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Tripping on Your Love

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Released
  
19 August 1991

Genre
  
Dance

Recorded
  
January 1990

Label
  
London

Format
  
7" single, 12" single, CD single

Length
  
3:21 (album version) 3:15 (single mix)

"Tripping on Your Love" is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It appears on the group's fifth studio album Pop Life and was released as the album's fourth single in the UK and the first single in the United States. The track was co-written and produced by Youth.

Contents

The single is considered by Bananarama to be their biggest commercial flop in the UK, just missing the top 75 of the UK singles chart. It was originally intended to be the album's second single (following "Only Your Love") but was delayed as two different songs were released as singles. By the time "Tripping on Your Love" was issued, Jacquie O'Sullivan had announced her departure from the group, and Bananarama's long-time manager Hillary Shaw also quit [1]. In addition, group member Sara Dallin was pregnant with her first child, which made promotion nearly impossible.

The song is a fusion of acid house, South Asian, rap, and Caribbean music. The album version was remixed by Robin Hancock before it was released as a single. It was not included on the original version of The Very Best of Bananarama, but a remix was included on a special edition bonus CD of the compilation.

The single's biggest success came in U.S. dance clubs, climbing to number fourteen on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in December 1991. It would be Bananarama's last appearance on that chart until 2006 when "Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)" peaked at number two. The song boasts the most commissioned remixes of any Bananarama single (twenty mixes by nine different remixers, including George Michael).

In 2007 Keren said she considered the song to be one of the band's best.

Music video

The music video features the girls filmed in slow-moving cinematography on a beach dune, in front of a house, and in a car. As Sara Dallin was pregnant at the time, she was shot only from the shoulder upwards.

Remixes

UK CD single
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Single Mix) - (3:15)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Euro Trance Mix) - (7:21)
  3. "Tripping on Your Love" (The Loveable Love Dove Caper) - (6:26)
CD promo single
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Euro Trance Mix) - (7:21)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Indika Dub Mix)
  3. "Only Your Love" (Hardcore Instrumental)
Promo remixes 1
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Silky Soul 70's Mix) - (6:24)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Silky Dub) - (5:17)
  3. "Tripping on Your Love" (E-Smoove Chant Mix) - (7:06)
  4. "Tripping on Your Love" (Maurice Wicked Mix) - (6:20)
  5. "Tripping on Your Love" (Maurice Dub Mix) - (8:12)
  6. "Tripping on Your Love" (Sturm Mix) - (3:59)
Promo remixes 2
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Silky Soul 70's Mix) - (6:24)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Silky Dub) - (5:17)
  3. "Tripping on Your Love" (E-Smoove Chant Mix) - (7:06)
  4. "Tripping on Your Love" (Maurice Wicked Mix) - (6:20)
  5. "Tripping on Your Love" (Euro Trance Mix) - (7:21)
  6. "Tripping on Your Love" (George Michael Metropolis Mix) - (3:37)
UK CD promo single NANXDJ 22
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Euro Trance Mix) - (7:21)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Indika Dub Mix)
  3. "Tripping on Your Love" (Instrumental)
Other versions
  1. "Tripping on Your Love" (Album Version) - (3:21)
  2. "Tripping on Your Love" (Sweet Exorcist Mix)
  3. "Tripping on Your Love" (Sweet Exorcist Dub)

Personnel

Bananarama

  • Sara Dallin - Vocals
  • Jacquie O'Sullivan - Vocals
  • Keren Woodward - Vocals
  • References

    Tripping on Your Love Wikipedia