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Track Listings
| 1. Can You Forgive Her? (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Liberation (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. A Different Point Of View (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Dreaming Of The Queen (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Yesterday When I Was Mad (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. The Theatre (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 8. One And One Make Five (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 9. To Speak Is A Sin (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 10. Young Offender (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 11. One In A Million (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 12. Go West (2001 Digital Remaster) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Ask people what their favourite Pet Shop Boys album is, and their answers will vary--but ask people what the most important Pet Shop Boys album is, and 9 out of 10 West End girls will say Very. The snide ambiguities that churned behind prior PSB posturings were ripped away on this release, with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe finally pulling more than punches. Self-awareness is one of the major themes on Very, with "Yesterday When I Was Mad", showing the band could send up themselves as well as their friends and lovers; meanwhile, "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Type of Thing" both carries one of the Boys' best melody lines and serves as one of their most literal confessions. There's also a more threatening, foreboding tone to the record as set by the opening "Can You Forgive Her" and the closing Village People cover, "Go West". Originally an anthem leading gay men to San Francisco's promised land, the Pet Shop Boys' version is delivered from the beleaguered trenches in the war against AIDS. The results are as ominous as they are brilliant. --Steve Gdula
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INCLUDES THE HUGE HIT 'GO WEST' How many albums did the pet shop boys have?! Well for all you fans out there we present you with the reissue of 'very'. Includes the massive hit 'go west'
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
But it's worth it for this album.
This was the PSB's definitive album. At once futuristic dance, evocative melancholy and wonderful composition, this work has everything for the discerning PSB fan.
The moment that Neil bursts forth with the line "remember when we were so easily led, behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed" during the stomping opener "Can You Forgive Her?" you know that you are in for something truly special. There isn't really a weak track, but the real outstanding moments come with the dramatic and thought provoking "The Theatre" and the smash hit dance extravaganza "Go West".
If you love elctropop, high camp and impossible drama then this is one for the collection. On the other hand, if you have any Dire Straits albums in your collection then you should probably give it a miss.
Enjoy
This was the PSB's definitive album. At once futuristic dance, evocative melancholy and wonderful composition, this work has everything for the discerning PSB fan.
The moment that Neil bursts forth with the line "remember when we were so easily led, behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed" during the stomping opener "Can You Forgive Her?" you know that you are in for something truly special. There isn't really a weak track, but the real outstanding moments come with the dramatic and thought provoking "The Theatre" and the smash hit dance extravaganza "Go West".
If you love elctropop, high camp and impossible drama then this is one for the collection. On the other hand, if you have any Dire Straits albums in your collection then you should probably give it a miss.
Enjoy
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the best PSB albums but it wasn't until I got all 6 of their rereleased albums that I realised how excellent they all are! This new packaging and new CD with plenty of unreleased or unreleased on CD tracks takes the biscuit. For all those people out there who reckon the PSB have been off the scene for many a year, you'd do well to revisit all their old material, and bring yourself bang up to date. They are one of the most successful bands in the UK even now. They may not make a song and dance about it, but then, they never did!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Very is by far the greatest pop moment of the Pet Shop Boys career and now it is coupled with a second CD of fantastic rare and previously unavailable tracks making this CD highly collectable for the fanatic or casual listener alike. Highlights of the bonus disc include a previously unreleased 12" mix of the number 2 hit Go West and a demo of "Falling" which the duo wrote for Kylie Minogue. Go on treat yourself its worth every penny for CD1 but CD2 should throw you right over the edge.
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Very Remastered 2009
When CD arrived my first thoughts were that it did not sound right. I have only one other CD being "Ultimate" plus a handful of other songs by the PSB. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Paul C. Walker
Even best philosophy...
..... "...there are no more lovers left alive. And that's why love has died"...
"Dreaming of the queen", a masterpiece, contains even this philosophical (nominalist)... Read more
"Dreaming of the queen", a masterpiece, contains even this philosophical (nominalist)... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lucazest
Verr Remastered
Neil Tennant is a musical genius and this is my favourite - its funny, tender, perceptive and has benefited from the remastering to make it smoother in terms of continuity. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2009 by Heartsease
One of their best albums.
When I first heard it, I didn't like it that much because I was regreting the "old" pet shop boys sound but today I realise that this new sound was exactly what they needed to do :... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2008 by dneaeade
One of the finest pop albums of all time...
An absolute pop masterpiece, the Boys combine energetic production alongside carefully crafted lyrics. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2007 by Callum
Very good in parts
I was at the time, and still am disappointed with this album, coming as it did after the brilliant behaviour. Read more
Published on 3 April 2007 by M. Clarke
Not very much
I'm writing a review of this album because I'm so tired of reading that this is the greatest PSB album, or that 'Fundamental is their best work since Very' etc. Read more
Published on 3 May 2006 by Stig
So very...
This album, Very and its much more rare companion, Very Relentless, can be summed up in the Pet Shop Boys' own words (one of the lyrics taken from the song Yesterday When I was... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2006 by Kurt Messick
One of THE great pop albums....
Pet Shop Boys have released many great albums. Very is their greatest. From the great opening shot of Can You Forgive Her? Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2005 by John David Charles Hilton
So very very...
This album, Very and its much more rare companion, Very Relentless, can be summed up in the Pet Shop Boys' own words (one of the lyrics taken from the song Yesterday When I was... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2003 by Kurt Messick
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