Rank the albums

[Shopper]

01 Introspective
02 Actually
03 Very/ Relentless
04 Please
05 Electric
06 Behaviour
07 Super
08 Bilingual
09 Elysium
10 Yes
11 Fundamental
12 Nightlife
13 Nonetheless
14 Release
15 Hotspot

This list is in order of the times I have listened. Poor Hotspot, didn't get more than 2-3 spins

[Gabby]

The Untouchables:
Actually (1987)
Behaviour (1990)
Please (1986)
Introspective (1988)
Very (1993)

The Flawed Geniuses:
Bilingual (1996)
Elysium (2012)
Electric (2013)
Super (2016)
Hotspot (2020)

The Sloppy Seconds:
Nightlife (1999)
Fundamental (2006)
Nonetheless (2024)

The Need not Apply's:
Release (2002)
Yes (2009)

*duck's for cover"

great system of ranking...I'd move Yes to Sloppy, because of the exquisite More than a Dream

Thanks - try as I might, I just can't get behind "Yes". Our dynamic podcast boys did a great In Depth pod and sales pitch for it and I really tried to give it a another chance back then, but to no avail.

[Danger]

What has David Morales been up to? I’ve enjoyed his work with PSB as well. x

I'd like only to listen something different from dance tunes and with Craig they could release a Behaviour II in my opinion

[jasonjohn]

I couldn't imagine actively disliking Yes , but each to their own!

The Way It Used To Be is like Actually distilled into a single track. Worth the price admission alone.

[Gabby]

I couldn't imagine actively disliking Yes , but each to their own!

The Way It Used To Be is like Actually distilled into a single track. Worth the price admission alone.

I wish I could explain it too. I just looked again at the list of tracks to see if I'm in denial, but really nothing on it does it for me.

I do like the Christmas EP version of "All Over The World" if it's any consolation.

[Shopper]

I am listening to Hotspot again now, after ranking it last

my god..this album was so all over the place, like they took the rejects from Nightlife, Release, Yes to Super

Monkey Business is fun, Dreamland earnest and Wedding in Berlin a total hoot! but a good PSB Album this aint and the worst title for a PSB Album Nonetheless coming a close second.

It is impossible to say "Alexa, play Nonetheliess", she always plays Pet Shop Boys Christmas for some reason, then I have to choose an album track and then ask her to play full album

I need to bump up the album though up my ranking..this was surely a sorta return to form and some of the best b sides from the boys in eons

[Gabby]

I am listening to Hotspot again now, after ranking it last

my god..this album was so all over the place, like they took the rejects from Nightlife, Release, Yes to Super

Monkey Business is fun, Dreamland earnest and Wedding in Berlin a total hoot! but a good PSB Album this aint and the worst title for a PSB Album Nonetheless coming a close second.

It is impossible to say "Alexa, play Nonetheliess", she always plays Pet Shop Boys Christmas for some reason, then I have to choose an album track and then ask her to play full album

I need to bump up the album though up my ranking..this was surely a sorta return to form and some of the best b sides from the boys in eons

at Alexa. I've had similar issues trying to get PSB tracks I want to be played.

I like Hotspot, but almost every word you said I could translate over to my feelings about "Yes"...so you just inadvertently answered my previous comment although it wont get the bump up you're giving to Hotspot!

[tophalba33]

I am listening to Hotspot again now, after ranking it last

my god..this album was so all over the place, like they took the rejects from Nightlife, Release, Yes to Super

Monkey Business is fun, Dreamland earnest and Wedding in Berlin a total hoot! but a good PSB Album this aint and the worst title for a PSB Album Nonetheless coming a close second.

It is impossible to say "Alexa, play Nonetheliess", she always plays Pet Shop Boys Christmas for some reason, then I have to choose an album track and then ask her to play full album

I need to bump up the album though up my ranking..this was surely a sorta return to form and some of the best b sides from the boys in eons

I think Hotspot is a really good album but it’s a little bit ‘all over the place’. Other than WIB there are no songs I dislike and it does have some really good tunes. I just find the tempo really inconsistent which makes it difficult to listen to in full. “Decide” would have been the best song on the album had they not left it off instead of including WIB. Truly bizarre.

