- Audio CD (July 1 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import, Best of
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B000002UB8
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. In The Night |
| 2. Suburbia (The Full Horror) |
| 3. Opportunities |
| 4. Paninaro |
| 5. Love Comes Quickly |
| 6. West End Girls |
Product Description
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Qu'auraient été les années 80 sans les Pet Shop Boys ? En regardant la discographie de Neil Tennant et Chris Lowe, on serait en droit de se demander si ce sont des pionniers ou des génies. "What Have I Done To Deserve This ?" et "Suburbia" illustrent parfaitement ce mélange chaud- froid unique de soul et d'euro techno. Les Boys semblent parfois plonger dans un profond ennui qu'ils arrivent à canaliser en écrivant de bouleversants morceaux. "Love Comes Quickly", "Rent" et particulièrement "Being Boring" abordent notamment le douloureux thème du sida. L'album suit chronologiquement la carrière des Pet Shop Boys, de "West End Girls" au medley "Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You)" en passant par les reprises "Always On My Mind" et "Domino Dancing". --Steve Gdula
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dance the night away 80s style,
By FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Disco (Audio CD)
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.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disco,
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This review is from: Disco (Audio CD)
Disco~ Pet Shop Boys is another case where greed and the love of money starts to rule. The remixes just plain suck and there is no excuse to realese this piece(...).
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best.,
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This review is from: Disco (Audio CD)
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.
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