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PSB Song Chronology

The following table lists, in chronological order, the very first official ("authorized") appearance of every Pet Shop Boys song (unofficial "bootleg" releases don't count) in audio (non-video) format, whether as a single, single b-side, or album cut. Only distinct songs count, not different versions of songs (such as remixes). Songs first released by other artists but written (or co-written) by the Boys are included as well as songs that they recorded and released under their own name but didn't write. (For the purposes of this chronology, I'm treating "All or Nothing" and "Diddly Squat" as two different songs, despite their having essentially the same music, by virtue of their differing titles, lyrics, and songwriting credits.) Songs that they didn't write or co-write but did record, indicated with the symbol § following the title, are included only as of when their own version was released, even if they had previously produced some other artist's version of it. But songs neither written nor performed by PSB are not included, even if the recordings under consideration were produced or remixed by them. (I do allow two exceptions to this rule, however, for a pair of songs that I regard as exceptional cases: "Hallo Spaceboy" and "I'm Love with a German Film Star.") Songs in which only one of the Boys was involved are also excluded. I limit the dates to month and year because of apparent discrepancies and confusions that sometimes arise from attempting to be more precise than that.

Year/Month	Song	Notes
1984 April	West End Girls	first single version
	Pet Shop Boys
1984 June	One More Chance	single
1985 July	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)	first single version
	In the Night
1985 October	A Man Could Get Arrested	b-side of second "West End Girls" single
1986 February	Love Comes Quickly	single
	That's My Impression
1986 March	Two Divided by Zero	from the album Please
	Suburbia
	Opportunities (Reprise)
	Tonight Is Forever
	Violence
	I Want a Lover
	Later Tonight
	Why Don't We Live Together?
1986 May	Was That What It Was?	b-side of the second "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" single
1986 September	Paninaro	b-sides of "Suburbia" single
	Jack the Lad
	A New Life	from the Helena Springs album Helena (she titled her rendition of the song "New Love," and it has marked deviations—including often different lyrics—from the later PSB track released in August 1987 as the b-side of "What Have I Done to Deserve This?," but it's still basically the same song as "A New Life")
1987 June	It's a Sin	single
	You Know Where You Went Wrong
1987 August	What Have I Done to Deserve This?	single
1987 September	Shopping	from the album Actually
	Rent
	Hit Music
	It Couldn't Happen Here
	I Want to Wake Up
	Heart
	King's Cross
	Always on My Mind §	on a bonus 7-inch vinyl disc released with a Japanese special edition of Actually
1987 October	I Want a Dog	b-side of the "Rent" single
1987 November	Do I Have To?	b-side of the "Always on My Mind" single
1988 February	I'm Not Scared	single by Eighth Wonder
	J'ai Pas Peur	b-side: French translation of the same song
1988 March	I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)	b-side of "Heart" single
1988 September	Domino Dancing	single
	Don Juan
1988 October	Left to My Own Devices	from the album Introspective
	In My House
	It's Alright
1988 November	The Sound of the Atom Splitting	b-side of the "Left to My Own Devices" single
1989 February	Nothing Has Been Proved	single by Dusty Springfield
1989 June	One of the Crowd	b-sides of the "It's Alright" single
	Your Funny Uncle
1989 September	I Want You Now	from the Liza Minnelli album Results
	If There Was Love
	So Sorry, I Said
	Don't Drop Bombs
	I Can't Say Goodnight
1989 November	In Private	single by Dusty Springfield
1990 June	Daydreaming	from the Dusty Springfield album Reputation
	Occupy Your Mind
1990 September	So Hard	single
	It Must Be Obvious
1990 October	Being Boring	from the album Behaviour
	This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
	To Face the Truth
	How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?
