Love Pains

"Love Pains"
Single by Liza Minnelli
from the album Results
B-side	"Rent"
Released	24 February 1990
Genre	Dance-pop Euro disco
Length	4:10
Label	Epic
Songwriters	Michael Price Dan Walsh Steve Barri
Producers	Pet Shop Boys Julian Mendelsohn
Liza Minnelli singles chronology
"So Sorry, I Said" (1989) "Love Pains" (1990) "The Day After That" (1993)
Music video
"Love Pains" (live) on YouTube

"Love Pains" is the fourth and final single from American singer and actress Liza Minnelli's ninth album, Results (1989). It was released in the UK in February 1990 by Epic Records.^[5] The track was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn. The single's B-side is Minnelli's take on the Pet Shop Boys single "Rent", which also features on Results.

Steve "Silk" Hurley was commissioned to create several mixes for "Love Pains" which are spread across the single's various formats. The single almost reached the top 40 on the UK Singles chart, stalling at number 41. This was 21 places higher than the last single, "So Sorry, I Said". A performance had been recorded for Top of the Pops, but was never broadcast, until a brief clip was shown during the Top of the Pops: The Story of 1990 special, which was broadcast on 2 October 2020.

Bill Coleman from Billboard wrote, "Inspired remake of the Yvonne Elliman disco/pop nugget deserves a break. Minnelli's vocal prowess charms and the beat still pumps. Try it out."^[6] David Giles from Music Week found that in comparison with Hazell Dean's 1989 version, this song "just twitters away behind Minelli, adding little beside a beat. The song itself is, however, strong enough to make this a hit."^[7] Edwin J. Bernard from Number One complimented it as "classic gay disco".^[8] Joe Brown from The Washington Post commented, "For once, Minnelli is forced to sing against type, in the breathy, clipped phrases required by dance beats. And because she's singing along with an impassioned background choir, it's easy to imagine her singing along with the song on the dance floor at Studio 54 or Regine's or Xenon. Overwhelmed by the ecstatic rushes and multiple crescendos of electrodisco, Minnelli's unalterably earthbound voice gets lost in the mix, and you can't pick her out of the crowd."^[9]

Hazell Dean's version, produced by Phil Harding and Ian Curnow, peaked at number 48 on the UK Singles chart in August 1989,^[14] number 18 in Dutch Tipparade,^[15] and number 51 in Dutch Single Top 100.^[16] The single release's B-side track is "More Than Words Can Say".

American singer Viola Wills released her own house cover version of the song in 1989 on Music Man Records. She had a hit with it in Belgium where her version peaked at number 27 on the pop charts.^[17]