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Behaviour [Enhanced] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

~ Pet Shop Boys
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  • Audio CD (4 Jun 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Enhanced, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00005J9M3
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,553 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Being Boring (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:50£0.79
Listen  2. This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:31£0.69
Listen  3. To Face The Truth (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:32£0.69
Listen  4. How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (2001 Digital Remaster) 3:56£0.69
Listen  5. Only The Wind (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:18£0.69
Listen  6. My October Symphony (2001 Digital Remaster) 5:18£0.69
Listen  7. So Hard (2001 Digital Remaster) 3:58£0.69
Listen  8. Nervously (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:10£0.69
Listen  9. The End Of The World (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:39£0.69
Listen10. Jealousy (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:49£0.69


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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. It Must Be Obvious (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:26£0.69
Listen  2. So Hard (Extended Dance Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:38£0.69
Listen  3. Miserablism (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:07£0.69
Listen  4. Being Boring (Extended Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster)10:40£2.99
Listen  5. Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:30£0.69
Listen  6. We All Feel Better In The Dark (Extended Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:48£0.69
Listen  7. Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (Extended Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:46£0.79
Listen  8. Jealousy (Extended Version) (2001 Digital Remaster) 7:58£0.69
Listen  9. Generic Jingle (2001 Digital Remaster)0:14£0.69
Listen10. DJ Culture (Extended Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:53£0.69
Listen11. Was It Worth It? (12'' Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 7:15£0.69
Listen12. Music For Boys (Ambient Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 6:13£0.69
Listen13. DJ Culture (7'' Mix) (2001 Digital Remaster) 4:26£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Behaviour marks a bit of a departure--or, more appropriately, an evolution--in style for the Pet Shop Boys, whose previous albums are largely comprised of hungry and often slightly seedy songs with a high emphasis production-wise on the band's beloved club roots. Those dance elements are still on display here, but there's a much more mature feel to Harold Faltermeyer's production.

The songs themselves have moved on from neediness and seediness to far more adult themes; opening tracks "Being Boring" and "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years To Leave", with their lyrics of reminiscence, fond and otherwise, set the tone for the next 50 minutes. There are gently melodic songs of betrayal-"To Face The Truth", "Only The Wind"--and more upbeat variations on the same theme in "So Hard" and the string-laden "Jealousy" and a touching tale of first attraction in "Nervously". The album's only real downer comes in the pompous shape of "My October Symphony", a wincingly pretentious thing which suggests the band have fallen prey to the kind of po-faced muso nonsense they poke fun at in "How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously".

Behaviour is possibly the best album for fans of Neil and Chris' more circumspect outpourings; what it lacks in upbeat anthems and disco production it more than makes up for in intelligent, introspective song writing. And with a bonus CD of 12 remixes and B-sides, it's a must-have for anyone who likes their pop meticulously crafted and shrewdly lyrical. --Rikki Price

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5.0 out of 5 stars Behaviour modification, 28 Sep 2003
By Kurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (London, SW1) - See all my reviews
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I consider this to be the second-best album by the Pet Shop Boys (the best, in my opinion, being Actually for being more quintessentially Pet-Shop-Boy-ish). However, were I rank Actually as 100, this would be a 98 or 99.

One of the things that Behaviour has that is lacking in the previous work of the Pet Shop Boys (and in much of the pop music of the 1980s generally) is maturity. The Pet Shop Boys show in this album that they can go beyond gimmickry, beyond simple tunes and witty lyrics, to have music and lyrics of real poetic merit (okay, so we're not talking Tennyson here, but quite a cut above the usual popular wordsmithing). Perhaps this is why the album didn't fare as well financially as its predecessor.

This album marked the beginning of the decline of the Pet Shop Boys on the American scene. Only one song really made much of a dent, So Hard, and this was perhaps their last real American hit. Other songs from the album that were released as singles, and every single released since, has failed to make progress of any significance in the charts. Beyond the shores of America, the Pet Shop Boys are still fairly popular, and this album was a financial as well as artistic success.

It is unfortunate, because many of the songs on this album are truly beautiful. Being Boring is my favourite song, the first track on the album, as it recounts a tale of life, with interjections from the Parisian set (read, Gertrude Stein and company) comparing it to circles today, remembering lost friends ('some are here and some are missing in the 1990s'), all done to the backdrop of an electronic-yet-symphonic quality musical setting.

All the music and lyrics fall together so well in this album, the Pet Shop Boys can be seen to have come of age. A pity that it was, by that point by and large, an age that had passed already.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best PSB album ever, 3 Feb 2006
By GP "TheGP" (Feltham, London) - See all my reviews
This is truly a breathtaking work. At the time, it didn't sell as well as their 80's output, but in retrospect this is the finest work of the PSB's career.

Lyrically, Neil Tennant hit his peak on Behaviour. Also, the arrangements have not been matched since.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it's their best., 16 Jan 2002
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Well, I know everyone says this is their best album, but it is. They wouldn't like me for saying it but it's more rock than disco. Only two of the tracks attempt to raise the bpm to dance levels; amazing when you consider the climate into which it was released and the enthusiasm they have shown ever since for having everything remixed by next week's DJ. Being Boring is beautiful and heartbreaking for those of us who lived it but although now all PSB fans say it's their favourite it struggled to make the top 20 at the time. In This Must Be The Place Tennant is dreaming about being back at school and having to go through the horror of it all again. Haunting, if you, like me, regularly dream that you are about to sit your 'A' levels without having read the books, again. The subject matter is hardly your usual pop album: To Face The Truth and Jealousy are about someone lying at home in bed coming to terms with the fact that their partner is out shagging someone else, Only The Wind and The End of the World are about a fight between two lovers, My October Symphony concerns the problems faced by Russian composers as a result of the political turmoil of the twentieth century and the hilarious So Hard deals with unfaithful partners who secretly smoke. Oh, and Nervously is probably their first openly gay lovesong. If you don't own a copy of this, you don't like pop music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy listening
I really like Behaviour, infact I'd go as far as to say it was my favourite album from their back catologue. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chris Sams

5.0 out of 5 stars Good and bad
Musically speaking, FANTASTIC. The bad is the sound which I considered it to be bad and deserved a better engineering

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Published 6 months ago by Ilovemusic

3.0 out of 5 stars People are never satisfied.
After the album Introspective, when the boys asked people in the streets what do they think of their music, many people said that their music is always the same, and when they try... Read more
Published 21 months ago by dneaeade

4.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous album - but crippled by a dud remastering
This is probably the Pet Shop Boys single finest album, from 1991 it's a collection of cool, reflective, elegant musings on adult life set to a hypnotic synthesised backbeat... Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD - definitely the Boys' at their best!
This is my favourite Pet Shop Boys cd. It's is incredibly moving both lyrically and musically. A pop/synth masterpiece. Read more
Published on 25 May 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Behavioural therapy!
From the tongue-in-cheek opener, this is so far from being boring its almost uplifting. Every track here sets a mood for a cozy night in, in front of a log fire! Read more
Published on 24 May 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars On Their Best Behaviour
It is a sad fact for a PSB fan such as myself that this beautifully crafted masterpiece can exist in the same landscape mediocrity as 'bi-lingul' and 'nightlife'. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2000 by mikebayly

5.0 out of 5 stars Their Best By Far
This is my favourite all-time album, by my favourite all-time group. The songs have a depth and reality that any subsequent releases have sadly lacked, especially the dreadful... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2000 by japrice@worcestershire.gov.uk

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