Being Boring is the second single from the 1990 album Behaviour, after “So Hard” which was released before the album. “Being Boring” was not particularly successful upon release, only reaching number twenty in the UK singles chart and being the second single released by the … Read More →
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Pet Shop Boys – Minimal (The Remixes)
Minimal was released 24 July 2006 as the second single from that album in the UK, entering the UK Singles Chart at #19 in the first week of its release. It was their 37th Top 20 hit in the UK. The lyrics, built around a … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly
Love Comes Quickly is a song released as the third single from PSB’s 1986 album Please, and the last of its singles to be released before the album itself. Although a Top 20 hit in the UK, and cited as one the band’s own favourite … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Jealousy
Jealousy, the album version, coming at the end of Behaviour, closed off the album with a sampler-based orchestral outro. The single version is slightly remixed, and uses a real orchestra instead during the outro. The extended version of the single version lengthens the outro while … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – It’s Alright (The Alternatives)
and… “), and then offers the positive message of the title – that on its “timeless wavelength” “music is our life’s foundation”, it “shall last” and ultimately “succeed all the nations to come”. On the album (Introspective) version, the song concludes with a touch of … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – It’s Alright
It’s Alright is the 13th single from Pet Shop Boys and was released in the UK by Parlophone Records on 26 June 1989. The lyrics list a wide variety of serious political issues in the headlines at the time (“Dictation enforced in Afghanistan, revolution in … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin Remix
It’s a Sin was the lead single from the duo’s second “proper” album, Actually. Released in June 1987, it became the duo’s second UK number one single. It was also a massive hit across Europe, supposedly the best-selling European single of 1987. In the United … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Heart
Heart was #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in April 1988. This is also their last number 1 song to date. The song was included on the group’s third studio album, Actually. Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, “Heart” was the … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – DJ Culture
DJ Culture is the first single released by PSB from their singles collection album Discography: The Complete Singles Collection. The single peaked at #13 on the UK Singles Chart in 1991. Another version of the song, remixed by The Grid and entitled “Dj culturemix” was … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind Remix
Always On My Mind: In 1987, Pet Shop Boys performed a synthpop version of “Always on My Mind” on Love Me Tender, an ITV network television special commemorating the tenth anniversary of Presley’s death, in which various popular contemporary acts performed cover versions of his … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Please
Please is the first album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys, released in 1986. According to the duo, the album’s title was chosen so that people had to go into a record shop and say “Can I have the Pet Shop Boys … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Disco
Disco is the second album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was released by Parlophone on November 17, 1986. It was not an original studio album, but rather a collection of remixes of tracks from their first album and its respective … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
Left to My Own Devices is a song recorded by Pet Shop Boys, released as the second single from their third studio album, Introspective. It was also the first track of the album and it is their 9th best selling-hit. It became the first track … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia
Suburbia was remixed and released as the fourth single from the album Please in 1986 and became the band’s second UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #8. The song’s primary inspiration is the 1984 Penelope Spheeris film Suburbia, and its depiction of violence and squalor … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Where The Streets Have No Name Remixed
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally backing vocals. Starting out, the two called themselves West End, because of their love of London’s … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Heart Remix
Heart was #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in April 1988. This is also their last number 1 song to date. The song was included on the group’s third studio album, Actually. Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, “Heart” was the … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – It’s Alright (The DJ International Mixes)
It’s Alright is the 13th single from Pet Shop Boys and was released in the UK by Parlophone Records on 26 June 1989. The lyrics list a wide variety of serious political issues in the headlines at the time (“Dictation enforced in Afghanistan, revolution in … Read More →