Pet Shop Boys – Jealousy (UK 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1991

Thank you Josh for your generous donation, and REQUEST.

“Jealousy” is a song originally written in 1982 by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, recorded for their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990). It was released on 27 May 1991 as the album’s fourth and final single. The song reached #12 on the UK singles chart.

Neil Tennant states that “Jealousy” is the first proper song ever composed by the duo. Chris Lowe composed the melody at the piano in his parents’ home and, as he felt it should be a ballad, asked Tennant to write an intense-sounding lyric. Tennant complied by writing a lyric about the simplest form of jealousy: infidelity suspicions aroused by someone’s indifferent or disrespectful attitudes towards another person’s feelings (such as making his/her partner wait all night for a phone call that never comes). The song was then left off three albums because the duo were waiting for legendary film composer Ennio Morricone to agree to score the orchestral arrangement for the song. Morricone’s answer never came, and Harold Faltermeyer ended up doing the arrangement for the song’s release on Behaviour.

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 (Act III, Scene III) over both sequences:

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

The B-side “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 which was recorded in 1988-89.

SIDE A:
Jealousy (Extended Mix) 7:56
Arranged By [Orchestral Arrangement] – Harold Faltermeyer
Engineer – Brian Reeves
Producer – Harold FaltermeyerPet Shop Boys
Recorded By [Orchestra] – Mike Jarret
Written-By – Tennant/Lowe

SIDE B:
Losing My Mind (Disco Mix) 6:08
Engineer – Roy Spong
Producer – Pet Shop Boys
Programmed By [Additional Programming] – Newman
Written-By – Sondheim

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Parlophone – 12r6283, Parlophone – 20 4224 6
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: May 28, 1991
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop, Ballad

CREDITS:

NOTES:
Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
Manufactured in the UK

Buy the 12″ at DISCOGS

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Ignacio
Ignacio
October 1, 2024 1:47 am

Dear DJ Paul. The link no longer allows you to download this wonderful song. How can we download it? Thank you very much in advance for your response. Hugs.

Queertone
Queertone
August 21, 2024 2:08 pm

Fantastic song by legends, who are still doing it today. In fact, I think one of their more recent albums, Super, is among the best in their canon. It would certainly be too difficult for me to pick out a fave album of theirs and much like Depeche Mode, New Order, OMD & others still at it, they have some incredible remixes, 7/12 inch records as well. Thank you as always! xo ~ Queertone

MrP
MrP
August 11, 2024 12:28 am

Prefer the early PSB era when Bobby Orlando had them signed to his label and was responsible for the overall sound and production but this is also one of my favourites. At one point I had in my possession a 10″ dub plate of this release. However, it got lost when I moved house. Thanks for sharing this one.

Marco
Marco
August 9, 2024 7:43 am

It’s always welcome when a PSB is posted on here with such dedication. I was a fan of the 90’s singles aswell as the 80’s output.

I love the cover art for this single too.

Thanks Paul 🙂

Joey
Joey
August 8, 2024 11:57 pm

Such a great single. Also of note, Actually was originally going to be called Jealousy, it was so close that early copies of “It’s a Sin” say “from the forthcoming album ‘Jealousy'”. The 12″ mixes of both songs here are the definitive versions. Losing My Mind is a tarted up demo that they recorded for Liza Minnelli. Their version incorporates the usage of a full load of drum sequencer sounds which create a melody of it’s own, this was originally done on the unreleased song “Bounce” a song that was originally recorded for Introspective and was muted to be the… Read more »

Martika
Martika
August 8, 2024 9:40 pm

I had no idea this song featured orchestration by Harold Faltermeyer! WOW! I also never knew this was an early song written by them before their fame, but it certainly sounds like it could have been on the first album!
Thank you for another amazing vinyl transfer!

DJBD
DJBD
August 8, 2024 3:31 pm

Hi Paul.Thanks for this great Pet Shop Boys post.I’m a big fan of their music.Thank you for all that you do on this blog.If you perhaps have this UK 12” could you kindly post it https://www.discogs.com/release/1479415-Cheyne-Call-Me-Mr-Telephone-Dog-Bone-Mix I know you have posted a US 12”Version previously.Go well.Thanks again.

DJBD
DJBD
Reply to  DjPaulT
August 9, 2024 10:49 am

Hi Paul.Awesome great to hear that.Have a great Friday and Weekend.Thanks again for all your hard work and generosity on this Blog.

martika
martika
August 8, 2024 3:08 pm

One of my all-time goto Pet Shop Boy tracks with Falermayer on the production. Simple love love love it. Thanks for sharing!

ING
ING
August 8, 2024 1:13 pm

Wow! I had no idea the history of this excellent track from my all-time fave PSB album! Very cool info! Now I have to compare versions as I never caught the differences in orchestral parts… oh, & Results is such an awesome record too…PSB with a female vocal!

ING
ING
Reply to  DjPaulT
August 9, 2024 2:34 pm

Agreed, it got the intended “Results” ! 🤓

Vic
Vic
August 8, 2024 10:54 am

The link of 16bit is wrong. Download “Club Noveau – Jealousy” song.

Vic
Vic
Reply to  DjPaulT
August 8, 2024 12:50 pm

Thank you so much Paul 😉

Last edited 3 months ago by Vic
Jeff
Jeff
August 8, 2024 10:42 am

Goosebumps! Goosebumps, Paul!! This is probably my ultimate favorite Pet Shop Boys song!! The first time I heard it, I froze and stopped doing what I was doing and fell deeply into the melody and the production. And the Shakespeare quote was frosting on the synth/orchestral cake!! Josh, thank you very much for you requesting this bit of Heaven! And, Paul, big hug for ripping this in your glorious fidelity!! I am humbled by your magnificence once again!!!

Much love,

Jeff

Jon
Jon
Reply to  Jeff
August 8, 2024 1:59 pm

Ditto! Thank you – this is such gift. Also fantastic to have a hi-res scan of the covers!

Song_and_Dance
Song_and_Dance
August 8, 2024 10:10 am

“Where′ve you been?
Who’ve you seen?
You didn′t phone when you said you would
Do you lie?
Do you try
To keep in touch? You know you could
I’ve tried to see your point of view
But could not hear or see
For jealousy
I never knew ’til I met you”

Pure brilliance. One of my all-time PSB favourites. The song is so sublime imho that I even love the version sung by Mr Robert Peter Williams from the Pet Shop Boys live at the BBC concert. 🙂