	Only the Wind
	My October Symphony
	Nervously
	The End of the World
	Jealousy
	Miserablism	on the bonus disc accompanying the Japanese edition of Behaviour
	Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend
1990 November	We All Feel Better in the Dark	b-side of the "Being Boring" single
1991 March	Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) §	single
1991 May	Losing My Mind §	12-inch vinyl promo and b-side of the "Jealousy" single
	The Patience of a Saint	collaboration with Electronic on their eponymous debut album
1991 October	DJ Culture	single
	Music for Boys
	Overture to Performance
1991 November	Was It Worth It?	from the album Discography
1992 December	Go West §	a rare, limited holiday promo, quickly withdrawn
	Forever in Love
1993 May	Can You Forgive Her?	single
	Hey, Headmaster
	What Keeps Mankind Alive? §
1993 September	Shameless	b-side of the final "Go West" single
	I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing	from the album Very
	Liberation
	A Different Point of View
	Dreaming of the Queen
	Yesterday, When I Was Mad
	The Theatre
	One and One Make Five
	To Speak Is a Sin
	Young Offender
	One in a Million
	Postscript
	My Head Is Spinning	from the "bonus album" Relentless
	KDX 125
	We Came from Outer Space
	The Man Who Has Everything
	One Thing Leads to Another
1993 November	Too Many People	b-side of "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" single
1994 April	Decadence	b-side of "Liberation" single
1994 May	Absolutely Fabulous	single
1994 August	If Love Were All §	b-sides of "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" single
	Euroboy
	Some Speculation
1994 September	Falling	from the Kylie Minogue album Kylie Minogue
1995 July	Paninaro '95	single
	Girls & Boys §
1996 February	Hallo Spaceboy §	collaborative single with David Bowie
1996 April	Before	single
	The Truck-Driver and His Mate
	Hit and Miss
	Confidential	on the Tina Turner album Wildest Dreams
1996 August	Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)	single
	Betrayed
	How I Learned to Hate Rock 'n' Roll
	Discoteca	from the album Bilingual (released in late August in Italy ahead of its September release elsewhere)
	Single
	Metamorphosis
	Electricity
	It Always Comes as a Surprise
	A Red Letter Day
	Up Against It
	The Survivors
	To Step Aside
	Saturday Night Forever
1996 November	The Calm Before the Storm	b-side of the "Single-Bilingual" single
1997 March	The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On	b-sides of the "A Red Letter Day" single
	Delusions of Grandeur
1997 June	Somewhere §	single
	The View from Your Balcony
	Disco Potential
1997 December	It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas	PSB Fan Club bonus "single"
1998 April	Sail Away §	from the Noël Coward tribute album Twentieth Century Blues
1998 November	Je T'Aime… Moi Non Plus §	from the various artists compilation album We Love You
1998 December	Screaming	from the Psycho soundtrack
1999 July	I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More	single
	Silver Age
1999 September	New York City Boy	single
	The Ghost of Myself
	Casting a Shadow
1999 October	For Your Own Good	from the album Nightlife
	Closer to Heaven
	Happiness Is an Option
	You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
	Vampires
	Radiophonic
	The Only One
	Boy Strange
	In Denial
	Footsteps
2000 January	Lies	b-side of the "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" single
2001 April	Positive Role Model	from the promo CD Five Titles from Closer to Heaven (not to be confused with the Songs from the Musical Closer to Heaven promo CD issued the following month)
	Friendly Fire
	K-Hole
	For All of Us
2001 May	Run, Girl, Run	special "Billie Trix single" sold at performances of Closer to Heaven
2001 June	Generic Jingle	from the Behaviour reissue Further Listening bonus disc
2001 October	My Night	from the Closer to Heaven original cast album
	Something Special
	Call Me Old-Fashioned
	Nine Out of Ten
	It's Just My Little Tribute to Caligula, Darling!
	Hedonism
	Out of My System
2001 November	Break 4 Love §	single by The Collaboration (Peter Rauhaufer + Pet Shop Boys)
2002 March	Home and Dry	single
	Sexy Northerner
	Always
	Nightlife
	I Get Along	from the album Release (released in late March in Japan ahead of its April release elsewhere)
	Birthday Boy
	London
	E-mail
	The Samurai in Autumn
	Love Is a Catastrophe
	Here
	The Night I Fell in Love
	You Choose
	All or Nothing	from the Miyuki Motegi album MIU
2002 July	Searching for the Face of Jesus	b-sides of the "I Get Along" single
	Between Two Islands
2003 February	Time on My Hands	from the album Disco 3
	Try It (I'm in Love with a Married Man) §
	Somebody Else's Business
	If Looks Could Kill
2003 May	Love Life	from the Alcazar album Alcazarized and released as a single a week later
2003 November	Miracles	single
	We're the Pet Shop Boys §
	Transparent
	Flamboyant	from the album PopArt
	Paris City Boy	from the French edition of PopArt
2004 March	I Didn't Get Where I Am Today	b-side of the "Flamboyant" single
2004 June	Jack and Jill Party	single by Pete Burns
2005 March	Alone Again, Naturally §	from the Gilbert O'Sullivan promo album
2005 September	"Comrades!"	from the album Battleship Potemkin
	Men and Maggots
	Our Daily Bread
	Drama in the Harbour
	Nyet
	To the Shore
	Odessa
	No Time for Tears
	To the Battleship
	After All (The Odessa Staircase)
	Stormy Meetings
	Night Falls
	Full Steam Ahead
	The Squadron
	For Freedom
2005 December	Psychological	instrumental 12-inch vinyl promo
2006 March	Answer the Phone	official ringtones downloadable from PSB website
	Where Are You?
