Please (album) - Definition and Overview

Please
LP by Pet Shop Boys
Released	March 24, 1985
Recorded	???
Genre	Synthpop
Length	???
Record label	Parlophone
Producer	Pet Shop Boys
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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. 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?".

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.

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.

Tracklisting

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