Love Comes Quickly

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"Love Comes Quickly"
File:PSB Love Comes Quickly.jpg
7" single cover
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Please
B-side "That's My Impression"
Released 24 February 1986
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1985
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:18
Label Parlophone / EMI
Writer(s) Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Stephen Hague
Producer(s) Stephen Hague
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"West End Girls"
(second release)
(1985)		 "Love Comes Quickly"
(1986)		 "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
(second release)
(1986)
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"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 Andy Morahan and Eric Watson,[5] 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".[6]

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
Australia (ARIA Singles Chart)[7] 54
Belgian Singles Chart[citation needed] 29
Canadian Singles Chart[8] 74
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[9] 12
French Singles Chart[citation needed] 5
German Singles Chart[10] 17
Irish Singles Chart[11] 13
Italian Singles Chart[12] 35
New Zealand Singles Chart[13] 8
Polish Singles Chart[citation needed] 22
Spain (AFYVE)[14] 6
Swiss Singles Chart[15] 24
UK Singles Chart[16] 19
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[17] 62
U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart[17] 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Chart[17] 37

Cover versions

As early as 1986, a Japanese-language cover version of the song was recorded by pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa.[18]

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.[19]

References

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External links

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  2. ↑ Heath, Chris (2001). "Love Comes Quickly". In Please / Further Listening 1984-1986 [CD liner notes]. London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 201.
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  16. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/26802/pet-shop-boys/
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  18. ↑ (Japanese) Hidemi Ishikawa discography page
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