Actually Pet Shop Boys
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- Release Date: 10/25/1990
- Original Release: 1987
- Sales Rank: 14,471
- Label: CAPITOL
- UPC: 077774697224
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Actually
| 1 | One More Chance 5:30 |
| 2 | What Have I Done to Deserve This? 4:22 |
| 3 | Shopping 3:37 |
| 4 | Rent 5:09 |
| 5 | Hit Music 4:44 |
| 6 | It Couldn't Happen Here 5:21 |
| 7 | It's a Sin 4:59 |
| 8 | I Want to Wake Up 5:09 |
| 9 | Heart 3:58 |
| 10 | King's Cross 5:15 |
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Editorial Reviews
With their second album, Actually, the Pet Shop Boys perfected their melodic, detached dance-pop. Where most of Please was dominated by the beats, the rhythms on Actually are part of a series of intricate arrangements that create a glamorous but disposable backdrop for Neil Tennant's tales of isolation, boredom, money, and loneliness. Not only are the arrangements more accomplished, but the songs themselves are more striking, incorporating a strong sense of melody, as evidenced by "What Have I Done to Deserve This?," a duet with Dusty Springfield. Tennant's lyrics are clever and direct, chronicling the lives and times of urban, lonely, and bored yuppies of the late '80s. And the fact that dance-pop is considered a disposable medium by most mainstream critics and listeners only increases the reserved emotional undercurrent of Actually, as well as its irony. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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