- 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 andHarold 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 bandDubstar , and was sung byRobbie Williams at the 2006 Pet Shop Boys'BBC Radio 2 concert at theMermaid 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
orchestra loutro . 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 fromWilliam 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 forEMI 'scentennial 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 Boystribute 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 theLiza 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
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