Your Love (The Outfield song)

"Your Love"
UK vinyl single
Single by The Outfield
from the album Play Deep
B-side "61 Seconds"
Released 14 February 1986
Format
Recorded
Genre
Length 3:36
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) John Spinks
Producer(s) William Wittman
The Outfield singles chronology
"Say It Isn't So"
(1985)		 "Your Love"
(1986)		 "All the Love"
(1986)

"Say It Isn't So"
(1985)		 "Your Love"
(1986)		 "All the Love"
(1986)

"Your Love" is a song by the English rock band the Outfield, taken from their debut album Play Deep (1985). The song was penned by the band's guitarist John Spinks.

In the United States, the song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart in 1986.

Commercial performance

"Your Love" became a major hit nearly solely in the United States, where it became a song of the summer. It was first released as the second single from Play Deep in November 1985. It was first pushed to album-oriented rock (AOR) radio, to maintain momentum generated by the album's lead single, "Say It Isn't So". After entering the top ten of Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart (which measured the playlists of AOR stations across the U.S.), Columbia began expanding the song to top 40 radio in February 1986.[1] It then peaked at number seven on the Top Rock Tracks chart during the week of March 1.[2] The song entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1986, peaking at number six during the week of May 10. Overall, it spent 22 weeks on the Hot 100.[3]

Reception

Rolling Stone contributor Jimmy Guterman wrote that the track "seems to advocate philandering," and that "the repulsive misogyny contaminates the whole song."[4] While Dennis Hunt from the Los Angeles Times criticized the whole of Play Deep as "thoroughly derivative music," he praised the song's "lovely melodic line that's engagingly performed by vocalist Tony Lewis, who has obviously been listening to Journey's Steve Perry."[5]

Music video

The song's music video has an extended intro and was directed by Jon Jopson.[6] The concept for the clip is the Outfield filming a music video for the song, and prominently features a painting motif. They perform in front of a backdrop of the Play Deep album cover, which is also being finger-painted offstage by an artist, played by actress JoAnn Willette. Her character and lead vocalist Tony Lewis appear flirtatious throughout the clip. Willette was interviewed about her role on the blog Noblemania in 2013, and gave details about the making of the clip. It was shot in Astoria on a soundstage over one day; at the end of the video, Willette can be seen exiting the studio at dawn, the time the production wrapped.[7] The video is mainly footage of the group playing the song, highlighting their unity as a performing band: "We didn't want a situation where they had to be actors or something that wasn't what they are," said the band's manager, Kip Krones, at the time.[1]

The video was first added to MTV's schedule during the week of 19 February 1986,[8] and began attracting major rotation. It peaked at number two on MTV's Top 20 Countdown in late April 1986.[1]

Play Deep (The Outfield Album) - Your Love

Charts

Chart (1986) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[9] 37
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[10] 33
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] 17
Germany (Official German Charts)[12] 52
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[13] 83
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 6
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[2] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1986) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 62

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bessman, Jim (July 26, 1986). "How the Outfield Became Sluggers" (PDF). Billboard. 98 (30). Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 3.
  2. 1 2 "The Outfield Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "The Outfield Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Guterman, Jimmy (1985). "Play Deep Review". Rolling Stone (477).
  5. ↑ Dennis Hunt (June 1, 1986). "Hit Puts The Outfield Team In The Big Leagues". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Enter Sandman | Metallica | Music Video". MTV. Viacom Media Networks. Retrieved May 2, 2014. templatestyles stripmarker in |work= at position 1 (help)
  7. ↑ Marc Tyler Nobleman. "The Girl in the Video: "Your Love" (1986)". Noblemania. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ "MTV Programming". Billboard. 98 (9). Billboard Publications, Inc. March 1, 1986. p. 39.
  9. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles" (PDF). RPM. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. 44 (13). June 21, 1986. OCLC 352936026. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ultratop.be – The Outfield – Your Love" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  11. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Outfield – Your Love" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  12. ↑ "Musicline.de – The Outfield Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
  13. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  14. ↑ Billboard Top 100 - 1986. "Billboard Top 100 - 1986 - Longbored Surfer - Charts". Longbored Surfer. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
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