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Pet Shop Boys

What Keeps Mankind Alive?

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Introspective is the fourth album, the third of entirely new music, by English electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1988 and is the Pet Shop Boys’ second-best-selling album, selling over 4.5 million copies worldwide. (Their fifth studio album, Very, sold more than 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. The album was also unusual in that it completely reversed the typical process by which pop/dance acts released singles. Instead of... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance ... For once, you must not try to shirk the facts ... At keeping its humanity repressed

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