I reckon Pet Shop Boys are one of the all time best acts:

 

My favourites are:

 

1. West End Girls

2. Domino Dancing

3. Love Comes Quickly

4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)

5. A New Life

6. Heart

7. It's Alright (Introspective Album Version)

8. So Hard

9. Domino Dancing

10. Shameless

11. Yesterday When I Was Mad

12. A Red Letter Day

13. Intergral

14. Numb

15. I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore

16. Radiophonic

17. Being Boring

18. Home And Dry

19. Flamboyant

20. Surburbia

fantastic, perfect pop band - from their excellent run of singles, their always entertaining albums, top-class videos - even the record sleeves are always of the highest calibre.

 

I'll need to think about a PSB top 20, though... but I think Being Boring, Vampires, 2 divided by zero and lots off the Relentless album would feature in mine... a lost classic, that album.

they never appealed to me at all.... 'its a sin' is ok but generally i just cant take too them

I'm afraid I've never liked them ... I thought they were a bit boring and ever so slightly condescending and pretentious. I did like West End Girls for a while ... but only because the voice reminded me a bit of Al Stewart. But then again apart from The Year of the Cat I thought Al Stewart was boring too.

 

Norma

Edited May 23, 200817 yr by Shy_Talk

I was a big fan of the Pet Shop Boys, they were a beacon of quality in the late 1980s in an otherwise depressing UK pop scene, while they've kept their run of hits going still today.

 

Like the Bee Gees they had the uncanny knack of writing such well constructed songs, that other artists could cover them.

 

My favourite single of theirs was Left To My Own Devices, but my favourite track by them from their 1987 Actually album is the very moving:

 

Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross

 

As covered by....

 

Tracey Thorn - King's Cross

Kings Cross is a truly beautiful song.... especially haunting as it was released just before the fire tragedy in Kings Cross, if I remember rightly? The amazing thing with the Pet Shop Boys is they write absolutely classic ballads - Jealousy, Numb, So Sorry I Said (what a lyric...they did write this for Liza, didn't they?)...and they can write equally classic dancier stuff - Left To My Own Devices, Paninaro etc. Whilst's Neil Tennant's voice can get irritating at times, they're undoubtedly one of the best examples of classic songwriting still in the business. "The Smiths you can dance to" as they were once called - pretty apt, I say, their dry, wry northern humour is evident in all they do.

 

I adore Tracey Thorn... but... I really dpon't like her version of Kings Cross - I hate the way she piles on the accent.... and her usually great voice sounds... odd... amateurish almost. Change of subject - but how on earth did one of last year's finest albums, her 'Out Of The Woods', die a death?