So I recently made myself a sort of best of PSB album and I've been listening to it lots and lots since it's aural birth. After all these listens I'm going to put them forward as quite possibly the act that has the best potential set of hits for a best of ever.

 

01 Left To My Own Devices

02 It's a Sin

03 What Have I Done To Deserve This?

04 Rent

05 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

06 Suburbia

07 Always On My Mind

08 Losing My Mind

09 So Hard

10 Can You Forgive Her?

11 Minimal

12 The Pop Kids

13 The Way It Used To Be

14 Being Boring

15 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More

16 A Red Letter Day

17 Integral

18 It's Alright

19 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)

20 DJ Culture

21 West End Girls

22 Go West

23 Love Etc.

24 Heart

25 Domino Dancing

26 The Theatre

27 Flamboyant

28 Leaving

29 I Want To Wake Up

30 Jealousy

 

Honestly that is such a great album.

 

I know they're quite fondly thought of amongst music fans but it has struck me while going through their tracks just how consistently great they have been over a very long period of time... maybe a rate is in order sometime soon?

 

 

Edited December 20, 20177 yr by dandy*

Oh yes,one of my favourite groups. There will be plenty of Pet Shop Boys songs in my top 1000.

That's certainly an impressive track listing. It's a pity they don't have hits any more :(

It is indeed. The Pop Kids was perfectly radio friendly (well, sort of) and deserved to be a hit - and I think the theme really worked in the song too, sort of like a more upbeat Being Boring. In fact, their lyrics are often really very vivid and descriptive of subjects that other bands just never sing about, I really do love them :wub:

 

 

Also... feel free to suggest things I've missed off as I'm not totally familiar with everything they've ever done...

 

 

Edited December 20, 20177 yr by dandy*

Their best tracks for me are are What Have I Done To Deserve This and Rent. I love ...Actually so much, classic.

Did they break through in 1985? If so I'm looking forward to totp performances in the coming year!

A rate would be fab :) - I'm still sitting on a quickie rate notion (never get the time, but in the new year I go part-time hooray!). PSB are easily my top rated act of the last 32 years, consistent throughout, that level of quality is rare for that length of time, and they can do any genre of music - anyone who thinks they all sound the same hasn't listened properly!

 

Overall, I rate them up there with Beatles and Abba as my holy trinity of pop.

 

Tracks not on your list that I love dearly:

 

You Only Tell Me Me You Love Me When You're Drunk

Liberation

Numb

Nothing Has Been Proved (Dusty)

Daydreamin' (Dusty)

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing

Se E Vide Es

Hallo Spaceboy (Bowie/PSB's)

Hit And Miss

Single

Footsteps

Miracles

Girls Don't Cry

More Than A Dream

All Over The World

I Started A Joke

Burn

Say It To Me

 

Plenty more though :)

 

Loue psb especially their early stuff. Always on my mind was 1st single i ever bought also bought Heart. Losing my mind was by liza manelli produced by psb, bought that too!

Its Alright on listening to it now sounds quite Inner City-esque. Very good track.

 

Heart is one of the only dancey sounding hits in 1988 that wasn't acid house. Most synthpop groups seem to have stopped making dancey songs when acid house became a big trend in 1988 apart from the Pet Shop Boys.

Good spot The Snake... It's Alright is actually a cover of a house track so your senses are on point!

 

 

Good spot The Snake... It's Alright is actually a cover of a house track so your senses are on point!

 

Didn't know it was a cover! :o

 

Yep the cover of It's Alright by The Pet Shop Boys is house I think, whereas Heart is still the Hi-NRG genre I think (although I don't know).

 

The use of crowd noise in a part of It's Alright is a bit ahead of its time, before the main trend of that in rave music in 1991 started!

Edited February 6, 20187 yr by The Snake