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Very Remixes

Limited Edition

Reissued, Extra Tracks, Remastered

Pet Shop Boys (Artist) Format: Audio CD
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Can You Forgive Her?
2 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
3 Liberation
4 A Different Point Of View
5 Dreaming Of The Queen
6 Yesterday, When I Was Mad
7 The Theatre
8 One And One Make Five
9 To Speak Is A Sin
10 Young Offender
11 One In A Million
12 Go West

Disc: 2

1 Go West (1992 12 Inch Mix)
2 Forever In Love
3 Confidential (Demo For Tina)
4 Hey, Headmaster
5 Shameless
6 Too Many People
7 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Seven-Inch Version)
8 Violence (Hacienda Version)
9 Falling (Demo For Kylie)
10 Decadence
11 If Love Were All
12 Absolutely Fabulous (Single Version)
13 Euroboy
14 Some Speculation
15 Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
16 Girls And Boys (Live In Rio)

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.67 x 4.8 x 0.63 inches; 5.6 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Capitol
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 21, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Capitol
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005J9M1
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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Robert Hanks
5.0 out of 5 stars Easily in the top 3 of the PSB albums
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2009
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Very with the remixes is stunning, and it in my book rates about the 2nd or 3rd of my favorite Pet Shop Boys album + remixes that they put out. I rank Introspective + remixes 1st, and either Very + remixes, or Please + remixes 2nd and 3rd in either order. I am so glad I bought my copy through Amazon when it came out and it was under $20 new. Now you have to get ripped off from perhaps $100 or more to buy this now rare set.
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E. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Very - and again, VERY!
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2001
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WOW! I have the original "Very" in the fab orange plastic box, so for me, disc one of this particular dual set is redundant, but OH - DISC TWO!! With three previously unreleased versions of PSB songs, a couple of demos, some really great remixes and a few of the less air-played singles, this new set is simply beautiful. I've had it in hand now for three days and I've already almost worn out cut 9 "Falling" and cut 3 "Confidential" on disc two.
If you've even been a "sort-of" PSB fan over the years, you HAVE to have this two disc set. If you're a hard core Boy, you've already got it!
Go, Go Neil and Chris...!
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Leopoldo
5.0 out of 5 stars ITS AN INCREIBLE DISC I LOVE IT THEY HAVE A REALY A SPECIAL MIND TO CREATE A COMPLETE EMOTION MUSIC
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
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ITS AN INCREIBLE DISC I LOVE IT THEY HAVE A REALY A SPECIAL MIND TO CREATE A COMPLETE EMOTION MUSIC
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Bruce Lewis
1.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE WRONG ALBUM
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2004
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This is NOT (Very+)!!!! It is Bilingual. Amazon has been informed of this (over a month ago) and has not fixed the entry. If you order this, you will get Bilingual and NOT Very+!!

You have been warned!!

