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
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau B [4]

Disco is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 November 1986 [5] 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.

Contents

Track listing

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

Side one
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."In the Night"
6:25
2."Suburbia"Mendelsohn8:55
3."Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
5:29
Side two
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Paninaro"
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • David Jacob [a]
8:35
2."Love Comes Quickly" (Tennant, Lowe, Stephen Hague)
  • Hague
  • Pettibone [a]
7:35
3."West End Girls"
  • Hague
  • Pettibone [a]
9:03
Total length:46:02

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. [6]

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Disco
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil—110,000 [22]
Germany (BVMI) [23] Gold250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [24] Platinum300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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