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Record Details

Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Title: PopArt (The Hits)
Format: 3xCD
Label: Parlophone
Cat No: 07243 595678 2 2
Released: 24 Nov 2003
Country:
Genres: HouseProgressive TranceProgressive HouseElectroDowntempoSynth-pop
Status Have
Added To List 27th March 2023
Disc 1 | CD
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Disc 2 | CD
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Disc 3 | CD
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Additional Information

Comments Box front:
White hype sticker: "Special Limited Edition Triple CD features 45 remastered tracks including: West End girls, It's a sin, What have I done to deserve this?, Opportunities (Let's make lots of money), Se a vide é, Go West plus 2 new songs, Miracles and Flamboyant. Includes bonus 10 track remixes CD: Mix. PSB 02"
'Copy Controlled' round transparent sticker.

Spot varnished/foiled cardboard clamshell box.
3 card sleeves: 'Pop' title spot varnished, 'Art' spot debossed & foiled, 'Mix' debossed.
16-page 2-sided fold-out 'PopArtMix' insert: artwork, track credits, release credits

1-2: Mix reference missing on rear box but is mentioned in the booklet.
1-6: Lacks the remix credit in the booklet - version based on the Beastmasters 7" mix, however it is not exactly the same.
1-8: Album version, although a single mix exists.
1-14: Edit of 'US Radio Edit', not mentioned on the release.
1-16: "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" writer credits are missing.
2-15: Album version, although a single mix exists.
1-9, 2-3: New track.

CD3: No actual remix credits appear, credits from the first two discs are simply repeated. Credits here are taken from other releases.
3-3 appears as 'Disco Mix' on 1987 releases (and is not the same as 'Shep Pettibone Remix').
3-6 is mislabeled as 'Danny Tenaglia Classic Paradise Mix', but the mix ('Classic Paradise Mix') is by Love To Infinity, not Tenaglia.
3-7 is labeled as 'Peter Rauhoffer New York Mix' on reverse and as 'Peter Rauhoffer Mix' in booklet.

No durations appear on the release.

CD1 and CD2 have "Promo only. Not for resale." mentioned on the discs.

Printed on box bottom edge:
℗ 2003 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by PSBP Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd. © 2003 PSBP Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd. This compilation and sleeve notes © 2003 PSBP Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd. Place of manufacture as stated on label. Manufactured and distributed by EMI.
Printed in the EU

Printed on discs:
Made in the EU.

Printed in booklet:
Audio remastered at Metropolis.

1-1: Published by Leosong Copyright Service Ltd.
1-2, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 1-11, 1-12, 1-13, 1-17, 2-1 to 2-16: Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd.
1-3: Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd/Warner Chappell Music Ltd/Edicoes Musicals Ltd.
1-4: Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd/MCA Music Ltd.
1-5: Screen Gems - EMI Music Ltd/Chelsea Music Co Publishing Ltd.
1-9: Warner Chappell Music Ltd/Edicoes Musicals Ltd/Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd.
1-10: Charisma Music Publishing Ltd/Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd.
1-14: Cage Music Ltd/Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd/Def Mix Music adm by EMI Publishing (ASCAP)
1-15: Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
1-16: Published by Universal/Island Music Ltd.
2-18: Published by Campbell Connelly Ltd.

1-9: Produced, engineered and mixed for Adam F Productions. Additional production/mix for Z Management.
1-14: Produced for Def Mix Productions. Strings and horns engineered at The Studio, Philadelphia.
1-17: Additional production for FX Music Ltd. Choir recorded at The State House of Broadcasting and Sound Recording, Moscow.
2-1: Produced for Def Mix Productions. Mixed (Z Management).
2-3: Remix and additional production at Daylight Studios, Stuttgart 2003.
2-12: Orchestra contractor: Isobel Griffiths Ltd.

European editions exported to Malaysia feature three additional stickers: Malaysian government hologram ("Tulen KPDN & HEP Original"), and "Imported EMI" on front, and a small "Diiimport oleh: EMI (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd" sticker on the reverse.

CD1 variants 1 and 5 carry a former EMI Swindon mould code although the plant was closed in 2002.
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