"Paninaro" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,^[1] originally a B-side to the 1986 single "Suburbia". In 1995, a re-recording titled "Paninaro '95" was released to a wider market, to promote the duo's B-side compilation album Alternative, though only the original version was included on the compilation.

The song is about the 1980s Italian youth subculture known as the paninari; derived from the word panino, they were known for congregating in restaurants serving sandwiches and in the first US-style fast food restaurants, as well as their preference for designer clothing and 1980s pop music, such as the New Romantic music of Italo disco. Neil Tennant has said that they were drawn to the concept due to having shared those preferences.

The song was released in Italy as a limited edition 12" single, featuring the Pet Shop Boys Remix (Disco album version) and an exclusive remix by Ian Levine who would go on to remix "It's a Sin".

It came to wider attention as the b-side to Suburbia before appearing as an extended mix (aka Pet Shop Boys Remix) on the 1986 remix album Disco. It later appeared on the 1998 compilation album Essential and on the companion disc to the 2001 remastered re-release of their 1986 debut album Please, called Further Listening 1984–1986.

A radical new version was recorded and performed on the Discovery tour of South America in October/November 1994. It first appeared on the 'Discovery: Live in Rio 1994' VHS tape and broadcast on BBC Radio prior to being issued as a single in its own right. This new recording included a rap in the middle of the song, newly written by Lowe; it laments the loss of the "lover" referred to in the pre-existing lyrics. The written lyrics in the final are also changed to "were" rather than "are" in referring to the lost love.

The 1995 version received remixes from Angel Moraes, Tin Tin Out, and Tracy & Sharon. Tom Stephan of Tracy & Sharon would continue to remix for the Pet Shop Boys as his later alias Superchumbo.

The 1995 version is included on the 2003 compilation album PopArt: The Hits the 2001 double-disc reissue of Bilingual and the 2023 "Smash" album.

Music & Media wrote, "Re-released to draw attention to the vital Alternative Pet Shop Boys sampler which contains all the B-sides, this is abundant proof of who's got the best melodies in electro pop."^[3] David Hemingway of Melody Maker picked "Paninaro" as one of the magazine's "single[s] of the week" and called it "perfection". He noted how the original version, a "celebration of Italian Cool Kids", is "reinvented as the most passionately heartbreaking ex-lover song ever".^[4] David Quantick of NME described it as "the great lost Pet Shop B-side".^[5]

• Italian limited-edition 12-inch single (1986)

A. "Paninaro" (Italian Remix) – 8:40

B. "Paninaro" (Ian Levine Mix) – 9:43

• UK CD 1 (1995)

1. "Paninaro '95" (Extended Mix) – 7:30
2. "Paninaro '95" (Tin Tin Out Mix) – 7:47
3. "Paninaro '95" (Tracy's 12' Mix) – 8:30
4. "Paninaro '95" (Sharon's Sexy Boyz Dub) – 5:47
5. "Paninaro '95" (Angel Moraes' Deep Dance Mix) – 10:39

• UK CD 2 (1995)

1. "Paninaro '95" – 4:10
2. "In the Night '95" – 4:24
3. "Girls & Boys" (Pet Shop Boys live in Rio) – 5:04

• UK 12-inch single – The Remixes Part One (1995)

A1. "Paninaro '95" (Tracy's 12″ Mix) – 8:28

A2. "Paninaro '95" (Sharon's Sexy Boyz Dub) – 5:47

B1. "Paninaro '95" (Tin Tin Out Mix) – 7:47

B2. "Paninaro '95" (Pet Shop Boys Extended Mix) – 7:30

• UK 12-inch single – The Remixes Part Two (1995)

A. "Paninaro '95" (Angel Moraes' Deep Dance Mix) – 10:39

B1. "Paninaro '95" (Angel Moraes' Girls Boys in Dub) – 11:57

B2. "Paninaro '95" (Angel Moraes' The Hot N Spycy Dub) – 9:35