The PET SHOP BOYS Albums Poll

We've done this.

oh :(

i searched for it!

still can't find it in the search...

Best Pet Shop Boys Album

result 3 for "pet shop boys album"

doesn't show up in my search for "pet shop boys"

...oddly enough.

anyway, looking at that other poll -- and this one's slightly different.

• no singles collection "Discography"
• no career overview "PopArt"
• no "Disco" 1/2/3/4

this poll is strictly studio albums. granted, i wouldn't have necessarily made it had i seen the other poll, but it's different enough to run, i guess. where are those votes that went to PopArt and Discography gonna go this time?

plus, mine has pictures. nyah!!!!!

Yeah, I say lets go on with this one. Plus I didn't get to vote on the previous one. Just in case I've already voted for Actually.

everyone vote for very. that is the correct answer.

No it isn't.

Actually it is.

Actually is it!

("Dreaming of the Queen" and "Go West" irritate me so much that I can't call that album their best even though some of their best songs are on it.)

So no voting for Disco 3, then? That one is so good.

no kidding, i love Disco 3 -- favorite of the Disco releases, easily.

(haven't heard Disco 4, granted)

Everyone should vote for Actually! Here why:

4 amazing tracks: What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Rent, It's A Sin and
King's Cross,

3 excellent ones: One More Chance, Shopping, It Couldn't Happen Here,

3 good ones: Hit Music, Heart, I Want To Wake Up ,

and no filler.

I still love Disco 2.

(also daavid almost OTM: "One More Chance" is also amazing and "I Want To Wake Up is excellent)

thought about my own poll for nearly an hour...

and finally voted for Behavior.

i mean, for me it's a toss-up between Behavior and Actually, actually.

but tonight, i like Behavior best.

Introspective > Actually > Please > Behavior > everything else

why introspective, xhuxk?

i'm curious how it placed so well in the previous poll too. introspective has never been among my favorites, and i didn't know it was so well-liked until now. is it popular with the "club" audience or something? i mean, there's some great songs on there, but i think most/all of them are superior in the shorter versions on Discography.

("Dreaming of the Queen" and "Go West" irritate me so much that I can't call that album their best even though some of their best songs are on it.)

ha--those are my two favorite songs on Very; which gets my vote, needless to say.

That version of "Go West"

Those "come on, come on" backing vocals...

A tribute to "Pretend we're dead" L7, right?

"Very". Closely followed by "Behaviour".

I fear their worst album may win this though. Even "Release" is better than "Introspective", which is a pointless remix album with way too many house influenced tracks.

"Actually" is better, but has too many digital synths and samples. 1987 in a nutshell.

Voted for Please cuz I heard it most recently, on the strength of "Two Divided By Zero," "Why Don't We Live Together?" and, oh yeah, the singles.

Introspective. By *miles*.

and yeah DISCO 3 is madly under-rated.
TRY IT and TIME ON MY HANDS can still move the right dancefloors.
fantastic cover art too.

I realized I really couldn't trust people when I found out how much PSB fans liked Introspective.

why introspective, xhuxk?

Most fleshed-out/least emaciated sound; best beat; highest percentage of tracks I don't get bored with (can't go wrong with six). Just seems like their warmest record. Latin freestyle and early Chicago house influences probably helped a lot in that vein.

(I'm not saying I like it a lot more than their first two records; just saying that, if a gun was held to my head, that's the one I'd pick. Definitely like it a lot more than anything they did later, though--Behavior included.)

I fear their worst album may win this though. Even "Release" is better than "Introspective", which is a pointless remix album with way too many house influenced tracks.

The fact that Geir hates it so much makes me more confident in my choice, actually. I'm confused about his "remix" claim, though -- Were there shorter original versions of the Introspective tracks that came out before the actual album did? I've got a 12-inch of "Left To My Own Devices (The Disco Mix)" from around that time, but it's three minutes longer than the version on the album.

xhuxk, that's fair enough, thanks!

The remastered Introspective includes the 7-inch mixes released as singles.

But I voted for the real one, not the remastered one (which I'm guessing would be harder to get through, just like most remastered/expanded whatchamacallits.)

Those bonus disc are brilliant track-by-track but become a bit weary to play through in their entirety as they tend to contain the same song twice or even 3 times in different versions etc.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

anyone else?

"Introspective", which is a pointless remix album

* Left to My Own Devices
first appeared here

* I Want a Dog
re-recording, not remix

* Domino Dancing
single came out first but was recorded for the album

* I'm Not Scared
obviously a completely new recording, it's by a different band you goon

* Always on My Mind/In My House
re-recording with completely different arrangement and A NEW SONG included

* It's Alright
first appeared here

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Ended already? About time we start a new Pet Shop Boys albums thread then? :)

no love at all for the last 4 albums? daaaaamn.

I love "Fundamental", but "Very" and "Behaviour" are both better.