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  Type Compilation Album
  Artist Pet Shop Boys
  Cover PetShopBoysAlternativejpg
  Released August 7 , 1995
  Recorded 1986-1994
  Genre Techno Pop
  Length 134:12
  Label Parlophone
  Producer Pet Shop Boys
  Chart Position #2 <small>(UK)</small>
  Last Album '' Disco 2 '' <br /> (1994)
  This Album '''''Alternative''''' <br /> (1995)
  Next Album '' Bilingual '' <br /> (1996)


''Alternative'' is the ninth Album by UK Electronic Music duo Pet Shop Boys . It was first released in 1995.

''Alternative'' is a 2-disc set, consisting of 30 B-side s in chronological order. The title ''Alternative'' was a last minute change from the title that had been long saved for such an album, ''Besides''. That title would have perhaps been more fitting with the names of Pet Shop Boys' earlier albums, a few others of which are named with a single adverb ('' Please '', '' Actually '', and '' Very '').

''Alternative'' only really gained popularity among devoted fans of Pet Shop Boys with the exception of the '' set) in order to promote the 2-disc compilation.

The cover of ''Alternative'' features photographs of Neil and Chris in Fencing masks. The first copies of the CD have a Lenticular image on the cover which shifts between the two photographs.


TRACK LISTING


Disc one

# "In the night"
# "A man could get arrested" (Alternative version)
# "That's my impression" (Disco mix)
# "Was that what it was?"
# "Paninaro"
# "Jack the lad"
# "You know where you went wrong"
# "A new life"
# "I want a dog"
# "Do I have to?"
# "I get excited (You get excited too)"
# "Don Juan"
# "The sound of the atom splitting"
# "One of the crowd"
# "Your funny uncle"


Disc two

# "It must be obvious"
# "We all feel better in the dark"
# "Bet she's not your girlfriend"
# "Losing my mind"
# "Music for boys"
# "Miserablism"
# "Hey, headmaster"
# "What keeps mankind alive?"
# "Shameless"
# "Too many people"
# "Violence" (Hacienda version)
# "Decadence"
# "If love were all"
# "Euroboy"
# "Some speculation"