Pet Shop Boys - Actually / Further Listening 1987-1988 (2001) {Remastered} CD-Rip

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Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Title: Actually / Further Listening 1987-1988
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Parlophone #0946379315 2 3
Genre: Electronic, Synth-Pop, Pop, Dance
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 2CD (00:48:07 + 01:16:17)
Total Size: 944 / 356 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Actually is the second album by English pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 7 September 1987 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in the United States and Canada. Actually is featured in the 2005 musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and in 2006 Q magazine placed the album at No. 22 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s". In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 88 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". Actually was re-released in 2001 as Actually/Further Listening 1987–1988. The re-released version was not only digitally remastered but came with a second disc of B-sides, remixes done by the Pet Shop Boys and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release.

Of the 14 tracks on the second disc of the two-disc expanded reissue of Actually, Pet Shop Boys' second album, there are three previously unreleased mixes, highlighted by Shep Pettibone's version of "Heart" and two versions of "Always on My Mind" that never made it to CD prior to this release. Of the mixes that populate much of the rest of the disc, the disco mix of "It's a Sin" is terrific, as are extended mixes of "Always on My Mind" and "What Have I Done to Deserve This." But at the true heart of this disc are songs like "You Know Where You Went Wrong," "A New Life," "I Want a Dog," and "Do I Have To?," all terrific songs (especially "I Want a Dog") that could have comfortably fit on the actual album. The thing is, the best of these are on Alternative, which may satisfy those listeners looking for actual songs instead of mixes. Nevertheless, this is a pretty ideal collection of further listeners for the serious Pet Shop Boys fan (especially since this, like every disc in this series, contains terrific liner notes). It may not have every released mix, but it has the best of them, and when they're combined with the non-LP songs it makes for fine listening in its own right.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List CD1 - Actually:

01. One more chance [5:31]
02. What have I done to deserve this? [4:23]
03. Shopping [3:37]
04. Rent [5:08]
05. Hit music [4:45]
06. It couldn't happen here [5:22]
07. It's a sin [4:59]
08. I want to wake up [5:11]
09. Heart [3:58]
10. King's cross [5:12]

Track List CD2 - Further Listening 1987-1988:

01. I Want To Wake Up (Breakdown Mix) [6:00]
02. Heart (Shep Pettibone Version) [4:13]
03. You Know Where You Went Wrong [5:52]
04. One More Chance (Seven-Inch Mix) [3:50]
05. It's A Sin (Disco Mix) [7:41]
06. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Extended Mix) [6:51]
07. Heart (Disco Mix) [8:40]
08. A New Life [4:57]
09. Always On My Mind (Demo Version) [4:04]
10. Rent (Seven-Inch Mix) [3:37]
11. I Want A Dog [4:59]
12. Always On My Mind (Extended Dance Mix) [8:13]
13. Do I Have To? [5:17]
14. Always On My Mind (Dub Mix) [2:04]

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