I Love I Hate


"I Love I Hate" is a song by British singer and musician Neil Arthur, released in 1994 as the lead single from his debut solo album Suitcase. It was written by Arthur and produced by Marius de Vries. It reached No. 50 in the UK and remained on the charts for two weeks.
The song was recorded at Livingston Recording Studios. For the single's 12" format releases, remixes were created by the English electronic dance group The Grid, with others by Dom T. and Marius de Vries. A music video was filmed in Coney Island and New York City to promote the single. It was directed by Lindy Heymann.

Critical reception

Upon release, Music & Media wrote: "The ex-frontman of Blancmange returns at almost the same point where he left seven years ago. His synth-flavoured new wave of the early '80s is spiced up with dance beats." Jim Lawn of The Lennox Herald commented: "Ex-Blancmange singer delivers a reasonable single with a nice hook and some radical dance remixes by The Grid."
Penny Kiley of the Liverpool Echo commented: "The ex-Blancmange singer comes up with a pleasant electro-pop song that is less quirky than his previous work." She felt the inclusion of "Living on the Ceiling" as a bonus track on the CD issues of the single "suggests Neil may not be so confident in his new stuff".
In an article on 1980s New Wave band comebacks, Keith Creighton of Popdose described the song as "positively epic". Barry Page of The Electricity Club, in a feature titled "30 Lost Songs of the CD Era", considered the song to be "rather pedestrian" in comparison with Arthur's "engaging" debut single "One Day, One Time".

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Production