Pet Shop Boys - Please mp3 album

WHAT AN AWESOME album and what an awesome package of 2 cds and an awesome booklet with awesome stories great remastered and well doneit was done with a lot of love. Thank You parlophone for that great idea. The Pet shop boys had huge cds and a lot of hits in the 80s and 90s and even their b sides were great

Sounds great. Just a little sibilance here and there but, overall, a really great remaster.

First heard this beauty when I was about thirteen years old. I'm nearly twenty now and I still adore it, recently listening to it and remembering how fond I am of it. From start to finish, Neil and Chris supply the synth sound I love. As a big eighties synth-pop fan, this album more than qualifies to be in my top ten in that genre. My favorite tracks are "Love Comes Quickly," "West End Girls," and "Suburbia." Neil's vocals are so stunning, and the accompaniment is just as much so! I often find Chris Lowe is overshadowed by Neil Tennant when really, they should be held as equals. This album showcases both of their abilities extremely well. An excellent debut in my eyes.

Completely agree with what is already written. I was very much looking forward to this, and the result is stunning. The basses are very heavy but the sound is so much more spacious. I never heard this amazing record like that. It's so good, it's almost overwhelming...One more time, an amazing repress on Parlophone.

Sounds absolutely stunning. The remaster doesn't take away anything from the songs. It only heightens their power. The pads are mixed louder and more spacious and the beats hit harder and have more breathing room. Wonderful reissue.

Remastering glitch at 2:24 on the album version of Opportunities? Seems to cut out early on the (not sure how best to describe this) four keyboard stabs? between the "lets make lots of..." and the " aaahhhh ahhh ahh money" bit.

I checked this against the LP, and I didn't see any difference.The tempo in both versions are the same.

Good ear, I finally heard it too after A/B'ing the section about 20 loops.

I've just compared the 2001 remaster with this year's remaster and you're right, there's a remastering glitch at 2:24.

I don't like this alternative sleeve version at all but in return you get a great sounding release thanks to the Direct Metal Mastering.

"A Man Could Get Arrested" track 2-1 on this release is not the regular twelve-inch B-side also referred to as the 'alternative version'. The whole intro (16 seconds) has been removed replaced by an extended cut of the rhythmic tracks (drums, bass, synth). Apart from that new beginning, the rest remains unchanged. The overall duration of the track is 10 seconds shorter than the 'alternative version'.

Inlay says it uses the "Dolby System", meaning Dolby B noise reduction, however the tape itself doesn't indicate this, and it really sounds correct when played back with Dolby off.

"Please" is with "Actually" and perhaps "Very" and "Yes" one of the best PSB albums ever (no matter what the "Behavio(u)r" lovers out there will say). What's not to like about this album ? 4 top singles : the cult "West End Girls", the lovely "Love Comes Quickly", the smashing and ironic "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" and the epic sounding "Suburbia".But that's not all, even the album songs are incredibly good "Two Divided By Zero", "I Want A Lover", "Why Don't We Live Together" and the more mellow "Tonight Is Forever". "Please" is a classic. Surely one of the 100 albums to listen to before you die.And the song "Violence" will be even better in its "Hacienda version" released 8 years later during the "Very" days.

Some have a gold Promo stamp in the top right corner and a gold serial number (my copy has B 487647) stamped under the promo info

Track #4 (Disc 2) is a previously unreleased mix - different to the actual 12" version released in 1985 (Dance mix) and which reappeared again in 1986 (Original Dance mix). I literally spoil you with my trainspotting, I know.

Yeah the mix is different. It's not just a different edit compared to the dance mix, there are various segments that are quite altered.To this day the original 7" mix of Opportunities and the original dance mix remain unreleased on CD.

I think it's a less edited version of the original - just a bit longer in one section.

In 1987, I bought this NIMBUS-pressed disc in the U.S. at a domestic price. If I remember correctly, it was not in a longbox! It was in a blister pack. It may have had a sticker; I don't recall. It's likely that it did have a U.S. barcode sticker, but it was so long ago, I can't confirm.EMI America editions were already out at the time—I bought the EMI America Disco longbox the same day. So I'm thinking EMI America initially distributed an overstock batch of these Nimbus UK editions in stickered blister packs. Can anyone out there confirm or refute this? Please reply if you bought this NIMBUS ENGLAND disc in the USA.

The track listing on the outer slipcase says that the dance mix of "West End Girls" (CD 2, track 6) was previously unreleased on CD, when in fact, it was. The dance mix of "West End Girls" appeared on the official PSB compilation "Essential" in 1998.

In fact, this version is not the same released in "Essential"

Ah, but you have to imagine you're from the UK. Because if like PSB themselves you are, then it *was* previously unreleased in the UK as "Essential" was never released in the UK. :-)

Young and gay and in love for the first time, and with your life before you? This is your soundtrack. It was mine. And 24 years later it's as fresh as it was in 1986 and hearing it again makes the world new. Wonderful.

It was mine too. I am straight. It's just a good electronic music. Not sexual preference.

This is an Analogue/Digital/Digital [ADD] disc. It is the only album by Pet Shop Boys to be recorded using 'emphasis', a digital audio recording process designed to improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio. This was my very first CD, I still recall to this day the initial moments of it's first play, the start of 'Two Divided by Zero'. This album was only bettered by their masterpiece 'Behaviour' (1990).