“Love on Your Side” by Thompson Twins

"Love on Your Side" came out early in 1983 as the second single from Quick Step & Side Kick, the Thompson Twins' third album (American shops stocked it as Side Kicks). The band had come off the commercial flop of Set, and they teamed up with producer Alex Sadkin to make the new record, with Phil Thornalley engineering.

Under the bright synth-pop bounce sits a knottier song than the hook lets on. Alannah Currie wrote the original words, which were later switched to a man's point of view because she wasn't the one singing, and Tom Bailey has called it a dark one: someone finds out their partner wants a far looser arrangement than they bargained for, and is left lost and hopelessly in love, hanging on to the hope that love will pull them through. Bailey, Currie and Joe Leeway share the writing credit.

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