Introspective (album)

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Template:Album infobox Introspective is the fourth album, the third of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1988.

Introspective is a dance album, like Disco, but the songs are new album tracks or extended versions of released singles from the period. It is so named because "all the songs, although it's a dance album, are introspective". Perhaps the biggest changes in Pet Shop Boys' sound evident on this album are an increasing attention to orchestration using real orchestras, particularly so on the Trevor Horn-produced "Left to my own devices" which took months to produce.

Introspective was rereleased in 2001 (as were most of the group's albums up to that point) as Instrospective/Further Listening 1988-1989. The rereleased version was digitally remastered and came with a second disc of B-sides and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release.

Track listing

1. "Left to my own devices" (8:17)
2. "I want a dog" (6:16)
3. "Domino dancing" (7:40)
4. "I'm not scared" (7:25)
5. "Always on my mind/In my house" (9:04)
6. "It's alright" (9:26)

Further Listening 1988-1989

1. "I get excited (you get excited too)" (5:35)
2. "Don Juan (demo version)" (4:22)
3. "Domino dancing (demo version)" (4:47)
4. "Domino dancing (alternative version)" (4:52)
5. "The sound of the atom splitting" (5:13)
6. "What keeps mankind alive?" (3:26)
7. "Don Juan (disco mix)" (7:35)
8. "Losing my mind (disco mix)" (6:09)
9. "Nothing has been proved (demo for Dusty)" (4:51)
10. "So sorry, I said (demo for Liza)" (3:26)
11. "Left to my own devices (7" mix)" (4:47)
12. "It's alright (alternative version)" (4:47)
13. "One of the crowd" (3:56)
14. "It's alright (7" version)" (4:20)
15. "Your funny uncle" (2:18)

Both "I get excited (you get excited too)" and "The sound of the atom splitting" on the Further Listening CD are extended versions, even though it hasn't been mentioned in the CD tracklisting.