Quick! Vote for your favourite Pet Shop Boys song (Radio 2)

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I went alternative

Home And Dry
I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
Leaving
Minimal
The Pop Kids
 
It's just a bit rigged, eh? Where's Jack The Lad? Two Divided By Zero? The Truck Driver and His Mate?
 
Anyway, I went normie

It's A Sin
Suburbia
Se a vida é
Rent
Being Boring
 
Being boring
I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more
Leaving
Love is a bourgeois construct
So hard
 
Always On My Mind
Go West
New York City Boy
Suburbia
Home and Dry
 
I’m a casual,which is a bit of a stretch even, my votes probably skew the results for the proper fans in things like this and cause annoyance in the end results . Anyway I chose:

Always On My Mind
It’s A Sin
Go West
Suburbia
What Have I Done To Deserve This
 
I can't remember precisely what I went for, but it was probably:

Being Boring
King's Cross
Left To My Own Devices
A Red Letter Day
Flamboyant

I could have swapped every single one out with something else and still been happy.
 
FetchFugly said:
You know, I probably should have included Suburbia.
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I think Suburbia was their first truly great single - the remix for the single showed that they'd totally grasped what they were doing and then 'Actually' nails it.
 
What Have I Done To Deserve This
Being Boring
Miracles
Paninaro '95
Home and Dry
 
Being Boring
Domino Dancing
Can You Forgive Her?
Paninaro 95
Miracles

I think Always On My Mind is actually in my top 5, but it doesn't need my vote.
 
Interesting to see Home And Dry pop up here multiple times. It's such a brilliant track and I love the parent album too. A shame it was rather unloved when it first came out.
 
Sorry but I don't think you can beat their first 2 album run of singles, so I went:

It's a sin
Suburbia
Rent
What have I done to deserve this
Heart
 
Christian said:
Interesting to see Home And Dry pop up here multiple times. It's such a brilliant track and I love the parent album too. A shame it was rather unloved when it first came out.
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Release is second only to Elysium in my worst PSB albums but I like Home and Dry and I LOVE I Get Along.
 
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Oh RELEASE is terrible but I love to hate listen to it every once In a while

Send me an email and the one about the closeted rapper are the worst offenders
 
In other news I would like to announce to universal disinterest that Very has overtaken Behaviour as my favourite PSB album
 
Email's got a lovely tune but not much else, and the Eminem one isn't great, that's for sure.

Here, London, I Get Along, Love Is A Catastrophe and You Choose are all top drawer, and that's alongside Home And Dry.
 
Sheena said:
Release is second only to Elysium in my worst PSB albums but I like Home and Dry and I LOVE I Get Along.
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I Get Along is so good. This must have been one of Neil's breakup albums, as the whole thing is so loaded with relationships either stultifying or going wrong.
 
Suedehead said:
In other news I would like to announce to universal disinterest that Very has overtaken Behaviour as my favourite PSB album
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These two and Introspective always jostle it out for me. In winter, it was Behaviour, but it's back to being Introspective right now.
 
Christian said:
I Get Along is so good. This must have been one of Neil's breakup albums, as the whole thing is so loaded with relationships either stultifying or going wrong.
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Well I Get Along was famously not about a romantic break up- it was about Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson.

THEN AGAIN... :D
 
Suedehead said:
In other news I would like to announce to universal disinterest that Very has overtaken Behaviour as my favourite PSB album
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I find it very hard to choose between the two of them.

The Behaviour "era" does encompass Miserabalism and It Must Be Obvious though, and then there's the extended mix of Being Boring too, so there is probably actually no contest.
 
Everyone knows when they look at us
Of course they do, it must be obvious
I’ve never asked you
Now I suppose that you’re the only one who doesn’t know

Very relatable behaviour
 
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I wish I'd never met you
Or that I could bear to let you go

:(
 
Omg HARD!

LOCKED IN:
Can You Forgive Her?
Domino Dancing
It’s A Sin
What Have I Done To Deserve This?

And then it's between Heart and I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing :(

Hallo Spaceboy is my favourite Bowie song but probably not in my top ten PSB songs :shy:
 
The full Top 30 chart, as voted for by Radio 2 listeners, is:

1 West End Girls (1984)

2 It's A Sin (1987)

3 Always On My Mind (1987)

4 What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) (1987)

5 Left To My Own Devices (1988)

6 Suburbia (1986)

7 Go West (1993)

8 Rent (1987)

9 Being Boring (1990)

10 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (1985)

11 Heart (1988)

12 Domino Dancing (1988)

13 Love Comes Quickly (1986)

14 Se a vida e (That's the Way Life Is) (1996)

15 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (1991)

16 Paninaro / Paninaro ‚'95 (1995)

17 Jealousy (1991)

18 King's Cross (1987)

19 It's Alright (1988)

20 Hallo Spaceboy (with David Bowie) (1995)

21 A New Bohemia (2024)

22 Can You Forgive Her? (1993)

23 In The Night [The Clothes Show theme] (1985)

24 So Hard (1990)

25 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (1993)

26 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk (2000)

27 New York City Boy (1999)

28 Shopping (1987)

29 Love Etc (2009)

30 The Way It Used to Be (2009)
 
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