Pet Shop Boys - Being Remixed (1990) FLAC

"Being Boring" is a single by the British pop group the Pet Shop Boys.

As the second single from the 1990 album Behaviour, after "So Hard" which was released before the album, "Being Boring" was not particularly successful upon release, only reaching number twenty in the UK singles chart and being the first single released by the group not to get into the Top 10 since "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" four years previously.

The song is concerned with the idea of growing up and how people's perceptions and values change as they grow older. The title apparently materialised after someone in Japan accused the duo of being boring. The title is also derived from a Zelda Fitzgerald quotation, "she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring".

The track was originally pieced together in a studio in West Glasgow, where the music for "My October symphony," "The end of the world" and the unreleased "Love and war" were also done.

The b-side, "We all feel better in the dark" was written around a piece of music Chris Lowe had composed. As he explains, "The idea came from a tape I bought from a health food shop round the corner from the studio:The Secrets Of Sexual Attraction. The words are terrible. Awful. Embarrassing."

The track proved to be a fan favourite and was performed live during their Performance Tour in 1991. The remix 12" includes two mixes of the track by Brothers In Rhythm.



"Being boring" (Marshall Jefferson Remix) (9:04)
"We all feel better in the dark" (After Hours Climax) (5:29)
"We all feel better in the dark" (Ambient) (5:20)

Tracks 2 and 3 remixed by Brothers In Rhythm

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