Alternative (album)
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| Compilation album by Pet Shop Boys | ||||
| Released | August 7, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1986-1994 | |||
| Genre | Technopop | |||
| Length | 134:12 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | Pet Shop Boys | |||
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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-sides in chronological order. The title Alternative was a last minute change from the title that had been long saved for such an album, Besides, but that title was taken by rock band Sugar, who released their own B-sides compilation two months prior.
Alternative only really gained popularity among devoted fans of Pet Shop Boys with the exception of the UK where it entered the charts at #2. A remake of the original 7-inch Paninaro entitled Paninaro '95 was released as a single (which was featured in the later PopArt set) in order to promote the 2-disc compilation.
The cover of Alternative features photographs of Tennant and Lowe in fencing masks. The first copies of the CD have a lenticular image on the cover which shifts between the two photographs.
Neil Tennant admitted in a radio interview with Absolute radio that a second b-side album may be released in 2010
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Disc one
- "In the night" – 4:50
- "A man could get arrested" (Bobby Orlando version) – 4:19
- "That's my impression" (Disco mix) – 5:15
- "Was that what it was?" – 5:15
- "Paninaro" – 4:40
- "Jack the lad" – 4:32
- "You know where you went wrong" – 5:52
- "A new life" – 4:56
- "I want a dog" – 4:59
- "Do I have to?" – 5:14
- "I get excited (You get excited too)" – 4:55
- "Don Juan" – 3:55
- "The sound of the atom splitting" (extended version) – 5:13
- "One of the crowd" – 3:57
- "Your funny uncle" – 2:15
[edit] Disc two
- "It must be obvious" – 4:34
- "We all feel better in the dark" – 4:00
- "Bet she's not your girlfriend" – 4:29
- "Losing my mind" – 4:34
- "Music for boys" – 3:36
- "Miserablism" – 4:11
- "Hey, headmaster" – 3:07
- "What keeps mankind alive?" – 3:24
- "Shameless" – 5:03
- "Too many people" – 4:17
- "Violence" (Hacienda version) – 4:59
- "Decadence" – 3:57
- "If love were all" – 2:59
- "Euroboy" – 4:28
- "Some speculation" – 6:35[1]
[edit] Personnel
- Producers
- Pet Shop Boys - All Tracks except Disc 1: Track 13
- Phil Harding - Disc 1: Track 1
- Bobby O - Disc 1: Track 2
- Shep Pettibone - Disc 1: Track 7, Additional Production on Disc 1: Track 4
- David Jacob - Disc 1: Track 8
- Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson - Disc 1: Track 13
- Harold Faltermeyer - Disc 2: Track 6
- Stephen Hague - Additional Production on Disc 2: Tracks 7 & 9
- Jonathon Ruffle - Disc 2: Track 8
- Richard Niles - Disc 2: Track 13
- Guest musicians
- Blue Weaver - Fairlight Programming on Disc 1: Tracks 1 & 11, Hammond Organ on Disc 1: Track 11
- Adrien Cook - Fairlight Programming on Disc 1: Tracks 5, 6 & 7
- Helena Springs - Additional Vocals on Disc 1: Track 7
- Stephen Lipson - Guitar on Disc 1: Track 11
- Shirley Lewis & Dee Lewis - Additional Vocals on Disc 1: Track 11
- Chris Newman - Assistant Fairlight Programming on Disc 1: Track 12, Additional programming on Disc 2: Track 4
- Juliet Roberts - Additional Vocals on Disc 2: Track 2
- Dominic Clarke - Programming on Disc 2: Tracks 2 & 3
- Gary Maughan - Additional Keyboards on Disc 2: Track 3
- Scott Davidson - Programming on Disc 2: Track 5
- Harold Faltermeyer - Programming on Disc 2: Track 6
- Pete Gleadall - Programming on Disc 2: Tracks 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 & 15
- Richard Coles - Additional Keyboards on Disc 2: Track 8
- Carol Kenyon, Katie Kissoon & Tessa Niles - Additional Vocals on Disc 2: Track 9
- Bruce Woolley - Additional Vocals on Disc 2: Track 10
- J.J. Belle - Guitar on Disc 2: Track 11
- Sylvia Mason-James - Additional Vocals on Disc 2: Track 11
- Johnny Marr - Guitar on Disc 2: Track 12
- Frank Ricotti - Percussion & Vibraphone on Disc 2: Track 12
- Richard Niles - String Arrangement & Conduction on Disc 2: Track 12, Arrangement & Conduction on Disc 2: Track 13
- Tony Walthers, Daniel Gaha & Lance Ellington - Backing Vocals on Disc 2: Track 13
- Gerard Presencer - Trumpet Solo on Disc 2: Track 13
[edit] References
- ^ "Pet Shop Boys discography". http://www.psb-discography.com/. Retrieved 2007-10-01.
