Pet Shop Boys "Introspective" LP OOP EX UK
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The Pet Shop Boys "Introspective" LP Parlophone (UK)
Vinyl is EX+, Jacket is EX!!
Out of Print!!
Track Listing:
A1 Left To My Own Devices Arranged By [Orchestra], Conductor [Orchestra] – Richard Niles Engineer – Stephen Lipson Producer – Stephen Lipson, Trevor Horn Vocals [Additional] – Sally Bradshaw 8:16 A2 I Want A Dog Engineer – David Jacob, Mike Nielson* Engineer [Mix] – John Poppo Mixed By, Producer [Additional] – Frankie Knuckles Producer – Pet Shop Boys Soloist, Piano – Josh Milian* 6:15 A3 Domino Dancing Arranged By [Brass] – Lewis A. Martinée* Backing Vocals – Voice In Fashion, The Brass – Dana Tebor*, Ed Calle, Kenneth William Faulk*, Tony Conception* Engineer – Lewis A. Martinée*, Mike Couzzi Engineer [Assistant] – Ceaser Sogbe* Guitar – Nestor Gomez Keyboards [Additional] – Fro Sossa, Mike Bakst Mixed By – Lewis A. Martinée*, Mike Couzzi, Rick "Billy Bob" Alonso* Producer – Lewis A. Martinée* Producer [Associate Producers] – Pet Shop Boys Score [Brass] – Mike Bakst Soloist, Trumpet – Tony Conception* 7:40 B1 I'm Not Scared Engineer – David Jacob Producer – David Jacob, Pet Shop Boys Programmed By [Fairlight Programming] – Blue Weaver 7:23 B2 Always On My Mind/In My House Engineer – Julian Mendelsohn Producer – Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys Producer [Produced With Thanks To] – David Jacob, Ian Curnow, Phil Harding Programmed By [Fairlight Programming] – Andy Richards, Gary Maugham* Written-By – Christopher*, James*, Thompson* 9:05 B3 It's Alright Engineer – Stephen Lipson Producer – Stephen Lipson, Trevor Horn Vocals [Additional] – H. Robert Carr*, Dee Ricketts, Derek Green, Gee Morris, Herbie Joseph, Iris Sutherland, Judy Bennett*, Mario Friendo (2), Michael Hoyte, Paul Lee, Sharon Blackwell, Yvonne White Written-By – Sterling Void 9:24Introspective is the third studio album by the English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1988 and is the Pet Shop Boys' second-best-selling album, selling over 4.5 million copies worldwide. (Their fifth studio album, Very, sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.)
It is so named because "all the songs, although it's a dance album, are introspective". Perhaps the biggest change in Pet Shop Boys' sound evident on this album is an increasing attention to orchestration using real orchestras, particularly on the Trevor Horn-produced "Left to My Own Devices", which took months to produce.
The album was unusual in that it completely reversed the typical process by which pop/dance acts released singles. Instead of releasing an album of regular-length (3–5-minute) songs, then releasing more lengthy remixes of those songs on subsequent singles, Introspective was released as an LP consisting of songs that all lasted six minutes or more. Songs from the album that were released as singles were released as shorter, more radio-friendly mixes. Of the four tracks on the album that were released as singles—"Left to My Own Devices", "Domino Dancing", "Always on My Mind", (which was released prior to the album) and "It's Alright"—none was released as a radio single in the same form that they appeared on the album.
It is also notable that of the six tracks on the album only two were actually written specifically for this project— those being "Left to My Own Devices" and "Domino Dancing". "Always on My Mind" and "It's Alright" are both cover versions, "I Want a Dog" is a song that previously appeared as B-side of the single "Rent" and "I'm Not Scared" is their own version of a song they had previously written for Patsy Kensit's pop group Eighth Wonder. "Always on My Mind" was re-recorded for this album and mixed with "In My House", a new acid-house track on the album which expanded the lyrics to the song.
Introspective was re-released in 2001 (as were the group's first six albums) as Introspective/Further Listening. The re-released version was digitally remastered and came with a second disc of B-sides and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. Yet another re-release followed on 9 February 2009, under the title Introspective: Remastered. This version contains only the 6 tracks on the original.
Neil Tennant, in a speech he gave to the Oxford Union, said that he regretted releasing Introspective so soon after Actually as he felt that the 12" nature of the songs may have put some fans off the band and that this probably impacted on the sales of Behaviour, the subsequent album which is critically regarded as the Pet Shop Boys' finest album but commercially is one of their least successful. Nevertheless, Introspective remains, according to Tennant, the best-selling Pet Shop Boys album internationally. It peaked at No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart, behind U2's Rattle and Hum.
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