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Your Love (The Outfield song)

"Your Love"
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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.

Despite the band being from London, the song was a hit only in the United States, where it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart in 1986. "Your Love" has been covered in a variety of genres, including reggae and EDM.

"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. It then peaked at number seven on the Top Rock Tracks chart during the week of March 1. 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.

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


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