Thompson Twins – Quick Step & Side Kick

Mine has:
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): AL-6607 (Crossed out) SA 111 E1 AL-9624-A STERLING (Stamped) EMW
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): AL-6607 (Crossed out) SB 1111 E1 AL-9624-B STERLING (Stamped) EMW

Really, really enjoying this. Back in the day I was far too cool to be in the Thompson Twins 🤷‍♂️ but a few years ago I picked these up for £3.00 each (This and the Into The Gap deluxe). It’s taken me those 3 years to actually play the things but now I have

A) These sound great. I’m not getting any sense of brickwalling. I can crank it up and it sounds the business. That’s fantastic for a modern mastering.
B) The songs ? On one hand, sooooooo 80s. The drums, the strident Jupiter synth chord stabs and synth brass. But, those songs !? Certainly on this album you can still pick up the residue of their post -punk incarnation. I love Alannahs vocals, and Tom sounds uncannily like a more melodic Gary Numan, especially on Kamikaze. Not sure if We Are Detective is good or bad. It veers a bit close to novelty for my liking. Yet, it’s also very well made novelty.
There’s an innocence on this album which really sits nicely alongside the professional sheen of the production. I can see why they became so big briefly. Their look though. Hmmm. I can’t be harsh. Again - it’s the bloody 80s.

It’s great having the cassette extra tracks. I had the cassette back in the day, but as I said above, I was a cool Depeche Mode fan and the Thompson Twins were far too frivolous for my arch sensibilities. Now I’ve grown up and crawled out of my arse I know I’ll be playing this a lot this year. It’s got summertime stamped all over it.

Less keen on Into The Gap. The fun seems to have gone.

Anyway a resounding 5 stars AND WHY CANT ALL REISSUED REMASTERED RELEASES SOUND LIKE THIS ? WHY ?????????

This one's just as good as any of their other albums. Just as many hits. It's terribly underrated, if you ask me.

No where apart from the watching vinyl single can you get the remix version which is better in my opinion and appears on headline hits UK compilation lp and casette slightly edited not sure what it's never been put on remix albums it was the single mix. Such a shame its on no cd format 😢

Yes, Love On Your Side here is the version from the US Side Kicks album. But, it does not fade out 30 seconds earlier. It has 30 seconds edited out of the beginning of the song (aka the 7" Version).

Great 2 CD set and nearly everything is here. For some reason though, the version of Love On Your Back that appears here is not the same version that appears on the B side of Love On Your Side. It's not as good either IMO.

My copy includes an 11.4"x11.4" lyric insert with Japanese text (not lyrics) on the reverse.

The end scene of 'Sixteen Candles' introduced me to this album in high school and it's always been my favorite T Twins album.

Great album. Great sound of this mexican pressing, everything in its place: mix, eq, presence.

Can anybody translate what the red oval says? Anyone, anyone?