Very
by Pet Shop Boys

Very by Pet Shop Boys
Year: 1993
Release date: 1993-09-27
Overall rank: 2,973rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 156 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (48th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (504th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,973rd)

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Pet Shop Boys bestography

Very is ranked 5th best out of 31 albums by Pet Shop Boys on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pet Shop Boys is Actually which is ranked number 1393 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,238.

Pet Shop Boys album bestography « Higher ranked (2,225th)
Introspective
This album (2,973rd)
Very
Lower ranked (7,707th) »
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Overall rank: 2,973rd | 1990s rank: 504th | 1993 rank: 48th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 156 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.

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70/100
Not as musically intricate or interesting as their previous album Behaviour, but I still like it. Here they are going for a grander sound with strings, choir, female backing vocals. They add enough guitar, percussion and brass to give the music some substance, and there are some nice tunes, e.g. "One In a Million". It's an enjoyable album in a radio friendly and dancey sort of way. Bringing in a producer might have helped make their sound a bit more cohesive and more compelling instrumentally.
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80/100
This isn't the Boys' best known album but it has some gems, not least a great version of "Go West".
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100/100
This album makes me want to "Feel like taking all my clothes off and dancing to the rite of Spring!" Such a great album. The physical version which I possess is a re-release in 2001 that augments the original album with a second disc titled "Further Listening 1992-1994" which features re-mixes of certain main album tracks, demos they worked on for other artists like Tina Turner and Kylie Minogue and a live version of "Girls And Boys" originally performed by Blur. These additional tracks really accentuate the original release and demonstrate the universality of the synth pop genre which Pet Shop Boys regale in. Highly recommend searching this one out!
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85/100
From 03/09/2022 12:22 | #282556
Stylish, fun and danceable.
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From 07/20/2019 17:43 | #240007
Favorite Tracks:Liberation
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75/100
From 01/05/2018 16:58 | #204643
A good album but certainly not up there with, Please, or, Actually. Go west, is a fun way end to the album but the record lacks that killer track that previous albums had. Good, but not great.
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70/100
I always felt that Go West was a lazy end to a decent album.
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From 05/21/2013 01:25 | #76765
Weirdest physical copy award goes to...
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80/100
From 02/16/2013 08:54 | #65224
Damn catchy pop music, but nothing really remarkable... Except "Go West" that is.
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From 09/20/2012 10:33 | #50809
Go West :)
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