Disco (Pet Shop Boys album)

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Disco
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Remix album by
Pet Shop Boys
Released17 November 1986 (1986-11-17)
Recorded1985–1986
Genre
Length46:02
Label Parlophone
Producer
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Please
(1986)		Disco
(1986)		 Actually
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Disco is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 November 1986 [4] 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 the Pet Shop Boys themselves.

Contents

Background

According to interviews,[ citation needed ] the album was released to showcase music the duo deemed non-radio friendly. With the exception of "Suburbia", all the mixes on Disco were either rare import remixes or previously unreleased.

In The Night - possibly[ citation needed ] originally intended for the B-side of the original 12" 1985 release of "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (the sleeve of which lists "In The Night (Extended)" but in fact played the 7" version); previously unreleased

Suburbia - a.k.a. The Full Horror (standard 12" version)

Opportunities - a.k.a. "Version Latina" from the remix 12" of the original 1985 release of "Opportunities", which at the time of the release of Disco was changing hands for up to £100

Paninaro - a.k.a. The Italian Remix a.k.a. The Pet Shop Boys Mix, previously available only on a very limited edition 12" in Italy

Love Comes Quickly - a.k.a. the Shep Pettibone Mastermix, previously available only on 12" in the USA, an edit of which also appeared on the 7" double-pack of "Suburbia"

West End Girls - different from the version released on the remix 12"; previously unreleased

In addition, Pet Shop Boys would later release the remix albums Disco 2 , Disco 3 and Disco 4 , although the concepts of these compilations differ greatly from the original Disco album: Disco 2 is a continuous mega-mix of dance remixes, Disco 3 is a mixture of remixes and new songs and Disco 4 consists exclusively of tracks remixed by the Pet Shop Boys, mainly by other artists.

The sleeve cover is a still of Chris Lowe from the promo video of "Paninaro", which was directed by Pet Shop Boys themselves.

The Disco mix of "Suburbia" can also be found on the "Suburbia" 12" and the 2001 two-disc re-release of Please .

The original version of "In the Night" was the B-side to the original release of "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)". Arthur Baker's Extended Mix of "In the Night" was used as the theme for the BBC's The Clothes Show .

Stuart Price, producer of the Pet Shop Boys albums Electric and Super , cites Disco as a major influence on his musical taste as a teenager.[ citation needed ]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."In the Night" (Arthur Baker's extended mix) 
6:25
2."Suburbia" (Julian Mendelsohn's Full Horror mix) Mendelsohn8:55
3."Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Ron Dean Miller and Latin Rascals' Version Latina) 
5:29
4."Paninaro" (Pet Shop Boys and David Jacob's Italian mix) 
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • David Jacob [a]
8:35
5."Love Comes Quickly" (Shep Pettibone's Mastermix)
  • Hague
  • Pettibone [a]
7:35
6."West End Girls" (Shep Pettibone's Disco mix) 
  • Hague
  • Pettibone [a]
9:03
Total length:46:02

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Disco. [5]

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Disco
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil—110,000 [21]
Germany (BVMI) [22] Gold250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [23] Platinum300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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