Pet Shop Boys: PopArt

This comprehensive music video collection, which assembles 41 promo clips from the British synth pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, was released in conjunction with a two-disc greatest-hits collection of the same name. Spanning the years 1985 to 2002, PopArt includes 37 original videos, plus alternate ...more

Although the CD version of this collection separates their hits into two discs -- "Pop" and "Art" -- the Pet Shop Boys have always been unabashedly pop. From their mid-'80s glory years injecting satire and political commentary into hugely successful Euro-disco ditties to their later status as hopeful elegists of the AIDS generation, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have relished both the absurdities and the advantages of the MTV era's star-making machinery. Coming, as it does, after many previous ...more