Discography: The Complete Singles Collection is the first greatest hits album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 4 November 1991 by Parlophone.

Composition Discography collects all of the singles released by Pet Shop Boys up to 1991 except for "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" 16 of the 18 tracks were singles, while the last two tracks ("DJ Culture" and "Was It Worth It?") are new songs recorded exclusively for this compilation. Discography also contains a non-album single: the duo's cover version of U2's song "Where the Streets Have No Name", which later in the song breaks into the chorus of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You". Although many of the album's songs were released in other forms, this compilation only features the seven-inch single versions.

Pet Shop Boys also released a companion video compilation, Videography, consisting of the music videos for each of the songs on Discography, arranged in a slightly different order. Additionally, the song "Was It Worth It?" was replaced with "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", which was not on the audio version of the album, despite being a double A-side with "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (the exclusion being due to the constrictions of the CD's running time).

Critical reception

Upon its release, Andrew Collins of NME praised the compilation as "sublime and clever pop music" and added that you "don't have to despise rock music in order to love it". He added, "These songs are rooted in a distinctly bourgeois variety of urban angst but just think how closer it all is to your life than 'Vienna' and all that New Romantic nonsense to which the PSBs are so clearly indebted." Simon Price of Melody Maker summarised, "Somehow the lush symphonic sweep of these singles seems deeply cinematic. Every song is a full-scale Panavision epic whose recurrent moods are regret, nostalgia, and above all, jealousy. If you want near-faultless shimmering, shuddering disco melodrama, nobody does it better."

Track listing

Notes signifies an original producer signifies a remixer signifies an additional producer signifies an associate producer Tracks 1–4 are taken from Please (1986). Tracks 5–7 and 9 are taken from Actually (1987). Tracks 10–12 are taken from Introspective (1988). Tracks 13, 14 and 16 are taken from Behaviour (1990). Tracks 8 and 15 are non-album singles. Tracks 17 and 18 are previously unreleased.

Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Discography: The Complete Singles Collection.

Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant Chris Lowe

Technical

Stephen Hague – production ; remix ; additional production ; mixing David Jacob – engineering ; original track production J. J. Jeczalik – original recording production Nicholas Froome – original recording production Ron Dean Miller – New York overdubs Julian Mendelsohn – production ; engineering ; mixing Pet Shop Boys – production ; original track production ; associate production Andy Richards – production Tony Phillips – engineering Lewis A. Martineé – production, engineering Mike Couzzi – engineering Trevor Horn – production Stephen Lipson – production, engineering Pete Schwier – engineering Harold Faltermeyer – production Brian Reeves – engineering Bob Kraushaar – engineering Ren Swan – engineering Brothers in Rhythm – production Paul Wright – engineering ; mixing Nick Webb – mastering

Artwork Mark Farrow – design Rob Petrie – design 3a – design PSB – design Eric Watson – main photographs, other photographs Peter Andreas – other photographs Michael Roberts – other photographs Douglas Brothers – other photographs Lawrence Watson – other photographs

Charts

Weekly charts + 1991–1992 weekly chart performance for Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Chart (1991–1992) Peakposition Belgian Albums (IFPI) 4 European Albums (Music & Media) 12 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 4 Greek Albums (IFPI) 10 Irish Albums (IFPI) 4 Japanese Albums (Oricon) 29 Spanish Albums (AFYVE) 28

+ 2025 weekly chart performance for Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Chart (2025) Peakposition Croatian International Albums (HDU) 11

Year-end charts + 1991 year-end chart performance for Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Chart (1991) Position UK Albums (OCC) 36

+ 1992 year-end chart performance for Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Chart (1992) Position European Albums (Music & Media) 80 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 82

Certifications

References

External links Discography: The Complete Singles Collection at PetShopBoys.co.uk