[tophalba33]

The Untouchables:
Actually (1987)
Behaviour (1990)
Please (1986)
Introspective (1988)
Very (1993)

The Flawed Geniuses:
Bilingual (1996)
Elysium (2012)
Electric (2013)
Super (2016)
Hotspot (2020)

The Sloppy Seconds:
Nightlife (1999)
Fundamental (2006)
Nonetheless (2024)

The Need not Apply's:
Release (2002)
Yes (2009)

*duck's for cover"

great system of ranking...I'd move Yes to Sloppy, because of the exquisite More than a Dream

“Yes” has some brilliant songs but some reason it never really vibed with me. I’ve never understood why. Is it the Xenomania thing?

[Dog]

I used Copilot to collate our charts - here’s its playback:

I’ve gone through all three pages of the thread you linked, and extracted every ranked list from forum members. There were 26 contributors who posted full or partial rankings of Pet Shop Boys studio albums.

Scoring System

• Only studio albums were counted (no Disco, Alternative, Format, etc.).
• Each contributor’s top 15 albums were scored using reverse ranking:
• 1st place = 15 points
• 2nd = 14 points
• … down to
• 15th = 1 point

• If fewer than 15 albums were ranked, only those were scored.
• Tiers were interpreted where possible (e.g. “Top Tier” = top 5, “Great” = next 5, etc.).

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Community Forum’s Top 15 Pet Shop Boys Albums (Based on 26 Ranked Lists)

Actually 308
Introspective 296
Behaviour 284
Very 271
Please 260
Yes 239
Fundamental 221
Electric 204
Bilingual 192
Nonetheless 187
11 Nightlife 165
12 Super 153
13 Hotspot 147
14 Release 139
15 Elysium 132

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Bonus Stats & Observations

• Most universally loved: Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, and Please appeared in every list and dominated the top 5.
• Newcomer strength: Nonetheless landed in the top 10 despite being the newest release—clearly resonating with fans.
• Most polarizing: Elysium and Release were consistently ranked low, but still appeared in nearly every list.
• Sleeper favourite: Electric often hovered mid-table but had a few top 3 placements that boosted its score.

[PSBForTheMasses]

I cannot sleep so let's make a list to spend time.

1. ACTUALLY
2. INTROSPECTIVE
3. PLEASE

4. Bilingual
5. Electric
6. Nonetheless
7. Alternative (in Turkiye, no singles were released and there was no Amazon back then so it was upon the release of Alternative that I was introduced to their B-sides up to tnat moment so I consider it a whole new album for me.)
8. Yes
(tie) 8. Very
9. Hotspot
10. Format

11. Nightlife
12. Fundamental
13. Behaviour
14. Super
15. Release
16. Elysium

Disco series:
1. Disco
2. Disco 4
3. Disco 3
4. Disco 2

[Pod]

1. Behaviour
2. Introspective
3. Electric
4. Please
5. Very
6. Actually
7. Nonetheless
8. Super
9. Yes
10. Fundamental
11. Nightlife
12. Bilingual
13. Elysium
14. Release
15. Hotspot

[Birthday Boy]

I do love them all, but I've been ranking them relatively consistent like this for over a year now with only minor changes:

1. Behaviour
2. Fundamental
3. Very

4. Actually
5. Bilingual
6. Nonetheless
7. Yes
8. Please
9. Release

10. Hotspot*
11. Elysium*
12. Nightlife
13. Introspective
14. Super**
15. Electric
(16. Relentless)

(*Hotspot and Elysium to me feel like they have the most "wasted potential" because of putting certain questionable songs on the album and leaving others off. If only Decide and An open mind had replaced I don't wanna and Wedding in Berlin, Hotspot could genuinly have been a top 5 album for me. It still makes me sad even to this day because I really want to like that album so much more than I can in its current form, since personally it means quite a lot to me. But I digress...)

(**I used to rank Super a lot higher in the past, but since last year it's getting close to officially becoming my least favourite PSB album. It's interesting to me because I don't think I had a change of mind like this about any of their other albums before.)

[New Devon Boy]

1. Actually
2. Very/ Relentless
3. Electric
4. Behaviour
5. Introspective
6. Nonetheless
7.Please
8. Yes
9. Fundamental
10. Nighlife
11. Super
12, Bilingual
13. Hoptspot
14. Release
15. Elysium

[Nervously]

I have lost all confindence in my list in terms of strict numbering, but it makes more sense to me if I split them into groups as others have done.

Group 1: (10/10)
Behaviour

Group 2: (9/10)
Actually
Please
Bilingual

Group 3: (8.5/10)
Very
Elysium
Introspective
Electric
Nonetheless

Group 4: (8/10)
Yes
Nightlife
Hotspot
Super
Fundamental

Group 5: (5/10)
Release