Horn Sections Make Rock Better: Se A vida é (That’s the way life is)

You can trace all of post-disco dance music through the music of Pet Shop Boys.

Bilingual is the group’s phenomenal 1990s album combining dance music with its old friend, Latin music. There is a sample, for instance, of the classic Getz/Gilberto album in there.

They’ve covered this ground in the 1980s, with “Domino Dancing,” for instance.

But they’ve never done it as exuberantly happy as this.

Pet Shop Boys: “Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)”