Please

by

Pet Shop Boys

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I already owned Please on CD, but when it was reissued as a remastered 2-disc set, I didn't hesitate to purchase it again. The remaster of the original disc (disc 1) sounds great and you can hear great details, such as the clicking heels at the beginning of West End Girls.

Disc 2 consists of remixes and b-sides from that era (1984-1986). Highlights include the two songs released on the Disco EP - In the Night and Paninaro, as well as the dance remix of West End Girls. The full version of Opportunities is also included here, which includes the infamous spoken word ending (All the love we had/ and the love that we hide/ Who will bury us/ when we die). Yes, it's pretentious, but typical Pet Shop Boys!

Best of all is the 36 page booklet. It includes numerous pictures from that era, all song lyrics, and comments from the PSB themselves about the CD as a whole as well as each song. You get all kinds of fascinating tidbits, such as Chris' suggestion that Opportunties (Reprise) is the best track on Please! This collection is a bit pricey if you already own the original Please, but it is an essential for any PSB fan.

Referring to the MP3 downloaded version of this. I didn't download this whole thing, but I did get Opportunities-Original 12" Mix... and it skips! About 1:42-1:43 into it. It's like listening to a defective record (for all you youngsters out there who don't know what that is, records were the form of media that we old folks had to put up with before CD's came along (and for you even younger kids, CD's were what we had to put up with before MP3's came along)). Anyway, Amazon very kindly refunded the purchase amount. But I would have preferred a non-defective version.