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Introspective
Introspective cover
Studio album by Pet Shop Boys
Released October 11, 1988
Recorded 1988
Genre Synthpop
Length 48:08
Label EMI Manhattan (US/Canada)
Parlophone
Producer Pet Shop Boys, Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson, Lewis A. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist The capitalisation of song titles in this article is disputed Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave and Pop music in which the Synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Manhattan Records is a United States record label owned by EMI and operates as a subsidiary of The Blue Note Label Group. Parlophone is a Record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing The capitalisation of song titles in this article is disputed Stephen J Lipson is a musician (principally on guitar and producer who has worked with numerous artists including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Whitney Houston, Martinee, David Jacob, Julian Mendelsohn
Professional reviews
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Actually
(1987)		 Introspective
(1988)		 Behaviour
(1990)

Introspective is the fourth album, the third of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published The capitalisation of song titles in this article is disputed Actually is the third Album, the second of entirely new music by the UK Electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. Behaviour ( Behavior in the original US pressing is the fifth Album, the fourth of entirely new music by the UK An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production The capitalisation of song titles in this article is disputed It was first released in 1988 and is the Pet Shop Boys' best-selling album, selling over 4. 5 million copies worldwide.

It is so named because "all the songs, although it's a dance album, are introspective". Perhaps the biggest changes in Pet Shop Boys' sound evident on this album are an increasing attention to orchestration using real orchestras, particularly so on the Trevor Horn-produced "Left to my own devices," which took months to produce. Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English Pop music Record producer, songwriter and musician

The album was also unusual in that it completely 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 more lengthy remixes of those songs on subsequent singles, "Introspective" was released as an LP consisting of songs that all lasted six minutes or more. Songs from the album that were released as singles were released as shorter, more radio-friendly mixes.

Of the four tracks on the album that were released as singles -- "Left to my own devices," "Domino dancing," "Always on my mind," and "It's alright" -- none of them were released as radio singles in the same form that they appeared on the album.

It is also notable that, of the six tracks on the album, only two were actually written specifically for this project - those being "Left to My Own Devices" and "Domino Dancing. " "Always on My Mind" and "It's Alright" are cover versions, and "I Want a Dog" and "I'm Not Scared" are re-recordings of earlier Pet Shop Boys tracks.

Introspective was re-released in 2001 (as were the group's first six albums) as Introspective/Further Listening . The re-released version was digitally remastered and came with a second disc of B-sides and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s

Neil Tennant, in a speech he later gave to the Oxford Union, said that he regretted releasing Introspective so soon after Actually as he felt that the 12" nature of the songs may have put some fans off the band, and that this probably impacted on the sales of Behaviour, the subsequent album which is critically regarded to be the Pet Shop Boys' finest album but commercially one of their least successful. Status and membership The Oxford Union is an Unincorporated association, holding its property in trust in favour of its objectives and members and governed A modal logic is any system of formal logic that attempts to deal with modalities. Behaviour ( Behavior in the original US pressing is the fifth Album, the fourth of entirely new music by the UK Nevertheless, Introspective remains, according to Neil Tennant, the best-selling Pet Shop Boys album internationally.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Left to My Own Devices" – 8:16
  2. "I Want a Dog" – 6:15
  3. "Domino Dancing" – 7:40
  4. "I'm Not Scared" – 7:23
  5. "Always on My Mind/In My House" – 9:05
  6. "It's alright" – 9:24

Further Listening 1988-1989

  1. "I get excited (you get excited too)"
  2. "Don Juan (demo version)"
  3. "Domino Dancing (demo version)"
  4. "Domino Dancing (alternative version)"
  5. "The sound of the atom splitting"
  6. "What keeps mankind alive?"
  7. "Don Juan (disco mix)"
  8. "Losing my mind (disco mix)"
  9. "Nothing has been proved (demo for Dusty)"
  10. "So sorry i said (demo for Liza)"
  11. "Left to my own devices (seven-inch mix)"
  12. "It's alright (ten-inch version)"
  13. "One of the crowd"
  14. "It's alright (seven-inch version)"
  15. "Your funny uncle"

Personnel

Guest musicians

External links

" Left to My Own Devices " is a song recorded by Pet Shop Boys, released as the second single from their third studio album Introspective. " Domino Dancing " is a Song recorded by UK Synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart and released " Always on My Mind " is a song originally recorded by Brenda Lee and released on June 12, 1972, with music and lyrics by Johnny Christopher Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954 is a English Musician, singer and songwriter who with his colleague Chris Lowe, make up the successful Christopher Sean Lowe (born October 4 1959, Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English Musician, who with colleague Frankie Knuckles (born January 18 1955, New York) is an American DJ, Record producer and Remix artist Nestor Gomez ( Conceição de Macabu RJ, September 8, 1875 - March 9, 1941) was a Brazilian politician Blue Weaver (born Derek John Weaver 11 March 1947, Cardiff, Wales) is a British keyboard player, Songwriter Derek Green is a Canadian jurist and current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. Paul Lee may refer to Paul Lee (artist Paul Lee (speedway rider

Dictionary

introspective

-adjective

  1. Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.
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