{"id":8132,"date":"2026-10-04T19:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:59:01","slug":"track-of-the-day-jealousy-pet-shop-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/track-of-the-day-jealousy-pet-shop-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Of The Day: Jealousy &#8211; Pet Shop Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7MUoqsLyDCsRsEUHb5Yqqj?utm_source=generator&#038;si=986193c2d67645fa\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honour of Chris Lowe\u2019s birthday I thought I\u2019d pull this one out of the vault. This is a song from the Pet Shop Boys\u2019 album Behaviour released in 1990 and as a single in its own right in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those who know me well you will know that I am a pet shop boys fan from way back &#8211; introspective is one of my favourite albums of all time, Chris Lowe is a hero given that he\u2019s the quiet one who stands in the shadows but still stands tall with his rack of keyboards and synths plus his intentional look of anonymity. Glasses, hat, something stylish and striking. He helped to define a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway according to PSB lore, Chris wrote this on a piano in his parents house in the early days of the band, and it was about a friend\u2019s jealousy over his newfound friendship with Neil Tennant. Melodically it\u2019s deadpan, which is the trademark of their early tracks, and at the same time its dramatic, Neil delivers his vocals in a theatrical way and this is reinforced on the extended version where Neil recites a passage from Shakespeare\u2019s Othello. All of this is enveloped by Chris\u2019s sweeping keyboards &#8211; lower scale piano, strings, which apparently they wanted Ennio Morricone to work on it but it didn\u2019t work out that way for some reason. But he did work on my other favourite PSB song \u201cIt Couldn\u2019t Happen Here\u201d. Musically, this is built around analog synths and drum machines, this was recorded with Harold Faltermeyer who has an impressive range of synths and this along with the rest of the album has that warmth that you don\u2019t expect to the sound. I remember being in year 10 when this came out, the Kylie Minogue\/Stock\/Aitken\/Waterman partnership was coming to an end, and that glossy 80s sound was evolving as music technology changed &#8211; the pet shop boys dug deep into it and reverted to a time before MIDI technology existed and they did it well. Happy birthday Chris!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of Chris Lowe\u2019s birthday I thought I\u2019d pull this one out of the vault. This is a song from the Pet Shop Boys\u2019 album Behaviour released in 1990 and as a single in its own right in 1991. For those who know me well you will know that I am a pet shop &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,248,42,118,229,40,311,129,174,120,52,31,143,132,30,250,151,153,37,180,149,142,38,140,73,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-ambient","category-band","category-bass","category-composer","category-dance","category-dreampop","category-drums","category-electronica","category-festivals","category-guitar","category-keyboards","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-music-technology","category-orchestra","category-percussion","category-piano","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-producer","category-recording-studio","category-review","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}