	Water
2006 May	I'm with Stupid	single
	Girls Don't Cry
	The Resurrectionist
	The Sodom and Gomorrah Show	from the album Fundamental
	I Made My Excuses and Left
	Minimal
	Numb §
	God Willing
	Luna Park
	Casanova in Hell
	Twentieth Century
	Indefinite Leave to Remain
	Integral
	Fugitive	from the Fundamentalism bonus disc
2006 July	Blue on Blue	b-side of the "Minimal" single
2006 October	Party Song	b-sides of the "Numb" single
	Bright Young Things
	She's Madonna	collaboration with Robbie Williams on his album Rudebox
2007 November	Transfer	from the various artists Visionaire Sound album
2008 October	I'm in Love with a German Film Star §	single billed as by "Sam Taylor-Wood Produced by Pet Shop Boys"
2008 November	The Loving Kind	single by Girls Aloud
2009 February	A Little Black Dress	single by West End Girls
	Love etc.	a one-track advance-release promo single
2009 March	Baby	from the Alcazar album Disco Defenders
	Gin and Jag	b-sides and bonus tracks with the "Love etc." single, first released as a digital bundle
	We're All Criminals Now
	Did You See Me Coming?
	Vulnerable
	All Over the World	from the album Yes
	Beautiful People
	More Than a Dream
	Building a Wall
	King of Rome
	Pandemonium
	The Way It Used to Be
	Legacy
	This Used to Be the Future	from the Yes etc. bonus disc
	PSB Hits Medley (aka Pet Shop Boys Brits Medley)	released as part of a special limited-time iTunes digital bundle with the album Yes
2009 June	After the Event	b-sides of the "Did You See Me Coming?" single
	The Former Enfant Terrible
	Up and Down
2009 November	The Performance of My Life	from the Shirley Bassey album The Performance
2009 December	My Girl §	from the Christmas EP
	Viva La Vida §	in medley with "Domino Dancing"
2010 April	A Powerful Friend	limited-edition Record Store Day single
2010 October	Together	single, digital download
2010 November	Glad All Over §	b-sides of the physical "Together" single
	I Cried for Us §
2010 December	Night Song	PSB Fan Club download
2011 March	Prologue	from the album The Most Incredible Thing
	The Grind
	The Challenge
	Help Me
	Risk
	Physical Jerks
	The Competition
	The Meeting
	The Clock 1/2/3
	The Clock 4/5/6
	The Clock 7/8/9
	The Clock 10/11/12
	The Winner
	Destruction
	Back to the Grind
	The Miracle - Ceremony
	The Miracle - Revolution
	The Miracle - Resurrection
	The Miracle - Colour and Light
	The Miracle - The Meeting (Reprise)
	The Wedding
2012 April	Listening	from the Morten Harket album Out of My Hands
2012 July	Winner	single, digital download
2012 August	A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi	b-sides of the physical "Winner" single
	The Way Through the Woods
	I Started a Joke §
2012 September	Invisible	Elysium "album taster" digital download
	Leaving	from the album Elysium
	Your Early Stuff
	A Face Like That
	Breathing Space
	Ego Music
	Hold On
	Give It a Go
	Memory of the Future
	Everything Means Something
	Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin
2012 October	Hell	b-sides of the "Leaving" single
	In His Imagination
2012 December	One Night	b-sides of the "Memory of the Future" single
	Inside
2013 April	Axis	Electric "album taster" single, digital download
2013 June	Vocal	single
2013 July	Bolshy	from the album Electric
	Love Is a Bourgeois Construct
	Fluorescent
	Inside a Dream
	The Last to Die §
	Shouting in the Evening
	Thursday
2013 September	Entschuldigung!	b-sides of the "Love Is a Bourgeois Construct" single
	Get It Online
2013 November	No More Ballads	b-sides of the "Thursday" single
	Odd Man Out
2014 March	Oppressive (The Best Gay Possible)	collaboration with Panti Bliss released as a digital download
2016 January	Inner Sanctum	Super "album taster" digital download
2016 February	The Pop Kids	single, digital download
2016 March	In Bits	b-sides of the physical "The Pop Kids" single
	One Hit Wonder
	Happiness	Super "album taster" digital download
2016 April	Twenty-something	from the album Super
	Groovy
	The Dictator Decides
	Pazzo!
