My "Top 40" favorite PSB songs, period
- Being Boring
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- Tonight Is Forever
- To Step Aside
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- It Always Comes as a Surprise
- One in a Million
- Left to My Own Devices
- How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? (particularly the Brothers in Rhythm video mix)
- Birthday Boy
- King of Rome
- DJ Culture
- Liberation
- The End of the World
- I’m Not Scared
- Shameless
- I Didn't Get Where I Am Today*
- Integral
- It's a Sin
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- Dreaming of the Queen
- Go West
- More Than a Dream
- Into Thin Air
- Will-o-the-wisp
- Burn
- Closer to Heaven (Nightlife album version)
- My October Symphony
- Flamboyant
- Footsteps
- Your Funny Uncle
- Discoteca
- The Resurrectionist
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- The Way It Used to Be
- Vocal
- The Truck-Driver and His Mate
- Give It a Go
*My estimation of this song has grown tremendously in the years since it was released. During one of my "Rating Project" polls back in 2004, I personally gave it a rating of only 6. But if I were to rate it today, I'd give it a 9 or a 10. It just goes to show how tastes and evaluations change with time.
To enumerate my 40 favorites on an album-by-album (first album release) basis:
- Please - 2
- Actually - 2
- Introspective - 2
- Behaviour - 4
- Discography - 1
- Very - 6 (not surprising since it is, after all, my favorite PSB album)
- Alternative - 3
- Bilingual - 3
- Nightlife - 2
- Release - 1
- PopArt - 1
- Fundamental - 2
- Yes - 3
- Format - 3
- Elysium - 1
- Electric - 1
- Super - 2
- Hotspot - 1
- Nonetheless - 0
And, in case you're wondering, (1) my favorite Nonetheless track, "Love Is the Law," would make it into the "Top 50" if I were to expand this list even further, and (2) so would "West End Girls," a song that I love and, of course, tremendously value as the Pet Shop Boys' breakthrough, but I still don't love it as much "as a song" as any of those listed above.
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