Actually (album)

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Actually
Studio album by Pet Shop Boys
Released	September 7, 1987
Recorded	1987
Genre	Synthpop
Length	48:14
Label	EMI Manhattan
Producer(s)	Pet Shop Boys, Stephen Hague, Julian Mendelesohn, Andy Richards, Shep Pettibone, David Jacob
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Pet Shop Boys chronology
Disco (1986)	Actually (1987)	Introspective (1988)

Actually is the third album, the second of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1987.

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing 2.1 Further Listening 1987-1988 3 Personnel

[edit] History

Actually is not much different from Pet Shop Boys' first album, Please in terms of musical style, but the production quality is noticeably better.

Actually housed four singles, including lead-off single "It's a Sin" and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", a duet with fellow Parlophone artist Dusty Springfield. The latter led directly to a major resurgence of interest in Springfield's earlier work. The duo scored another Number One in April 1988 with a remixed version of the album's last single, "Heart".

During this period, the Pet Shop Boys also completed a full-length motion picture called It Couldn't Happen Here. Featuring songs from the duo, it was most famous for housing 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 group's albums up to that point) 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.

[edit] Track listing

1. "One More Chance"
2. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (with Dusty Springfield)
3. "Shopping"
4. "Rent"
5. "Hit Music"
6. "It Couldn't Happen Here"
7. "It's a Sin"
8. "I Want to Wake Up"
9. "Heart"
10. "King's Cross"

[edit] Further Listening 1987-1988

1. "I want to wake up (Breakdown mix)"
2. "Heart (Shep Pettibone version)"
3. "You know where you went wrong"
4. "One more chance (seven-inch mix)"
5. "It's a sin (Disco mix)"
6. "What have I done to deserve this? (Extended mix)"
7. "Heart (Disco mix)"
8. "A new life"
9. "Always on my mind (Demo version)"
10. "Rent (Seven-inch mix)"
11. "I want a dog"
12. "Always on my mind (Extended dance mix)"
13. "Do I have to?"
14. "Always on my mind (Dub mix)"

[edit] Personnel

• Neil Tennant
• Chris Lowe

Guest musicians

• Andy Richards - Fairlight and keyboard programming on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 & 9
• Dusty Springfield - Guest vocals on track 2
• J.J Jeczalik - Fairlight programming on track 3
• Gary Maughan - Additional programming on track 3
• Angelo Badalamenti - Orchestra arrangement on track 6
• Blue Weaver - Fairlight programming on track 6
• Adrian Cook - Programming on track 8

Pet Shop Boys

Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe

Discography

Albums: Please | Actually | Introspective | Behaviour | Very | Bilingual | Nightlife | Release | Fundamental

Soundtracks and scores: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording) | Battleship Potemkin

Remix albums: Disco | Disco 2 | Disco 3

Compilations: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Alternative | PopArt: The Hits | Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys

Live: Concrete

Singles: "West End girls" | "Love comes quickly" | "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" | "Suburbia" | "It's a Sin" | "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" | "Rent" | "Always On My Mind" | "Heart" | "Domino dancing" | "Left to my own devices" | "It's alright" | "So Hard" | "Being Boring" | "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" | "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" | "Jealousy" | "DJ Culture" | "Was it worth it?" | "Can you forgive her?" | "Go West" | "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" | "Liberation" | "Yesterday, when I was mad" | "Paninaro '95" | "Before" | "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" | "Single-Bilingual" | "Somewhere" | "I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more" | "New York City boy" | "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" | "Home and dry" | "I get along" | "London" | "Miracles" | "Flamboyant" | "I'm with Stupid" | "Minimal" | "Numb" | "She's Madonna"

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Other projects: It Couldn't Happen Here | Reputation | Results | Spaghetti Records | Closer to Heaven

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