Please

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Please is Pet Shop Boys' debut album, released on 24 March 1986 on Parlophone. Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant had by then been writing together for well over three years. Their music grew out of Italian disco, the emerging American hip hop and the electronic dance music of Bobby Orlando. For the album they chose producer Stephen Hague. He made West End Girls slower and gloomier, with a cinematic intro of street sounds. Recording took ten weeks at Advision Studios in London.

The songs loosely form a story: running away, arriving in the city, wanting to make money, falling in love, moving to the suburbs. Tennant plays various roles and sometimes writes satirically, as in Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money). In Two Divided by Zero the voice of a talking calculator is heard. West End Girls became a number 1. The duo chose the title so that you could simply ask for the album in the shop, please.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Two Divided by Zero3:35Apple Music ↗
2. 2West End Girls4:46Apple Music ↗
3. 3Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)3:44Apple Music ↗
4. 4Love Comes Quickly4:19Apple Music ↗
5. 5Suburbia5:07Apple Music ↗
6. 6Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [Reprise]0:34Apple Music ↗
7. 7Tonight Is Forever4:30Apple Music ↗
8. 8Violence4:30Apple Music ↗
9. 9I Want a Lover4:06Apple Music ↗
10. 10Later Tonight2:50Apple Music ↗
11. 11Why Don't We Live Together?4:50Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