Jealousy (Pet Shop Boys song)
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| "Jealousy" | ||
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| Single by Pet Shop Boys | ||
| from the album Behaviour | ||
| B-side(s) | "Losing My Mind" | |
| Released | May 28, 1991 | |
| Format | 7", 12", cassette, CD single | |
| Genre | Synthpop | |
| Length | 4:17 (7") 7:54 (extended mix) |
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| Label | Parlophone / EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe | |
| Producer(s) | Pet Shop Boys and Harold Faltermeyer | |
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| Pet Shop Boys singles chronology | ||
| "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" (1991) |
"Jealousy" (1991) |
"DJ Culture" (1991) |
"Jealousy" is a song written 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.
[edit] Versions
The album version, coming at the end of Behaviour, closed off the album with a sampler-based orchestral outro. The single version is identical to the album version, except for the substitution of a real orchestra. 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:
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)
Dubstar's version, recorded for a covers album produced for EMI's centennial anniversary, 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.
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