It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry

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“It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry”
Single by Glasvegas
B-side	"Be My Baby"
Released	February 7, 2008
Format	Download, 7", promo CD
Recorded	Central Sound Studios Glasgow, Scotland
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:45
Label	Sane Man
Writer(s)	James Allan
Producer	James Allan
Glasvegas singles chronology
"Daddy's Gone" (2007) "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" (2008) "Geraldine" (2008)

"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" is a song by Scottish alternative rock band Glasvegas. The song was written and composed by the band's singer and guitarist James Allan.

The song is a ballad featuring singing, electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum kit. The lyrics, sung in Scots, explore the concepts of inevitable guilt and regret resulting from infidelity within an interpersonal relationship. The genre employed in the song is heavily guitar-based, making use of delay and reverb effects; and produced using the Wall of Sound technique.

"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" was originally released as a download single through Sane Man on February 7, 2008, and a limited edition 7" one week later. The song received mostly positive reception from music journalists, with single reviews praising its lyrical content and production and likening it to the work of The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Contents 1 Origins and recording 2 Musical and lyrical content 3 Formats and track listings 4 Critical reception 5 Personnel and credits 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Origins and recording

James Allan wrote and composed the song prior to the recording sessions at Central Sound Studios in Glasgow, Scotland, where the band recorded their previous two singles, "Go Square Go!" and "Daddy's Gone". Kevin Burleigh, who co-produced "Go Square Go!" with James Allan, and engineered "Daddy's Gone", also engineered "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry". James Allan handled production duties whilst recording the song, and the B-side—a cover version of The Ronnettes' "Be My Baby".

[edit] Musical and lyrical content

[The song is about] totally fucking things up, [...] and how basically you think you're being quite clever at times, and maybe being quite selfish, and how that [...] is going to destroy you, and no matter who you are, or how your threshold is to guilt, it will get you at some point. "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry"; it's all in the title.

—James Allan.^[1]

"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" is a ballad in C major and in 4/4 time. The song is based around a repeated I–vi–ii–V–vi–IV–V chord sequence.

[edit] Formats and track listings

The song was first released as a digital download through Sane Man on February 7, 2008, and received a physical release one week later as a 7" single, limited to 2000 copies. A promo CD was also released. The artwork featured on the sleeve of the 7" is by Rob Biddulph, and was designed in the style of singles from the 1960s.^[2] Biddulph also designed the artwork for the previous single, "Daddy's Gone", in the same style.^[2]

All songs written and composed by James Allan, except where noted. 

Download, 7" (SAN002)
#	Title	Length
1.	"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry"	4:45
2.	"Be My Baby" (Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich/Phil Spector)	4:12
8:57

Promo CD
#	Title	Length
1.	"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry"
2.	"Be My Baby"
3.	"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" (radio edit)	4:45
13:02

[edit] Critical reception

"It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" received a positive reception in the music press. Mark Beaumont of NME named it Track of the Week, and praised the song, stating that it "stirs more emotion than a million candle-lit meals" and compares it to previous single, "Daddy's Gone", as well as the work of fellow Glasgow band The Jesus and Mary Chain, stating it "shimmers in the kind of elegiac-yet-filthy Wall of Sound thrum [reminiscent of Psychocandy] [...] only this time even more dark, dolorous and redolent."^[3]

John Murphy of musicOHM praised the song's composition, stating "[broad] Scottish brogues, lashings of feedback and multi-layered guitars and a massive dosage of self-loathing all combine here to produce one of the most compelling singles in months." Murphy hailed Glasvegas the "sound of young Scotland" and also compared the song to The Jesus and Mary Chain, stating "at times [it] sounds like a throwback to the days of The Jesus and Mary Chain."^[4]

[edit] Personnel and credits

Glasvegas James Allan – vocals, electric guitar, production Rab Allan – electric guitar Paul Donoghue – bass guitar Caroline McKay – drum kit

Production Kevin Burleigh – engineering

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" lyrics

v • d • e Glasvegas James Allan • Rab Allan • Paul Donghue • Caroline McKay Singles "Go Square Go!" • "Daddy's Gone" • "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" • "Geraldine"