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 . The final track, "The Tenant", a piano based instrumental, was the first notable shift towards the direction their later material would take.

Contents

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

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

Singles

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

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Hanson, Amy (2011 [last update]). "Obscure Alternatives - Japan | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r10234. Retrieved 3 August 2011. 
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