Disco

Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 077774645041
EAN: 0077774645041
ASIN: B00000EEQW

Release Date: 1989-06-01

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Tracks:

In the Night
Suburbia (The Full Horror)
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Paninaro
Love Comes Quickly
West End Girls

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Customer Reviews:

a synthpop masterpiece.......2007-02-09

It's incredible. I am writting this review almost 20 years after I first heard this album on vinyl, and 20 years after, having heard synthpop all this years and tons of bands and album, this album still sounds fresh and if it were released today it could outperform most of the synthpop bands of today. The mixes contained in this album are not really mixes in today standards but EXTENDED 12" versions of some of the PSB early hits. If you liked the radio or single versions of the songs contained in this album YOU REALLY need to hear this CD right away. The PSB are very savvy and payed attention to the most representative and favorite parts of those songs and worked them in a extended version mode that never GETS BORING. All this people that say that you are better off buying the special edition of PSB's PLEASE are totally wrong. The SUBURBIA (FULL HORROR) was a favorite disco hit at the time and it became an instant cult classic. The IN THE NIGHT version here is the better version you will find and so it happens with the PANINARO version. You won't find better versions than this ones. This is truly a masterpiece and a reference synthpop album no matter when.

Dance the night away 80s style.......2005-10-08

Done back at a time when the Pet Shop Boys were just starting out, this may have been an idea to make disco music more mainstream - it was big in the urban areas, and disco from the 70s had not really died, but was being transformed into pop, electro and other kinds of music that the Pet Shop Boys would come to typify for a while.

The first album, 'Please', had a string of world-wide chart toppers; these became sought after not only on the radio but also in the dance clubs - if there was one place that Pet Shop Boys music was welcome at, it was the dance clubs. This mini-album satisfied the more general demand for extended versions of songs at a time when the extended single was still a rare commodity (and mostly it was done on vinyl).

This CD has six tracks, four of which are remixes of charting songs from the album 'Please'. The songs 'Love Comes Quickly' and 'Suburbia' are lesser known in North America, but the songs 'Opportunities' and 'West End Girls' are perhaps two of the best known PSB songs ever. 'Suburbia' sounds very much like it encorporates the keyboard-heavy introductory music to the British series 'Eastenders' (at least, the music of the time), which is not a mistake.

The other songs included here are b-sides or extra tracks; the song 'Paninaro' became a hit in its own right, being revisited a number of times later in the PSB history.

These are all longer-playing songs, averaging eight minutes or so per track (when the standard radio edit is around four minutes, that is a long track) but done deliberately for more sustained dance time. The tracks are even listed by beats-per-minute, going from a love of 111 bpm on 'Love Comes Quickly' to 128 bpm on 'Suburbia'.

This is a remix album as they should be done - the songs are clearly extended versions of the ones from which they come, not so overlaid with DJ accretions that one can barely make out the base tune.

Not the best........2003-05-20

Remix albums are rarely perfect, but this one by the Pet Shop Boys is below average. Included is the amazing Shep Pettibone remix of "Love Comes Quickly", which extends the original, emotional, beautiful italo-disco tune. But this is unnecesary if you've got the double CD version of "Please" with the PSB's own extended version of "Love Comes Quickly" as it's virtually the same as the remix. The remix of "In The Night" is nice too, with it's thumping beat and extended length, but the rest of the tracks fall short of greatness, or even being all that good.

You get the entire version of "Suburbia", which upon hearing you'll realize why the edit of it is so much more popular, and there is a reprehensible version of "West End Girls", which reduces the original masterpiece to a standard, boring, plodding dance number with weak beats.

Recoomended mostly for hardcore fans and collectors, otherwise, you'd be better off buying the double disc version of "Please" as it has many similar remixes of the same tracks, only better.

Pet Shop Boys - Remixed........2002-07-30

"Disco" is an album featuring remixes of singles from the duo's debut "Please," as well as the rarities "In the Night" and "Paninaro." The best of these remixes is the extended version of "Suburbia" and a re-working of their Number One hit "West End Girls." Although the album served as little more than an appetizer before the release of their second disc, "Disco" is a solid remix effort that has pleased PSB diehards over the years.

Great disc.......2001-05-19

The concept of the extended remix is something of an '80s synthpop phenomenon and few acts can match the Pet Shop Boys in quality and originality. From the start, PSB aimed their music to the dancefloor and, logically, they called upon some of the most talented DJs and producers in the business to give the radio versions a longer, more developed orchestration. Presented here are some of the best remixes of their earliest hits, as well as two fantastic b-sides. Though the remixes might seem a bit long-ish to someone brought up on 4 minute radio, each one is well-developed and gives the listener more time to appreciate the subtleties and grooves with these fresh new arrangements. A must for any fan.

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