Available with this listing is the 1988 CD release of the Parlophone/EMI Manhattan Records album “Introspective” by Pet Shop Boys. The disc, inlay, and insert are all in excellent to near-mint condition. The disc shows only very slight blemishes which do not affect playback in any way and the case displays the usual slight shelf-wear to be expected from an album of this vintage. PLEASE NOTE: The slight speckling on the photos of the disc are from my scanner bed. They are NOT on the disc itself.
“Introspective” is the third studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 10 October 1988 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in North America. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
The album was unusual in that it reversed the typical process by which pop/dance acts released singles. Instead of releasing an album of regular-length (3-5-minute) songs, then releasing lengthy remixes of those songs on subsequent singles, “Introspective” was released as an LP consisting of songs that all lasted six minutes or more. Tracks released as singles like “Always on My Mind” (originally made famous by Brenda Lee in 1972 and later re-released in a revival by Willie Nelson in 1982) and “Domino Dancing” had been issued as shorter, more radio-friendly mixes prior to the album. None was released as a radio single in the same form as it appeared on the album. It was also the case for the two other singles “Left to My Own Devices” and “It’s Alright”.
Of the six tracks on the album, only two were written specifically for the album – “Left to My Own Devices” and “Domino Dancing”. “Always on My Mind” and “It's Alright” are cover versions, “I Want a Dog” is a song that previously appeared as B-side of the single “Rent” (and inspired some of the photography on the insert) and “I'm Not Scared” is their own version of a song they had written for Patsy Kensit’s pop group Eighth Wonder. “Always on My Mind” was re-recorded for this album and mixed with “In My House”, a new acid-house track on the album which expanded the lyric.
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