"Love's Great Adventure"
Single by Ultravox
from the album The Collection
B-side
  • "White China" (Live)
  • "Man of Two Worlds" (Instrumental)
Released12 October 1984
Recorded1984
GenreSynthpop, pop rock, new wave
Length3:04
5:40 (Extended version)
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, Midge Ure
Producer(s)Ultravox
Ultravox singles chronology
"Lament"
(1984)		 "Love's Great Adventure"
(1984)		 "Same Old Story"
(1986)

"Love's Great Adventure" is a single released by Ultravox on 12 October 1984.[1][2] Having enjoyed massive radio airplay that autumn, the single became Ultravox's thirteenth Top 30 single in Britain, and was their last major hit in the UK, peaking at #12 in the UK Singles Chart.[3]

Background


The song was not released on a studio album, instead appearing on their 1984 compilation album The Collection.

Billy Currie said 1984: "We wanted to do something different, to get out of the way singles that are taken from an album tend to sound the same as each other. You know, when any band puts out several singles from the same album, they might appear to be very different in some ways, but because they were all recorded at the same time, they have the same feel to them. We wanted to get away from that - do a one-off single totally separate from any album. The recording was a lot more immediate than 'Lament'. We decided not to go into the studio and spend a long time doing it, because things can become really sluggish when you're doing albums. For the single there was plenty of momentum going, and the momentum thing is important: having done the single like that, I'd now like to do an album in the same way - do it with just a couple of days' rehearsals, or none at all, which was what we did for the single."[4]

An episode of the BBC series Inside No. 9, also called "Love's Great Adventure", used this song as its closing theme.

Track listing

7" version

  1. "Love's Great Adventure" – 3:04 - (Cross, Ure)
  2. "White China (Live June 84 at Hammersmith Odeon)" – 3:43 - (music: Cross, Cann, Currie - lyrics: Ure)

12" version

  1. "Love's Great Adventure (Extended Version)" – 5:40
  2. "White China (Live June 84 at Hammersmith Odeon)" – 3:43
  3. "Man of Two Worlds (Instrumental)" – 4:32 - (music: Currie, Cann, Cross, Ure - lyrics: Ure)

References

  1. ↑ "Record News". NME. London, England: 51. 6 October 1984.
  2. ↑ "allmusic". AllMusic. 1 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "The Official Charts Company - Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure". Official Charts. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  4. ↑ "loves-great-adventure".
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