Pet Shop Boys

Artist:  Pet Shop Boys
Origin:  London, England
Genre:  Pop, Synthpop, Art Pop, New Wave, Dance Pop, House, Alternative Dance

Original line-up:

Neil Tennant:  Lead  Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Violin, Trumpet
Chris Lowe:  Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizers, Programming, Samples, Computer, Piano, Electronic Piano, Electric Piano, Drums, Electronic Drums, Organ, Panpipes, Tuba, Didgeridoo, Sequencers

Pet Shop Boys are an English Synthpop Duo from London, formed in 1981, consisting of Neil Tennant (lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Bass), and Chris Lowe (Keyboards, Synthesizer, Programming, Piano, Organ, Vocals).  They have sold more 50 million records worldwide and are listed as the most successful Duo in UK Music History by The Guinness Book Of Records.  Three-time Brit Award Winners and Six-time Grammy nominees.  Since 1985, they have achieved 42 Top 3 Singles, 22 of them Top 10 Hits in the UK Singles Chart, including four UK No. 1:  "West End Girls" (also No. 1on the US Billboard Hot 100), "It's A Sin", "Always On My Mind", "Heart", "Go West" and more!.  In 2009 Brit Awards in London, they received an Award for Outstanding Contribution To Music.   In 2016, Billboard Magazine name Pet Shop Boys the No. 1 Dance Duo/Group over the 40 years since 1976.  In 2017 they received NME's Godlike Genius Award.

Title:  Very:  Further Listening:  1992-1994   (2018)
Genre:  Pop, Synthpop, Art Pop, New Wave, Dance Pop, House, Alternative Dance
Label:  Parlophone Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

Disc 1:  Very:

 1.  Can You Forgive Her?  (3:54)
 2.  I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing  (3:04)
 3.  Liberation  (4:06)
 4.  A Different Point Of View  (3:26)
 5.  Dreaming Of The Queen  (4:20)
 6.  Yesterday When I Was Mad  (3:56)
 7.  The Theatre  (5:11)
 8.  One And One Make Five  (3:31)
 9.  To Speak Is A Sin  (4:46)
10. Young Offender  (4:50)
11. One In A Million  (3:54)
12. Go West  (8:24)

Disc 2:  Further Listening 1992-1994:

 1.  Go West (1992 Twelve-Inch Mix)  (9:10)
 2.  Forever In Love  (5:44)
 3.  Confidential (Demo For Tina)  (4:48)
 4.  Hey, Headmaster  (3:06)
 5.  Shameless  (5:04)
 6.  Too Many People  (4:26)
 7.  I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Seven-Inch Version)   (4:45)
 8.  Violence (Hacienda Version)  (5:00)
 9.  Falling (Demo For Kylie)  (4:38)
10. Decadence  (3:55)
11. If Love Were All  (3:01)
12. Absolutely Fabulous (Single Version)  (3:47)
13. Euroboy  (4:30)
14. Some speculation  (6:35)
15. Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)  (4:02)
16. Girls And Boys (Live)  (4:56)

Personnel:  

Neil Tennant:  Lead  Vocals, Keyboards

Chris Lowe:  Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizers, Programming

Additional Musicians:

Pete Gleadall:  Programming
J.J. Belle:  Guitar on Tracks:  3, 12 Disc 1
Frank Ricotti:  Percussion on Track 5 Disc 1
Phil Todd, Snake Davis, John Barclay, John Thirkell, Mark Nightingale:  Brass on Track 12 Disc 1
Anne Dudley:  Orchestra Arrangement and Conduction on Tracks:  3, 5, 7 Disc 1
Richard Niles:  Brass Choir, Additional Keyboards on Track 12 Disc 1
Sylvia Mason-James:  Additional Vocals on Tracks:  7, 11, 12 on Disc 1
Dainton Connell:  Additional Vocals on Track 8 Disc 1
Katie Kissoon, Tessa Niles:  Additional Vocals on Track 10 Disc 1
Joanna Wyatt, Thomas rogers, Larie Smith, Hody Smith, Nigel Francis Hatson, Lee Harris, Lucy Clark, Marie-Claire Peterson, Victoria Ferher:  Choir on Track 7, Disc 1
Scott Altman, james Bassi, Hugh Berberich, Rodne Brown, Maurizio Corbino, Martin Doner, Dan Egan, James, Gandre, Paul Houghtaling, Michael Hume, Rober Kuehn, Drew Martin, Joseph Nelson Neal, Mark Renstrom, Steven Tachell, Frank Nemhauser:  Choir on Track 12 Disc 1

Very:  Further Listening:  1992-1994 is reissuing album of Pet Shop Boys, originally released on September 27, 1993 by Parlophone Records, remastered and reissued on August 31, 2018 by Parlophone Records, featuring brad new 2018 remasters of the original album and a Bonus Album of Rare Tracks and Mixes.