BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1990
REQUEST
“Only Your Love” is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was released as the first single from the group’s fifth studio album Pop Life and was issued several months prior to the release of the album. The Pop Life album marked a break for Bananarama from their long-standing relationship with the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) production trio. “Only Your Love” was co-written and produced by Youth. The album version of the song was remixed for its single release.
The song’s primary rhythm, complete with ‘Woo Woo’ hoots, directly references “Sympathy for the Devil”. This led Jonathon Ross to jokingly thank ‘The Rolling Stones’ after Bananarama had performed the song on his TV show. The song also contains samples of “Loaded” by Primal Scream and “Fool’s Gold” by The Stone Roses, two songs that had been recent pop and dance hits in the UK. Upon its release “Only Your Love” received positive critical reviews. The song was not released as a single in the United States.
“Only Your Love” peaked at number twenty-seven in the UK singles chart, which the group considered to be a disappointment. The single did not fare much better in other countries, hitting number forty-nine in New Zealand and fifty-one in Australia.
SIDE A:
Only Your Love (The Monkey Drum Mooch) 7:23
Remix – Terry Farley
SIDE B:
Only Your Love (A Tribute To Barry Mooncult Mix) 5:40
Remix – Terry Farley
Only Your Love (Paris Texas Instrumental) 5:33
Arranged By [Vocal Arrangements] – Andy Caine
Engineer – Thrash
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Cover: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: London Records
Catalog#: NANXR 21
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: House
Credits: Design [Sleeve Design] – Andrew Biscomb, Peter Barrett (3)
Producer – Youth
Written-By – Andy Caine, Sara Dallin*, Youth
NOTES:
Tracks A & B1 Remixed for Boys Own Productions
Find the 12″ on DISCOGS
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
Thank So Much For The Bananas Updates.
Can You make it downloadable again, and all Bananarama stuff? Please 🙂 Love Your blog. Jason from Poland.
Links are working now 🙂
Hi there,Great Blog,love it. Just a big Bananarama Fan,i try to look for ages to find the only your love remix vinyl,but no luck,
now i found your blog and i found the vinyl but sadly it’s all down,could you please try to put it on download again?
THANKS A MILLION !!!
All Bananrama links have been fixed. Enjoy!
Great much appreciated, anyone got Sly Fox – Let`s Go All The Way?
Keep bidding for it on ebay, won a copy when it arrived it was broke….
Paul, you are my hero once again. I always thought “Only Your Love” was their finest post-Siobhan single, period, and was stunned that they didn’t even try it (as a single) in the States – they might have even gotten onto poppier-alternative leaning stations had London put some muscle behind it. Great video too – though it does play to their ‘fiercest’ fan base 🙂
superb
thanks a million
Hey guys I am planning to upload both mixes in the near future so keep checking back.
Check back?
I stalk you everyday…well at least your blog!
Thanks Paul!
I look forward to that too, Paul. Your rips are always far superior to my own!
p.s. I owe you a donation in the near future.
Peace!
Thank you Christian.
Thanks for the great post, DJ Paul T. Love the Nanas!
You’re the best!
Sadly, never promoted in US! Great tune!
The good ones were never released here in the US, specially songs with Hi-Nrg theme.
Thank you!
been looking for this for a long time – thanks!
Wow…finally a Bananarama track!!! Thank You so much. Please, please post a few of their PWL remixes which is only available on vinyl at the moment like the Hammond Excursion Version Remix of I Can’t Help It.
Thank You so much for this rare treat though….
I second the vinyl-only remixes request…like the fabulous Muscle Bound Mix of More Than Physical!
@Paul: Thanks for the post. I echo everyone’s love of Bananarama.
@Gilbert & Ric: I have rips of the Hammond Excursion and Muscle Mix if you would like me to share them.
Yes please, that would be so nice of you. If there is anything you are looking for maybe i can help you. Thanks so much
My own rip of the Muscle Mix: files.me.com/xianavilesscott/mzd498.mp3
Found rip of the Hammond Excursion: files.me.com/xianavilesscott/rc076k.mp3
Both links expire in 10 days.
Thanks Christian. I am on http://www.discogs.com with username shyboy21_0 if there is anything you see, feel free to let me know and i will make you an mp3 version.
Thank you Christian for your generous share. Appreciate it 😀
Hope you don’t mind that I hopped on the bandwagon – thanks so much for sharing Christian!
Thanks a million for this! One of my favourite all time Bananarama tracks. 🙂
Great post, DJPaulT – I’ve been a huge fan of the Nanas for years and these remixes are a difficult to find rarity. One thing that is always mentioned about the Nanas is their ‘long-standing’ relationship with S/A/W, largely due to the fact that they had their biggest international hits working with them. However, the Nanas only worked with S/A/W on 2 cuts on ‘True Confessions’ (their last Jolley-Swain collaboration), one full album ‘WOW’, and 2 tracks on ‘Pop Life’, and I’ve always felt that the success of their work with S/A/W tends to overshadow some of their other great… Read more »
I love the ‘nana’s work with Jolley & Swain. Always thought there is this fun innocent spontaneous quality to the Pop Music they produced together.
Having said that, I do adore the SAW phase of the Nana’s. I Heard A Rumour is pure moment in Pop. And that Wow album is simply just that.
The irony is the behind the scenes relationship didn’t go down so well, especially between Siobhan and Pete.
I used to think ‘I Heard a Rumor’ is the most awesome Nana track ever, and it’s still a huge favorite – but I do think ‘Love, Truth & Honesty’ has some kind of weird hold over me. It’s not fantastic, but oddly compelling, at least to me. They are particularly strong, lyrically.
Yes – the behind the scenes relationship with S/A/W was famously fractious!
Hi BTGfan
Bananarama also worked with SAW on their PLEASE YOURSELF album. I think that was their last full album with them.