0284. Pet Shop Boys
Very
It starts off pretty well with Can You Forgive Her? - a bombastic track about the choice between forgiveness and revenge, but when the second track is the houseish I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing which is followed by some sort of soft-disco in Liberation (which also's got a real annoying beep or chime), followed by a couple more uninteresting songs.
In other words Very is actually very similar to Actually (that sentence wasn't meant to look like that, sorry) in the setup: a couple of humdingers and a lot of fillers.
Strangely, it seems to be a circular motion, cause after the next good track, The Theatre, there's a house-track followed by a down-tempo disco song and a couple of more fillers.
They end on top though. Their cover of the Village People's Go West is full of the quirks and got that "big" sound that defines the best Pet Shop Boys singles.
(okay, so it's not the actual last song since there is a hidden track after a couple of minutes of silence, but the less said about that, and the fact that 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die focus a chunk of their review on saying "the Pet Shop Boys had always been really gay", the better off we all are)