I Love I Hate

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"I Love I Hate"
Neil Arthur I Love I Hate 1994 Single Cover.jpg
Single by Neil Arthur
from the album Suitcase
Released24 January 1994 [1]
Studio Livingston Recording Studios (London) [2]
Length4:16 (single version)
4:30 (album version)
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s) Neil Arthur
Producer(s) Marius de Vries
Neil Arthur singles chronology
"One Day, One Time"
(1992)		"I Love I Hate"
(1994)

"I Love I Hate" is a song by English singer and musician Neil Arthur, released on 24 January 1994 as the lead single from his debut solo studio album, Suitcase (1994). [3] It was written by Arthur and produced by Marius de Vries. It reached No. 50 in the UK and remained on the charts for two weeks. [4]

Contents

For the single's 12" format releases, remixes were created by the English electronic dance group the Grid, with others by Dom T. and Marius de Vries. [5] [6] A music video was filmed in Coney Island and New York City to promote the single. [7] It was directed by Lindy Heymann. [8]

Critical reception

Upon its release, Music & Media wrote, "The ex-frontman of Blancmange returns at almost the same point where he left seven years ago. His synth-flavoured new wave of the early '80s is spiced up with dance beats." [9] Alan Jones of Music Week considered it to be "pleasant commercial fare from Arthur, albeit not as startlingly innovative as some of his work with Blancmange or the West India Company". He felt the song was a "likely Top 40 contender" which "should find favour with radio in its regular mix, while The Grid's deeper dance interpretations tie up the club end of things". [10] Jim Lawn of The Lennox Herald remarked that Arthur "delivers a reasonable single with a nice hook and some radical dance remixes by The Grid". [11]

Penny Kiley of the Liverpool Echo described it as a "pleasant electro-pop song that is less quirky than his previous work". She felt the inclusion of "Living on the Ceiling" as a bonus track on the CD issues of the single "suggests Neil may not be so confident in his new stuff". [12] Terry Staunton of NME was critical of the song, stating it "has 'ordinary' tattooed right across its forehead" and calling Arthur "a poor man's Pet Shop Boy if ever there was one" who "made a couple of decent records as half of Blancmange". He added, "A plain, tinny, synthetic backing track with the dullest of vocals across the top. Not in the least bit good in any way at all." [13]

In an article on 1980s New Wave band comebacks, Keith Creighton of Popdose described the song as "positively epic". [14] Barry Page of The Electricity Club, in a feature titled "30 Lost Songs of the CD Era", considered the song to be "rather pedestrian" in comparison to Arthur's "engaging" debut single "One Day, One Time". [15]

Formats

CD single (UK CD #1)
No.TitleWritten byLength
1."I Love I Hate" Neil Arthur 4:14
2."Festival"Arthur4:09
3."Living on the Ceiling performed by Blancmange "
4:02
CD single (UK CD #2)
No.TitleWritten byLength
1."I Love I Hate (Extended Mix)" 4:30
2."Wendy You're a Bore"Arthur3:35
3."Oh No Not Yet"Arthur5:55
4."Feel Me (12" Mix) performed by Blancmange "
  • Arthur
  • Luscombe
7:03
CD single (European release)
No.TitleLength
1."I Love I Hate"4:16
2."Festival"4:10
3."I Love I Hate (Vocal Mix)"7:35
4."Living on the Ceiling performed by Blancmange "4:01
12" single
No.TitleRemixersLength
1."I Love I Hate (Excalibur Mix)" The Grid 7:27
2."I Love I Hate (Lakeside Mix)"The Grid4:58
3."I Love I Hate (2.45... Nuttall Street Mix)"
7:13
4."I Love I Hate (7" Edit)"
  • Dom T.
  • De Vries
4:14

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [4] 50

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  2. ↑ Suitcase (Media notes). Neil Arthur. UK. 1994. CDCHR 6065.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  15. ↑ Page, Barry (3 May 2012). "TASTY FISH : 30 Lost Songs of the CD Era". The Electricity Club. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
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