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remix album release date: 17th November 1986 chart: UK #15, US #95 length: 46:02 label: Parlophone producer: Nicholas Froome, Stephen Hague, Phil Harding, J. J. Jeczalik, Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys 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 even 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 six 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. The sleeve cover was a clip from the promo video to "Paninaro" directed by the Pet Shop Boys themselves. Remixers In the Night Arthur Baker Surburbia produced and mixed by Julian Mendelssohn Opportunities Ron Dean Miller and the Latin Rascals Paninaro Pet Shop Boys and David Jacob Love Comes Quickly Shep Pettibone for Mastermix Production West End Girls Shep Pettibone for Mastermix Production |
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CS: 1986 UK (Abbey Road Studios; n/a) [promo] LP: 1986 UK (Parlophone; PRG 1001) LP: 1986 UK (Parlophone; ??) CS: 1986 UK (Parlophone; TCPRG 1001) CD: 1986 UK (Parlophone; CDP 746450-2) CD: 1988 UK (Parlophone; CZ-33?) LP: 1986 DE (EMI; 240666-1) [stickered] LP: 1986 DE (EMI; F 669 843) CS: 1986 DE (EMI; 240666-4) LP: 1986 IT (EMI; 240666-1) CS: 1986 IT (EMI; 240666-4) CD: 1986 IT (EMI; 746450-2) LP: 1986 US (EMI; SQ-17246) CS: 1986 US (EMI; 4XQ-17246) CS: 1986 US (EMI; 4XQ-17246) [promo] CD: 1986 US (EMI; CDP 746450-2) CD: 19?? US (EMI Am/Col House; CDP 546450) CS: 1986 US (EMI; E4-46450) [reissue] CD: 1988 US (EMI; 0777-7-46450-2 7) LP: 1986 NL (Parlophone; 046-240666-1) LP: 19?? NL (Parlophone; 038-746450-1) CD: 1986 NL (Parlophone; CDP 746450-2) CD: 2003 NL (Disky; SI 905419) LP: 1986 JP (EMI; S18-5004) CD: 1986 JP (EMI; CP32-5794) CD: 1990 JP (EMI/Toshiba; TOCP-6540 CD: 1995 JP (EMI/Toshiba; TOCP-3019) CD: 1999 JP (EMI/Toshiba; TOCP-53104) LP: 1986 ES (EMI; 056-240666-1) CS: 1986 ES (EMI; 256-240666-4) LP: 1986 AR (EMI; 240666-1) [promo] LP: 1986 AR (EMI; 240666-1) LP: 1986 AR (EMI; 10009) CS: 1986 AR (EMI; 20009) CD: 2004 AR (EMI Odeon; 0777-7-46450-2 7) LP: 1986 GR (EMI; 062-240666-1) CS: 1986 GR (EMI; 262-240666-1) LP: 1986 GR (EMI; MT-13505) LP: 1986 CO (EMI; 111103) [Columbia] LP: 1986 ZA (EMI; ??) LP: 1989 BR (Parlophone; 066-240666-1) LP: 1986 HK (Parlophone; PRG 1001) LP: 1986 PH (Parlophone; PRG 1001) LP: 1986 EC (EMI; 303-0138) LP: 1986 TW (ROCK Records Ltd; RE-2093) CS: 1986 TW (EMI; 17246 / RE-2093) |
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