Pet Shop Boys are a perfect pop group. They are true artists, and they have seamlessly adapted into every era and excelled in all of them. Love this duo so fucking much! 🖤🤍

"Being boring" is the only song that's ever made me cry on first hearing... and I didn't know why for two or three years. Totally enjoyed your video btw! 🐱🎶👍🏻

This was so informative! Thanks for sharing your collection

Love your style Mark - better than my older brother who’s also called Mark! I think Neil & Chris would approve too!

I've really enjoyed watching your video, and here's me thinking I was a big fan! Great choices 👌

My number 1 duo, great video

I love the pet shop boys. Thank you for doing this

I've always rated "Release": "There's a plane at JFK/To fly you back from far away" might be my favourite PSB lyric.

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

It's aged well, but I don't think it's the best thing they've done. Some of the lyrics are a bit clumsy ("The Night I Fell In Love", in particular).

Nice presentation Mark,I’m a Pet shop boys fun since 1987 and i believe Neil and Chris are one of the few artists that always keep the standards high.My favourite album is “Actually” followed by “Behaviour”, “Please” and “Introspective”.Their imperial phase was really awesome.

I agree pretty much with your choices... apart from one. That is Disco. The very first album I heard from them. Nothing out there was close to this and I must of played this 23,478 times ;)

Very is by far the most sensational Petshop Boys album by far (imo); a a sophisticated master-assemblage of flamboyance, theatrical whimsy, soulfulness, and a dynamic yearning for optimism. My second favourite is Introspective, followed by Yes.

@curly_wyn

2 жыл бұрын

It makes sense. PSB are the most successful music duo in British history!

Bilingual and Very are my favorites

Nice video, and you are a good looking man

For me ranking PSB albums is so hard (what a great song!), because there are only a few of their songs that I don't like. This video made me think and as a result my top three albums are Behaviour, Actually and Please. I would say I love these the most, but I love the others as well. Behaviour is an amazing piece of work with a comforting autumn feel. Actually has awesome songs, and to me Please is one of the best debut albums of all time. From their live shows I like Performance the most - it's so grandiose and unique. My second favourite is the Pandemonium show, because it's very joyful and optimistic, and I really like the stage design and the dancers too. And Neil has so great outfits, and Chris has his mirror jacket :) What do you think about the Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall? I enjoyed it very much, the orchestra added so much to the songs - which seems to be a paradox, because they are masterpieces without orchestral arrangement as well. I also liked the Alan Turing piece, the music works so well with the accompanying text.

@markreed4543

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the Teenage Cancer Trust show - it felt like an Elysium Tour show with an orchestra 5 years later, because it shared a large number of songs (and orchestration) with the 2012 BBC Show. I will also mention the Alan Turing work soon. Performance was really good BUT very strange, it was my first time seeing them, and I was at the show that was filmed in Birmingham, and I was 17 so was very new to seeing bands. It wasn't as much of a shock as if I had seen it now, for example.

Like your style Mark - you don’t waste a viewer’s time. Neil & Chris would approve!

@markreed4543

2 жыл бұрын

"Banging and lasers" right? :)

My personal rank: 14. Yes (2008) 13. Nightlife (1999) 12. Elysium (2012) 11. Release (2001) 10. Fundamental (2006) 09. Hotspot (2020) 08. Bilingual (1996) 07. Electric (2013) 06. Super (2016) 05. Very (1993) 04. Introspective (1988) 03. Please (1986) 02. Actually (1987) 01. Behaviour (1990)

I love Nightlife...

Mark, I’d love to see your review of nonetheless!

@markreed4543

3 ай бұрын

I need to know it better first but it will happen!

Oh wow, I was at the same gigs as you: Trafalgar square; O2; Hammersmith; Wembley Arena; Barbican & more!

This is easy best Album "Please" worst album, whatever they released last. I think I have everything they have released up until the Annually 2023 Lost EP.

I like a lot this ranking and the way you present it. Also the fact that you have so much stuff. I have almost as much as you do but you surprised me with some great items I don't have. I must disagree about one thing, that you put Alternative so low in the ranking. How on Earth can Electric, Concrete, Yes or HotSpot be above Alternative in the ranking!? I understand you wanna listen to music that describes the moment it was released, but, the quality,... the quality of the songs in Electric or Yes (even being splendid albums both) is just way way lower compared to Alternative!! Very is the best album on the history of mankind, but I'm okey with you putting it in the 3rd place. At least it's in your top 3. My top 3 is actually yours but inverted: 1) Very, 2) Behaviour, 3) Actually I subscribe to your channel, you seem an honest guy, and that is what I like the most. Great video.

