Love Has No Name

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"Love Has No Name"
Babble Love Has No Name 1996 single cover.jpg
Single by Babble
from the album Ether
Released1996
Length
  • 5:35 (album version)
  • 3:39 (remix edit)
Label Reprise, Eternal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Tom Bailey
  • Alannah Currie
  • Keith Fernley
Babble singles chronology
"Beautiful"
(1994)
"Love Has No Name"
(1996)

"Love Has No Name" is a song from British-New Zealand electronic dance music group Babble, which was released in 1996 as the sole single from their second and final studio album Ether . The song was written by Alannah Currie (lyrics) and Tom Bailey (music), and was produced by Bailey, Currie and Keith Fernley. It reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart. [1]

Contents

The song features Teremoana Rapley as guest vocalist. It is the only track on Ether not to feature Bailey or Currie on lead vocals. [2]

Critical reception

On its release, Larry Flick of Billboard described Babble as an act which "deftly blends electro-pop gloss with gritty dance and world beat rhythms" and praised Rapley as an "enigmatic vocal presence" which "bring[s] the melodramatic pose of a French chanteuse to the song". Flick also praised Todd Terry's house remix and drew comparisons to Terry's remix work on "Missing" by Everything but the Girl. [3] In a review of Ether, Daina Darzin of Cash Box praised the song as "particularly memorable" and noted its "undulating dance beat" and "sensual, Sade-style vocals". [4] Chuck Campbell of the Knoxville News–Sentinel noted it had a "livelier rhythm" than the rest of Ether, but added that the song was "in need of development". [5]

Track listing

12-inch single (UK and Germany) [6]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:32
2."Love Has No Name"Archaeopteryx Dub7:02
3."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:09
4."Love Has No Name"Ars Longa Mix5:34
12-inch promotional single (UK) [7]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:32
2."Love Has No Name"Tee's Club6:35
3."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:09
4."Love Has No Name"Ars Longa Mix5:34
12-inch promotional single (US) [8]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:32
2."Love Has No Name"Tee's Club6:34
3."Love Has No Name"Bonus Beats3:10
4."Love Has No Name"Jasminder5:29
5."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:09
2x 12-inch promotional single (US) [9]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:32
2."Love Has No Name"Tee's Club6:35
3."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:09
4."Love Has No Name"Ars Longa Mix5:34
5."Love Has No Name"Jasminder5:28
6."Love Has No Name"Archaeopteryx Dub7:04
7."Love Has No Name"Remix Edit3:39
8."Love Has No Name"Instrumental6:35
9."Love Has No Name"Bonus Beats3:10
CD single (US) [10]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Album Edit3:40
2."Love Has No Name"Remix Edit3:39
3."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:35
4."Love Has No Name"Jasminder5:26
5."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:07
6."Love Has No Name"Tee's Club6:33
7."Love Has No Name"Archaeopteryx Dub7:01
8."Love Has No Name"Ars Longa Mix5:26
CD single (Germany) [11]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Remix Edit3:39
2."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze6:32
3."Love Has No Name"Vita Brevis Mix9:09
4."Love Has No Name"Ars Longa Mix5:34
5."Love Has No Name"Jasminder5:25
6."Love Has No Name"Archaeopteryx Dub7:02
CD promotional single (Europe) [12]
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Love Has No Name"Tee's Freeze - Eternal Radio Edit3:15

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the US double 12-inch vinyl single and the Ether CD booklet. [8] [13]

Production

Remixes

Other

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
UK On a Pop Tip Club Chart ( Record Mirror ) [14] 35
US Hot Dance Music Club Play ( Billboard ) [1] 10

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