Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2021 January 24

= January 24 =

A Hazell Dean/Pet Shop Boys moment?
At about 2' 35" into "Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)" by Hazell Dean there is a moment that sounds like something off a Pet Shop Boys b-side or club mix - a stuttering sampled voice saying something like "sex". You can listen to Ms Dean at this well-known video site. I can't quite place the PSB track it reminds me of. Can anyone help? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 02:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The stuttering bit, although not the "sex" vocal, reminds me a bit of I'm Not Scared by Eighth Wonder, which was of course written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys (albeit a few years later). Hassocks 5489 (Floreat Hova!)  12:48, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It reminded me slightly of the Pet Shop Boys song Heart. I'd never heard that Hazell Dean track before, but it struck me that the backing music certainly owes a debt to New Order's Blue Monday. 90.242.190.16 (talk) 10:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, there's a similarity - not sure it's exactly what was ringing my bell, though there were several remixes and of course the PSB version on Introspective. 90.242.190.16 - Likewise with Heart, not it but again I must have heard numerous club mixes over the years. The similarity with Blue Monday is partly the bass-line both nicked from Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and partly the production ideas from Klein + M. B. O.'s "Dirty Talk" which it's pretty clear both New Order and SAW borrowed. Some of Divine's songs have the same sort of thing going on, both with SAW productions and some of his Bobby Orlando stuff too - and Bobby O of course worked with PSB early on. Some sort of striving towards the HiNRG Platonic ideal. DuncanHill (talk) 15:47, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Montalbano DVDs with Italian subtitles
I'm an avid watcher of the "Commisario Montalbano" series on DVD - with English subtitles. But I'm also keen to improve my Italian, and wonder if the DVDs are available with subtitles (intended for instance for the hard of hearing) in Italian? A lot of the dialogue is a bit too fast for me to be able to follow (not to mention the Sicilian dialect as used by Catarella and others!),

rossb (talk) 12:12, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Here's a complete collection, spoken in Italian, with Italian and English subtitles. (I love the series too). ---Sluzzelin talk  12:58, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks for this - oddly there seemed to be no link to purchase this collection, but the same site had a simiilar collection, which I've ordered. --rossb (talk) 14:07, 25 January 2021 (UTC)