Song · Pet Shop Boys
“Love Comes Quickly” by Pet Shop Boys
From the album Please (1986)
“Love Comes Quickly” by Pet Shop Boys appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1986 and 1998. It was first released in 1986 on the album Please. Its best result is #59 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #124 alternative song of 1986 and #3,994 alternative song of all time.
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"Love Comes Quickly" followed "West End Girls" in February 1986 as the second single from Pet Shop Boys' debut album Please, and it's a swooning, melancholy thing. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe wrote it in early 1985, toward the end of their days working out of Ray Roberts' studio in Camden, and they reckoned it among the most grown-up songs they'd managed so far.
Producer Stephen Hague made it stranger and better. His Roland MSQ-700 sequencer knocked the bassline off the beat by accident and he kept the slip; he also pushed for a middle eight and got a writing credit for its opening two chords. There are handclaps taken in spirit from Sharon Redd's "Never Give You Up", the first of the high string lines that became a Pet Shop Boys signature, and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay blowing saxophone near the close.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 59 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 414 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) | 495 |
| 1996 | 238 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
| 1998 | 310 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) | 488 |
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