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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Two Divided By Zero | |||
| 2. West End Girls | |||
| 3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) | |||
| 4. Love Comes Quickly | |||
| 5. Suburbia | |||
| 6. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (1) | |||
| 7. Tonight Is Forever | |||
| 8. Violence | |||
| 9. I Want A Lover | |||
| 10. Later Tonight | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Man Could Get Arrested | |||
| 2. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) | |||
| 3. In The Night | |||
| 4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) | |||
| 5. Why Don't We Live Together | |||
| 6. West End Girls | |||
| 7. Man Could Get Arrested | |||
| 8. Love Comes Quickly | |||
| 9. That's My Impression | |||
| 10. Was That What It Was | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
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
CD Description
In 1986, post-disco synth-dance pop was commercially waning, with even Madonna moving towards a more conventional pop sound with her single "Live to Tell", and the real hardcore stuff was reduced to an underground that had been dubbed "Hi-NRG". That is, until the Pet Shop Boys, ex-music journalist Neil Tennant and synth player Chris Lowe, made the jump fromthat underground to the pop charts with the gloriously sleazy "West End Girls" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)". Unlike most similar dance-pop records, however, PLEASE has more to offer than just the hits; songs like the dreamy "I Want a Lover" are on par with the aforementioned singles, and the album's two best songs--the pulsating-yet-languid "Love Comes Quickly" and the beautifully melodic, lyrically creepy "Suburbia"--weren't nearly as successful on the singles chart. Overall, PLEASE is a thoroughly enjoyable recordthat has not dated nearly as much as many other synth records from the period, thanks to Tennant's witty lyrics and Lowe's compelling melodic gifts.
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