"Before" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 22 April 1996 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Bilingual (1996).

Larry Flick from Billboard described the song as "a tasteful blend of electro-pop and retro-disco",[2] and an "vigorous and appealing house shuffler".

[4] Victoria Segal of Melody Maker called it "steeped in standard Petties loser-in-love-and-therefore-in-life melancholy, all panpipes and high-pitched female vocals, a sort of thick sadness curdling Neil Tennant's voice".

She noted that the B-side "The Truck Driver and His Mate" was the "killer track", with its "filthiest beat", "synthesised sighs" and Tennant's "voice all over it".

[5] James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update noted its "gentle cooing".