Train of Love in Motion

"Train of Love in Motion" is a song by the British new wave and synth-pop band Heaven 17, released on 31 October 1988 as the second and final single from their fifth studio album, Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho.

He recalled it was "quite optimistically released as a single", but also felt it was an example of there being "too much responsibility put on a simple band instrumentation framework to make average songwriting into something more attractive".

"[6] David Stubbs of Melody Maker noted the song had "a bit of funky velocity" and called it "an anachronism", as he felt it was "in the tradition of the greatly superior" "Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk and Moscow Discow by Telex.

[8] Marcus Hodge of Cambridge Evening News was critical of the track, calling it "sub-standard funk" with Heaven 17 "sound[ing] like a group going through the motions and nothing more".

"[9] Matthew Collin of Record Mirror remarked, "Despite the renewed popularity of all things synthetic, Heaven 17 manage to string together a series of the most banal pop clichés imaginable, in what sounds like total desperation.