- electronic, synth-pop, dance-pop, pop
- 53 min
- 12 tracks
- Parlophone
Very is the fifth studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 27 September 1993 by Parlophone, nearly three years after the duo's previous studio album, Behaviour, and following the compilation album Discography: The Complete Singles Collection.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and cool.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune4/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- Los Angeles Times2.5/4 ★
- NME9/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
- Select5/5
- The Village VoiceA
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Tracks
- 1Can You Forgive Her?3:54
- 2I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing3:04
- 3Liberation4:06
- 4A Different Point of View3:26
- 5Dreaming of the Queen4:20
- 6Yesterday, When I Was Mad3:55
- 7The Theatre5:11
- 8One and One Make Five3:31
- 9To Speak Is a Sin4:46
- 10Young Offender4:50
- 11One in a Million3:54
- 12Go West / Postscript8:21
12 tracks, 53 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Pet Shop Boys
- Label
- Parlophone
- Released
- 1993
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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