Obscure Alternatives

Obscure Alternatives
Studio album by Japan
Released	October 1978
Recorded	1978
Genre	New Wave, post-punk, glam rock
Length	41:23
Label	Hansa Records
Producer	Ray Singer
Japan chronology
Adolescent Sex (1978) Obscure Alternatives (1978) Quiet Life (1979)

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Obscure Alternatives is the second album by English band Japan, released in October 1978, the follow-up to their debut album Adolescent Sex from seven months earlier. Lead singer David Sylvian has gone on record saying that this should have been their debut album^{[citation needed]}. The final track, "The Tenant", a piano based instrumental, was the first notable shift towards the direction their later material would take.

Track listing

All songs written by David Sylvian.

Side A:

1. "Automatic Gun" – 4:07
2. "…Rhodesia" – 6:48
3. "Love is Infectious" – 4:10
4. "Sometimes I Feel So Low" – 3:46

Side B

1. "Obscure Alternatives" – 6:50
2. "Deviation" – 3:23
3. "Suburban Berlin" – 4:59
4. "The Tenant" – 7:14

Bonus tracks 2004 remastered CD version

9. "Deviation" (Live) - 3:20
10. "Obscure Alternatives" (Live) - 6:05
11. "In Vogue" (Live) - 6:12
12. "Sometimes I Feel So Low" (Live) - 4:06

• Also includes the video for "Sometimes I Feel So Low."

Singles

1. "Sometimes I Feel So Low"
2. "Deviation"

Personnel

• David Sylvian - vocals, guitar
• Steve Jansen - percussion, vocals
• Mick Karn - bass, saxophone, vocals
• Rob Dean - guitar, vocals
• Richard Barbieri - synthesizer, keyboards
• Chris Tsangarides - engineer