Description
Label: MCA Records – MCG 6088
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1990
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Tracklist:
A1 It’s Here 3:36
A2 Love (Send Him Back To Me) 4:32
A3 Storm In Our Hearts 5:09
A4 World In Perfect Harmony 3:53
A5 Someday 4:49
B1 Time 4:11
B2 Who’s To Blame 3:48
B3 Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) 4:00
B4 In Hollywood 4:17
B5 I Can’t Say Goodbye 5:01
This album has produced many hit singles:
Love Moves is the seventh studio album by Kim Wilde, released in May 1990.
The album contained six tracks written by Ricki and Kim Wilde and four tracks written by Kim Wilde and Tony Swain. It was produced by Ricki Wilde.
Promotion began in the spring of 1990 with the release of the single “It’s Here”, a track with Spanish guitars.
The album attempted to capitalize on the success of Close, but although a Top 10 in Scandinavian countries, it failed to sell as strongly as its predecessor. Some critics noted the MOR feel of the album and the use of similar production sounds throughout. It includes guests Jaki Graham, who contributed backing vocals, and Deon Estus, playing bass guitar. Wilde herself believed “it was a very strong album, and it was very disappointing that it didn’t do well. But it didn’t really come as too much of a big surprise, because my career before then had always been very up and down. So it wasn’t a complete shock… but it was very disappointing.”
This was the first Wilde project to yield no Top 40 releases in the UK (“Time”, the second release, is the lowest charting single in her discography). Five singles in total were released across Europe, with “It’s Here” becoming a Top 20 hit in Scandinavian countries and “Can’t Get Enough” making a Top 20 entry and long run on the French singles chart.
In Australia, the album peaked at #126 on the ARIA albums chart.
Critical response
Love Moves received mostly negative reviews from contemporary critics. Colin Irwan of Smash Hits, despite referring to Wilde as “one of pop’s more welcome survivors”, accused the singer of “underselling” herself. Describing “It’s Here” as “characterless” and the album itself as containing “featherweight production and unimaginative material”, some praise was given to “Time” (which was compared to the work of Belinda Carlisle) and “In Hollywood” (featuring a “Madonna-esque sense of drama”). Q described the album as a disappointment, writing of Wilde’s “character-free voice” and the “EEC approved variants of what once might have been considered a lightly soulful persuasion” found on “Time” and “Who’s to Blame”
“It’s Here” is the first single from Kim Wilde’s 1990 album Love Moves, and her first release of the new decade. Wilde was the most charted and biggest-selling British female soloist of the 1980s, and had ended that decade with the release of her biggest-selling album, Close, and its accompanying string of hit singles. Although the new single and album did not match that success, “It’s Here” became a moderate hit in some countries.
Critical reception
Music & Media commented, “The perfect combination. A mellow, melancholic tune, a committed vocal delivery and a good dance groove rapped up in a slick production.” David Giles from Music Week wrote, “Wilde takes a leaf out of the Sydney Youngblood book, blending a splash of flamenco guitar against a bold dance rhythm. Considerably stronger than her other singles with a powerful chorus and an expansive production job.
The song was slightly remixed from the version on the album for its release as a single and managed to remain at the charts for three weeks.
5.0 out of 5 stars One of her best
Another Step saw Kim Wilde launch 100% into the world of pop as opposed to the rock/punk/pop that she had always been acclaimed for. Her follow up album Close provided Kim Wilde with the most successful time of her career. Love Moves however is a polished, confident collection of pure pop, beautiful ballads (someday’ and ‘I Can’t Say Goodbye’ have to be 2 of her greatest tracks) that amazingly went unnoticed. The last time I heard this album was approximately 10 years ago, and I can still remember the track listings, the lyrics, and even the pulsing bass on ‘I Can’t Enough Of Your Love’
5.0 out of 5 stars She is The Bardot of Rock
Often criticized of being Kim’s least creative period! Well there are a couple of tracks that clink along SAW style or mainly “Time”(UK no 71) the second single to be released after “Its Here” which as charming as it is really didn’t win Kim any new fans. However all that aside there is “Can’t Get Enough” which is so powerfully sex driven, it really takes one hell of a sound system to handle it properly, this track is Awesome & if you don’t believe me about being so damn HOT, check out the promo video on You Tube, the girl glistens with her man!!!”World In Perfect Harmony” is such a heart felt plea to let us all love our neighbour & fellow man, it is beautiful, “I Can’t Say Goodbye” is a stunning ballad which reached No54 in the UK, it was totally lost on the UK Christmas market & god bless Kim, MCA were shocking at marketing, one of the sexiest females to grace the stage, they let themselves & her down dreadfully. This has some treasures on it, it ain’t her finest moment, but by god it is far superior to the drivel being churned out by the X Factor crew!
I have a place in my heart for this, buy it & you will too.
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Love Moves is the seventh studio album by Kim Wilde, released in May 1990.
The album contained six tracks written by Ricki and Kim Wilde and four tracks written by Kim Wilde and Tony Swain. It was produced by Ricki Wilde.
Promotion began in the spring of 1990 with the release of the single “Its Here”, a track with Spanish guitars.
The album attempted to capitalize on the success of Close, but although a Top 10 in Scandinavian countries, it failed to sell as strongly as its predecessor. Some critics noted the MOR feel of the album and the use of similar production sounds throughout. It includes guests Jaki Graham, who contributed backing vocals, and Deon Estus, playing bass guitar. Wilde herself believed “it was a very strong album, and it was very disappointing that it didn’t do well. But it didn’t really come as too much of a big surprise, because my career before then had always been very up and down. So it wasn’t a complete shock… but it was very disappointing.”
This was the first Wilde project to yield no Top 40 releases in the UK (“Time”, the second release, is the lowest charting single in her discography). Five singles in total were released across Europe, with “Its Here” becoming a Top 20 hit in Scandinavian countries and “Can’t Get Enough” making a Top 20 entry and long run on the French singles chart.
This is Kim back to her rock synth edge BEST! the masterpiece of Kim Wilde, a masterpiece of the Pop Rock, incredibly underrated or little remembered (the song and the album). It was only released as a single in a small number of countries, and not in the UK. Excellent production melody, rhythm. IT EVEN HAS A SCREAMING GUITAR SOLO at the end of the song!
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