"This Side of Love" is a song by American singer and songwriter Terence Trent D'Arby taken from his second album, Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1989).

Critics have likened it to the work of musicians such as Sly and the Family Stone and Prince, and have noted its unpolished and compelling sound.

[1] While stationed in Germany, he joined a group named Touch and realized that he wanted to dedicate his life to music.

[6] The sound of "This Side of Love" has been compared to the work of Prince,[7][8] Grand Funk Railroad,[7] and Sly and the Family Stone.

[10] New York magazine's Elizabeth Wurtzel viewed it as "fun and raucous",[9] while The New Yorker's Ben Greenman called it "one of [D'Arby's] finest moments".

"[19] Robert Christgau cited the track as an example of D'Arby's "master[y] of the black spectrum" of music[8] and Spin's Howard Hampton declared it as "ear-popping".