Album info

• Title Actually
• Artist Pet Shop Boys
• Year 1987
• Genre Pop

Tracklist

Side one

1. One More Chance
2. What Have I Done to Deserve This (with Dusty Springfield)
3. Shopping
4. Rent
5. Hit Music

Side two

6. It Couldn’t Happen Here
7. It’s a Sin
8. I Want to Wake up
9. Heart
10. King’s Cross

Thoughts

I wasn’t sure I’d like this album, Pet Shop Boys are great but a whole album could have been too much. Thankfully, there’s a mix of songs: slow and fast, meaningful and just fun, catchy and forgettable. It’s not one of my favourites but certainly a listenable 50 minutes of music.

Revisited - July 2023

I’m not sure what I was thinking with the review above. Pet Shop Boys have admittedly been hit and miss with me, but this is an album that has Heart, What Have I Done to Deserve This? and IT’S A SIN on it. What else can I ask for from an album, for goodness’ sake?

Rating: 5 / 5