'' is the first
Album by the
UK Electronic Music group
Pet Shop Boys , released in
1986 . 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''?".
Hits from ''Please'' include "
West End Girls ", "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)", and "Love comes quickly". "West End girls" was a hit in both the UK and the
United States .
''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. As with many early PSB albums, the lyrics were considered androgynous, the stories they contain being equally applicable to gay and heterosexual relationships. Tennant, in particular, enjoyed this ambiguity and refused to comment on his own sexuality until he came out before 1993's ''
Very '' hit the charts.
The tiny cover photograph enclosed by a sea of white has been seen by some design obervers as a reaction to the traditional album cover. With the new CD cases of the time being necessarily smaller than designs seen on 12" albums, the passport-sized photograph is far removed from standard cover artwork.
''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-side s and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release.
# "Two divided by zero"
# "
West End Girls "
# "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)"
# "Love comes quickly"
# "Suburbia"
# "Opportunities (Reprise)"
# "Tonight is forever"
# "Violence"
# "I want a lover"
# "Later tonight"
# "Why don't we live together?"
# "A man could get arrested" (Twelve-inch b-side)
# "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" (Full length original seven-Inch version)
# "In the night"
# "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" (Original twelve-inch mix)
# "Why don't we live together?" (Original New York mix)
# "West End girls" (Dance Mix)
# "A man could get arrested" (Seven-inch b-side)
# "Love comes quickly" (Dance mix)
# "That's my impression" (Disco mix)
# "Was that what it was?"
# "Suburbia" (The Full Horror)
# "Jack the lad"
# "Paninaro" (Italian remix)
- "West End girls"
- "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)"
- "Love comes quickly"
- "Suburbia"
