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Please/Further Listening 1984-1986 [Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Pet Shop Boys Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (4 Jun 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B00005J9LY
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 89,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Two Divided By Zero (2001 Digital Remaster) 3:35£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. West End Girls (2001 - Remaster) 4:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (2001 Digital Remaster) 3:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Love Comes Quickly (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:19£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Suburbia (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:07£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Opportunities (Reprise) (2001 Digital Remaster)0:33£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Tonight Is Forever (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Violence (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:29£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. I Want A Lover (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Later Tonight (2001 Digital Remaster) 2:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Why Don't We Live Together? (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:49£0.89  Buy MP3 


Disc 2:

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Listen  1. A Man Could Get Arrested (12'' B-Side) (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:11£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Full Length Original 7'' Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. In The Night (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Original 12'' Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 7:00£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Why Don't We Live Together? (Original New York Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. West End Girls (Dance Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. A Man Could Get Arrested (7'' B-Side) (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. That's My Impression (Disco Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:19£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Was That What It Was? (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:16£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Suburbia (The Full Horror) (2001 Digital Remaster) 8:58£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Jack The Lad (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Paninaro (Italian Remix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 8:37£0.89  Buy MP3 


Product Description

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The Pet Shop Boys' first album reveals a grittier, hungrier sound than most of their subsequent work. There's an urgent kind of narrative running through Please, from the escapist theme of the opening "Two Divided By Zero" through the seedy "West End Girls" to the tender "Tonight Is Forever" and the cautionary "Violence"; later on, "I Want A Lover" and "Later Tonight" get down and dirty before "Why Don't We Live Together" brings things, pleading, to a close. There's an appealingly edgy neediness to most of the tracks, verging at times on desperation, which is gradually whittled down through second and third albums Actually and Introspective and is largely missing from later albums.

Its four singles--seminal geek-rap "West End Girls", the you-can't-escape-lurve "Love Comes Quickly" and anti-Thatcherite anthems "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" and "Suburbia"--still sound pretty fresh today. The album's other six and a bit tracks, while clearly of their time, still sound good 15 years on.

Add to all this an 11-track bonus disc of B-sides and remixes and this reissue is an essential purchase for anyone wanting to expand their PSB collection, or to hear, fascinated, just how far the band's sound has evolved over the years. --Rikki Price


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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Please-ing, indeed 28 Sep 2003
By Kurt Messick HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
This is the first, and considered by many fans and non-fans, to be the quint-essential Pet Shop Boys album. Anyone familiar with the popular music of the 1980s will know the dominant track on the CD, West End Girls. Still considered their greatest hit, the Pet Shop Boys capitalised on the synthesizer and sample-heavy sound conjured up for this song by producing a slick London-based video that catapulted the PSB into the limelight around the world for the next several years.

The music of the Pet Shop Boys defies easy explanation. The lyrics are witty and urbane, very much a product of the disco and consumer-big-money culture of the 1980s. Songs like Opportunities/Let's Make Lots of Money became a sort of capitalist anthem, spawning two different video versions and countless remixes for the disco environments.

Taking a cue from the popular television of the time, the song Suburbia has a piano overlay that sounds similar to the then massively-popular Eastenders, and the lyrics recount a East End-esque storyline which sparks familiarity with those immersed in the pop culture.

The song Love Comes Quickly highlights both synthesizer effects and masking as well as simple and elegant poetic lyric. No base or screaming lines in this disco, no banal or forced words simply to serve as fronting for a drum-machine-produced rhythm, this song perhaps shows the Pet Shop Boys at their early height in development of words to music (that was finally fully developed in the album Behaviour).

Two other songs of note on this introductory album include the first track, Two Divided By Zero, which has a simple introduction and simplistic development that ends up gradually increasing in sound complexity while the sense of 'what does this song mean?' continues to agitate (for the mathematically inclined, anything divided by zero becomes problematic). Tied together with the lyric in Opportunities: 'I doctored in mathematics/I could've been a don', the nuances are subtle and interesting. The almost triumphant yet existential-based Tonight is Forever generates images of glory and failure, pleading and confidence, subtle and direct, an interesting paradox.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have continued their collaboration (with the great assistance of many others) to produce ever more complex and interesting albums, not all of which have been successful, commercially or artistically. While Please is not their best album, it is certain a classic, and very much the seed from which all the rest of their sound derives (a dialogue lyric on a later album states 'you've both made such a little go a very long way'). Everything on any future album of the Pet Shops Boys is present in some form here. A must have for any collector of the Pet Shop Boys or of 1980s pop culture and music.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Piece of Brilliance 5 Dec 2001
Format:Audio CD
Yep, Please was & still is everything that the Pet Shop Boys started out with to fufil their promise of International Stardom. an excellent album with some high energy beats, mixed with a few ballads. I am a big Pet Shop Boys fan, and still I continue to listen to this album with great enjoyment & the sound that still isn't out of place with today's styles.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! 18 Jun 2001
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Format:Audio CD
Classic album, now remastered with beautiful packaging and excellent sleeve notes. A great bonus CD with several re-mixes and unreleased tracks. Even if you are just a small fan of the PSB, this is an essential purchase !!
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