Pet Shop Boys - Please [Bonus CD]

Pet Shop Boys' 2001 expanded-edition reissue campaign is a model example of how to execute deluxe reissues, and the very first in the six-disc series, their debut album Please, is perhaps the finest example of why. In addition to the remastered album on the first disc, there's a second disc of rare material -- or further listening, as its called here -- including non-LP B-sides, extended mixes, previously unreleased mixes, and three cuts that never have appeared on CD before. None of the very rare tracks are revelatory and the very best of the B-sides ("Jack the Lad," "Paninaro," "In the Night," and "Was That What It WasNULL") appeared on the exemplary B-sides collection Alternative (something that is true of every disc in this series, up until Very), but it's all interesting to the devoted. Read More