Love Comes Quickly

"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, and cited as one the band's own favourite songs, its chart performance was disappointing, given that it followed the worldwide number one, "West End Girls". It reached #19 in the UK.^[1]

The song is about the inevitability of falling in love, even for those who deliberately shun the idea.

Production

Producer Stephen Hague receives a co-writing credit for writing the first two chords of the middle section of the song.^[2] Andy Mackay of Roxy Music plays the saxophone parts towards the end of the song.

Release

As with "Opportunities", the 12-version of the single contains remixes by 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. The remixes of "Love Comes Quickly" and "That's My Impression" reached the top ten on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in October 1986.^[3] Later, in 2003, new remixes by Blank & Jones were produced for the promotion of the singles collection PopArt.

Cover

The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys image. 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".^[4]

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".^[5]

Track listing

7": Parlophone / R 6116 (UK)

A. "Love Comes Quickly" – 4:18

B. "That's My Impression" – 4:45

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)

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

Chart performance

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart^{[citation needed]}	54
Belgian Singles Chart^{[citation needed]}	29
Canadian Singles Chart^[6]	74
French Singles Chart^{[citation needed]}	5
German Singles Chart^[7]	17
Irish Singles Chart^[8]	13
Italian Singles Chart^[9]	35
New Zealand Singles Chart^[10]	8
Polish Singles Chart^{[citation needed]}	22
Spain (AFYVE)^[11]	6
Swiss Singles Chart^[12]	24
UK Singles Chart^[13]	19
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[14]	62
U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart^[14]	10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Chart^[14]	37

Cover versions

As early as 1986, a Japanese-language cover version of the song was recorded by pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa.^[15]

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.

Singer/songwriter Kevin Caffrey covered the song acoustically in 2008.^[16]

References

↑ "Pet Shop Boys Official Site". Petshopboys.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
↑ Heath, Chris (2001). "Love Comes Quickly". In Please / Further Listening 1984-1986 [CD liner notes]. London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 201.
↑ Silcott, Mireille (1999). "The Pet Shop Boys, obsessively". Montreal Mirror. Retrieved 2006-06-21.
↑ "Interview with Eric Watson". Literally (Pet Shop Boys fanclub magazine). May 1992. Retrieved 2006-06-21.
↑ "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ "charts.de". charts.de. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ Jaclyn Ward - Fireball Media Group - http://www.fireballmedia.ie. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: P". Hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ Steffen Hung. "Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
↑ Steffen Hung. "Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ "ChartArchive - Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly". Chartstats.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Pet Shop Boys (2009-12-21). "Pet Shop Boys - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ (Japanese) Hidemi Ishikawa discography page
↑ oldirtycaffrey (2008-08-13). "Kevin Caffrey - Love Comes Quickly". YouTube. Retrieved 2011-11-29.

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

v t e Pet Shop Boys

Chris Lowe Neil Tennant

Studio albums	Please Actually Introspective Behaviour Very Bilingual Nightlife Release Fundamental Yes Elysium Electric

Compilation albums	Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Alternative Essential PopArt: The Hits Story: 25 Years of Hits Party Ultimate Format

Remix albums	Disco Disco 2 Disco 3 Disco 4

Live albums	Concrete Pandemonium

Extended plays	Christmas

Soundtracks and scores	It Couldn't Happen Here Closer to Heaven Battleship Potemkin The Most Incredible Thing

Other songs	"King's Cross" "The Loving Kind" "The Night I Fell in Love" "I'm Not Scared" "In Private" "Nothing Has Been Proved" "So Sorry, I Said" "Don't Drop Bombs" "Euroboy"

Film, stage and television	It Couldn't Happen Here Closer to Heaven Pet Shop Boys: A Life In Pop The Most Incredible Thing

Notable tours and concerts	MCMLXXXIX Tour Performance Tour Discovery Tour Somewhere Shows Nightlife Tour Summer Tour Uni/Release Tour Summer Tour/Fall '04 Tour Fundamental Tour Pandemonium Tour Progress Live (as special guests) Electric tour

Related articles	Discography Spaghetti Records Reputation Results Electronic Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys West End Girls

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v t e Pet Shop Boys singles

Please (1984–1986)	"West End Girls" "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" "Love Comes Quickly" "Suburbia"

Disco (1986)	"Paninaro"

Actually (1987–1988)	"It's a Sin" "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Rent" "Heart"

Introspective (1988–1989)	"Always on My Mind" "Domino Dancing" "Left to My Own Devices" "It's Alright"

Behaviour (1990–1991)	"So Hard" "Being Boring" "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"/"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" "Jealousy"

Discography (1991)	"DJ Culture" "Was It Worth It?"

Very (1993–1994)	"Can You Forgive Her?" "Go West" "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" "Liberation" "Yesterday, When I Was Mad"

Alternative (1995)	"Paninaro '95"

Bilingual (1996–1997)	"Before" "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)"/"To Step Aside" "Single-Bilingual" "A Red Letter Day"

Nightlife (1999–2000)	"I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More" "New York City Boy" "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk"

Release (2002–2003)	"Home and Dry" "I Get Along" "London"

PopArt (2003–2004)	"Miracles" "Flamboyant"

Fundamental (2006)	"I'm with Stupid" "Minimal" "Numb"

Disco 4 (2007)	"Integral"

Yes (2009)	"Love etc." "Did You See Me Coming?" "Beautiful People"

Ultimate (2010)	"Together"

Elysium (2012)	"Winner" "Leaving" "Memory of the Future"

Electric (2013)	"Axis" "Vocal" "Love Is a Bourgeois Construct" "Thursday"

Non-album singles	"One More Chance" "Absolutely Fabulous" "Somewhere" "Break 4 Love" "She's Madonna" "Love Life"

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