"Selfish Jean" is a song by Scottish Alternative rock band Travis, and is the second track on their 2007 studio album The Boy with No Name. The song was released as the second single from that album in the United Kingdom, and was released in the UK on Monday 9 July 2007 on 1 CD and 2 7" vinyls. The b-side on the CD is a song called "You Bring Me Down", whilst the two 7" vinyls each have one of "Is That Love" and "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)".

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  • "Selfish Jean" is a song by Scottish Alternative rock band Travis, and is the second track on their 2007 studio album The Boy with No Name. The song was released as the second single from that album in the United Kingdom, and was released in the UK on Monday 9 July 2007 on 1 CD and 2 7" vinyls. The b-side on the CD is a song called "You Bring Me Down", whilst the two 7" vinyls each have one of "Is That Love" and "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)". Both of these songs are covers of songs by the group Squeeze. The music for Selfish Jean was written by Fran Healy between 2005 and 2006, most likely in his apartment in New York, and was demoed using Healy's own computer. He sampled the drum intro from the Iggy Pop song "Lust For Life", looped it to create a basic rhythm, and then played the song and recorded vocals over the top of the rhythm track. The demo was then taken to Travis drummer Neil Primrose as an example of what to play, and thus, the song exists in its current form. The lyrics for the song's bridge are taken directly from an earlier b-side, "Standing On My Own", which appeared on the 1997 single Tied to the 90s. The single was at one point on BBC Radio 2's A playlist, receiving around 20 plays per week. Even though it charted at a relatively disappointing #30 in the UK Singles chart, it is a song much loved by Travis fans and is performed at a majority of Travis concerts. Selfish Jean reached #8 in Mexico Singles Chart, and it's considered as one of Travis' most popular songs in that country The title "Selfish Jean" is either a reference or a pun to The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
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  • "Selfish Jean" is a song by Scottish Alternative rock band Travis, and is the second track on their 2007 studio album The Boy with No Name. The song was released as the second single from that album in the United Kingdom, and was released in the UK on Monday 9 July 2007 on 1 CD and 2 7" vinyls. The b-side on the CD is a song called "You Bring Me Down", whilst the two 7" vinyls each have one of "Is That Love" and "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)".
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