Jealousy (Pet Shop Boys song)

Infobox Single |
Name = Jealousy


Artist = Pet Shop Boys
from Album = Behaviour
B-side = "Losing My Mind"
Released = May 28, 1991
Format = 7", 12", cassette, CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 4:17 (7")
7:54 (extended mix)
Label = Parlophone / EMI
Writer = Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
Producer = Pet Shop Boys and Harold Faltermeyer
Last single = "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) / How can you expect to be taken seriously?"
(1991)
This single = "Jealousy"
(1991)
Next single = "DJ Culture"
(1991)

"Jealousy" is a song originally written in 1982 by the Pet Shop Boys, recorded for their 1990 album "Behaviour". In 1991, it was released in a slightly remixed form as a single, which appears on both Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits albums. It has also been covered by the British band Dubstar, and was sung by Robbie Williams at the 2006 Pet Shop Boys' BBC Radio 2 concert at the Mermaid Theatre, a recording of which was released on the Pet Shop Boys' live album "Concrete".

Versions

The album version, coming at the end of "Behaviour", closed off the album with a sampler-based orchestral outro. The single version is slightly remixed, and uses a real orchestra instead during the outro. The extended version of the single version lengthens the outro while adding an orchestral intro as well; in addition, Neil Tennant recites a quote from William Shakespeare's "Othello" over both sequences:

quotation|Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.

Iago|Othello (Act III, Scene III)

The extended version is also the arrangement performed live with Robbie Williams.

Dubstar's version, recorded for a covers album produced for EMI's centennial anniversary, is more sparsely arranged and comes to a full stop, with no additional instrumentation, with the last word of the lyrics.

"Jealousy" is also one of the songs covered on "Goes Petshopping", the debut album by Pet Shop Boys tribute band West End Girls.

ingle release

"Losing My Mind", taken from the Stephen Sondheim musical "Follies", was based on a demo originally recorded as a proposal for the Liza Minnelli album "Results". Its release here follows the releases of Minnelli's version on both "Results" and as the lead single from the album. As with the A-side, "Losing My Mind" was released in an extended mix (the "Disco mix") on the 12-inch single.

Track listing

7": Parlophone / R 6283 (UK)

# "Jealousy" (7" version) (4:16)
# "Losing my mind" (7" Version) (4:34)

CD: Parlophone / CD R 6283 (UK)

# "Jealousy" (7" version) (4:16)
# "Losing My Mind" (Disco Mix) (6:07)
# "Jealousy" (Extended Mix) (7:54)

CD: Parlophone / CDRS 6283 (UK)

# "Jealousy" (Extended Mix) (7:54)
# "This must be the place I waited years to leave" (Extended Mix) (7:24)
# "So hard" (Eclipse Mix) (4:02)

* Limited edition in digipak

12": Parlophone / 12 R 6283 (UK)

# "Jealousy" (Extended Mix) - 7:54
# "Losing my mind" (Disco Mix) - 6:08