The Pet Shop Boys' first twenty singles...

Hyper Hyper
Move Your Ass
Friends
Endless Summer
Back In The UK
Let Me Be Your Valentine
Rebel Yell
I'm Raving
Break It Up
Fire
The Age Of Love
No Fate
Now Much Is The Fish
We Are The Greatest
Call Me Manana
Faster Harder Scooter
Fuck The Millennium
I'm Your Pusher
She's The Sun
Posse (I Need You On The Floor)
Aiii Shot The DJ
The Logical Song
Nessaja
Weekend
Maria (I Like It Loud)
Jigga Jigga
Shake That
One (Always Hardcore)
Suavemente

The 7" was hardly House at all.

I think a list of the first 20 or so Vince Clarke singles (DM, Yazoo, that one he did with Paul Quinn, Assembly, Erasure) would be pretty darn great.

One possible reason -- "Never Let Me Down Again" contains some of the blandest vocal melodies in the DM canon. As for the contrary opinion, (for those seeking the root of the song's awesomeness) look no further than Dan's comment.

This is unforgivable. If recording a cover version within 5 months after the original has come out isn't arrogant enough, then adding extra soppy "caring" lyrics and bastardizing the original (flawless) melody with SAW-style drum machines and campy backing singers definitely is! This is the only PSB song I have a gripe with, and the only one for which I would willingly disembowel myself and then eat my own insides never to hear EVER again......

Well, what's stopping you? If you do disembowel yourself and eat your own insides I can guarantee you'll never hear the song again.

It was...?

(I've got the 2-part cd single set?)

When people say "Fundamental" is the best PSB album since "Very" they mean, "Well, it's got better songs on it than 'Bilingual'". (It is not, though, as good as 'Nightlife').

dreadful!

But the segue between "Discoteca" and "Single" is the best drumbeat ever!!

Or the most boring. There are enough slow songs on Nightlife already. "Radiophonic" is great! "Vampires", "The Only One" and "Footsteps" are just ok. Nightlife is good but very uneven.
Fundamental is disapointing to me, I like all the songs that aren't on the album better than the ones that are. I don't like "Numb" at all.
Bilingual is their best since Very, followed by Release.

but it was their first album released after Very!

Actually > Introspective > Behaviour > Please > Very > Bilingual > Fundamental > Nightlife > Release

Maybe.

Hopefully I will change my mind about Fundamental.

And I even *like* Nightlife quite a bit, so that's saying something about the quality of their albums, I think

I consider myself bilingual curious. (actually)

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Has It Come To This
Let's Push Things Forward
Weak Become Heroes
Don't Mug Yourself
Fit But You Know It
Dry Your Eyes
Blinded By The Lights
Could Well Be In
When You Wasn't Famous
Never Went To Church

Love Me Do
Please Please Me
From Me To You
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Can't Buy Me Love
A Hard Day's Night
I Feel Fine
Ticket To Ride
Help!
Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
All You Need Is Love
Hello Goodbye
Magical Mystery Tour
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Get Back

I'd posit REM, because I'm very very fond of their early stuff and the Geffen-era singles have been played so often it's difficult to still tell whether they've been any good. I would posit Robbie Williams, but thinking about it he comes up with one classic single or so per album, and then follows it up with a dreicht 'It's so hard being me' type ballad.

Cry To Me
Dreamin'
Hit And Run
It's Getting Stronger
Runaway
Catch Me On The Rebound
That's What You Said
The Greatest Performance Of My Life
Relight My Fire
Love Sensation
Seconds
I've Been Loving You Too Long
We're Getting Stronger
Strong Enough
Crash Goes Love
Heartstealer
So Sweet
Gotta Be #1
Do That To Me (Set Me Free)
The Queen's Anthem
Stand Up!
I Survived
Shout To The Top
Lifting Me Up
No Apology

25 singles and really not a bad one in the bunch (though i'm not counting her pre-disco stuff) and others may feel differently about the mid-80s DJ International stuff

anyhow, fitting that the best contender I could come up with for the PSB title is another queen

also, the St Et one is a good call too.

and i HATE people who say 'i preferred the demo' about songs but there you go! it is better!

btw I saw them a couple of nights ago -- a MUCH better show than the 2002 supporting Release, despite the smaller budget.)

Pete Shelley was/is gay, MrSnrub.