Love Comes Quickly
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| “Love Comes Quickly” | |||||
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7" single cover
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| Single by Pet Shop Boys from the album Please |
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| B-side | "That's My Impression" | ||||
| Released | February 24, 1986 | ||||
| Format | 7", 12" | ||||
| Genre | Synthpop | ||||
| Length | 4:18 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone / EMI | ||||
| Writer(s) | Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Stephen Hague | ||||
| Producer | Stephen Hague | ||||
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- The capitalization of song titles in this article may be disputed. Please see the centralized discussion on this subject before making changes.
"Love Comes Quickly" is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as the third single from their 1986 album Please, and the last of its singles to be released before the album itself. Although a Top 20 hit in the UK, its chart performance was disappointing, given that it followed the worldwide number one, "West End Girls".
The song is about the inevitability of falling in love, even for those who deliberately shun the idea ("Sooner or later, this happens to everyone").
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[edit] Production
Producer Stephen Hague receives a co-writing credit for writing the first two chords of the middle section of the song.[1] Andy Mackay of Roxy Music plays the saxophone parts towards the end of the song.
[edit] Release
As with "Opportunities", the 12-version of the single contains remixes by 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. Later, in 2003, new remixes by Blank & Jones were produced for the promotion of the singles collection PopArt.
[edit] Cover
The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys images. It has been incorporated into various parodies of the duo's appearance, such as the music video for the 2006 Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid", and a 2006 comic strip from webcomic Scary Go Round.
Neil Tennant of the duo later recollected that he had expected the image of the cap to be the group's coming out moment, calling it "incredibly gay".[2]
[edit] Music video
Directed by Eric Watson, regular Pet Shop Boys photographer and music video director throughout the 1980s, the video to the song is very simple, utilizing facial shots of Tennant singing, interposed with blurry montages of the faces of various other people; at points, shots of Lowe, lying on top of a construction of a square grid, are superimposed over these shots. Watson would later call it a "complete disaster".[3]
[edit] Track listing
[edit] 7": Parlophone / R 6116 (UK)
A. "Love Comes Quickly" (4:18)
B. "That's My Impression" (4:45)
[edit] 12": Parlophone / 12 R 6116 (UK)
A. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dance Mix) (6:50)
B. "That's My Impression" (Disco Mix) (5:18)
- also released on 10" (10 R 6116)
[edit] 12": Capitol / V-19218 (US)
A1. "Love Comes Quickly" (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) (7:34)
A2. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dub Mix) (6:55)
B1. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dance Mix) (6:50)
B2. "That's My Impression" (Disco Mix) (5:18)
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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| UK | 19 |
| US The Billboard Hot 100 | 62 |
| Germany | 17 |
| Switzerland | 24 |
| Australia | 54 |
[edit] Cover versions
As early as 1986, a Japanese-language cover version of the song was recorded by pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa.[4]
In English, "Love Comes Quickly" was also covered by Memphis on their 2004 album I Dreamed We Fell Apart, and it was one of the songs on the Pet Shop Boys tribute band West End Girls' 2006 debut album.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Heath, Chris (2001). "Love Comes Quickly". In Please / Further Listening 1984-1986 [CD liner notes]. London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.
- ^ Silcott, Mireille (1999). The Pet Shop Boys, obsessively. Montreal Mirror. Retrieved on 2006-06-21.
- ^ Interview with Eric Watson. Literally (Pet Shop Boys fanclub magazine) (May 1992). Retrieved on 2006-06-21.
- ^ (Japanese) Hidemi Ishikawa discography page
