Nightlife [IMPORT]

Pet Shop Boys

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 31, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000026KGJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (137 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #305,484 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. For Your Own Good

2. Closer to Heaven

3. I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More

4. Happiness Is an Option

5. You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk

6. Vamphires

7. Radiophonic

8. Only One

9. Boy Strange

10. In Denial

11. New York City Boy

12. Footsteps

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

The Pet Shop Boys' Nightlife saved 1999 from being a rather dormant year in techno-pop. Gliding through 12 tracks with a let-us-show-you-how-it's-done panache, these seasoned veterans transition from ballad to body-rocker with nary a hair out of place. Few can use a canned snare fill to full effect like the Pet Shop Boys do on this album, indicative of their impeccable choices in songcraft and matched only by their often deceptively flippant lyrical content. --Beth Massa

Product Description

Asian only edition of their 1999 album with bonus 3 track VCD, tracks 'I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More', 'You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk' & 'New York City Boy'. 1999 release. Standard jewel case & slimline jewel case housed in a plastic slipcase.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like a vampire walking all night..., December 1, 1999

By	Jean-Paul (Rochester, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightlife (Audio CD)

Melodic and relevant, the Pet Shop Boys have created a musical landscape of city living, including the greatest techno-country song ever, You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk. This cd has a definite night-time vibe to it: urban, lonely, and sometimes hopeless, and but with just the right comnbination of irony and hope to reassure us that it could all work out. Also included is a shockingly good duet with Kylie Minogue, which had me checking the liner notes to see who she was. It will never happen, but one hopes that this record will finally allow the Pet Shop Boys to be recognized for what they are: revolutionary, contemporary artsists who have been making masterful records for their subculture for almost fifteen years. But you know what, forget the recognition of the massess, we night walkers would rather keep them for ourselves...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars aka "Perfection.", December 29, 1999

By	MCB "sound-and-vision" (West Hollywood, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightlife (Audio CD)

The critics would never admit it, but this is hands-down one of the best CD experiences of the past year, a sublime journey through the night filled with intelligence, humor, sadness and beauty. Another masterpiece from possibly the most underrated pop outfit of the past twenty years. Bravo.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not their best......, November 22, 1999

By	Robby Doerr (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightlife (Audio CD)

As a huge fan of the "boys", I was sure excited to learn that a new CD was being released! I have been listening in anticipation of each new CD since around 1989. It was well worth the wait!

Although I love the Pet Shop Boys, there are a few tracks on this album that just simply disappoint the listener. For one, the original version of "NYCB" sounds like a Village People throwback from 1977 - something I didn't like even back then. Also, "Footsteps" at the end of the CD just leaves a bad taste in your mouth, not a good closing song. It's just not an exciting track.

My favorites are "Radiophonic", "For Your Own Good", and "Closer to Heaven" (with a hint of circa 1987 Book of Love in the background). I also like "Don't Know What You Want....", but not as much as everyone else it seems. The words are great.

As for the bonus "Extra" CD, this is probably my favorite aspect of Nightlife. The beginning of "Je t'aime" could very well be the intro to a fabulous house groove, but then the music started and I dove for the "skip" button on my remote. "Silver Age" did nothing for me either.

So, yeah, I liked the CD's, but it's not their best work. Songs like "Being Boring", My October Symphony", "Before", "Up Against It", "Saturday Night Forever", "Discoteca", "I Want A Dog", and "Suburbia" are what made me love The Boys.

Waiting in anticipation for the next album.....