Put The Needle On The Record - Week #100

Put The Needle On The Record Week #100 Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

For this weeks feature and for the final time in this series, we go back to October 1990 and the Pet Shop Boys album "Behaviour".

"Behaviour" was the 4th studio album released by the Pet Shop Boys and is a big fan favourite and an album I really enjoy listening to and it is an album the critics, in the main, really liked. It contains one of my all time favourite Pet Shop Boys tracks "Being Boring", although the album version is disappointing, other standout tracks for me are "Jealousy", "So Hard", "The End Of The World", "This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave" and "Only The Wind". It is quite a varied album too, which adds to its appeal. The album was produced by the boys and Harold Faltermeyer. The album is also listed as one of the 1001 albums you must hear before you die.

4 singles were released off the album "So Hard" (which reached number 4 in the UK Singles chart and number 62 in the American Billboard Hot 100), "Being Boring" (which only reached number 20 in the UK Singles chart, which is baffling to say the least and failed to make the Billboard Hot 100 in the States), the double A Side "Where The Streets Have No Name"/"How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously" (a mystery why the 7 inch version of the latter has never appeared on the bands best of collections, only the album version!), (which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and crept into the Billboard Hot 100 in the States at number 93) and "Jealousy" (which reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart and again failed to reach the Hot Billboard 100 in the states).

The album, reached Number 2 in the UK album chart and number 45 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the States.

Track Listing

Being Boring
This Must Be The Place I waited Years To Leave
To Face The Truth
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
Only The Wind
My October Symphony
So Hard
Nervously
The End Of The World
Jealousy

If you have this album in your collection, dig it out and give it a spin!