Put The Needle On The Record - Week #9

Put The Needle On The Record Week #9 Pet Shop Boys - Please

I think we all have albums we haven't played in years and this feature, hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

For this weeks feature we go back to March 1986 and the debut album by the Pet Shop Boys, "Please", this album had the honour of being the first album I played on the car stereo in my first car! A brilliant album and I am still a massive fan today and they are one of my all time favourite bands (although the last 3 studio albums haven't been that good, "Hotspot" being the best of the last 3 albums, "Electric" is bloody awful!).

The album featured 4 singles, the debut single "West End Girls" (which reached number 1 in the UK Singles charty), "Love Comes Quickly" (Which scraped into the Top 20, peaking at number 19 and for me was a weak choice as a 2nd single, they should have gone for "Tonight Is Forever" or "Why Don't We Live Together?"), I must admit I thought there music career was going to be a short one, after this single struggled chartwise, thankfully, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" was a bigger hit (reaching number 11 in the UK Singles Chart), it also featured one of my favourite Pet Shop Boys B Sides "Was That What It Was" on the 12 inch vinyl record, and finally, "Suburbia", which was re-recorded for the single release and once again featured 2 superb B sides on the 12 Inch vinyl, "Jack The Lad" and "Paninaro" (the single reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart).

The album peaked at number 3 in the UK albums chart.

Track listing

Two Divided By Zero
West End Girls
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
Love Comes Quickly
Suburbia
Opportunities (Reprise)
Tonight Is Forever
Violence
I Want A Lover
Later Tonight
Why Don't We Live Together?

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!