Love in Motion (song)

"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" Vinyl Single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market.^[1] The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse,^[2] they had signed to Chrysalis Records and most of Flowers' material was released under the new name into Europe, UK and US markets.^[1] "Love in Motion" peaked at #10 on the Australian singles charts.^[3] The B-side, "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" was included on the 1982 album Primitive Man with "Love in Motion" included on the Chrysalis Records US / European versions of the album, the UK 1983 version of the album was re-titled Love in Motion.

Both tracks of the single were written by Flowers / Icehouse founder and mainstay Iva Davies^[4] who recorded the tracks while Icehouse were on tour in London using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5,^[1][5] and produced them with Steve Nye.^[6] In 1992, Icehouse released a compilation album Masterfile on Massive Records, which included the Davies duet with Christina Amphlett of Divinyls on "Love in Motion" also released as a CD-single. A 1996 Icehouse compilation was called Love in Motion and released by dIVA / Massive Records. A remix version by Wicked Beat Sound System was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.^[7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Iva Davies.^[4]

1981 single (Australian/NZ release)

1. "Love in Motion" - 3:41
2. "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" - 4:00

1992 single (featuring Christina Amphlett)

1. "Love in Motion" (single edit)
2. "Love in Motion" (7" with Lenin version)
3. "Crazy" (original version)
4. "Love in Motion" (original Laswell version)

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