Love Machine (Girls Aloud song)

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"Love Machine"

Single by Girls Aloud
from the album What Will the Neighbours Say?
B-side(s)	"Androgynous Girls"
Released	September 13, 2004
Format	CD single, 7" picture disc
Recorded	2004
Genre	Pop
Length	3:27
Label	Polydor
Writer(s)	Miranda Cooper Brian Higgins Tim Powell Nick Coler Lisa Cowling Myra Boyle Shawn Lee
Producer(s)	Xenomania
Chart positions
#2 (UK) #9 (Ireland)
Girls Aloud singles chronology
"The Show" (2004)	"Love Machine" (2004)	"I'll Stand by You" (2004)
Alternate cover

UK Maxi CD cover
Audio sample
Play "Love Machine" (in browser) (help·info)

"Love Machine" was second single from Girls Aloud's second album What Will the Neighbours Say?. It charted at #2 in the UK in September of 2004. It was also their first single on the UK download chart, managing to reach #6.

1 Release information
- 1.1 Covers
2 Music video
3 Track listings and formats
4 Charts
5 References

[edit] Release information

An early demo of "Love Machine" was included on the Popjustice compilation album Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music; this version was sung by Cheryl Cole and Nadine Coyle and features radically different lyrics from the released versions, even excluding the phrase "Love Machine".

The group tried to stop the single being released as they thought the beginning of the song would irritate people. It has since become one of their favourite singles to perform.

Upon its release, "Love Machine" was nominated for 'Record of The Year 2004'^{[citation needed]} and sold in excess of 96,000 copies, 35,800 in the first week of release. The B-side, "Androgynous Girls", has become popular amongst fans of the group.

[edit] Covers

The song was famously covered by the Arctic Monkeys on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. The band have since found the hit has become a favourite of their fans who "chant for 'Love Machine'"; now they "[shrug] off requests with an effortlessly breezy 'not a chance'".^[1] However their earlier responses to these requests had caused controversy, lead singer Alex Turner telling fans at the Sheffield Octagon:

“

Is that all you like us for? Fuck off, we can’t remember how to play it.^[2]

”

The song has also been covered by singer Tiffany and on Comic Relief does Fame Academy by Blue Peter presenter Zoe Salmon.

[edit] Music video

Girls Aloud in the music video for "Love Machine". From left to right: Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts & Sarah Harding.

The video for "Love Machine" takes place in the fictitious Eskimo Club, a nightclub which the band members, dressed for a night on the town, enter.

Though Cheryl initially sets her eye on a musician at the club, the girls make their way to a table.

However, they are soon distracted by the men in the Eskimo Club and the tricks they pull to try to get the girls' attention.

In a separate setting of a dark background and flashing lights, the girls begin to dance, and eventually they release their inhibitions and begin dancing in the Eskimo Club as well.

[edit] Track listings and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Love Machine".

#	Title	Time
UK CD single 1
1.	"Love Machine"	3:25
2.	"The Show" [Flip 'n' Fill Remix]	5:35
UK CD single 2
1.	"Love Machine"	3:25
2.	"Love Machine" [Gravitas Disco Mix]	7:30
3.	"Androgynous Girls"	4:39
4.	"Love Machine" [Video]	3:39
5.	"Love Machine" [Karaoke Video]	3:39
6.	"Love Machine" [Game]	3:39
UK Vinyl single 3
1.	"Love Machine"	3:25
2.	"Love Machine" [Tony Lamenza Mix]	6:15