Love in Motion (song) explained

Love in Motion
Cover:LoveInMotionSingle01.jpg
Caption:1981 Australian 7" release
Type:single
Artist:Icehouse
B-Side:Goodnight, Mr. Matthews
Released:October 1981
Recorded:July 1981
Studio:London
Genre:
Length:3:41
Label:Regular
Producer:
Prev Title:Icehouse
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Great Southern Land
Next Year:1982

"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the 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 the 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)

Charts

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Love in Motion"! Chart (1981)! Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 96

Notes and References

  1. Book: McFarlane, Ian . Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop . doc . Ian McFarlane . . 1999 . 1-86448-768-2 . 2008-07-07 . registration .
  2. Web site: The Icehouse story - early years . Davies . Neville . Spellbound fanzine . 2008-07-07 .
  3. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  4. Web site: . APRA search engine . 2008-06-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080124161012/http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm . January 24, 2008 . Note: requires user to input song title e.g. LOVE IN MOTION
  5. Web site: Artist: Icehouse . Warner Music Australia . 2008-07-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080611054259/http://www.warnermusic.com.au/artist%2Cw_artist%2C49247 . 2008-06-11 .
  6. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130929120725/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/i/icehouse.html . The Flowers / Icehouse . Holmgren . Magnus . Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) . 29 September 2013 . 21 March 2014 .
  7. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r615650|pure_url=yes}} ''Meltdown'' credits ]. . 2008-07-16 .
  8. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 147.
  9. Web site: National Top 100 Singles for 1981 . . 393 . 7 . . 4 January 1982 . 11 January 2022 .

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