Pet Shop Boys – Yes / Further Listening 2008–2010

The album remastering is better than original. More peaks, less compression. Little, but an improvement. Audibly almost no difference though. The packaging is absolute great: thick brochure and a 3 CD jewel case. The only criticism I would put into this is that, as it happens with the Further Listening series, the Bonuses always feature something I was not looking for: for example, there are silly short demos that can't be used even as a b-side and "Leaving", in its demo version, sounds just like the 2012 Leaving album version. So you may question Chris and Neil's picks on these tracks. I expected a lot the two great b-sides "The former enfant terrible" and "After the event" to be in this Further Listening set (after all, they were released in the "Did you see me coming" singles series), but it happens that Pet Shop Boys placed these tracks in the Fundamental reissue (just because they are older dated) - and I find no reason to acquire Fundamental because the original has a better mastering than the 2017 reissue. Solution: Format will be my choice to get those two b-sides because not only they are better remastered in Format, but the remastering is superior to Fundamental reissue and also superior to Did You See Me Coming singles. Another downer was that the incredible Dubs made in "Yes Etc", could be inserted here, but instead the band chose boring remixes and more demos into this. I will have to hunt down the Dubs myself by acquiring, "Yes Etc.", or supposedly re-acquiring the album and one duplicate track (This used to be the future). Indeed, Pet Shop Boys, "let's make lots of money".