that "[s]ome of the record bears listening to; other parts, however, are either repetitively dull or noisily annoying." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, the album is referred to as "an amusing trifle" and "a prelude of sorts" to the band's subsequent EP Fascination! (1983). Reviewing the 2002 re-release for Record Collector, Daryl Easlea and Joel McIver wrote that "Love and Dancing sounds pretty much as you'd expect, and only dated in the way that Giorgio Moroder's productions with Donna Summer sound. Thankfully recorded before the Fairlight sampler had fully taken hold, it sounds like the last post in the '80s for real, organic synthesiser music, if there could ever be such a thing. It's great fun." Legacy Love and Dancing was one of the first remix albums ever released, and established the Human League as pioneers of the format, with Jon Falcone of Music OMH calling the album "revolutionary" for its production. Tom Flint of Sound on Sound felt the album was "arguably even more influential than Dare itself," while NME wrote that both Dare and Love and Dancing "redefined modern synthetic pop." In his book Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds hailed Love and Dancing "[a] masterpiece of editing and mixing-board wizardry." Tim Thornton of The Huffington Post cites the album as "one of the few examples of a whole album [...] being remixed by one person and then released as another album." In 2012, Fact included the record in a list of 20 landmark remix albums, describing it as "[t]he daddy of pop remix albums." In an interview, Sean Dickison of The Soup Dragons spoke of his infatuation for "the deconstruction concept of remix albums," including that of Love and Dancing, while Pet Shop Boys cited Love and Dancing as the inspiration for the etc. bonus CD in the double-disc edition of their album Yes (2009). Holly Johnson, formerly of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, recalled Love and Dancing being "incredible to dance to in seedy gay nightclubs." Phil Oakey said in a 1983 NME interview with Morley that, as long as the Human League can release albums as good as Love and Dancing, "then we deserve to be heard in five years' time and we don't deserve to be dropped like, say, Adam Ant's been dropped." He later hailed the album as "so innovative" in an interview with The Quietus, saying: "Martin was splicing