Don't believe me? Then listen to the tracks. They ARE NOT what Amazon lists.
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Neenah Guy
5.0 out of 5 stars You'll Never Get Tired of It!
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2008
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Very (REMIXES) is an excellent PSB take off of their earlier "Very" release back in the 90's. This one is more FUN though!
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Christopher Schmitz
5.0 out of 5 stars The Queen said "I'm Aghast! Love never seems to last."
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2003
This is one of my favorite albums, and I became interested in one reviewer's idea that it's actually a concept album about leaving the closet for the gay subculture--and the joys and challenges that result. I also love another reviewer's notion that the album may be big and brassy (bright orange and riveted like sheet metal; full of happy house hooks) but it's also soul-baring and vulnerable underneath.
"Can You Forgive Her?" catches our protagonist in a heterosexual bond but indulging in secret gay romps behind the "cricket pavilion" and the "bicycle stand." Titled after an Anthony Trollope novel, the music is spiky and sinister, as if to demonstrate the tumult of a conflicted life.
A wave of euphoria comes next. Our closet case has his first real relationship. He has never known such joy, and he reacts jubilantly, whipping off his clothes and dancing to Stavinsky. Still, he clings to heterosexuality, claiming "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing."
"Liberation" is the final acceptance of his gay identity, a string-sweetened ballad about the moment of realizing a real and genuine love: a ride home with his beloved's head resting against his shoulder.
Our hero has accepted his sexuality but now must negotiate the difficult balancing act of any relationship gay or straight. "A Different Point of View" and "One and One Make Five" recall the possessive lovers that have always been at the heart of PSB songs, including "To Face the Truth," "So Hard," and "Jealousy" from their previous album "Behavior." "Yesterday When I Was Mad" works as a double statement: A lovebird at the end of his rope returning to the nest only because he gets lonely--and a certain duo (ahem) frustrated by the music business.
It's not mentioned, but I think our protagonist breaks up with his boyfriend; next, he moves tentatively into the gay subculture in search of another. "To Speak Is a Sin" describes the eye-intensive contact of a gay bar. "Young Offender," whose chugging music features video game blips in the background, describes our hero's effort to court a delinquent teenager. Their bond seems exciting but ultimately unworkable. The stately "One in a Million" ushers our gay everyman back to euphoria. He has finally found another OR is back in the arms of his previous lover after a handful of miscues.
Our hero's journey has a happy ending, but the album ends ambiguously. Covering a catchy disco song by the proudly gay 70s dance band The Village People leads to a potent statement. "Go West" is a zesty singalong about gay flight to the freedom and "open air" of San Francisco. In the hands of the Pet Shop Boys, who eschew boisterous baritone gang vocals in favor of Neil Tennant's faint fragile tenor, it becomes an elegy for those who came seeking freedom and wound up ambushed by HIV.
This is foreshadowed earlier in the album by the lush "Dreaming of the Queen," which claimed "There are no lovers left alive."
"Very" is the only pop album ever made about specifically male homosexual themes. And it's one of the gems of the synth-pop genre along with Depeche Mode's "Violator," Erasure's "The Innocents," and PSB's own "Behavior."
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Matthew Gladney
5.0 out of 5 stars The Original, Plus the Re-Issue
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2001
"Very" has got to rank as nearly the best Pet Shop Boys album ever made. Perhaps "Behavior", their 1990 masterpiece, has slightly more poignant lyrics, but it is "Very" which manages to meld together vocal, lyrical, and musical excellence. The re-issue, though probably a waste of money for the long-time collector, features some hard-to-find gems that are worth the extra few dollars, if you do not already own them.
"Very" is a full-on, throbbing, delicate, fever-pitched album which flows together seamlessly. From the opening number of "Can You Forgive Her?", to the shameless "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing", to the somber "To Speak Is a Sin", and the grand finale of "Go West", the Pet Shop Boys have crafted a collection of nearly every emotion represented, every sound utilized. It is marvelous. The style of music is somewhat dated as early-nineties "techno" (sort of), but it is the quality of its production, lyrics, and sequencing which propels it into the stratosphere of sublime pop recording.
Hmmm, wonder if I like it?
The album has been re-issued in July of 2001, fully-remasted (though it didn't really need to be), and accompanied by a bonus disc entitled "Further listening". The bonus disc comprises demos, various remixes, and alternate versions of songs from the "Very" period, some material making its release debut on the CD. This is part of the mass re-issue of the Pet Shop Boys' first six albums, "Very" being the sixth.
The main problem is this: If you have been a Pet Shop Boys fan for awhile, as I have, the bonus disc for "Very" isn't anything new. It has, out of the five other re-issued albums, the least amount of 'unreleased material', and consists mostly of b-sides. The b-sides from this period were already released in 1995, and help to make-up their "Alternative" collection. There is nothing wrong with them, persay, it is just that they are some of the more recent and readily accessible works of the Boys. And "Very", the most recent re-issue, really wasn't in need of re-mastering.
If, however, you are a relatively new Pet Shop Boys fan, and do *not* have any of the material on the bonus disc, then by all means purchase it. It contains music of outstanding depth and quality, and if you haven't even experienced "Very" itself yet, then now is most certainly the time.
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parismatch
5.0 out of 5 stars Go West (1992 twelve-inch mix)
Reviewed in Japan on June 18, 2007
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ペット・ショップ・ボーイズの最高傑作アルバムVeryのＵＫ盤です。
このバージョンの最大の魅力は、おまけディスク？にあります。
２ＣＤセットのディスク２には、貴重なGo West(1992 twelve-inch mix)が収録されています。
Go Westは、ＮＹＣＢのようにたくさんの別テイクは存在しないので、
ここに収録の９分を越えるロングバージョンテイクはとても魅力的で、
ＰＳＢコレクターでなくても持っておきたい代物なのです。
よくあるまったく別曲になったミックスでなく、原曲に忠実な聴けるテイクです。
その他にも、I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing (Seven-inch version)は、
ポップアート収録のテイクとは別バージョンになっていますし、
何しろ、キラキラポップVeryの頃の貴重テイクやＢサイド曲などが満載なので、
もうひとつのVeryって感じで、結構捨て曲無しの嬉しい内容になっています！！
既にVeryを持っていても買う価値非常に大です。
ところで、Go Westの別テイクといえば、最近のライブ８のバージョンがとてもカッコイイですよ！！
YouTubeで見ることができます。
最後に、Veryのぶつぶつプラケースバージョンは今どこにあるのでしょう？

単品ＵＳＡ盤ヴェリーについて。
紹介ジャケフォトだけを見ると、初発のぶつぶつプラケース盤なのかと思いますが、
違います！！
ぶつぶつ盤を撮影したフォトがジャケになっているという代物です。
２００１年ボーナス盤ジャケが、ぶつぶつ盤の上で踊る二人のフォトでしたが、
その一環なのでしょうね。
それにしてもヴェリーは、いろいろなジャケで発売されています。
初発のぶつぶつプラケース盤、Relentless盤を復刻してもられないかなぁと期待しています！！
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