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

Probably completely different to my list last time... but here goes...

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

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

I always take these things too seriously and then struggle to offer a ranking.
After careful thought, here's mine.

1. Please
2. Actually
3. Behaviour
4. Bilingual
5. Nonetheless

6. Very
7. Hotspot
8. Super
9. Electric
10. Yes

11. Elysium
12. Introspective
13. Nightlife
14. Fundamental
15. Release

Sorry, wrong post.

They're all great, but here goes :

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

Here my chart:
1. Very
2. Fundamental
3. Release
4. Nightlife
5. Bilingual

6. Yes
7. Behaviour
8. Electric
9. Actually
10. Introspective

11. Please
12. Elysium
13. Hotspot
14. Nonetheless
15. Super

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

A lot of people don't like nightlife. I think it's a really good album. They should work with rollo again

symco wrote: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 1:56 pm A lot of people don't like nightlife. I think it's a really good album. They should work with rollo again

The problem with Nightlife is that they were writing the musical at the same time. Something like In denial is just so schmaltzy and overly theatrical that it doesn't work in the context of pop - it clearly belongs in a musical. So, you have the greatest pop group of the late 80s releasing showtunes like Somewhere and then Nightlife at the same time that their style of music is no longer fashionable - a perfect storm.

The first and third singles are nice enough but New York city boy can only exist as a pastiche of better disco records from the 1970s. It's the Pet Shop Boys on Stars in Their Eyes, transforming before our eyes into kitsch like that time Chris de Burgh appeared alongside ersatz Chris de Burgh. It's all rather tragic but at least they look the part as they enter the dumper.

symco wrote: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 1:56 pm They should work with rollo again

And with Craig Armstrong too, they should release something more orchestral oriented...

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"

Danger wrote: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 7:25 pm

symco wrote: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 1:56 pm They should work with rollo again

And with Craig Armstrong too, they should release something more orchestral oriented...

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

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

Gabby wrote: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 7:27 pm 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