Discography: The Complete Singles Collection - Pet Shop Boys

Question. What connects Kate ‘Rent-a-quote’ Thornton with Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys? Is it a) they’re both double jointed, b) they are both allergic to anchovies or c) they both used to edit ‘Smash Hits’? Well, yes, it is true. They were both once the top cheeses at the institution that has been downgraded in my eyes from ‘pop bible’ to ‘pop also-ran’ as teenybopper-targeted ‘acts’ continue their assault on the Top 40. Either that, or I’m just too old and cynical to be interested in the latest Tom Watkins managed ‘next big thing’… The Pet Shop Boys have ...

Growing up in the 1980s the Pet Shop Boys were a very dominant band at the time. This album is a celebration of the years from 1985 to 1991. Featuring 18 singles from that era, the album includes the number ones "West End Girls", "It's a Sin" and "Always on my Mind". There are also decent tracks like "Rent" and "So Hard" on it. Of course as it was released in 1991 it is no longer the comprehensive greatest hits. If you want that you might be better off waiting for a while because in this day and age another greatest hits package cannot be far away. Of course if you're like myself and ...

In the mid-1980s, the Pet Shop Boys arrived to the scene with their first single "West End Girls". Since then, the band has put out a brilliant collection of albums and hit singles. In 1991, the band released their first compilation album, "Discography-The Complete Singles Collection". "Discography" shows a lot of the singles from 1985 through 1991 from the duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Four of these singles would become number one in the U.K. charts. With Neil Tennant's masterful lyrics and Chris Lowe's musical arrangements, the Pet Shop Boys showed a lot of what the 80s was about. Tennant talked about ...