Quick Step and Side Kick is the third album by the British

United Kingdom

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 synthpop

Synthpop

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 group Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins

The Thompson Twins were a British pop group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives...

. It was released in February 1983, and was their first album to be released as a trio (the band consisted of up to seven members during previous releases). The album reached no.2 two on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 and was later certified Platinum by the BPI

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.

In the USA, the album was released simply as Side Kicks, and was only the second Thompson Twins album to be released there.

The album was the first collaboration between the band and producer Alex Sadkin

Alex Sadkin

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 and was recorded at his Compass Point studio in the Bahamas. The singer Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

 (who had worked with Sadkin on three of her albums by that time) made a guest appearance on the track "Watching", though her vocals were not included on the track when it was remixed and released as a single in mid 1983.

The album has several different versions according to different territories, containing different tracks and different track order. The UK and US cassette versions of the album also contained a whole side of remixes of various album tracks and an exclusive extended version of the B-side "Beach Culture".

UK track listing

1. "Love on Your Side" - 4:25 UK / 3:33 U.S.
2. "Lies
   Lies (Thompson Twins song)
   "Lies" is a 1983 song by the British New Wave/Synthpop band Thompson Twins. It was released as the first single from the album Quick Step and Side Kick , and the song peaked at #67 on the UK singles chart. The single fared better in the United States, where it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " - 3:12
3. "If You Were Here" - 2:55
4. "Judy Do" - 3:47
5. "Tears" - 5:02
6. "Watching" - 3:58
7. "We Are Detective" - 3:05
8. "Kamikaze" - 3:55
9. "Love Lies Bleeding" - 2:49
10. "All Fall Out" - 5:26

Cassette remixes:

1. "Love Lies Fierce" - 6:45 (Dub remix of "Love Lies Bleeding").
2. "Long Beach Culture" - 6:48 (Extended version of "Beach Culture")
3. "No Talkin'" - 6:18 (Dub remix of "Lies")
4. "Rap Boy Rap" - 7:22 (Original 12" version of "Love On Your Side")
5. "Frozen In Time" - 6:28 (Dub remix of "Kamikaze")
6. "Fallen Out" - 3:30 (Dub remix of "All Fall Out")

2008 expanded edition

In March 2008, Quick Step and Side Kick was reissued as a 2-disc set by Edsel Records and included the bonus remixes that appeared on the original 1983 cassette version of the album. The second disc included most major 12" versions and B-sides, some of which appear on CD for the first time.

Disc 1

1. "Love on Your Side" - 3:33
2. "Lies" - 3:13
3. "If You Were Here" - 2:56
4. "Judy Do" - 3:48
5. "Tears" - 5:02
6. "Watching" - 3:58
7. "We Are Detective" - 3:06
8. "Kamikaze" - 3:55
9. "Love Lies Bleeding" - 2:50
10. "All Fall Out" - 5:28
11. "Love Lies Fierce" - 6:45
12. "Long Beach Culture" - 6:48
13. "No Talkin'" - 6:18
14. "Rap Boy Rap" - 7:22
15. "Frozen In Time" - 6:28
16. "Fallen Out" - 3:30

Disc 2

1. "Lies (Single Remix)" - 3:15
2. "Love on Your Back" - 4:06 (Original B-Side of the "Love On Your Side" 7" Single)
3. "Lucky Day" - 3:52 (Original B-Side of the "We Are Detective" 7" Single)
4. "Dancersaurus" - 4:40 (Original B-Side of the "Watching" 7" Single)
5. "Lies (Bigger And Better)" - 6:35 (Original 12" remix of "Lies")
6. "Beach Culture" - 3:55 (Original B-Side of the "Lies" 7" Single)
7. "Love On Your Side (No Talkin')" - 5:48 (B-Side of the original "Love On Your Side" 12" Single)
8. "We Are Detective (More Clues)" - 6:00 (Original 12" remix of "We Are Detective")
9. "Lucky Day (Space Mix)" - 6:58 (B-Side of the "We Are Detective" 12" Single)
10. "Watching (You Watching Me)" - 5:48 (Original 12" remix of "Watching")
11. "Dancersaurus (Even Large Reptiles Have Emotional Problems)" - 5:50 (B-Side of the "Watching" 12" Single)

Song Details

• "If You Were Here" was featured and used as the theme for the film Sixteen Candles
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• "Love On Your Side" was featured on the fictional radio station "Wave 103" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
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Personnel

• Tom Bailey - vocals, synthesizer, drum programming
• Alannah Currie
  Alannah Currie
  Alannah Currie is a musician and artist, best known as a former member of the UK pop group, Thompson Twins.-Career:...
  
   - xylophone, percussion, vocals
• Joe Leeway
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  Joseph Martin Leeway is the former multi-instrumentalist, and stylings guru, for the 1980s band, the Thompson Twins. Leeway joined the Thompson Twins in 1980 after being one of their roadies.-Career:...
  
   - congas, synthesizer, vocals
• Boris Bransby-Williams - cymbals on "If You Were Here" & "Tears"
• Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...
  
   - background vocals on "Watching"
• Monte Brown - guitar on "Watching"

Engineer - Phil Thornalley

Phil Thornalley

Phil Thornalley is a songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" which Natalie Imbruglia later covered to great success for her 1997 debut album, Left of the Middle...