PET SHOP BOYS – PLEASE LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK 1986 SYNTH POP ELECTRONICA

Pet Shop Boys – Please
(Parlophone Records  1986  PCS7303)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from a mark at the very start of side 1 that gives a few clicks on the intro to the first track)

Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

Please is the debut album by English electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 24 March 1986 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States. According to the duo, the album’s title was chosen so that people had to go into a record shop and say “Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, ‘Please’?”. Please spawned four singles: “West End Girls”, “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”, “Suburbia”, and “Love Comes Quickly”; “West End Girls” reached number one in both the UK and the US.

Track listing

All the songs were written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe except “Two Divided by Zero” written by Neil Tennant and Bobby Orlando and “Love Comes Quickly” written by Tennant/Lowe & Stephen Hague

1. “Two Divided by Zero” – 3:32
2. “West End Girls” – 4:41
3. “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” – 3:43
4. “Love Comes Quickly” – 4:18
5. “Suburbia” – 5:07
6. “Opportunities (Reprise)” – 0:32
7. “Tonight Is Forever” – 4:30
8. “Violence” – 4:27
9. “I Want a Lover” – 4:04
10. “Later Tonight” – 2:44
11. “Why Don’t We Live Together?” – 4:44

Personnel

Pet Shop Boys

• Neil Tennant – lead vocals and backing vocals, guitars
• Chris Lowe – synthesizers, programming, sequencers, samplers, computer-generated effects, electric piano and backing vocals

Guest musicians

• Andy Mackay – saxophone on track 4
• Helena Springs – additional vocals on tracks 2 & 6