Pet Shop Boys ♫ Actually / Always On My Mind ♫ Rare 1988 Promo Vinyl +Bonus 12"

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ActuallyStudio album by Pet Shop BoysReleased7 September 1987Recorded1987StudioSarm West and Advision (London)GenreSynth-pop dance-pop discoLength47:52LabelParlophoneProducerStephen Hague David Jacob Julian Mendelsohn Pet Shop Boys Shep Pettibone Andy RichardsPet Shop Boys chronologyDisco (1986)Actually (1987)Introspective (1988)Singles from Actually"It's a Sin" Released: 15 June 1987"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Released: 10 August 1987"Rent" Released: 12 October 1987"Heart" Released: 21 March 1988Actually (stylised as Pet Shop Boys, actually.) is the second studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 7 September 1987 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in North America. According to Neil Tennant and music historian Wayne Studer, Actually loosely critiques Thatcherism, the political zeitgeist of the 1980s, and was recorded in anticipation of Margaret Thatcher's re-election.Release and promotionActually was released on 7 September 1987 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in the United States and Canada. In television commercials for the release, Lowe and Tennant were shown in black tie, blank-faced against a white background. The former seems unimpressed by a radio DJ-style Alan 'Fluff' Freeman voiceover listing their previous hits and new singles from Actually, while the latter eventually "gets bored" and yawns, with the image then freezing to create, roughly, the album's cover shot. Actually has one of only two Pet Shop Boys album covers (the other being Please) where Lowe's face is shown completely unobscured - and not wearing either his trademark baseball cap or sunglasses.Actually spawned four UK top 10 singles: the number-one single "It's a Sin", "Rent", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"—a duet with fellow Parlophone artist Dusty Springfield, which peaked at number two in both the UK and US and led to a resurgence of interest in Springfield's earlier work—and another UK number one in April 1988 with a remixed version of the song "Heart".During this period Pet Shop Boys also completed a full-length motion picture called It Couldn't Happen Here. Featuring songs by the duo, it was most famous for containing the video for "Always on My Mind" (starring Joss Ackland as a blind priest), which—while not on Actually—was released as a single during this period.Actually was re-released in 2001 (as were most of the duo's albums up to that point) as Actually/Further Listening 1987–1988. The reissue was digitally remastered and included a second disc of B-sides, remixes done by Pet Shop Boys and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. Another re-release followed on 9 February 2009 under the title of Actually: Remastered, containing only the 10 tracks of the original release. With the 2009 re-release, the 2001 two-disc reissue was discontinued. On 2 March 2018, a new remastered two-disc Actually/Further Listening edition was released; the content remains the same as the 2001 edition.Critical receptionProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusicLos Angeles TimesMojoQRecord Mirror3/5The Rolling Stone Album GuideSoundsSpin Alternative Record Guide9/10Uncut8/10The Village VoiceA−Actually was well received by critics. In December 1987, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice praised it as "actual pop music with something actual to say—pure commodity, and proud of it." In his retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said that Actually is the album where "the Pet Shop Boys perfected their melodic, detached dance-pop."Actually is featured in the 2005 musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and has been recognised in various other "must-listen" lists. In 2006, Q magazine included Actually in its list of the "40 Best Albums of the '80s" at number 22. In 2012, Slant Magazine ranked the record at number 88 on its list of the "100 Best Albums of the 1980s". In 2020, Rolling Stone placed Actually at number 435 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".In popular cultureAlthough not released as a single, the track "Shopping" is frequently featured as background music in British television news and current affairs programmes dealing with retail business issues and as bumper music on home shopping shows. This is despite the fact that the song is actually a critique of privatisation in 1980s Britain, and has little to do with actual shopping. "Shopping" was also used in a season 1 episode of the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. "King's Cross" served in the Japanese media as a commercial song to the Aurex's (owned by Toshiba) cassette tape recorder model XDR.Track listingAll tracks are written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, except where notedSide oneNo.TitleWriter(s)Length1."One More Chance"TennantLoweBobby Orlando5:302."What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (with Dusty Springfield)LoweTennantAllee Willis4:183."Shopping" 3:374."Rent" 5:085."Hit Music" 4:44Side twoNo.TitleWriter(s)Length6."It Couldn't Happen Here"TennantEnnio MorriconeLowe5:207."It's a Sin" 4:598."I Want to Wake Up" 5:089."Heart" 3:5810."King's Cross" 5:10

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