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Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

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582:, was mixed with reprogramming done by Hague and re-recorded vocals from Tennant. The second release of "Opportunities", following the album's release, resulted in better chart performance. It is the only single from the band to chart higher in the US than the UK, becoming the duo's second top-10 single in the US, peaking at number 10, and just missing out (number 11) in the UK. In Australia, the first version was the one to chart (although outside the top 40). 25: 627:"All the love that we had / And the love that we hide / Who will bury us / When we die?" According to Tennant, the lyrics were removed from the second version of the song as the duo feared the passage would be construed as "too pretentious". The first two lines of the outro, however, are sung within the lyrics of "Why Don't We Live Together?" from the 661:. Some of Miller's overdubs went on to be incorporated into the 1986 single version. The 1986 7" single version, which reached #11 UK and #10 US, bears the following production credit: "Original Production by J.J. Jeczalik & Nicholas Froome; New York overdubs by Ron Dean Miller; Remix and Additional Production by Stephen Hague." 775:, the headlights switching on by themselves as Lowe walks away from it. The cover of a ground-level service hatch in front of the car vanishes, leaving a rectangular hole in which Tennant materialises, standing with only his head and shoulders visible. He is dressed in a hat, eyeglasses, and a suit by British fashion designer 846:
s Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart at No. 5, and by the last week of February it had surged to No. 1. The song stayed atop that chart for four straight weeks, totaling six consecutive weeks in the top five. The song climbed back to No. 1 on the chart for the week of April 17, 2021. It also
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The lyrics' meaning is taken at face value by some listeners, and this subsequent interpretation of the song as a materialistic anthem receives mixed reactions. The satirical interpretation, on the other hand, has cemented the Pet Shop Boys' reputation as ironists for many, to the band's chagrin
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was recruited. Tennant wears a suit, hat, and white gloves, while Lowe is dressed as a manual labourer in a dirty shirt, red baseball cap, and jeans with a pair of work gloves stuffed in the back pocket. As Tennant sings, paper money showers onto him and Lowe from above and a background of city
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and his neck inflates in similar fashion to a frog. Lowe appears at intervals, wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket and standing/walking around the garage. At the end of the video, Tennant's body disintegrates to dust within his suit, leaving it upright on a coat hanger and his hat on the
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The lyrics depict, in Tennant's words, "two losers". The song is written from the perspective of a man who describes himself as being intellectual and educated. The lyrics are addressed towards another character, identified as having "looks" and "brawn", and who is invited to join the song's
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skylines and clouds scrolls past, rendered as neon outlines. Duplicates of the two appear repeatedly, passing objects back and forth that represent their characters' respective statuses, such as a brick, sledgehammer, briefcase, stack of books, and top hat.
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Remix)"). This continued for a decade until 1995 saw a fully instrumental re-recording of the song, "In the Night '95", for the purpose of replacing the old theme.
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The song was written during the Pet Shop Boys' formative years, in 1983. According to Neil Tennant, the main lyrical concept came while in a recording studio in
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also included a brief, cacophonic track titled "Opportunities (Reprise)", which was the original middle section to the song proper before it was edited out.
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compilation album, and was subsequently published on compact disc in the U.K., in a longer edit of the mix, on the 2-disc expanded 2001 remaster of
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The original single release charted at number 116 in the UK, to be exceedingly outdone by the number-one spectacle of the second release of "
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with a dollar-sign pin on the lapel. As he sings amid occasional washes of steam from the car, his face begins to
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A notable change between the original and re-recorded versions of "Opportunities" is the omission of the spoken
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album. The original single version of "Opportunities" was unavailable on compact disc until the 1998 U.S.-only
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Tennant has made it clear that the schemes are doomed to failure. The protagonist's claimed accreditations, a
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when Chris Lowe asked him to make up a lyric based around the line "Let's make lots of money".
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Weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (original release)
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2021 year-end chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
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1986 year-end chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
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Weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
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still on board from that release, a new single version for the duo's debut album,
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A1. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) – 7:18
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2021 weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
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chart. The surge in interest also affected other Pet Shop Boys songs with "
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The song was the opening theme for the American reality television series
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The first version of the song, recorded with the duo's first producer,
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since often their more-sincere songs are ignored as a result.
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from the second season in 1987 (the original 1986 theme was
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