Please
LP by Pet Shop Boys
Released	March 24, 1985
Recorded	???
Genre	Synthpop
Length	44 min 02 sec
Label	Parlophone
Producer	Pet Shop Boys
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (3/5) link
Pet Shop Boys Chronology
[	Please (1985)	Disco (1986)

Please is the first album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). According to Pet Shop Boys, the album's title was chosen so that people could go into a record store and say "can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, please?". Cover of Pet Shop Boys album Please Downloaded from petshopboys. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... Pet Shop Boys (often used without the definite article the) are a highly influential UK electronic music act. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Synth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Pet Shop Boys (often used without the definite article the) are a highly influential UK electronic music act. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a globally comprehensive metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Pet Shop Boys (often used without the definite article the) are a highly influential UK electronic music act. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Disco is the second album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... Pet Shop Boys (often used without the definite article the) are a highly influential UK electronic music act. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 28 - Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon...

Hits from Please include "West End Girls", "Opportunities", and "Love Comes Quickly". "West End Girls" was a hit in both the UK and the United States. Thereafter, Pet Shop Boys failed to again achieve the same widespread popularity in the US.

Please is musically simpler, but lyrically just as rich, as Pet Shop Boys' later work. The instrumentals are compareable to other techno pop of this period. Most of the songs deal with similar topics as other pop music, with a twist. At this time, singer Neil Tennant had not publicly come out of the closet, and although the love songs on this album are sung by a man to another man, few people seemed to notice. Perhaps this explains the accessibility of Pet Shop Boys music to heterosexual fans even after Tennant announced he was gay. Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music, but a list of popular music performers since the 1920s is included. ... Neil Francis Tennant (born July 10, 1954 in North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom) is a British musician who, with his colleague Chris Lowe makes up the successful British pop band the Pet Shop Boys. ... The slang term being in the closet has been used to describe keeping secret ones sexual behaviors or orientation disapproved of by society; typically homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender or transsexual people and various paraphilias. ...

Please was rereleased in 2001 (as were most of the group's albums up to that point) as Please/Further Listening 1984-1986. The rereleased version was not only digitally remastered but came with a second disc of B-sides and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. 2001: A Space Odyssey Dr. Dre 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...

Tracklisting

1985 release

1. "Two divided by zero"
2. "West End girls"
3. "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)"
4. "Love comes quickly"
5. "Suburbia"
6. "Opportunities (Reprise)"
7. "Tonight is forever"
8. "Violence"
9. "I want a lover"
10. "Later tonight"
11. "Why don't we live together"

Further Listening 1984-1986

1. "A man could get arrested [Twelve-Inch B-Side]"
2. "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) [Full Length Original Seven-Inch Version]"
3. "In the Night"
4. "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) [Original Twelve-Inch Mix]"
5. "Why don't we live together [Original New York Mix]"
6. "West End girlfsdgbfzsdbzxvbhs [Dance Mix]"
7. "A man could get arrested [Seven-Inch B-Side]"
8. "Love comes quickly [Dance Mix]"
9. "That's my impression [Disco Mix]"
10. "Was that what it was?"
11. "Suburbia [the Full Horror]"
12. "Jack the lad"
13. "Paninaro [Italian Remix]"

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Singles

• "West End girls"
• "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)"
• "Love comes quickly"
• "Suburbia"

External

• On Second Thoughts