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Behaviour by: Pet Shop Boys

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Rating: - Easy listening

I really like Behaviour, infact I'd go as far as to say it was my favourite album from their back catologue.

The music is generally laid back with less of the pounding beats and "Pop" sounds that you may have come to expect especially compared to Please and Actually but it has more of an easy going softer sound which is very mellow.

Fair enough only "So Hard" jumps out as a track to remember with its foot tapping beat but i think the more overlooked songs like "Being Boring" "October symphony" and "Its only the wind" are just as worthy of a mention even if they are chilled out.

If you are a fan of the more dance-ier and Pop tracks the Petshopboys have produced then this is probably not the album for you but if you are a fan of their music, Neil Tennant's voice and fancy a mellow hour then this is a must buy.

Rating: - Good and bad

Musically speaking, FANTASTIC. The bad is the sound which I considered it to be bad and deserved a better engineering

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Rating: - People are never satisfied.

After the album Introspective, when the boys asked people in the streets what do they think of their music, many people said that their music is always the same, and when they try to change its formula, they complain that this album is too different. Yes, this album is different from the previous ones, but different doesn't mean bad. The sound is more mature and moody, but even the previous albums had moody tracks on them (Violence & Later tonight in Please and It couldn't happen here & King's Cross in Actually) but generally their albums consists of 70 per cent of dance tracks and 30 per cent of moody tracks and this album is rather the other way around. But still, there's always good disco tunes to dance to (Seriously, So hard, The end of the world) and when you're done dancing, you might want to consider listening to the lyrics of those moody tracks like Being Boring or This must be the place I waited years to leave, you might be surprised and realise that they didn't betray their own style, they've just enhanced it and what is wrong with that ?

Rating: - The best PSB album ever

This is truly a breathtaking work. At the time, it didn't sell as well as their 80's output, but in retrospect this is the finest work of the PSB's career.

Lyrically, Neil Tennant hit his peak on Behaviour. Also, the arrangements have not been matched since.

Rating: - Behaviour modification

I consider this to be the second-best album by the Pet Shop Boys (the best, in my opinion, being Actually for being more quintessentially Pet-Shop-Boy-ish). However, were I rank Actually as 100, this would be a 98 or 99.

One of the things that Behaviour has that is lacking in the previous work of the Pet Shop Boys (and in much of the pop music of the 1980s generally) is maturity. The Pet Shop Boys show in this album that they can go beyond gimmickry, beyond simple tunes and witty lyrics, to have music and lyrics of real poetic merit (okay, so we're not talking Tennyson here, but quite a cut above the usual popular wordsmithing). Perhaps this is why the album didn't fare as well financially as its predecessor.

This album marked the beginning of the decline of the Pet Shop Boys on the American scene. Only one song really made much of a dent, So Hard, and this was perhaps their last real American hit. Other songs from the album that were released as singles, and every single released since, has failed to make progress of any significance in the charts. Beyond the shores of America, the Pet Shop Boys are still fairly popular, and this album was a financial as well as artistic success.

It is unfortunate, because many of the songs on this album are truly beautiful. Being Boring is my favourite song, the first track on the album, as it recounts a tale of life, with interjections from the Parisian set (read, Gertrude Stein and company) comparing it to circles today, remembering lost friends ('some are here and some are missing in the 1990s'), all done to the backdrop of an electronic-yet-symphonic quality musical setting.

All the music and lyrics fall together so well in this album, the Pet Shop Boys can be seen to have come of age. A pity that it was, by that point by and large, an age that had passed already.

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