This cute reissue of all the Pet Shop Boys albums, repackaged with miniatures of the original sleeves in a little box, is low-priced enough for those with only the Discography collection to go shopping for the duo's first three albums. Here,

lacking the sideways leaps and deftness of the Disco and Introspective collections, the consistent genius of the Pet Shop Boys as an album band is seen in a big long thread. There's 1986's Pleases occasional forays into oddly emotive gay disco like I Want A Lover and Why Don't We Live Together? as well as your West End Girls and Love Comes Quickly.

Actually (1987) introduces cool certainty and tidy epics like King's Cross, It Couldn't Happen Here and the wonderful Rent, surely the ultimate Pet Shop Boys song.

Behavior (1990) is their Pink Floyd album, songs about childhood and the Russian revolution sitting next to the fantastic humor of So Hard and the lump-in-the-throat classic Being Boring (the other ultimate Pet Shops Boys song).