Neil  'Betrayed' started off as a song that I wrote when I worked at MacDonald Educational publishers. We were all sacked from our jobs in 1980 in a dispute over redundancies, and we occupied our offices for three-and-a-half months and then we got our jobs back. There was a freelancer whom I used to employ, a very good friend of mine, and when we were all unable to work and sacked, she did my job. I just couldn't believe it. I was betrayed. She was in the NUJ so she was a scab as well.

That inspired this song, and I'd also just seen The Coal- Mine’s Daughter with Loretta Lynn so that was also an influence. When we heard Dusty Springfield was doing what became her final album in Nashville, her manager Vicky Wickham phoned up and said, 'Do you want to write a song for Dusty?' and we didn't have anything, but I had this song, which was then a country song, and I sent it to her. and then Vicky said, 'Dusty's not doing a country album'. She also said, 'Dusty says, "great words - why don't you record it?"'

Chris The reason we did it as jungle was because of something Neil read on the Internet.

Neil  I read someone saying that the Pet Shop Boys have never done jungle because Neil Tennant is too old and he doesn't like jungle. So I thought, 'Right! We're doing jungle!'. The template for this track was definitely Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl. I listened in the studio to their arrangements on that album. Again, it's not really like any other records we've made, but then we've never done any other drum'n'bass songs. The good thing about b-sides or

bonus tracks is that you always feel you can do anything you want, and so on our b-sides you get an incredible array of musical styles, because there's no reason you can't. I suppose you can indulge yourself, in a way, which is not to say that they end up self-indulgent. But you can do a swing version of 'Can you forgive her?' or something that sounds a bit like The Beatles, which you probably wouldn't do on an album.