TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9328
Pet Shop Boys Album Rankings
1
Most of the Pet Shop Boys' albums are well-crafted and thoroughly intriguing in their own right, but dance-pop is a medium that is driven by hit singles.
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2
Call the Pet Shop Boys cockeyed pessimists. Since the beginning, their records have been beat-filled odes to low self-esteem, catchy invitations to depression.
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3
Because they work in a field that isn't usually taken seriously, the Pet Shop Boys are often ignored in the rock world.
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4
Alternativeis a double-disc set of The Pet Shop Boys' B-sides.
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5
Fundamental is the group's most inspired album in nearly a decade.
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6
Release couldn't be more lovely if it tried.
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7
Of the 14 tracks on the second disc of the two-disc expanded reissue ofActually, Pet Shop Boys' second album, there are three previously unreleased mixes, highlighted byShep Pettibone's version of "He
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8
It's been a long time coming, but England finally has good cause to crack open the champagne and celebrate.
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9
Given that this is a collection of remixes and obscurities tossed off since 'Release' set charts alight precisely nowhere, it would be a slightly rum do if this turned out to be the Pet Shop Boys ' be
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10
Pet shop boys have become an institution. The quintessential '80s act, Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant have stuck to their guns and refused to defer to passing '90s fads.
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11
Pet Shop Boys' 2001 expanded-edition reissue campaign is a model example of how to execute deluxe reissues, and the very first in the six-disc series, their debut albumPlease, is perhaps the finest ex
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12
With a little help from legendary producer Trevor Horn, PSB invoke the glacial robotic electro sound which characterised countless Kraftwerk hits, even sneaking in a distinctly Teutonic pronunciation
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13
This is where things start to get interesting in Pet Shop Boys' reissue campaign, not becauseIntrospectiveis one of their best recordings, but because the bonus disc is fascinating.
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14
How do they do it? By all accounts, Eighties survivors Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe should be onto their reunion tour by now, rather than preparing to release their ninth studio album.
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17
Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were two of the most successful and intelligent hit-makers of the '80s, but they somehow lost their stateside appeal when the decade shifted.
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