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of good thoughts in your comment. Alternative is very, very, very good (but, there's always a but!) it doesn't quite hang together as an album. And it has "The Sound Of The Atom Splitting", which I don't like. I'm also rating these by the standard of other PSB LP's. Alternative is, I think, better than 99% of bands entire careers. And since PSB are - in my opinion - the finest songwriting duo of all time [better than Lennon/McCartney] that's a very very high bar to reach. I experienced Alternative not as an album, but one B-side at a time, so maybe that could be part of it? M

1. Behaviour 2. Please 3. Alternative 4. Very 5. Super 6. Actually 7. Fundamental 8. Yes 9. Elysium 10.Format 11.Release 12.Introspection 13.Nightlife 14.Bilingual 15.Electric 16.Hotspot

I think Release should have been higher, its very underrated. Otherwise, general list seems about right. Keep it up!

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

It's got "The Night I Fell In Love" on, so it's automatically one of the worst things ever! :)

@Stiffd1

2 жыл бұрын

‘I get along’ pretty dreadful : (

Enjoyed your video.My favourite album is Actually.The worst was Disco 2.I wasn't a fan of the format of Pop Art but did rearrange the tracks in the right order myself on my MP3 player

I Love King of Rome

I have the iconic Very/Relentless in plastic cover first edition, dont you have that?

@markreed4543

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I do! It's MEGA. And yowsa, nice packaging.,

@dumonyakk17

11 ай бұрын

Me too

Relentless should of been Disco 2 Actually was my no 1 from the start I was at the Birmingham NEC for the performance tour it blow my mind. I was 16 at the time. great reviews

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Relentless should be far better known. I love that album.

Disco (1986) es un muy buen disco 😄. En su momento fue innovador y sus mixes permanecen como excelentes versiones. El lanzamiento de Alternative y los further listening lo ha dejado un poco en el pasado. Pero es un muy buen disco.

My fav are fundamental and actually.

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

Great choices!

All my favorite albums are the least popular or so called flops my top three, nightlife, release and behavior

Electric and super are sweeeeeeeeeeet.

"Disco...It's OK, nothing amazing" 🤔

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

It's "just" a remix album though! :)

@mwbp

3 жыл бұрын

@@markreed4543 "just" a remix album which very few bands had done at that time, it was very innovative for it's time and had some fantastic mixes on it, The Full Horror of Suburbia is a classic, quite a few people in the dance music industry have cited the first Disco album as a major influence on them, including Stuart Price.

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

@@mwbp I can't give every PSB album a 10/10 rating! By PSB standards "Disco" isn't the best LP ever. But by the standards of every band ever and every record ever, it's clearly in the top 0.1% of records ever made.

Hotspot?

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

In the middle of pack, just after the eldest cat gets caught playing with a sock! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHqqk7t6aLfNnNo.html

I think king of rome and legacy are really great songs.

Come on!? Any list that doesn’t have the Please album as #1 is off point. With the exception of maybe Violence, every song was strong and perfectly placed.

@markreed4543

2 жыл бұрын

No. Absolutely not. Not every band makes their best album first.

@robbelliii

2 жыл бұрын

@@markreed4543 the fact that it was their first album is beside the point. I’m basing it on the music. However I’ll admit I don’t like PSB ballads that much or their house/ club tracks. Please was right in the sweet spot. Definitely their best synth pop album.

@markreed4543

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbelliii ​ @robbelliii I think "Actually", "Behvaiour" and "Very" are better and more accomplished. "Please" is really good and better than many of their contemporaries best albums but not their best ever.

@Stiffd1

2 жыл бұрын

Please is an analogue recording.

Pet Shop Boys mainstream popularity started to decline with the 1988 hit Domino Dancing (as it was seemed very homoerotic (I speak as a straight pet shop boys fan) firstly i didn’t like it simply because it wasn’t anywhere near as good as previous singles that they had released) secondly the world in 1988 isn’t what it is today and I think they were being very daring. Europe and Britain loves it gay pop stars but America does not.

How exactly is Donald Trump homophobic? I've watched hundreds of hours of the guy and I've never gotten that sense.

@dedpxl

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen him hold up a pride flag. Two of his favourite artists are Elton John and the Village People. He has spoken strongly about a cure for AIDS, emphasising how wonderful it'd be. I could say some bad things about Trump, but homophobia wouldn't be one of them.

@markreed4543

3 жыл бұрын

@@dedpxl www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump