Behaviour (album)

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Behaviour
Behaviour cover
Studio album by Pet Shop Boys
Released October 22, 1990
Recorded  ?
Genre Pop
Length 48:52
Label Parlophone
Producer(s) Pet Shop Boys
Harold Faltermeyer
Professional reviews
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Introspective
(1988)		 Behaviour
[1990)		 Discography
(1991)


Behaviour is the fifth album, the fourth of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1990. It was also released in Japan with an additional CD3.

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[edit] History

Although a popular album among fans, in the context of Pet Shop Boys' other albums, Behaviour does not seem to fit. Embarking on the recording for the album they plumbed for Harold Faltermeyer to helm the production duties at his studio "Red Deer" in Munich, Germany. The Pet Shop Boys wanted to use analog synthesizers for this album as they were a bit cheesed off with digital synthesizers and samples at the time. And Harold Faltermeyer was the obvious choice as he happened to be an expert on analog equipment. Thus, it is stylistically similar to neither the previous album, Introspective, nor the 1993 follow-up Very. Some of the songs seem to abandon the synthpop genre altogether; the guitar pop ballads "This must be the place I waited years to leave" and "My October symphony", which featured guitarist Johnny Marr, were a feat that Pet Shop Boys would not repeat until 2002 when Marr again joined them for the album Release. Later, singer Neil Tennant would reflect on the different style of Behaviour, "It was more reflective and more musical-sounding, and also it probably didn't have irritatingly crass ideas in it, like our songs often do".

Behaviour was rereleased in 2001 (as were most of the group's albums up to that point) as Behaviour/Further Listening 1990-1991. The rereleased version was not only digitally remastered but came with a second disc of B-sides and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release, including the song "Miserablism" which was on the original album listing until the day it was sent for mastering - it later became the b-side for "Was it worth it?", and was remixed by Moby for the 12" (this mix was later made available again on the limited edition of Pop Art: Pet Shop Boys - The Hits).

The second disc also featured versions of "DJ Culture" and "Was it worth it?", the two singles that were recorded for the Pet Shop Boys' first greatest hits package, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection, which came out a year after Behaviour was released. The track "Music for boys" was originally the b-side to "DJ Culture", although the Ambient Mix found here was originally credited as "Music for boys Part 2" on the single (the original "Music for boys" can be found on the b-sides album Alternative).

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original Album

  1. "Being boring"
  2. "This must be the place I waited years to leave"
  3. "To face the truth"
  4. "How can you expect to be taken seriously?"
  5. "Only the wind"
  6. "My October symphony"
  7. "So hard"
  8. "Nervously"
  9. "The end of the world"
  10. "Jealousy"

[edit] Japanese Bonus Disc

  1. "Bet she's not your girlfriend"
  2. "Miserablism"
  3. "This must be the place I waited years to leave [Extended mix]"

[edit] Further Listening 1990-1991

  1. "It must be obvious"
  2. "So hard [Extended dance mix]"
  3. "Miserablism"
  4. "Being boring [Extended mix]"
  5. "Bet she's not your girlfriend"
  6. "We all feel better in the dark [Extended mix]"
  7. "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you) [Extended mix]"
  8. "Jealousy" [Extended version]"
  9. "Generic jingle"
  10. "DJ culture [Extended mix]"
  11. "Was it worth it? [Twelve-inch mix]"
  12. "Music for boys [Ambient mix]"
  13. "DJ culture [Seven-inch mix]"

[edit] Singles

  • "So hard" (R 6269 - Sep 1990)

The video was directed by Eric Watson. The b-side was "It must be obvious", with the USA release also featuring the Italian Mix of "Paninaro", which was originally released on Disco. Remixes were by the Pet Shop Boys themselves, the KLF and David Morales. The KLF also remixed "It must be obvious", which was only available on The KLF versus Pet Shop Boys CD and 12" of the single.

The video was directed by Bruce Weber. The b-side was "We all feel better in the dark". There were Pet Shop Boys Extended Mixes of both a-side and b-side, and there was a remix of "Being Boring" by Marshall Jefferson and two remixes of the b-side by Brothers in Rhythm on a limited edition 12" and CD of the single.

  • "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" (E2-56205 - 1991) [US ONLY]

The video was directed by Liam Kan. The single was was radically remixed from the album version by Brothers in Rhythm, and this become the version on the double a-side released in the UK with "Where the street have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)". This US release featured the Techno Funk mix of "I want a dog", the Marshall Jefferson remix of "Being Boring" and the Trevor Horn 7" mix of "It's alright". There were also remixes by David Morales, which were released on a limited edition 12" and CD. The single mix was not featured on either of the Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits albums (Discography: The Complete Singles Collection and Pop Art: Pet Shop Boys - The Hits).

The videos for both songs were directed by Liam Kan, which drew on iconography from the Pet Shop Boys' then current tour and featured Neil Tennant spoofing several 'rock' stars including U2, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley and George Michael. There was an additional b-side, "Bet she's not your girlfriend", and in addition to some extended mixes of both singles, there were additional remixes of both songs by David Morales.

The video was directed by Eric Watson. The b-side was the Pet Shop Boys' tidied up demo version of "Losing my mind", which they produced for Liza Minelli in 1989 for her album Results. The single mix was more electronic than the version on the album, and there was an extended mix of Jealousy which featured Neil Tennant reading excerpts of Shakespeare's Othello, which is a play about jealousy. There was also a Disco Mix of "Losing my mind". On the limited edition CD, an edit of the Extended Mix of "This must be the place I waited years to leave" (which was originally available with the Japanese version of Behaviour was included along with David Morales' Red Zone mix of "So Hard". Jealousy was later covered by Dubstar. It is known to be one of Robbie Williams' favourite Pet Shop Boys song, and he sang it with the band for their 2006 Radio 2 concert, which was later released on the 2006 Pet Shop Boys' live album Concrete.

[edit] Personnel

  • Neil Tennant
  • Chris Lowe

Guest musicians

  • Dominic Clarke - Additional programming on all tracks and plastic tube on track 1
  • J.J. Belle - Guitar on track 1
  • Johnny Marr - Guitar on tracks 2 & 6
  • Angelo Badalamenti - Orchestra arrangement and conduction on tracks 2 & 5
  • Alex Balanescu - String quartet arrangement on track 6
  • The Balanescu Quartet - Strings on track 6
  • Jay Henry - Additional vocals on track 6

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Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe
Discography
Albums: Please | Actually | Introspective | Behaviour | Very | Bilingual | Nightlife | Release | Fundamental
Soundtracks and scores: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording) | Battleship Potemkin
Remix albums: Disco | Disco 2 | Disco 3
Compilations: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Alternative | PopArt: The Hits | Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys
Live: Concrete
Singles: "West End girls" | "Love comes quickly" | "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" | "Suburbia" | "It's a Sin" | "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" | "Rent" | "Always On My Mind" | "Heart" | "Domino dancing" | "Left to my own devices" | "It's alright" | "So Hard" | "Being Boring" | "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" | "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" | "Jealousy" | "DJ Culture" | "Was it worth it?" | "Can you forgive her?" | "Go West" | "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" | "Liberation" | "Yesterday, when I was mad" | "Paninaro '95" | "Before" | "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" | "Single-Bilingual" | "Somewhere" | "I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more" | "New York City boy" | "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" | "Home and dry" | "I get along" | "London" | "Miracles" | "Flamboyant" | "I'm with Stupid" | "Minimal" | "Numb" | "She's Madonna"
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