Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results

Guys, check out this live version from 1986 – both Neil and Chris play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzKR_5aaYck

this was my #2, seems low. Then again I didn't grow up with it and haven't heard it played to death.

I bet this song gets on the PSBs' nerves sometimes. I remember this and Shopping being hugely misunderstood by people who only listened to the choruses. Meanwhile half the people who did understand them tagged them as postmodern ironists for ever more.

Another fun fact: the only hit that charted higher in America (#10) than England (#11).

I never heard it as much as "West End Girls," which might explain why I always perform it at karaoke.

This is the first song I ever knowingly heard by them, and even then I didn't catch their name and it was months before I figured out who it was. I saw the video when MTV2 premiered.

Big jump in points from now on.

14. Can You Forgive Her? (1993, Very, 253 points, 12 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4AhOi6LYE

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3NIX0G2ajYENIRQzhLQ4Ua

RIF: The title is borrowed from Anthony Trollope's 1865 novel of the same name.

Wasn't going to vote for it, but the "cricket pavilion" line is just too good.

Opportunities and Shopping are great political songs. Also, Integral. Not I'm with stupid though.

I've come to really like "I'm With Stupid" over the past few weeks, after years of really disliking it.

I've gone the other way. Liked it first time around, but relistening to Fundamental this week it was one of the weakest tracks.

Whatever Tennant-Lowe say, I still hear "I'm With Stupid" as a love song, not a "political commentary" (yes yes love is politics).

a sequel to "Young Offender" or "Boy Strange."

Can You Forgive Her is too low

xp When they'd done the political-alliance-as-love-affair thing so well with I Get Along I don't know how they could have done it so lamely with I'm With Stupid. And the Little Britain video too - ugh.

top 13 and 13 left of my list still to show up. guessing viva le vida/domino dancing and miracles are gonna be the let downs. still holding out hope for the way it used to be tho.

xp. i want to wake up is FAR too low.

13. Two Divided By Zero. (1986, Please, 266 points, 11 votes, 1 number one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDhGiNKsyM&feature=fvsr

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/64MccFRFPz3xAxwwTLp1hu

RIF:The 'computer' voice is sample from a talking calculator Tennant bought for his father.

TOO LOW

Sometimes I think "Two Divided By Zero" is all one needs of the Pet Shop Boys.

It's got everything: compelling synth pattern, awesome percussion, great Tennant vocal, and a pocket calculator sample.

Chris Lowe is pretty hunky on the Please cover huh?

12. Heart. (1987, Actually, 272 points, 10 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aucIfj7VFcg&feature=fvsr

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6N5n6vJeOGNAoVXEMW833i

RIF: Was originally intended to be used in the Spielberg produced film 'Innerspace'.

this is one of the few remixed singles of this era where I didn't despise the single version as compared to the original

Lowe was at his hunkiest in this period:

http://wpcontent.answcdn.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/PSB_Love_Comes_Quickly.jpg/220px-PSB_Love_Comes_Quickly.jpg

Rowr.

i have no idea how 2/0 didn't make my cut tbh. was in my final 25 or so and then... i don't know. how did Heart not make the top 10? one of their most perfect pop moments and one of neal's best vocals.

11. This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave. (1990, Behaviour, 287 points, 13 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roca7FVAIEs

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/5vFdU5glHeNZQ9pchLzBGG

RIF: The backing track was originally used when trying to do the theme tune to the 1987 Bond film, 'The Loving Daylights'.

neil wtf (xp)

Hell yes. Used to be my favourite Behaviour track until I got older and Being Boring sunk its teeth into me.

Even when it came out and I was a total PSB stan I thought Heart was too lightweight, especially compared to the three Actually singles that preceded it.

Behaviour is getting a ton of love.

I thought Behaviour always got a ton of love

Heart was never one of my favourites at the time but it's really grown on me recently.

Heart does seem a bit lightweight in comparison to these other tracks but it's so damn catchy

The bit in Heart where the song LITERALLY SKIPS A BEAT is one of my favourite PSB moments.

Ha, not sure why I never thought of the full stop as skipping a beat. Those clever Boys!

Behaviour is getting a ton of love.

― skip, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 9:32 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

And it should! Nearly all songs on that album could place in a top 50 imho

I like these surprising songs popping up, or rather, at surprising places. If this top 50 were a tracklist, from front to back it would be A+.

10. It's A Sin. (1987, Actually, 296 points, 14 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHetRTOD1Q

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6vYK729O29XnvQqPWyLPfe

RIF: The Latin text Tennant says at the end of the song translates as "I confess to almighty God, and to you my brothers, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, act, and omission, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault."

Behaviour has so many great songs. I was hoping "Nervously" would make it, but it's unlikely now. (xpost)

We're going to be pretty firmly in Singles territory now, right?

"King's Cross" still has a shot

Nervously was in my top 10 iirc

xxp

I predict at least two non-singles coming up.

"King's Cross" still has a shot

― DJP, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 9:48 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

"Still has a shot"? King's cross damn well be top 5 ffs!

hoping King's Cross flys the flag for the album tracks. ha xxp.

What about "Dreaming Of The Queen"? It has to show up too, doesn't it?

I wonder why wasn't King's Cross a single? Or anything else on Actually. After a no. 1 it's pretty much a no brainer to release another single from the album.

I don't think DOTQ will show up.

Massive jump in points here.

9. Love Comes Quickly. (1986, Please, 355 points, 14 votes, 0 number ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHaA1beOwrY

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/7ARLgcWkYVvngfkKHxgXQq

RIF: Roxy Music's Andy MacKay plays saxophone at the end of the song.

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such a fantastic song, that competes with "Rent" as my favorite of their singles

"Heart" was the album's FOURTH single (and it hit #1, to their and everyone's surprise).

Tom Ewing's take last year: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2010/06/pet-shop-boys-heart/