Genius of Love
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Artwork used as front cover of the French single and as back cover of the UK single | ||||
| Single by Tom Tom Club | ||||
| from the album Tom Tom Club | ||||
| B-side | "Lorelei" | |||
| Released | September 6, 1981 October 2, 1981 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
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| Length | 3:36 (7" single) 5:34 (album version) | |||
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| "Genius of Love" on YouTube | ||||
"Genius of Love" is a song by American new wave band Tom Tom Club, released in September 1981 by Sire and Warner Bros. as the second single from their eponymous debut studio album (1981). The song is written by Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Steven Stanley and Tina Weymouth, and produced by the three latter. It reached number one on the US Billboard Disco Top 80 chart, and was performed by Talking Heads (the group from which Tom Tom Club originated) in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense. "Genius of Love" was accompanied by a hand-drawn crayon and colored pencil animated music video. In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 26 in their list of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".