	Undertow
	Sad Robot World
	Say It to Me
	Burn
	Into Thin Air
2016 May	Brick England	collaboration from the Jean-Michel Jarre album Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
2016 June	The White Dress	b-sides of the "Twenty-something" single
	Wiedersehen
2016 September	A Cloud in a Box	b-sides of the "Say It to Me" single
	The Dead Can Dance
2017 June	Reunion	reissues "album taster," digital download
2017 July	One-Way Street	reissues "album taster," digital download
	Believe/Song for Guy §	from the Nightlife reissue Further Listening bonus disc
	Playing in the Streets
	Tall Thin Men
	Motoring	from the Release reissue Further Listening bonus disc
	The Night Is a Time to Explore Who You Are
	Kazak
	No Excuse
	Ring Road	from the Fundamental reissue Further Listening bonus disc
	Dancing in the Dusk §
2017 October	The Dumpling Song	from the Yes reissue Further Listening bonus disc
	Wings and Faith
	She Pops	from the Elysium reissue Further Listening bonus disc
	In Slow Motion
2019 February	Give Stupidity a Chance	from the Agenda EP
	On Social Media
	What Are We Going to Do About the Rich?
	The Forgotten Child
2019 April	The Enigma	from the Inner Sanctum DVD, Blu-ray, and CD set
2019 August	Mongrel	from the Musik EP digital download
	Soup
	Ich bin Musik
	For Every Moment
2019 September	Dreamland	collaboration with Years & Years, single, streaming/digital download
2019 October	An Open Mind	bonus tracks with the "Dreamland" single
	No Boundaries
2019 November	Burning the Heather	single, streaming/digital download
2019 December	Decide	bonus track with the "Burning the Heather" single
2020 January	Monkey Business	single, streaming in advance of the Hotspot album release
	Will-o-the-wisp	from the album Hotspot
	You Are the One
	Happy People
	Hoping for a Miracle
	I Don't Wanna
	Only the Dark
	Wedding in Berlin
2020 February	At Rock Bottom	bonus track with the "Monkey Business" single
2020 April	Omar's Theme	from the My Beautiful Laundrette EP
	Angelic Thug
	Johnny's Dark Side
	Night Sings (Popa's Theme)
	Johnny's Theme
	Beautiful Laundrette
	New Boy	bonus track with the "I Don't Wanna" single
2021 March	Diddly Squat	single by Misha Singer
2021 April¹	Mr. Vain §	from the DiscoVery - Live in Rio 1994 two-CD set, in medley with "One in a Million"
	Rhythm of the Night §	in medley with "Left to My Own Devices"
	I Will Survive §	in medley with "It's a Sin"
	¹These recordings had previously been released in video format (VHS) in 1995, but April 2021 saw their first official release in a non-video audio format, in accordance with the rules of this chronology as noted at the top of the page.
2021 May	Cricket Wife	bonus CD single accompanying Annually 2021
2021 December	Love Came Down at Christmas	released as the backing music of the PSB 2021 "digital Christmas card"
2022 March	Purple Zone §	collaboration from the Soft Cell album Happiness Not Included, released as a single in advance of the album
2022 December	Christmas Night²	released as the backing music of the PSB 2022 "digital Christmas card"
	²At this time I'm only guessing at the title of this extremely brief, simple song, using its first two words as a tentative title. And while I strongly suspect it was written by Neil and Chris, I don't yet know that for a fact.
2023 February	Living in the Past	released digitally on YouTube
2023 April	The Lost Room	from the Lost EP
	I Will Fall
	Skeletons in the Closet
	Kaputnik
2024 January	Loneliness	single and b-sides/bonus tracks streaming and digitally downloadable in advance of the Nonetheless album release
	Party in the Blitz
	Through You
2024 April	Dancing Star	single and b-sides/bonus tracks streaming and digitally downloadable in advance of the Nonetheless album release
	Sense of Time
	If Jesus Had a Sister
	Feel	from the album Nonetheless
	Why Am I Dancing?
	New London Boy
	A New Bohemia
	The Schlager Hit Parade
	The Secret of Happiness
	Bullet for Narcissus
	Love Is the Law
	Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus	bonus track on the Furthermore disc of the Japanese edition of the special two-disc version of Nonetheless
2024 June	It's Not a Crime	b-sides/bonus tracks streaming and digitally downloadable with the "A New Bohemia" single
	I've Got Plans (Involving You)
2024 August	Everybody Will Dance	b-side streaming and digitally downloadable with the "Feel" single
2024 November	All the Young Dudes §	released on the "New London Boy"/"All the Young Dudes" double-A single
	Beauty Has Laid Siege to the City
	Adrenaline	from the "Expanded Edition" of Nonetheless
	The Dark End of the Street §
	Miserere §

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