Disco (album)

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

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. Unlike later albums of PSB remixes, these remixes are done by the Boys themselves, and the remixes exhibit a similar style throughout. Many fans of 1980s synthpop see the mixes on this album as some of the best examples of the extended dance mix.

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. It is unfair to compare these albums to the original Disco because they are remixed by other artists, not Pet Shop Boys themselves. Disco 2 and Disco 3 are more likely attempts to match the relative commercial success of Disco.

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