Love Conquers All (ABC song)
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{{Infobox song
| name = Love Conquers All
| cover = ABC Love Conquers All.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = ABC
| album = Abracadabra
| B-side = What's Good About Goodbye?
| released = 15 July 1991
| recorded = 1991
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Synth-pop
| length =
| label = EMI, Parlophone
| writer = Martin Fry, Mark White
| producer = Martin Fry, Mark White
| prev_title = The Look of Love '90
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Say It
| next_year = 1991
}}
"Love Conquers All" is a single by new wave group ABC, released as the lead single from their sixth studio album Abracadabra in July 1991.
The song's music video, shot mostly in black-and-white, features scenes of various people doing random actions, intercut with footage of Martin Fry and Mark White performing the song and the seahorse from the Abracadabra album cover.
Critical reception
Upon its release, Paul Lester of Melody Maker praised the song as a "sparkling addition to the ABC oeuvre" and described it as "disco as in 'Southern Freeez' or an old Whispers love-thing". He noted the band "continue to face tomorrow with their best foot dancefloorward" and added that the B-side, "What's Good About Goodbye?", "makes me long for that pre-Pixies/Roses, pre-postantirockist time when bands yearned to sound modern and technologically advanced".{{cite magazine |last=Lester |first=Paul |date=6 July 1991 |title=Singles |magazine=Melody Maker |page=29}} Sally Margaret Joy of Melody Maker was less enthusiastic in her review, calling the song "merely vapid", with the "only clue to a former glory [being] the upward bubbling of a watery whistle during the verses". She also noted the "pick 'n' mix chocolate box lyrics" that "passed muster" on The Lexicon of Love, but "sound all wrong now".{{cite magazine |last=Joy |first=Sally Margaret |date=20 July 1991 |title=Singles |magazine=Melody Maker |page=32}} Andrew Collins of NME commented that the song "sounds like ABC would've sounded in 1982 if it had been 1991, if you see what I mean". He added, "It's so slick it just slid off my turntable and then slimed off down the road. No great loss, really."{{cite magazine |last=Collins |first=Andrew |date=27 July 1991 |title=Singles |magazine=New Musical Express |page=22}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|headline = CD/12" single{{Discogs master|73709|Love Conquers All|type=single}}
|title1 = Love Conquers All
|note1 = 7" version
|length1 = 4:02
|title2 = Love Conquers All
|note2 = extended version
|length2 = 6:15
|title3 = What's Good About Goodbye?
|length3 = 4:48
|title4 = Love Conquers All
|note4 = percapella mix
|length4 = 4:24
}}
{{Track listing
|headline = 2020 digital download{{iTunes|gb/album/love-conquers-all-remixes/1531860536|Love Conquers All (Remixes)}}
|title1 = Love Conquers All
|note1 = 7" edit
|length1 = 4:02
|title2 = Love Conquers All
|note2 = The Morales "Eclipse" Mix
|length2 = 5:45
|title3 = Love Conquers All
|note3 = the Morales mix
|length3 = 4:42
|title4 = Love Conquers All
|note4 = Boilerhouse Mix
|length4 = 4:51
|title5 = Love Conquers All
|note5 = percapella mix
|length5 = 4:24
|title6 = Love Conquers All
|note6 = extended version
|length6 = 6:17
}}
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Chart (1991)
!Peak |
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| align="left"|German Singles Chart{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.de/song.asp?artist=ABC&title=Love+Conquers+All&country=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717120423/http://www.officialcharts.de/song.asp?artist=ABC&title=Love+Conquers+All&country=de |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2014 |title=charts.de |publisher=charts.de |date= |accessdate=2012-06-23}}
| style="text-align:center;"|36 |
| align="left"|Swiss Singles Chart{{cite web|author=Steffen Hung |url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=ABC&titel=Love+Conquers+All&cat=s |title=ABC - Love Conquers All |publisher=hitparade.ch |date= |accessdate=2012-06-23}}
| style="text-align:center;"|22 |
| align="left"|UK Singles Chart{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Love+Conquers+All|title=The Official Charts Company - Love Conquers All by ABC Search |date=6 May 2013|publisher=The Official Charts Company}}
| style="text-align:center;"|47 |
References
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Category:Songs written by Mark White (musician)