

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re: Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:28pm

It was actually a pretty big hit on the charts at the time it came out -- especially for Sondheim song sung by Liza. I think it hit the top 40 and popped up in dance clubs around the country. And Liza looked phenomenal then -- so thin and together.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:29pm

It IS very 80's because it was released in the late 80's/early 90's.

I've heard it and performed it to death.

You should see the video with Liza wearing a Rosie O'D / lesbian / butch / dyke haircut... It's a hoot with her in the tub with all of the instamatic photos floating around....

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Updated On: 6/16/05 at 04:29 PM

#4

re: Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:33pm

I have a recording of this from the 80s. It was very big for awhile.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:34pm

It is still being played in alot of dance clubs. And the cd is going to be re-released remasterd later this year.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:35pm

It was big here but even bigger in Europe.

A whole generation of Parisian boys came out to this song.

Ah, Paree...

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#7

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:35pm

wow... its so... so... wow.

i cant believe it was a big hit

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:39pm

Oh, I LOVE PSB. Saw them on the last tour. They are SO great.

At the time, I loved the Liza album, but it sure doesn't hold up, does it?

She did a TV special around that time and it ended with her talking about the PSB album and saying "People seem to really like it!" But that was just the gays. It didn't sell well.

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#9

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:40pm

Yeah, I just double-checked. It didn't hit the top 40, but it spent a while on the dance charts.

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re: Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:42pm

I met the PSB at a Pride festival one year...I was dressed as LIza and they wouldn't leave me alone.

I still have a piece of jewelry one of them gave me.

Ah, youth

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:43pm

It was still big, it was the audiences that got small.

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#12

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:44pm

She even looked great in the mid-90's concert for Sondheim at Carnegie Hall. Her image now works wonderfully for her stints on Arrested Development, but she's a mess.

#13

re: Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:46pm

Dame, have you seen anything about the remastered version being released domestically? The import version is already available (kind of pricey, though)...has several extended versions and a bonus DVD.

This was the first CD I ever owned...my mother bought it for me for Christmas a few years before I came out to her (Liza and the Pet Shop Boys...mothers always know).

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:50pm

For another 80's classic, you should listen to Taco's version of "Puttin' on the Ritz"

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#15

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:05pm

I just bought it off of iTunes.

Why have I never heard this before?!?

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#16

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:08pm

Because you weren't born when it came out.

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#17

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:11pm

I just listened to it. I really have no idea how to respond.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:12pm

Well, all I can say is, wthout shame, I LOVE it.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:13pm

Love this song... so many memories of dancing the night away...

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#20

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:16pm

What a great song! And if you think THIS is campy- Is everyone aware of the disco version of the "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" released by RCA in the late 70's? It was a great (and very long) 12" remix using snatches of the cast album re-set to a throbbing disco beat. It was on the Sondheim box set that had a grey metallic cover-- it's out of print now but someone must have it!

#21

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:21pm

Um...I have it. SOMEWHERE.

But let's all pause to remember the one version of "Losing My Mind" in which the singer actually LOST her mind: Dorothy Loudon.

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#22

re: Liza and The Pet Shop Boys take on Sondheim!

Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:23pm

Sigh.
I still think Loudon's rendetion is the best.

And, yeah, I have the gray box set you're talking about.
Disco Sweeney is....different.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#23

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:34pm

I don't have the box set, but I've heard Disco Sweeney.

When I bought Liza's Losing My Mind a few minutes ago, I came across Loudon's fantastic version of the song(I have the DVD, but not the cd). I bought it immediately, and I'm sure it will be played MANY many times.

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:52pm

oh, Disco Sweeny is SOOO great!

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#25

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Posted: 6/16/05 at 6:52pm

When I saw Liza do that song on tour, the smoke machine got out of control and totally filled the stage and spilled into the audience. I couldn't see the person next to me, much less Liza Mae.