Single-Bilingual

"Single-Bilingual"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Bilingual
B-side "Discoteca", "The Calm Before the Storm", "Confidential"
Released 11 November 1996
Format CD single, cassette single
Recorded 1995
Genre Synthpop, dance-pop
Length 3:48
Label Parlophone / EMI
Writer(s) Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
Producer(s) Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)"
(1996)
"Single-Bilingual"
(1996)
"A Red Letter Day"
(1997)

"Single-Bilingual" is a song by the British synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released as the third single of their 1996's album Bilingual. The single peaked at #14 on the UK Singles Chart.

On the album the song is named "Single", but was renamed "Single-Bilingual" because Everything but the Girl also had a song named "Single" around the time. The album version cross-fades with the previous track, "Discoteca", and the music video contains an interpolation of the aforementioned song at the end.

Track listing

UK CD single 1: Parlophone

  1. "Single-Bilingual"
  2. "Discoteca" (New version)
  3. "The Calm Before the Storm"
  4. "Discoteca" (Trouser Enthusiast's Adventures Beyond the Stellar Empire Mix)

UK CD single 2: Parlophone

  1. "Discoteca" (Pet Shop Boys extended mix) – 6:58
  2. "Confidential" (1992 demo for Tina Turner) – 4:46
  3. "Single-Bilingual" (Baby Doc mix) – 5:44
  4. "Discoteca" (Baby Doc mix)

UK cassette single

  1. "Single-Bilingual"
  2. "Discoteca"

Chart performance

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Total
weeks
Canadian Dance/Urban Singles Chart[1] 22 3
Finnish Singles Chart[2] 17 1
German Singles Chart[3] 77 9
Swedish Singles Chart[4] 39 3
UK Singles Chart[5] 14 3

References