Love It When You Call

Single infobox
Name = Love It When You Call
Artist = The Feeling
from Album = Twelve Stops and Home
Released = 20 November 2006
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Soft rock
Length = 3:34
Label = Island
Producer = The Feeling
Chart position =
Last single = "Never Be Lonely"
(2006)
This single = "Love It When You Call"
(2006)
Next single = "Rosé"
(2007)
Misc = Extra album cover
Background = khaki
Upper caption = Alternative covers


Lower caption = 7" single cover

"Love It When You Call" was the fourth single from The Feeling taken from their debut album "Twelve Stops and Home". It was released on November 20 2006. The song peaked at #18 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fourth Top 20 single.

The song appears to be about someone whom the protagonist is attracted to. The protagonist tells this person that they love it when they call them (i.e. speak to them), but that this never happens anymore. It also seems that the protagonist longs to return to a time when they would be good friends and speak regularly, but that the person in question now ignores them because they've found a new "best-time buddy" and have left the protagonist behind.

The Feeling played this song live for Children in Need 2006. They also performed it as part of the BBC One New Year's Eve 2006 celebrations and at the Concert for Diana. An edited version of the song also appeared in the 2007 film Good Luck Chuck in which the lyrics "but you never call at all" were cut out. It was also used in the advertisement for The Life of Brian on E4 (UK) as background music.

The video for the song (based on the film Casino) features the band dressed both as gangsters and FBI agents. One member of the gangsters makes a deal with the FBI, leading to a shoot-out at the end of the video.

It is common belief that the track samples Queen's classic One Vision in the introduction, which also features on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto IV and the movie Iron Eagle, but this is not so as it misses several key changes and notes out; and altogether, though the sound is quite similar, the structure is quite different.

Track listing

CDS
# "Love It When You Call" - 3:37
# "The Child" - 3:18
# "Don't Give Up (Acoustic Version)" - 4:09
# "Love It When You Call" (U-Myx) - 5:15

7"

# "Love It When You Call"
# "Do You Want It? (Late Night Shed Experiment)"

Charts

References