Album · 1996
Bilingual
Bilingual is a 1996 house album by Pet Shop Boys. It runs 12 tracks across 54 minutes on Parlophone. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.3/5 from 6 ratings.
House · Synthpop · Electronic
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- 4.3 /5
- 6 ratings
- 74 /100
- 9 critics
- 12
- Tracks
- 54 min
- Runtime
- 122 bpm
- Tempo
- C minor
- Key
Ratings
6 ratings · avg 4.3
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Critics
9 publications
- The Village VoiceA−
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- Spin8/10
- NME8/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5
- Rolling Stone3.5/5
- The Guardian3/5
- AllMusic3/5
- Pitchfork5.9/10
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Bilingual album cover

The Bilingual cover was photographed by Chris Heath and José Cea.
- Photography
- Chris Heath, José Cea
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Tracklist
12 tracks · 54 min
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Every pressing below shares this page's rating and reviews — they are the same record.
Bilingual (2018 Remaster)Remaster · 1996 · 12 tracks
- 1Discoteca (2018 Remaster)
- 2Single (2018 Remaster)
- 3Metamorphosis (2018 Remaster)
- 4Electricity (2018 Remaster)
- 5Se a vida é (that’s the way life is) (2018 Remaster)
- 6It Always Comes as a Surprise (2018 Remaster)
- 7A Red Letter Day (2018 Remaster)
- 8Up Against It (2018 Remaster)
- 9The Survivors (2018 Remaster)
- 10Before (2018 Remaster)
- 11To Step Aside (2018 Remaster)
- 12Saturday Night Forever (2018 Remaster)
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About
Bilingual is the tenth album (sixth containing original material) by the English dance music group Pet Shop Boys. It has sold about 1,000,000 albums world-wide.
In brief
- Is Bilingual good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Bilingual 4.3/5 from 6 ratings.
- When was Bilingual released?
- Bilingual was released in 1996 on Parlophone.
- How many tracks are on Bilingual?
- Bilingual has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 54 minutes.
- What genre is Bilingual?
- Bilingual is catalogued under House, Synthpop, Electronic.
- What BPM is Bilingual?
- Bilingual runs at a median tempo of 122 BPM across its tracks, most often in C minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Bilingual?
- Listeners of Bilingual also rate The Innocents by Erasure, The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 (Deluxe) by Depeche Mode, The Singles 86>98 by Depeche Mode.







