A very Pet Shop Boys Poll

I almost went with "Go West" because I know it'll get less votes than it deserves, but my vote goes to "Can You Forgive Her?".

I want "Young Offender" to play when I fall in love.

PSB is all I want to listen to lately.

I must admit "Very" is one of my least favorite PSB albums.

a ton of great tracks, but this has to be "Can You Forgive Her?" -- apologies to the rest of the album.

Still going for "I Wouldn't Normally....". Like I did the last time we polled this album.

I must admit "Very" is one of my least favorite PSB albums.

Oh? How so?

Fuck I love this album. Favorite is definitely Go West, which is basically the perfect distillation of what one thinks of when one thinks of stereotypically gay 80's culture.

Young Offender and I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing tied for a close second.

I want "Young Offender" to play when I fall in love.

And you'll deserve it. You are blessed, my boy.

But ooh, you're being mean in doing this poll (which was done already?). The first seven tracks are unfuckwithable with several other gems set in the second half. But I'm going with "Dreaming of the Queen" which surpasses even "Being Boring" in the hurts so bad category.

I completely forgot that another poll existed. Sorry, ILM gods!

I must admit "Very" is one of my least favorite PSB albums.

Oh? How so?

I don't really know. It probably has to do with the early 90s sound. Also they started using a kind of backing vocals that I didn't like (like in "Was it worth it?"). It's definitely more the production than the songs themselves.

I love "Was It Worth It?"! You can practically see Tennant blush with joy.

"Go West"

I love "Was It Worth It?"! You can practically see Tennant blush with joy

I like it more now, but I hated it when I first heard it. The line

"I don't know why, I never thought I'd fall in love"

is amazing though.

"Young Offender" is the sequel!

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whoa.

Got tickets to see them in September. Have never done so before and am RIDICULOUSLY excited.

Feel... free... to leave... if you think you're trapped, but
Please... believe...

...I'LL ALWAYS WANT YOU BACK!

"So then we posed for pictures with the competition winners
and argued about the hotel rooms and where to go for dinner
and someone said it's fabulous you're still around today
you've both made such a little go a very long way"

Pavarotti in the park, then you walked back up the Strand
Did you catch my eye?
And then pretend not to notice all the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over as you leave the theatre

a perfect album imo, i just received the vinyl reissue in the mail and it still sounds amazing. i'm going to be replaying it more than a few times over the next several days. Dreaming of the Queen hits particularly hard.

A bit love for "Liberation" over here, at least. Bless. :)

this was probably a very important album for me in its presentation of life from the POV of a gay man (or men, rather.) as a rap and metal head whose exposure to gay culture thru music was at best not empathetic and at worst utterly vile, this was the LP that kind of woke me up in that respect. it's probably also the album that turned me on to pop music as an album genre as well as a series of great singles i'd just hear on the radio.

"Young Offender" is truth

i feel like this album is extremely underrated to this day, which is odd to me. i guess it somehow makes sense: it dropped in 1993, after what was perceived to be their imperial era, after Discography, and it doesn't really have a single one of the hits that non-PSB fans would recognize. But it's so great. even in a year as great as 1993 it stands out.

it was my first psb album. up there with introspective for me

a perfect album imo, i just received the vinyl reissue in the mail and it still sounds amazing. i'm going to be replaying it more than a few times over the next several days. Dreaming of the Queen hits particularly hard.

― omar little

Yeah, I got the vinyl too and agree with how good it sounds. My second favourite PSB album behind Behaviour.

i feel like this album is extremely underrated to this day, which is odd to me. i guess it somehow makes sense: it dropped in 1993, after what was perceived to be their imperial era, after Discography, and it doesn't really have a single one of the hits that non-PSB fans would recognize. But it's so great. even in a year as great as 1993 it stands out.

― omar little, Friday, September 21, 2018 1

I don't agree! "Go West" is their biggest UK hit of the 1990s and it's more recognized in the States than the original Village People version. Ifa anything, rockcrit, mostly comprised of straight white guys, is so beholden to "maturity" as a theme that they hone in on Behaviour, Very and maaaayyybe Actually (in a distant third). I like them best when the Boys were sleazy a la "Two Divided by Zero" and "Opportunities.

i think i agree with you on that re: the rockcrits but i think general public-wise at least in the U.S. it's not as familiar...not saying it wasn't known at all, i just think it's slightly off their peak era and slightly out of time a bit in that regard.

Opportunities is probably the PSB song i think about the most though, i love it.

best album of the 90's

Happy 30th to this amazing album.

Relentless is getting a standalone reissue on vinyl and CD. I've never heard it. Should I? Never got much out of the Disco albums.

It's not like the Disco albums, they were all new songs. Get it !

The Man Who Has Everything is one of their best ever bangers. Man the *thrill* of getting 18 new PSB songs at once back in 1993, well 19 if you count 'Post Script'.

Nice to see ILX liked Young Offender better than some of the singles; it was always one of their great bits of buried treasure.

Huh I also thought Relentless was a remix album. And none of the songs are on Alternative or Format. Well, away I go to listen

Iirc, only "Forever In Love" is available on the Further Listening of Very.

I still haven't heard Relentless and the thought of hearing six new PSB songs from 1993 is very exciting!