Megamix [Single, Import]

Pet Shop Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 16, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Zyx Records
• ASIN: B000A5DTJY
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #470,058 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One More Chance (Original)

2. Sunglasses At Night/West End (Original)

3. West End Girls (Original)

4. Original Giga Mix

5. West End Girls (Remix 05)

6. Pet Shop Boys (Remix 05)

7. Sunglasses At Night/West End (Remix 05)

8. One More Chance (Remix 05)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As usual a PSB entry, October 29, 2005

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H. Baki (Salem's lot, trying to survive) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Megamix (Audio CD)

is good but how come did its price soar to 33$ while I bought it at 11$ one month ago by placing a pre-order? It was already an import then and an import now. Has it become so popular that the price tripled? I don't think so...Then who is pocketing the 20-odd dollars now? Strange...

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One for the collectors, pt. 2, October 26, 2005

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FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Megamix (Audio CD)

When the Pet Shop Boys were first starting out, they were helped along by Bobby Orlando, a producer of Hi-Energy music on the New York scene. Bobby O was also producer for Corey Hart, who had the single 'Sunglasses at Night', a very popular hit also in the 1980s. That explains the combination of the two songs, together with a strange track entitled 'Pet Shop Boys' and a remix of a song from their second album, 'One More Chance'. These songs are obviously ones to which Bobby O retained rights over - the production values for all of these songs are very different from standard Pet Shop Boys issue, and the general remix is one that is more reminiscent of one done for a club than for release as a single.

The fact that this has four CDs in a double-CD case when in fact all the music would easily fit on one CD also smacks of a ploy to max the marketing potential - adding up all the music on these four CDs amounts to under 40 minutes of music. That's not 40 minutes per CD, mind you, that's 40 minutes total. (Do the math for the per-minute charge for the music given the cost of this piece.)

Unless you are the most die-hard collector of PSB memorabilia, this can be safely missed. The packaging claims to have a biography included - this is true, but it is a one-page piece of trivia points about the Pet Shop Boys (there is an English and German translation of the page).

There is a similar disc, Pet Shop Boys 'Maxi' that was released in the late 1980s, at the height of the PSB popularity. This is virtually identical; what remixing there is was very minor.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pet Shop Boys - Megamix, November 17, 2005

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L. chin Jui "Jedi" (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Megamix (Audio CD)

Too expensive! Keep repeating the same songs with boring mixes. Only die hard fans would buy it.