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The songs on this album are ironic, witty, urbane--all things would not normally associate with pop/dance music. And, surprisingly, none of this intellectual content seems to interfere with the beat and bop as crowds bounce around on the dance floor.
The magnum opus of this album is probably the collaborative effort the Pet Shop Boys did with Dusty Springfield, entitled 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' This song showcased Dusty, who had been neglected for years by the music establishment, and brought attention to both Dusty and the Pet Shop Boys as being able to reach just a bit further than anyone had previously realised.
The song 'It's a Sin' was a song very much in tune with the hedonistic, decadent London (and New York/California) nightlife, capturing the bittersweet flavour of life on the wild side. Of course, this was also the 'don't ask-don't tell coming out' song for the Boys (more than a decade before they would 'officially' come out), but then, their music reached different levels so that this never was that much of an issue (people variously heard and didn't hear what they wanted to hear in this song). The Roman Catholic Church even asked Neil Tennant to comment in one of their sectarian magazines, remarking that 'no one talks about sin any more'. Rather reminds me of the US Navy opting to use the Village People's 'In the Navy' for recruiting before realising the undertones (or perhaps, overtones, in their case).
Shortly after this album was completed, the Pet Shop Boys did their one-and-only feature film (and may we be spared from such an experiment in the future). It went on for much too long with contrived scenes and no real plot, trying too self-consciously to be artistic and pop-culture-accessible at the same time, weaving together songs (that are subtle and hard to characterise in the first place) into a pastiche of events that didn't flow well.
After this album also, the Pet Shop Boys began their habit of doing a remake after each major album--in this case, it was 'Always on My Mind', a high-tempo pull-out-all-the-stops disco version that remained popular in dance clubs for years, and can still fill the floor on most nights.
In all, if you were to have only one Pet Shop Boys album, opt for Discography. However, if you have room in your collection for two, include this one. The minor songs ('Rent', which was popular in Europe and Japan but not America; 'King's Cross'; 'It couldn't happen here') are great and worth a hearing.
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