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The Pet Shop Boys' fifth "proper" studio album sees a return to more club-oriented production styles; Very is produced by Neil and Chris themselves (with a little help from Stephen Hague and Brothers In Rhythm) and it shows in the now slightly dated-sounding bleeps and bloops that pepper most every track here. Nevertheless, the songs are as good as always, from the disco stomp of "Can You Forgive Her" to the rollicking "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing", the affecting "The Theatre" and the brilliant but bonkers "Yesterday, When I Was Mad".
There are sad, slow songs here, too; the regretful "Young Offender", "To Speak Is A Sin", which details the sordid chat-up processes of certain nightclubs and the poignant "Dreaming Of The Queen", with its strangely prescient lyrics ("And Di replied/That there were no more lovers left alive)".
The album's closed by the PSB's anthemic ni-NRG reworking of the Village People's "Go West" and a secret hidden track featuring the vocal talents of one Chris Lowe; another perfect pop package is topped off by a 16-track CD of B-sides, remixes, demos and live tracks, including such gems as the Pets' version of Blur's "Girls And Boys". --Rikki Price
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BEHAVIOUR was the Pet Shop Boys' first truly mature album, but its follow-up, 1993's VERY, proved to be their masterpiece. On the surface, VERY is the duo's most carefree album, amodern dance-floor update of the kitchen-sink production and swelling melodies of a classic ABBA album. Just barely underneath, Neil Tennant's lyrics keep their layers of mordant wit, but drop the self-protective irony in favour of writingtruthfully about the lives of gay men in the early '90s, regrouping in the face of AIDS.
To that end, the album starts with "Can You Forgive Her?", a drop-dead-gorgeous song directed to a closeted young man whose "girlfriend" wants to call off her part in the charade, and it wraps up with a completely heartfelt and unironic version of the Village People's "Go West" that views the unfettered hedonism of the original with a palpable sense of regret. In between, "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" and "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" are among the duo's finest singles.
To that end, the album starts with "Can You Forgive Her?", a drop-dead-gorgeous song directed to a closeted young man whose "girlfriend" wants to call off her part in the charade, and it wraps up with a completely heartfelt and unironic version of the Village People's "Go West" that views the unfettered hedonism of the original with a palpable sense of regret. In between, "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" and "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" are among the duo's finest singles.
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