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| Released | 8 October 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1996–1999 | |||
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| Length | 52:02 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Exclaim! | Positive[5] |
| NME | 4/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 3.2/10[7] |
| Release Magazine | 8/10[8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| Salon.com | Positive[10] |
| The Village Voice | A−[11] |
Nightlife is the seventh studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 8 October 1999 by Parlophone. After the release and promotion of their previous album, Bilingual (1996), Pet Shop Boys started work with playwright Jonathan Harvey on the stage musical that eventually became Closer to Heaven (at one stage during the writing process, the musical was given the name of Nightlife). Pet Shop Boys soon had an album's worth of tracks and decided to release the album Nightlife as a concept album and in order to showcase some of the songs that would eventually make it into the musical.
The album incorporates a variety of musical influences, including hard trance on the Rollo-produced "For Your Own Good" and "Radiophonic"; dance-pop on "Closer to Heaven" and "I Don't Know What You Want but I Can't Give It Any More"; disco pastiche on "New York City Boy"; and country music on "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk". The track "Happiness Is an Option" is based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's classical piece Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14.
As of May 2001, the album had sold 1.2 million copies worldwide.[12] It reached number seven on the UK Albums Chart (their first studio album not to reach the top five) and spent three weeks on the chart at the time, but re-entered at number 29 in 2017 following the album's Further Listening 1996–2000 reissue. It also became the duo's lowest-charting studio album in the United States, reaching number 84 on the Billboard 200.
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- ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 19 July, 1999". Music Week. 17 July 1999. p. 23.
- ^ "ニューヨーク・シティ・ボーイ | ペット・ショップ・ボーイズ" [New York City Boy | Pet Shop Boys] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "Singles: Releases for Weeks Starting 3-1-2000 & 10-1-2000". Music Week. 25 December 1999. p. 20.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Nightlife – Pet Shop Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ Bolton, Rob (October 1999). "Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife". Exclaim!. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Nightlife". NME. 12 September 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ Cooper, Paul (2 November 1999). "Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Forsberg, Niklas (22 October 1999). "Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife". Release Magazine. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (11 November 2009). "Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2005.
- ^ Taylor, Charles (17 November 1999). "The last days of disco". Salon.com. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (9 November 1999). "African Connection II". The Village Voice. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ Delingpole, James (12 May 2001). "West End boys". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
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