Pet Shop Boys "Very" (1993)
The Band explained the title by saying that the album is 'very' everything. "Very up, very sad, very pop very etc."
The music feels like the Boys finally stopped moodily noodling on
synthesizers in a drab London flat and headed out to the club. This
ecstatic dramatic change in sound could be due to this being the group's
first album in some years, an embracing of the emergent club scene, or
possibly Neil Tennant feeling a newfound sense of freedom as he
prepared to reveal his homosexuality to the world at large.
Certainly that latter aspect is addressed in the lyrics of songs like
"To speak is a sin" and "can you forgive her".... or more overtly with
the club-esque cover of the Village People's "Go West" with its rousing male chorus.
Essentially the Pet Shop Boys managed to delve into different realms of
pop, while still managing to sound like
themselves.
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