Track Listing

1. Can You Forgive Her
2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
3. Liberation
4. Different Point Of View
5. Dreaming Of The Queen
6. Yesterday When I Was Mad
7. Theatre
8. One And One Make Five
9. To Speak Is A Sin
10. Young Offender
11. One In A Million
12. Go West
13. Postscript

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19067 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
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 calloff 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.

Customer Reviews

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. If you haven't bought it yet then go ahead, perfect driving music.