Title - Love Moves [Expanded Deluxe 2CD+DVD]
Artist - Kim Wilde
For those unaware, Kim Wilde has blazed a trail ever since she made her debut with the indelible ‘Kids in America’ back in 1981, becoming the most charted British female artist of the 80s with a string of smashes around the globe. A perennial pop icon, Kim will release her 15th studio album, Closer, in 2025.
By popular demand, Kim’s seventh studio album, 1990’s Love Moves, is given a deluxe 2CD+DVD reissue on Cherry Pop, comprehensively expanded with bonus tracks, remixes, videos and BBC TV performances for the very first time.
Originally released on MCA, Love Moves includes the UK hits ‘It’s Here’, ‘Time’ and ‘I Can’t Say Goodbye’ plus the overseas singles ‘Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love)’ and ‘World in Perfect Harmony’ – all showcasing the big pop sound Kim had by then made her own in partnership with her chief collaborator, co-writer and producer, her brother Ricky.
Packaged in a stunning fold-out digifile with a 24-page booklet, this edition features new sleeve notes, discography, additional images from Kim’s personal collection and full lyrics.
Coinciding with corresponding packages for Kim’s subsequent albums Love Is and Now and Forever, this is an essential purchase for her army of fans.
Disc One:
1. It’s Here
2. Love (Send Him Back to Me)
3. Storm in Our Hearts
4. World in Perfect Harmony
5. Someday
6. Time
7. Who’s to Blame
8. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love)
9. In Hollywood
10. I Can’t Say Goodbye
11. Virtual World [Bonus Track]
12. Time [7” Version] [Bonus Track]
13. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [7” Version] [Bonus Track]
14. I Can’t Say Goodbye [Edit] [Bonus Track]
15. Sanjazz Megamix
On what is, to my mind, a wholly criminally overlooked work of musical art, Love Moves may well not be as good as the 80’s Kim Wilde albums that we all know and love, but it has many amazing songs that still resonate today.
Weirdly, one of the lead singles, It’s Here, is a song which wasn’t one of her most popular back in the day, but I honestly believe that truly devoted fans of her (much like myself), would put it in her Top 10 of all-time brilliant hits.
Another song here that mysteriously remained an album track, is the brilliant Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, a most perfect example of pop-rock that there ever was, along with the smoothly delicate, calming Who’s to Blame (which revealed the state of the world, as was).
The PWL-esque vibe of the free flowing Time is another belter of a song, as too the perfectly harmonic poptastic World in Perfect Harmony, with other stand outs being the sweetly simply, delicately-hued Someday and the beautifully timeless I Can’t Say Goodbye.
Disc Two:
1. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [7” Edit]
2. World in Perfect Harmony [7” Remix]
3. Sanjazz Megamix [Edit]
4. It’s Here [Extended Version]
5. Time [Extended Version]
6. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Extended Version]
7. I Can’t Say Goodbye [Extended Version]
8. World in Perfect Harmony [Extended Version]
9. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Remix Version]
10. Virtual World [Extended Version]
11. Someday [Extended Version]
12. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [12” Club Mix]
13. World in Perfect Harmony [Acoustic Version]
14. It’s Here [Alternative Mix]
15. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Club Dub Mix]
From the second disc of B-Sides and rarities comes 15 various club, dub, alternative, acoustic and extended remixes, the immediate stand out for me being the always-great-to-listen-to, eight minute long Sanjazz Megamix (the 7” single B-Side of I Can’t Say Goodbye), which opens on both You Came and You Keep Me Hanging On, culminating with both the propulsive Never Trust A Stranger and Time.
A few other gems here include the brilliant Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Extended Version], the forever danceable World in Perfect Harmony [Extended Version], and a rather delightful It’s Here [Alternative Mix].
DVD:
Promo Videos
1. It’s Here
2. Time
3. Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love)
Kim at the BBC
4. It’s Here [On Going Live]
5. Time [At the SOS Star Awards]
6. I Can’t Say Goodbye [On Pebble Mill]
Bonus footage
7. It’s Here [TV ad]
Official Purchase Link
www.cherryred.co.uk