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Wayne's Little Online Book of PSB Lists

• 10 things the Pet Shop Boys did to commit career suicide in the U.S.
• The 10 PSB songs that used to play on a local "80s oldies" radio station
• The 10 PSB songs most played on a local LGBTQ+ radio station
• My "Top 40" favorite PSB songs, period
• The only 3 PSB songs I don't like
• The Pet Shop Boys' studio albums in descending order of how much I love them
• My 4 least favorite PSB albums
• My 5 favorite PSB album covers
• My 5 favorite PSB single sleeves
• My 10 favorite PSB remixes
• My 10 favorite PSB b-sides
• My 5 favorite non-originals covered by PSB
• My 5 favorite PSB videos
• My 5 least favorite PSB videos
• My 7 favorite live performances of PSB songs
• Songs performed live most often by PSB
• My 5 favorite remixes by PSB of other artists' tracks
• My 8 most beautiful PSB "musical moments"
• 6 guest appearances by Neil and/or Chris in other artists' music videos (plus a few more if we stretch it)
• The 10 biggest PSB hits on the U.S. Billboard "Hot 100" singles chart
• The 10 biggest PSB hits on the U.S. Billboard dance charts
• The status of PSB in Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003
• The 10 most successful PSB albums on the U.S. Billboard album chart
• Peak positions of PSB singles on the Cash Box charts
• The Boys' U.S. and U.K. gold and platinum records
• The U.S. sales figures for PSB albums
• The 10 longest PSB song (or track) titles
• The 10 longest PSB album tracks (not counting bootlegs, "special editions," or Disco albums)
• The 10 longest commercially released "official" PSB remixes
• The 10 shortest PSB tracks
• How PSB singles differ (if at all) from the album versions
• Singles that weren't included on Smash and the likely reasons for their exclusion
• PSB "singles" that weren't
• Tracks for a prospective third PSB b-sides album
• PSB songs with lyrics that don't contain the title
• Songs on which Chris sings (or "speaks") lead
• Other songs in which Chris's voice can be heard
• Studio tracks on which Neil plays the guitar
• A partial list of synths/samplers and other electronic gear used by the Pet Shop Boys
• The key signatures of selected PSB songs
• Pseudonyms adopted by the Pet Shop Boys
• "Documented" officially unreleased songs written by the Pet Shop Boys
• Titles that have been mistakenly identified as unreleased songs written by PSB
• Early titles for Pet Shop Boys songs and albums
• Why PSB albums are titled what they are
• 3 PSB "Easter eggs"
• The Pet Shop Boys' appearances on Top of the Pops
• Celebrities portrayed in the "New York City Boy" video
• Nods to PSB history in the "A New Bohemia" video
• Terms and phrases coined by the Pet Shop Boys that have been adopted by writers
• My (least) favorite "PSB myths" that have been (or need to be) put to rest
• Artists with whom PSB have collaborated
• Anne Dudley's guest work on PSB recordings
• Johnny Marr's guest work on PSB recordings
• Singers who have duetted with Neil on performances of "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
• 5 PSB songs inspired by Neil's friend Chris Dowell
• Notable guest appearances in PSB videos—plus 2 "possibilities" and 2 notable "nonappearances"
• A partial list of artists interviewed by Neil when he was with Smash Hits
• PSB songs that have been used in films and "non-musical" TV shows
• Films that have featured PSB songs
• PSB "appearances" on the U.S. TV game show Jeopardy!
• PSB songs that have been used in commercials
• Feature films that mention the Pet Shop Boys by name
• 10 perhaps surprising influences on the Pet Shop Boys
• PSB songs for which the Boys have acknowledged the influence of specific tracks by other pop artists
• 8 perhaps surprising influences by the Pet Shop Boys on others
• Specific songs by well-known artists that are avowedly influenced by the Pet Shop Boys
• Real people mentioned by name or title in PSB songs
• Real places mentioned by name in PSB songs
• My "baker's dozen" of favorite PSB quatrains
• Neil's 15 most memorable lyrical personae
• Songs that Neil sings avowedly using a female lyrical persona
• My all-time favorite Chris Lowe sartorial statements
• Pop songs mentioned by title in the lyrics of PSB songs
• PSB songs based on classical compositions (and a few others with "classical connections")
• PSB "cover songs" and who first recorded them
• Songs written by PSB that were inspired by AIDS (plus a few more debatable interpretations)
• What it's about: Neil's succinct statements on what a song is "about"
• PSB songs with literary references
• PSB songs that contain biblical allusions
• PSB lyrics that include non-English words or phrases
• PSB songs that they themselves apparently dislike
• The Pet Shop Boys' greatest acts of deconstruction
• PSB tracks appearing in videogames
• PSB tracks that contain samples of other artists' music
• Tracks by other artists that sample the Pet Shop Boys
• My favorite PSB mashups
• PSB songs with distinct "Beatles connections"
• 3 dance-music classics that the Boys have blended into "live" versions of their own songs
• Tracks that have been mistakenly attributed to the Pet Shop Boys on Napster, YouTube, and elsewhere
• PSB songs with "Russian connections"
• PSB/Doctor Who connections
• PSB connections to the 2012 Olympics
• Evidence that death haunts "the Fundamental era"
• The Pet Shop Boys' ten greatest "protest songs"
• Pet Shop Boys rock!
• Notorious rumors about the Pet Shop Boys
• PSB titles and lyrics that are (or may be) sly innuendos
• PSB songs with "extra lyrics"
• "Performance parodies" of the Pet Shop Boys (and some borderline cases)
• Pet Shop Boys Satire
• Tracks that mention "Pet Shop Boys"
• "Pet Shop Boys" that aren't our Pet Shop Boys
• The early tracks that the Pet Shop Boys recorded with Ray Roberts and Bobby 'O'
• Robert Christgau's grades for PSB albums
• PSB studio albums that made selected major music publications' year-end lists
• The 15 strangest things the Boys have done
• The 13 least likely subjects for pop songs that the Pet Shop Boys nevertheless turned into pop songs
• Major awards won by the Pet Shop Boys
• Fellow recipients of BPI's "Outstanding Contribution" award
• PSB Grammy nominations
• My 10 favorite PSB magazine covers
• The Pet Shop Boys' managers
• My all-time favorite one-line descriptions of the Pet Shop Boys
• My 5 favorite anagrams of "Pet Shop Boys"
• Current favorite records selected by Chris and Neil in their Literally/Annually publications
• Neil's Desert Island Discs choices
• Celebrities citing PSB tracks among their Desert Island Discs choices
• Celebrities citing PSB tracks among their Tracks of My Years choices
• Celebrity fans of the Pet Shop Boys outside the field of music
• Fun with grammar: the parts of speech of PSB album titles
• Burning questions posed by the titles of PSB songs
• The current 10 most collectible PSB releases based on highest prices paid
• The Pet Shop Boys' "Ten Commandments of Pop"
• A selection of 10 real-life reactions I've gotten from people when they've learned I'm a big PSB fan and/or I maintain a website devoted to them
  
  
  

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