Quick Step and Side Kick

Quick Step and Side Kick/Side Kicks

The U.S. release, titled as simply "Side Kicks"
Studio album by Thompson Twins
Released February 1983
Recorded 1982-3
Genre Synthpop
Length 37:48
Label Arista
Producer Alex Sadkin
Thompson Twins chronology
In the Name of Love
(1982)
Quick Step and Side Kick/Side Kicks
(1983)
Into The Gap
(1984)
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Quick Step and Side Kick is the third album by the British synthpop group Thompson Twins. It was released in February 1983, and was their first album to be released as a trio (the band consisted of up to seven members during previous releases). The album reached no.2 two on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified Platinum by the BPI.

In the USA, the album was released simply as Side Kicks, and was only the second Thompson Twins album to be released there.

The album was the first collaboration between the band and producer Alex Sadkin and was recorded at his Compass Point studio in the Bahamas. The singer Grace Jones (who had worked with Sadkin on three of her albums by that time) made a guest appearance on the track "Watching", though her vocals were not included on the track when it was remixed and released as a single in mid 1983.

The album has several different versions according to different territories, containing different tracks and different track order. The UK and US cassette versions of the album also contained a whole side of remixes of various album tracks and an exclusive extended version of the B-side "Beach Culture".

Contents

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UK track listing

  1. "Love on Your Side" - 4:25 UK / 3:33 U.S.
  2. "Lies" - 3:12
  3. "If You Were Here" - 2:55
  4. "Judy Do" - 3:47
  5. "Tears" - 5:02
  6. "Watching" - 3:58
  7. "We Are Detective" - 3:05
  8. "Kamikaze" - 3:55
  9. "Love Lies Bleeding" - 2:49
  10. "All Fall Out" - 5:26

Cassette remixes:

  1. "Love Lies Fierce" - 6:45 (Dub remix of "Love Lies Bleeding").
  2. "Long Beach Culture" - 6:48 (Extended version of "Beach Culture")
  3. "No Talkin'" - 6:18 (Dub remix of "Lies")
  4. "Rap Boy Rap" - 7:22 (Original 12" version of "Love On Your Side")
  5. "Frozen In Time" - 6:28 (Dub remix of "Kamikaze")
  6. "Fallen Out" - 3:30 (Dub remix of "All Fall Out")

2008 expanded edition

In March 2008, Quick Step and Side Kick was reissued as a 2-disc set by Edsel Records[2] and included the bonus remixes that appeared on the original 1983 cassette version of the album. The second disc included most major 12" versions and B-sides, some of which appear on CD for the first time.

Disc 1

  1. "Love on Your Side" - 3:33
  2. "Lies" - 3:13
  3. "If You Were Here" - 2:56
  4. "Judy Do" - 3:48
  5. "Tears" - 5:02
  6. "Watching" - 3:58
  7. "We Are Detective" - 3:06
  8. "Kamikaze" - 3:55
  9. "Love Lies Bleeding" - 2:50
  10. "All Fall Out" - 5:28
  11. "Love Lies Fierce" - 6:45
  12. "Long Beach Culture" - 6:48
  13. "No Talkin'" - 6:18
  14. "Rap Boy Rap" - 7:22
  15. "Frozen In Time" - 6:28
  16. "Fallen Out" - 3:30

Disc 2

  1. "Lies (Single Remix)" - 3:15
  2. "Love on Your Back" - 4:06 (Original B-Side of the "Love On Your Side" 7" Single)
  3. "Lucky Day" - 3:52 (Original B-Side of the "We Are Detective" 7" Single)
  4. "Dancersaurus" - 4:40 (Original B-Side of the "Watching" 7" Single)
  5. "Lies (Bigger And Better)" - 6:35 (Original 12" remix of "Lies")
  6. "Beach Culture" - 3:55 (Original B-Side of the "Lies" 7" Single)
  7. "Love On Your Side (No Talkin')" - 5:48 (B-Side of the original "Love On Your Side" 12" Single)
  8. "We Are Detective (More Clues)" - 6:00 (Original 12" remix of "We Are Detective")
  9. "Lucky Day (Space Mix)" - 6:58 (B-Side of the "We Are Detective" 12" Single)
  10. "Watching (You Watching Me)" - 5:48 (Original 12" remix of "Watching")
  11. "Dancersaurus (Even Large Reptiles Have Emotional Problems)" - 5:50 (B-Side of the "Watching" 12" Single)

Song Details

Personnel

Engineer - Phil Thornalley

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