What's the best track on "Behaviour"

Got to be "Nervously" here. One of their best ever moments.

I don't remember how "Only the Wind" and "Nervously" go. ;_; Everything else is fantastic. ^_^

"Being Boring" will likely sweep this poll, so I'll put in a good word for "The End of the World."

'To face the truth'

I voted for "My October Symphony," though I definitely wouldn't stake my life on it.

Hands down their very worst non-remix album (until this last one on Rhino). It baffles me what people hear in the thing. I love Rob Sheffield's analysis of what went wrong - it was the first PSB album to not include a song with the phrase "I want..." in the title. Dead on as usual.

Not as much of a "canon pick" as the other polls, but Pet Shop Boys are known ILM faves, and this album is often thought of as their best.

Isn't this a contradiction? If it's often thought of as their best, then wouldn't it be a canon pick? Fwiw, I know VERY few people who think it's their best.

I voted for "Being Boring," and I definitely would stake my life on it.

I'm hopelessly tainted by the knowledge that it was the first studio album of theirs I owned; the quiet hysteria of "So Hard" seduced me after hearing it on "Beverly Hills 90210," in which it seemed incongruous but so right.

Whenever I play it I'm taken back to what I loved best about the Beatles at the time: these songs are intelligent and melodic but Lowe and Tennant are thinking, to quote the George Martin adage, symphonically. The strings, Johnny Marr solos, electric pianos, Faltermeyer sequences, Tennant's own awkward guitar -- they're trying to match the tumult of their hearts with what they're hearing in their heads. Although nothing here explodes with the force of their early singles, they compensate with a song suite that's at once wry, detached, and sad. The one-two-three punch of "Nervously, "The End of the World," and "Jealousy" is like "Later Tonight," "Kings Cross," and "I'm Not Scared" rendered with greater clarity and, oddly, greater detachment. There's deep pain in these steady grooves -- the pain before the release that would happen on the U2 cover and the glorious "Was It Worth It?" (both of which are superior to most everything on Behaviour), not to mention Very.

I'll agree that Introspective and Very probably did this with higher ratios of success, but I'll allow Tennant-Lowe their one moment of high seriousness. It's a phase they had to accept, then outgrow.

"Introspective" was too much of a remix album to work for me, plus a couple of the tracks were dragged down by too much house wanna-b effects.

"Very" is my fave Pet Shop Boys album though. But along with "Actually", "Behaviour" is the one I most often see riding high in polls.

"So Hard"

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No surprise winner, I guess.