Very - Original 1993 UK Parlophone label 12-track Limited Edition LP

rare 1993 UK Parlophone Records 12-track vinyl LP - exuberant British synth pop duos phenomenal 5th album - self featuring the singles "Can You Forgive Her?", "Go West", "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing", "Liberation" & "Yesterday, When I Was Mad".

"Very"received a rare 'A' by the rock-critic Robert Christgau and described as '...one of their very best records' by Allmusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine: "Alternately happy and melancholy, Very is the Pet Shop Boys at their finest."

Vintl has custom yellow and blue graphic design labels with blue centre print and white rim print - has A/B-1-1-1 matrix endings.
Vinyls is housed in a stiff card picture credits inner sleeve - ultimately in a picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Inner Sleeve)/VG+(+) (Cover):
Vinyl is bright and shiny - has a touch of fine and light marks from the interaction between sleeve and vinyl - nothing inflicted by a needle. Side 1 label is mint - 2 label has a single or two simple, superficial and only very lightly scattered spindletraces within the centre ring. Both labels and vinyl are graded near mint.

Inner sleeve has a single wrinkle along top opening from a very minor bend - otherwise only a faint lower dent and NO splits, creases, rips, tear or other obtrusive signs of handling - graded near mint.
Cover has likewise only very minor signs of handling or storage - a touch of wrinkling from edges... just a little superficial top-front creasing and a very minor lower opening corner dent, a very slight dent to mid-top back opening edge and a touch of rubbing to the 'hat' in the lower back opening corner - graded close to near mint/excellent - simply a very nice copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Can You Forgive Her? 3:53
2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing 3:04
3. Liberation 4:06
4. A Different Point of View 3:26
5. Dreaming of the Queen 4:20
6. Yesterday, When I Was Mad 3:55

Side 2:
1. The Theatre 5:11
2. One and One Make Five 3:31
3. To Speak Is a Sin 4:46
4. Young Offender 4:50
5. One in a Million 3:542
6. Go West 5:01


All songs except Go West were written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

Recorded 1992 - 1993, at Sarm West, London
Orchestra recorded at Angel Studios, London.
Choir on Go West recorded at The Power Station, New York
Mixed at Rak Studios, London.
Mastered to vinyl At Town House Studios, West London

Credits:

Pet Shop Boys:
Neil Tennant
Chris Lowe

Additional Musicians:
Pete Gleadall - programming
J.J. Belle - guitar on "Liberation" and "Go West"
Frank Ricotti - percussion on "Dreaming Of The Queen"
Phil Todd, Snake Davis, John Barclay, John Thirkell and Mark Nightingale - brass on "Go West"
Anne Dudley - orchestra arrangement and conduction on "Liberation", "Dreaming Of The Queen" and "The Theatre"
Richard Niles - brass-, choir- and additional keyboard arrangement on "Go West"
Sylvia Mason-James - additional vocals on tracks "The Theatre", "One In A Million" and "Go West"
Dainton Connell - additional vocals on "One And One Make Five"
Carol Kenyon - additional vocals on tracks "To Speak Is A Sin" and "Young Offender"
Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles - additional vocals on "Young Offender"
Joanna Wyatt, Thomas Rogers, Laurie Smith, Hody Smith, Nigel Francis, Francis Hatson, Lee Harris, Lucy Clark, Marie-Claire Peterson and Victoria Ferher - choir on "The Theatre"
Scott Altman, James Bassi, Hugh Berberich, Rodne Brown, Maurizio Corbino, Martin Doner, Dan Egan, James Gandre, Paul Houghtaling, Michael Hume, Robert Kuehn, Drew Martin, Joseph Nelson Neal, Mark Rehnstrom, Steven Tachell and Frank Nemhauser. With thanks to Graeme Perkins and Jaqueline Pierce - choir on "Go West"

Technical Credits:
Pet Shop Boys - Production
Stephen Hague - Additional Production, Mix
Brothers In Rhythm - Additional Production (Go West)
Pete Gleadall - Engineer
Bob Kraushaar - Recording Engineer (Vocals), Engineer
Mike "Spike" Drake - Mix
Jack Adams - Mastering Engineer

Artwork:
Farrow Design, Pet Shop Boys - Graphic Design