"I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" is the third single from Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

' fifth album Very. It was released in the UK by Parlophone Records on where it eventually reached #13 in the chart. It reached #2 in the US Club chart where it was released in . It is the 20th best-selling Pet Shop Boys single.

Bonus material

The single was bolstered by a large amount of bonus material available across a wide range of formats, on top of the nine remixes commissioned. The main B-side is "Too many people" (which itself was featured over the credits of the Daria

Daria

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episode entitled "Lane Miserables"), but the single also featured remixes of Please tracks "Violence" and "West End Girls

West End Girls

"West End Girls" is a song by British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. It is a synthpop song, influenced by hip hop music. The lyrics focus on class, and inner-city pressure, and were inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land...

".

Packaging

In the UK, the first CD single came in a rubber sleeve, that held both CD one and two. This was very similar to the packaging for Very Relentless.

As with the previous singles from Very, the duo donned new outfits for the single's promotional campaign. Chris featured in a blonde wig with a pink and white costume, while Neil was adorned in a brunette wig and darker clothing.

Robbie Williams version

A cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" by Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

 appeared as the B-side to his single "Let Me Entertain You

Let Me Entertain You (Robbie Williams song)

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" in 1998. His version of the song can also be heard in the US sitcom Friends

Friends

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in the episode entitled "The One with the Routine".

7": Parlophone / R 6370 (UK)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (beatmasters 7") – 4:45
2. "Too many people" – 4:19

• also available on MC (Parlophone / TCR 6370)

12": Parlophone / 12R 6370 (UK)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (extended nude mix) – 7:49
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (grandballroom mix) – 6:32
3. "West End girls" (sasha remix) – 7:45
4. "West End girls" (sasha dub) – 8:16

12": Parlophone / 12RX 6370 (UK)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch mix) – 8:22
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild tribal beats) – 3:49
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (club mix) – 7:10
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch dub) – 7:45

12": EMI / Y-58122 (USA)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (Club Mix) – 7:10
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (Grand Ballroom Dub) – 6:30
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (album version) – 3:04
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (Extended Nude Mix) – 7:48
5. "West End Girls" (Sasha Mix) – 7:45

CD: Parlophone / CDRS 6370 (UK)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (album mix) – 3:04
2. "Too many people" – 4:19
3. "Violence" (Haçienda
   The Haçienda
   Fac 51 Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous club in the world by Newsweek magazine...
   
    version) – 4:58
4. "West End girls" (sasha remix) – 7:45

CD: Parlophone / CDR 6370 (UK)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (beatmasters 7") – 4:45
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (extended nude mix) – 7:49
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch mix) – 8:22
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (grandballroom mix) – 6:39
5. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch dub) – 7:45

CD: EMI / 8 81270 2 (Germany)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (beatmasters 7") – 4:45
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (extended nude mix) – 7:49
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch mix) – 8:22
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (voxigen mix) – 6:25

CD: EMI / E2-58122 (US)

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (album version) – 3:04
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (club mix) – 7:10
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch mix) – 8:22
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (extended nude mix) – 7:48
5. "West End girls" (sasha mix) – 7:45
6. "Violence" (Haçienda
   The Haçienda
   Fac 51 Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous club in the world by Newsweek magazine...
   
    version) – 4:58
7. "Too many people" – 4:19

Beatmasters

Beatmasters

The Beatmasters are a team of dance music songwriters, musicians and producers who were successful as artists in their own right in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then went on to produce and remix records for many other groups...

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (beatmasters 7") – 4:45
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (extended nude mix) – 7:49

Another remix of the song, using the structure of the beatmasters 7" but also incorporating elements from the album version was released on the PopArt compilation in 2003.

DJ Pierre

DJ Pierre

DJ Pierre is the stage name of Nathaniel Pierre Jones, a Chicago born DJ and performer of house music. He helped to develop the house music subgenre of Acid House, as member of Phuture, whose 1987 E.P...

1. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (club mix) – 7:10
2. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild tribal beats) – 3:49
3. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch mix) – 8:22
4. "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" (wild pitch dub) – 7:45

Pete Gleadall

1. "Violence" (Haçienda version) – 4:58
2. "Violence" (Extended Haçienda version) – 7:02

Sasha

Sasha (DJ)

Sasha is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s...

1. "West End girls" (sasha remix) – 7:45
2. "West End girls" (sasha dub) – 8:16

Chart performance

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Club Chart	2
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	13
German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	37
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	38