By Your Side (Jimmy Somerville song)
"By Your Side" is a song from Scottish singer-songwriter Jimmy Somerville, released as the third and final single from his 1995 album, Dare to Love.[2] Following the song's original release on the Dare to Love album and as a single, it has also appeared on the 2009 Music Club Deluxe compilation For a Friend: The Best of Bronski Beat, The Communards & Jimmy Somerville.[12] Upon its release as a single, John Robinson of NME remarked that the song features "an immaculately tasteful panpipes of the Andes tale of undying devotion with a murderously unsubtle beat cemented on for maximum inoffensivity"."[13] Music Week noted that the "ballad mixes a Dire Straits sound with almost Sting-like vocals" and added "fans will love it anyway".[14] Robbert Tilli of Music & Media stated, "More multi-functional than this you won't find, because such slightly dance-edged material obviously has both radio and big-town club potency – surely in the 'Miss You Like Crazy' and 'the Shining' mixes.