Disco (album)

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Disco is the second album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1986 (see 1986 in music).

Disco was not really an original studio album, but rather an album length collection of remixes of songs from their first album, Please, and B-sides. Many fans of 1980s synthpop see the mixes on this album as some of the best examples of the extended dance mix and this album includes remixes by Arthur Baker, Shep Pettibone and Pet Shop Boys themselves.

Despite the title, it would be a stretch to call the music on this album disco; although these versions of the songs are certainly more danceable, the disco influence is indirect, or at least difficult to detect.

It is difficult to say where Pet Shop Boys saw this album fitting in among their other albums when they released it. When, in 2001, they rereleased what they deemed their first 6 albums, this one got left out, confirming perhaps what many fans had already suspected, that the group did not consider this album on the same level as the others. In addition, Pet Shop Boys would later release Disco 2 and Disco 3, also albums of remixes, although they differ greatly from the original album: Disco 2 is a continuous megamix of dance remixes and Disco 3 is a mixture of remixes and new songs.

Track listing

"In the night" (Extended mix)
"Suburbia" (The Full Horror)
"Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" (Version latina)
"Paninaro" (Italian remix)
"Love comes quickly" (Mastermix)
"West End girls" (Disco mix)

Pet Shop Boys

Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe

Discography

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