Quick Step & Side Kick [Deluxe Edition]

Artist	Thompson Twins
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Edsel
Producer	Alex Sadkin
Release Date	2008 03 18
Song List	1: Love on Your Side (3:58) 2: Lies (3:10) 3: If You Were Here (2:55) 4: Judy Do (3:47) 5: Tears (5:02) 6: Watching (3:47) 7: We Are Detective (3:02) 8: Kamikaze (3:55) 9: Love Lies Bleeding (2:49) 10: All Fall Out (5:27) 11: Love Lies Fierce [Cassette Remix] (6:57) 12: Long Beach Culture [Instrumental Cassette Remix] (6:46) 13: No Talkin' Dub [Cassette Remix] (6:20) 14: Rap Boy Rap [Cassette Remix] (7:25) 15: Frozen in Time [Cassette Remix] (6:28) 16: Fallen Out [Cassette Remix] (2:35) 17: Lies [Single Remix] (3:18) 18: Love on Your Back (4:11) 19: Lucky Day (3:55) 20: Dancersaurus (4:44) 21: Lies (Bigger and Better) [12" Version] (6:37) 22: Beach Culture (4:00) 23: Love on Your Side (No Talkin') [12" Version] (5:51) 24: We Are Detective (More Clues) [12" Version] (5:50) 25: Lucky Day [Space Mix] (7:04) 26: Watching (You Watching Me) [12" Version] (5:52) 27: Dancersaurus (Even Large Reptiles Have Emotional Problems) [12" Version (5:58)
Style.Categories	Club/Dance, Pop/Rock, New Wave, Alternative Pop/Rock, Synth Pop, Dance-Pop

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Following up on the surprise success of the "Love on Your Side" single, the reconstituted Thompson Twins quickly regrouped to create an album to capitalize on their new, more direct sound. Quick Step & Side Kick is the Thompson Twins' most fully realized work, with a trio of dance-rock classics -- "Love Lies Bleeding," "Love on Your Side," and the big U.S. chart hit "Lies" -- that all hew close to the synth-bass-and-Latin-percussion groove of "In the Name of Love." Interestingly, however, the trio also branches out to explore a variety of sonic moods, most of them considerably darker than their cartoonish new look -- lead singer Tom Bailey now sported a waist-length red ponytail, and percussionist Alannah Currie had a mohawk and no eyebrows -- would suggest. The highlights of these were the simply gorgeous, ghostly ballad "If You Were Here" and yet another elegy for the late Judy Garland, the bitter "Judy Do." Although the follow-up Into the Gap was an even bigger chart success, Quick Step & Side Kick is the better, more consistent album.
The somewhat delayed U.S. release of Quick Step & Side Kick shortened the nonsensical title to Side Kicks and scrambled the running order to some ill effect, pulling all of the dance-oriented material on side one and all of the more atmospheric, experimental songs on side two. This version of the album was eventually supplanted by a CD release that retained the title and superior sequencing of the original U.K. issue. [Edsel's 2008 Deluxe Edition included seventeen bonus tracks (mostly remixes) across two CDs.] ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide