Disco (Pet Shop Boys album)
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| Released | 17 November 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1985–1986 | |||
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| Length | 46:02 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
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Disco is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 November 1986[1] by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States. Disco consists of remixes of tracks from the band's debut album Please and its respective B-sides. The album includes remixes by Arthur Baker, Shep Pettibone and Pet Shop Boys themselves.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Q | [3] |
| Record Mirror |  [4] |
| Robert Christgau | B[5] |
| Sounds | [6] |
Roger Holland of Sounds observed: "...you really can't blame the quite excellent synthetic pop combo Pet Shop Boys for taking six tracks off their 'Please' album and selling us a disco remix set of both quality and distinction just in time for Xmas. However, you can wonder whether it was wise? Despite the instant pop insistency of tracks like 'Opportunities' and 'Suburbia' — and despite the fact that these pleasurably long dance treatments will delight anyone who loved early Soft Cell — you can't help but thinking that perhaps this follow up to a chart topping debut album should have contained at least a couple of new songs. But suspend your cynicism for three quarters of an hour and accept 'DISCO' on its own terms".[6]
Ira Robbins of Trouser Press commented on "the crassness of their motives" and critiqued several tracks: "the dreamy "Love Comes Quickly" (botched by the incongruous ticking sequencers) and the sarcastic "Suburbia," subtitled here "The Full Horror" and loaded with barking dogs and other ambient ephemera. A crackling snare drum on "West End Girls" is likewise an extraneous annoyance".[7]
Danny Van Emden of Music Week felt that the "West End Girls" remix "actually improves on their debut number one version" and said of Disco: "... this is not your average remix cash-in after a few hits. This specially priced 45-minute six-tracker is definitely a cut above the rest with inventive play-loud remixes by Shep Pettibone, Arthur Baker and others". He concluded, it "neatly reveals how the PSB have grown into something bigger than you dared to hope".[8] Eleanor Levy of Record Mirror wrote: "This opportunist LP of remixes of six of the tracks from the 'Please' album is slick, lively and impeccably classy. You smile, you tap your foot — you grudgingly admit that these Pet Shop Boys are probably the best top drawer pop group of the moment".[4]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "In the Night" | 6:25 | |
| 2. | "Suburbia" | Mendelsohn | 8:55 |
| 3. | "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" |
| 5:29 |
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Paninaro" |
| 8:35 |
| 2. | "Love Comes Quickly" (Tennant, Lowe, Stephen Hague) |
| 7:35 |
| 3. | "West End Girls" |
| 9:03 |
| Total length: | 46:02 | ||
Notes
- ^[a] signifies the remix producer
Personnel
Credits adapted from CD liner notes.[9]
- Arthur Baker – remixing (1)
- Julian Mendelsohn – mixing (2), producer (2)
- Ron Dean Miller – remixing (3)
- Latin Rascals – remixing (3)
- Pet Shop Boys – remixing (4), producers (1, 4)
- David Jacob – remixing (4), engineer (4)
- Shep Pettibone – remixing (5–6)
- Phil Harding – producer (1), engineer (1)
- Andy Richards – Fairlight (2)
- Gary Barnacle – saxophone (2)
- J. J. Jeczalik – producer (3)
- Nicholas Froome – producer (3)
- Blue Weaver – additional keyboards (3)
- Khris Kallis – additional keyboards (3)
- Adrien Cook – Fairlight (4)
- Stephen Hague – producer (5, 6)
- Andy Mackay – saxophone (5)
- Mark Farrow – sleeve
