Pet Shop Boys - Disco 1-4 -1986-2007- 4-cd Set May 2026

Disco 4 is the odd one out. Originally released during the Fundamental era, it’s essentially a collection of PSB remixes and productions for other artists – plus two of their own.

You get their remix of Madonna’s “Sorry” (which turns the original into something darker, more paranoid). You get their production for David Bowie (“Hallo Spaceboy”) – wait, that’s 1996. Revisiting the tracklist: Actually, Disco 4 features the Pet Shop Boys’ remix of “Integral” (a Fundamental track) and their collaboration with Sam Taylor-Wood (“I’m in Love with a German Film Star”), plus remixes they did for The Killers (“Read My Mind”) and Yoko Ono (“Walking on Thin Ice”).

It’s less a PSB album and more a DJ mix of their taste. But that’s the point. Disco 4 shows how deeply the Boys are embedded in dance music culture – not just as stars, but as fans and facilitators. Pet Shop Boys - Disco 1-4 -1986-2007- 4-CD Set

For four decades, Pet Shop Boys have been that second kind of band.

And the closing track, the PSB original “The Resurrectionist,” is a pounding, eerie masterpiece about 19th-century body snatchers. Only Pet Shop Boys. Disco 4 is the odd one out

The Disco series is not for beginners. Start with Actually or Behaviour if you want songs. But once you’ve fallen for Pet Shop Boys, once you understand that their heart beats in 4/4 time, these albums become indispensable.

They are, in the best sense, the sound of letting go. Of trusting the DJ. Of realizing that a remix isn’t a secondary version – sometimes, it’s the definitive one. You get their production for David Bowie (“Hallo

Put the discs in chronological order, and you hear synth-pop turn into house, house turn into electroclash, electroclash turn into 2000s prog-house. But more than that, you hear two constants: Neil Tennant’s voice, always a little detached, always observing; and Chris Lowe’s iron-fisted commitment to the beat.