Quick Step & Side Kick is the third studio album by the British new wave group Thompson Twins.

The album was the first collaboration between the band and producer Alex Sadkin and was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.

Reviewing the album in Record magazine, Crispin Sartwell noted that the songs "Love On Your Side", "Tears", "Love Lies Bleeding", and especially "Lies" achieved a funk that could appeal to both black and white listeners, but that the songs on Side Two of the record veer more towards the pretentious music of their first two albums.

[7] The Rock Yearbook 1984 in summarising reviews in the British music press reported the album was "about as interesting as a Wolverhampton bus station at two in the morning", Record Mirror and "more like a labour in industrial design than a labour of love and inspiration", Melody Maker; New Musical Express was more positive, "not only multifaceted and musically mature, but upliftingly alive as well".

The second disc included most major 12" versions and B-sides, some of which appeared on CD for the first time.