On August 7, 1995 an album of Pet Shop Boys B‑sides was released. It is called Alternative (a last minute change from the title which had always been saved for this record: Besides). It contains thirty songs in chronological order from “In the night” to “Some speculation”, and the first copies of the CD and album have a hologram on the cover which shifts between two photographs, one of Neil, one of Chris, both in fencing masks. “They’re some of our favourite songs,” Neil explains, “and it just seemed like a nice idea to have them in one place.”