Ahead of the festival, Radio 2 has revealed that listeners have voted West End Girls – which reached No. 1 in the UK in 1985 - their favourite Pet Shop Boys song of all time. It’s A Sin (1987 was in second place, and Always On My Mind (1987) in third place.

 

The full Top 30 countdown will be featured in Your Ultimate Pet Shop Boys Song hosted by Mark Goodier, which is available on BBC Sounds (from Monday, August 19) and will be broadcast on Radio 2 on Saturday, August 24 (1-3pm).

 

In July, Radio 2 listeners were asked to vote for their favourite Pet Shop Boys song. They could select up to five of their tracks from a list of their songs that have charted in the Top 100, including songs where they were a featured artist, plus album tracks chosen by a panel of experts, including Radio 2's Gary Davies.

 

Also available on BBC Sounds (from August 19) is Your Ultimate Pet Shop Boys Song – The Extras featuring Pet Shop Boys songs that didn’t make the Top 30 chart.

 

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe said: “When this vote was launched we said we’d be very interested to hear what Radio 2 listeners chose as their favourite Pet Shop Boys song and the full Top 30 list of songs is fascinating. We are very pleased and not totally surprised that West End Girls has topped the chart! It’s a song we still love performing in concerts, 40 years since its first release.”

 

The full Top 30 chart, as voted for by Radio 2 listeners, is:

 

1 West End Girls (1984)

 

2 It's A Sin (1987)

 

3 Always On My Mind (1987)

 

4 What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) (1987)

 

5 Left To My Own Devices (1988)

 

6 Suburbia (1986)

 

7 Go West (1993)

 

8 Rent (1987)

 

9 Being Boring (1990)

 

10 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (1985)

 

11 Heart (1988)

 

12 Domino Dancing (1988)

 

13 Love Comes Quickly (1986)

 

14 Se a vida e (That's the Way Life Is) (1996)

 

15 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (1991)

 

16 Paninaro / Paninaro ‚'95 (1995)

 

17 Jealousy (1991)

 

18 King's Cross (1987)

 

19 It's Alright (1988)

 

20 Hallo Spaceboy (with David Bowie) (1995)

 

21 A New Bohemia (2024)

 

22 Can You Forgive Her? (1993)

 

23 In The Night [The Clothes Show theme] (1985)

 

24 So Hard (1990)

 

25 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (1993)

 

26 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk (2000)

 

27 New York City Boy (1999)

 

28 Shopping (1987)

 

29 Love Etc (2009)

 

30 The Way It Used to Be (2009)

 

https://www.musicweek.com/media/read/bbc-ra...-line-up/090310

I voted in this and went for the non-obvious Dusty collab, You Only Tell Me You Love Me, Left To My Own Devices, Heart and Hallo Spaceboy I think. The top 12 is not at all surprising, but very pleased to see Dusty at 4, Devices at 5, Boring at 9 despite never making the top 10, and Heart just missing the top 10. Being 80's dominated is also fairly obvious as those top 12 are the tracks that go down a storm in concert, still. I do take exception with the limited list from a panel of "Experts", as I wasn't consulted! In The Night appealed to people who didn't like Pet Shop Boys due to Neil's vocals, but didn't realise it was Pet Shop Boys. Kings Cross was the big surprise, though it is a regular concert track they do, but higher than hallo Spaceboy and Can You Forgive Her? I thionk not

 

So, no Yesterday When I Was Mad, and most of their great tracks from the last 25 years, which granted were never going to do well compared to the big hits, but it would have been nice to have been able to choose anyway...

Sad not to see Numb in there.

I love the inclusion of The Way It Used To Be, even if it is only 30th. It’s a great album track and definitely one of their best from this century

seems AI generated to me :D

Was very surprised at the No.1. When I saw there was a PSB rate I thought Always On My Mind would be No.1,