Since their eyes first met in that electronics shop in Chelsea back in 1982, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have consistently purveyed peerless synth pop. From the peculiar rapping on ‘West End Girls’, to the overblown theatrics of ‘It’s A Sin’, the Pet Shop Boys have always succeeded in both creating groundbreaking music and achieving phenomenal mainstream success. Gathering together their greatest moments, Ultimate is the essential compendium of one of Britain’s most flamboyant bands. And, if only for unwittingly transforming a Village People anthem into a football terrace chant heard throughout the land, they more than warrant the title of “national treasures.”