0014. Pet Shop Boys
Actually

Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant make up the Pet Shop Boys and they've been playing their synth-pop since, well, since forever I guess (factcheck: okay, since '81)...

Actually is their second album and it starts with a very stripped down track with only congas and other rhythm-effects keeping Neil company for the first quarter of the song and I'm not sure what I think at first. But it partly wins me with the chorus (yeah, I followed its advice gave it "One More Chance" <- punchline, rimshot and thrown out of the bar).

Songs like It Couldn't Happen Here, Hit Music and Shopping doesn't really float my boat, but on the other hand we've got What Have I Done To Deserve This and of course It's A Sin, which are if not timeless classics at least classics. I also got a bit fond of Rent (of which I think Swedish singer Linda Sundblad's stolen a couple of bars from to create her latest hit).

Apart from the hit singles it might not be an album I'd put on my top 800-list, possibly on the top 1000, but I don't know. To put it bluntly I think it was a good album for its time, but today it mostly sounds very dated.