Pet Shop Boys/YMMV


 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The medley they performed at the BRIT Awards. Imagine the CMoAs of their best hits all smashed into thirteen minutes. Amazing.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: "Being Boring", though only reaching #20 on the charts, remains the fans' favorite song. Album track "King's Cross" gets this too.
 * Face of the Band: Neil Tennant. This is intentional, because Chris is rather shy.
 * Fan Nickname: The Pets, or the Boys. Fans themselves are called Petheads.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: Tons of them!
 * The video of Kings Cross shows a man on fire while the song talks about the dead and wounded all around Kings Cross station. 2 months later there is a fire that kills 31 at Kings Cross station.
 * They mentioned Armani and Versace (the Italian designers) in their first version of "Paninaro" in 1986. When they re-released that song in 1995, the PSB decided to drop Versace (but keep Armani) from its lyrics, because they thought he didn't fit well with the meaning of the song. A couple of years later, Versace was killed.
 * They released a homage song about New York City in 1999, called (quite obviously) "New York City boy". A couple of years later, the city suffered the September, 11th terrorist attacks. Then, they released a song about London in 2002, called (even more obviously) "London". A couple of years later, the city suffered the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks...
 * Ho Yay: The sheer amout of hoyay in the "Domino Dancing" video pretty much shifted the entire demographic of their American fanbase. As far as the songs go, "If Love Were All", "I'm With Stupid", "Euroboy", "Sexy Northerner", "Try It (I'm In Love With A Married Man)", "The Truck Driver And His Mate", "The Night I Fell In Love", and everything in Closer to Heaven. An unreleased song they performed live, "Homosexuality", has a pretty obvious song title. The version of "In private" they performed with Elton John is also quite hoyay as the song had been originally written to be performed by a woman (namely, Dusty Springfield). Also some Les Yay in "Girls Don't Cry".
 * I Am Not Shazam: Neither of the band members ever worked in a pet shop. Some mutual friends of theirs did, and they thought "Pet Shop Boys" sounded like an English rap group, so they ran with it.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: "The Sound Of The Atom Splitting", and It Couldn't Happen Here. Many fans didn't like the sound shift from their characteristic electronic-pop style to a more rock, guitar based sound in their album Release.