John Freeman puts the debut album in context:
[P]erhaps, Please by Pet Shop Boys is the perfect first album. Although maybe not their best (this scribe would struggle to choose between 1988’s Introspective and 1990’s Behaviour), Please is an assured and hugely successful (three million sales worldwide and counting) record containing some of their best-known songs. However, Please also acted as lift-off for Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s creative wanderlust. In the quarter of a century since the its release, Pet Shop Boys have shape-shifted and experimented with a range of artistic media and each one of these personas has a umbilical rooting within Please. Be it New York disco, Italian house, classic pop, understated miserabilism, pumping Eurotrash, gay anthems, experimental electronica, rock opera or even the gauche atmospherics of their current foray into ballet – all roads lead back to Please.
Thank you.
The Dish 