Love in Motion (song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Love in Motion

| cover = LoveInMotionSingle01.jpg

| alt =

| caption = 1981 Australian 7" release

| type = single

| artist = Icehouse

| album =

| B-side = Goodnight, Mr. Matthews

| released = October 1981

| recorded = July 1981

| studio = London

| genre =

• Synthpop
• new wave

| length = 3:41

| label = Regular

| writer = Iva Davies

| producer =

• Steve Nye
• Iva Davies

| prev_title = Icehouse

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = Great Southern Land

| next_year = 1982

}}

"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofau00mcfa |format=doc |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=1999 |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |accessdate=2008-07-07 |url-access=registration }} The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse,{{cite web |url=http://www.spellbound-icehouse.org/storynew1.html |title=The Icehouse story - early years |last=Davies |first=Neville |publisher=Spellbound fanzine |accessdate=2008-07-07 }} they had signed to Chrysalis Records and most of Flowers' material was released under the new name into Europe, UK and US markets. "Love in Motion" peaked at #10 on the Australian singles charts.{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The B-side, "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" was included on the 1982 album Primitive Man with "Love in Motion" included on the Chrysalis Records US / European versions of the album, the UK 1983 version of the album was re-titled Love in Motion.

Both tracks of the single were written by the Flowers/Icehouse founder and mainstay Iva Davies{{cite web|publisher=APRA |title=APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |accessdate=2008-06-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124161012/http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |archivedate=January 24, 2008 }} Note: requires user to input song title e.g. LOVE IN MOTION who recorded the tracks while Icehouse were on tour in London using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5,{{cite web|url=http://www.warnermusic.com.au/artist,w_artist,49247 |title=Artist: Icehouse |publisher=Warner Music Australia |accessdate=2008-07-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611054259/http://www.warnermusic.com.au/artist%2Cw_artist%2C49247 |archivedate=2008-06-11 }} and produced them with Steve Nye.{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130929120725/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/i/icehouse.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/i/icehouse.html | title = The Flowers / Icehouse | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | publisher = Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | archivedate = 29 September 2013 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 21 March 2014 }} In 1992, Icehouse released a compilation album Masterfile on Massive Records, which included the Davies duet with Christina Amphlett of Divinyls on "Love in Motion" also released as a CD-single. A 1996 Icehouse compilation was called Love in Motion and released by dIVA / Massive Records. A remix version by Wicked Beat Sound System was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r615650|pure_url=yes}} |title=Meltdown credits |website=allmusic guide |accessdate=2008-07-16 }}