SMASH – The Singles 1985 – 2020 (2023 Remaster) Pet Shop Boys

• 1West End girls (2023 Remaster)04:00
• 2Love comes quickly (2023 Remaster)04:24
• 3Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) [2023 Remaster]03:39
• 4Suburbia (2023 Remaster)04:04
• 5It's a sin (2023 Remaster)05:02
• 6What have I done to deserve this? (with Dusty Springfield) [2023 Remaster]04:24
• 7Rent (2023 Remaster)03:36
• 8Always on my mind (2023 Remaster)04:04
• 9Heart (2023 Remaster)04:19
• 10Domino dancing (2023 Remaster)04:20
• 11Left to my own devices (2023 Remaster)04:47
• 12It's alright (2023 Remaster)04:21
• 13So hard (2023 Remaster)04:00
• 14Being boring (2023 Remaster)04:52
• 15Where the streets have no name / I can't take my eyes off you (2023 Remaster)04:32
• 16Jealousy (2023 Remaster)04:17
• 17DJ Culture (2023 Remaster)04:14
• 18Was it worth it? (7" version) [2023 Remaster] (7" version; 2023 Remaster)04:33
• 19Can you forgive her? (2023 Remaster)03:56
• 20Go West (2023 Remaster)05:03
• 21I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing (7" version) [2023 Remaster] (7" version; 2023 Remaster)04:45
• 22Liberation (2023 Remaster)04:08
• 23Yesterday, when I was mad (single version) [2023 Remaster] (single version; 2023 Remaster)04:02
• 24Paninaro '95 (2023 Remaster)04:10
• 25Before (2023 Remaster)04:07
• 26Se a vida è (That’s the way life is) [2023 Remaster]04:05
• 27Single-Bilingual (2023 Remaster)03:30
• 28A red letter day (2023 Remaster)04:31
• 29Somewhere (2023 Remaster)04:42
• 30I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more (2023 Remaster)04:27
• 31New York City boy (USA radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (USA radio edit; 2023 Remaster)03:21
• 32You only tell me you love me when you're drunk (2023 Remaster)03:15
• 33Home and dry (2023 Remaster)04:01
• 34I get along (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit; 2023 Remaster)04:12
• 35Miracles (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:56
• 36Flamboyant (7" mix) [2023 Remaster] (7" mix; 2023 Remaster)03:42
• 37I'm with stupid (2023 Remaster)03:26
• 38Minimal (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:37
• 39Numb (single edit) [2023 Remaster] (single edit; 2023 Remaster)03:29
• 40Love etc. (2023 Remaster)03:33
• 41Did you see me coming? (2023 Remaster)03:42
• 42It doesn't often snow at Christmas (new version) [2023 Remaster] (new version [2023 Remaster])03:51
• 43Together (ultimate mix) [2023 Remaster] (ultimate mix, 2023 Remaster)03:31
• 44Winner (2023 Remaster)03:50
• 45Leaving (2023 Remaster)03:51
• 46Memory of the future (new single mix) [2023 Remaster] (new single mix; 2023 Remaster)03:35
• 47Vocal (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:26
• 48Love is a bourgeois construct (nighttime radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (nighttime radio edit, 2023 Remaster)04:11
• 49Thursday (feat. Example) [radio edit] [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:58
• 50The Pop Kids (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:41
• 51Twenty-something (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:40
• 52Say it to me (new radio mix) [2023 Remaster] (new radio mix, 2023 Remaster)03:10
• 53Dreamland (feat. Years & Years) [2023 Remaster]03:30
• 54Monkey business (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:10
• 55I don’t wanna (radio edit) [2023 Remaster] (radio edit, 2023 Remaster)03:18
• Total Runtime03:39:50

Info for SMASH – The Singles 1985 – 2020 (2023 Remaster)

The Pet Shop Boys releasing a new greatest hits album called "Smash: The Singles 1985-2020".

This release features new 2023 remasters and includes 55 singles, starting with West End Girls from ’85 and ending with 2020’s I Don’t Wanna. It includes most of their singles although there’s a few grey areas/omissions such as no ‘How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?’ (from 1991’s Behaviour) and a lack of ‘Burning The Heather'(the latter, from 2020’s Hotspot, was issued on seven-inch vinyl in the UK).

The Pet Shop Boys commented: “As we start work on a new album, and later this year continue our ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour, it seems like a good time to take stock and bring together every single we’ve released.”

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Neil Tennant (July 10, 1954) and Chris Lowe (October 4, 1959) met in 1981 in an electronics store and quickly realized that they had a passion for dance music. They then decide to write songs together.

Chris was studying architecture at the time and Neil was a music journalist. After an interview appointment, Neil seizes the opportunity and arranges a meeting with Bobby “O” Orlando, a producer. In 1984, Bobby “O” Orlando then records two singles with the duo, which at the time calls itself “West End”. At the beginning of the 80s, the duo is still considered a real insider tip.

However, the duo and the producer went their separate ways in a legal dispute. Through their appearance and their song lyrics, the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s, however, now attain cult status.

In the following years, many hits are released. Among them the song “West End Girls”, which is awarded a Brit Award in 1987 and also the cover of “Always On My Mind”, “Suburbia”, “It’s a Sin”, “Go West”, “New York City Boy” and many more.

After the first studio album “Please” follows the second studio album “Actually” and the success does not stop. For example, in 1988 the duo is awarded another Brit Award as the best British group. In the same year, the duo then goes among the actors in the film “It Couldn’t Happen Here”.

Numerous albums and tours follow, as well as collaborations with other artists. For example, they write the hit “Losing My Mind” for the great Liza Minnelli.

In the fall of 1993, the Pet Shop Boys released the studio album “Very”. This became an enormous success. Among other things, by the single “Go West” and on the other hand because of the optics of the cover, which is even exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is a poppy cover with knobs in orange.

In 2001, the Pet Shop Boys’ musical, “Closer To Heaven,” opens at London’s Arts Theater. The musical is also released on CD.

With the next album “Release” from 2002 they leave the dance pop style and strike calmer tones. This is followed by a collaboration with producer Sven Helbig on the project Battleship Potemkin. The duo also performs on July 2, 2005 as part of the Live 8 benefit concerts in Moscow.

Over the years, more albums, DVDs and collaborations follow, for example with greats like Madonna. Again and again they collaborate on artistic projects with the German composer Sven Helbig, most recently in 2014 with the stage play “A Man From The Future”.

In total, the duo sold over 100 million records. In all these years they have published 14 studio albums and 56 singles. In addition, there are also numerous so-called compilations and collaborations and of course many VHS and DVD’s.

In addition to several Brit Awards, the duo was awarded numerous prizes such as the Comet Award, World Award and many more.

For the many sold sound carriers there was, among other things, platinum for the studio album “Very” and gold for the studio album “Yes”, which currently celebrates its tenth anniversary.

This album contains no booklet.