Song · Pet Shop Boys
“Being Boring” by Pet Shop Boys
From the album Behaviour (1990)
“Being Boring” by Pet Shop Boys appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1990 on the album Behaviour. Its best result is #440 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,130 alternative song of all time.
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Pet Shop Boys pulled "Being Boring" off Behaviour as its second single in November 1990, and the title started life as an insult: a Japanese review that found Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's famously deadpan act a bore. The jibe sent Tennant back to a 1922 line of Zelda Fitzgerald's, about refusing to be bored because she wasn't boring, by way of a friend's party invitation in the 1970s, and to a teenage pact in Newcastle never to settle for dull lives.
What came out is a song about growing up and watching what you believe and value shift with the years. Tennant and Lowe wrote it and produced it with Harold Faltermeyer, and fashion photographer Bruce Weber directed the video. It stalled at 20 in the UK, the first of their singles since "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" in 1986 to fall short of the top 10.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 440 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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