In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

like all classic rock stations, we here at unheard classic rock radio WUCR love to take requests -- as long as you request one of the 90 songs already in heavy rotation.

SONG #20: THE OUTFIELD "YOUR LOVE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs

I've never understood thinking of that song as "classic rock." To me, The Outfield are 80s also-rans. I hope there's some discussion, because I'm always genuinely baffled by people who even remember them, never mind fondly.

I remember it being treated like a novelty at the time; "Hey, that guy kinda sounds like Sting!" was the full extent of any and all discussion of the Outfield in 1986. I have never once heard this on the radio (cr or otherwise) since.

I heard Outfield before I had heard any Police. I had it on a C30 of stuff that I had taped off of Nick Rocks.

That said, I don't consider it classic rock and feel like if it ever shows up on classic rock radio, that it's probably for baseball reasons.

I'd like to file these guys with Mike & the Mechanics, Mr. Mister, Richard Marx, etc. but they didn't call themselves the Moutfield.

I remember it being fairly big at the time-Billboard shows it as a #6 in the US. I think it's a great little pop one off, but I definitely see how CR adopted it.

Musically it's not that far from what Bryan Adams was doing, and I think it's fair to cast mid-80s classic rock as either hair metal, or having a vague MTV/new-wave image (if not sound).

will be interesting to hear the Doc's reaction.

Yeah, I can see Bryan Adams or Mike and the Mechanics comparisons. I think I want a dangly gold cross earring now. Can we bring those back for dudes?

yeah, this Mike & the Mechanics entry is definitely the most wtf nominee

campreverb otm about 80s classic rock being either hair metal or new-wavey. Choogling and boogie rock doesn't make it very far into the 80s. I think the only other category of 80s classic rock is the holy trinity of earnest rocking': Petty/Mellencamp/Springsteen.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/ZZ_Top_-_Eliminator.jpg

yeah, definitely nothing new wavy in that one.

love that record, of course, made my side ballot of top 5 classic rock records. And not "new wavy" in the same way the Cars or Outfield are. But I don't think it emphatically contradicts my point.

ah yes, roots rock.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Allentown_Billy_Joel.jpg

van halen also secretly carrying the boogie banner

Yeah, boogie rock didn't totally disappear in 1980, you still saw it in hybrid with new wave and hair metal.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.

The Stray Cats were pretty popular for about one year, right?

they neither choogle nor boogie

they strut.

What about The Georgia Satellites?

'your love' is the worst most abominable garbage, i have never stopped hating that fkin song in its near 30 years of existence.

and i love the referents it is adopting, just the song itself is such shit

Georgia Satellites, Van Halen (Hot for Teacher), and AC/DC are the best counter-arguments to the "death of boogie" theory, and they all have boogie asterisks attached.

And as for chooglin', there was virtually none that decade asterix or no

"Boogie Asteriks" also an underrated Earth, Wind & Fire b-side.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.
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Specifically, "just what I needed"

I guess I'm thinking of boogie as descriptive of a particular approach to rhythm rather than tone or production style. Boogie survives and adapts even as bloozrock gives up the ghost. Just relocates from the swamp to the Sunset Strip.

AC/DC lost about 2/3 of their boogie power when Bon Scott died. (Seriously, the songs on Back in Black and everything after are routinely half the speed of the '70s material.)

what the fart is "choogling"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azt-0StLZOk

Your Love has been the first song this thread that I knew. From that recent SNL sketch with Josh Hutcherson and HAIM. So know I'm listening to HAIM. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxBHRZpIdg

Is this not a boogie? If not, what am I missing?

I'm sorry I cannot support "chooglin'" as a word or a concept.

If I saw the aged singer of The Outfield on the streets of manhattan my pacifist ethos would be stretched beyond its limit.

It's like a cross between butt chugging and one of those "comedy" sex moves like the dirty sanchez or whatever.

i have confidence that ilx massive can convert carl agatha to a chooglin' adherent with just a few well aimed YTs

It's going to take some doing to overcome my revulsion for the word, but I'm open to further examples.

"chooglin'" too close to "chive on" or somethin

If I can't choogle, I don't want to be part of your classic rock revolution.

carl agatha, most extensive discourse on choogling probably in this thread:

Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

It's a pretty long thread though, so ctrl-f.

KEEP
CALM
AND
CHOOGL'ON

The Outfield might be a poor man's police but I find this song better than anything on Sting's output.

everything he says sounds like almost words but to me mostly this:

BABA BA BABA BA BAAAAAAAA BAAA BAAA

Solo sting mostly sucks but the outfield dude could never aspire to the profundity of hoping the Russians love their children too

bet outfield guy can't even sing a canticle

HEY OUTFIELD HOW'S YOUR LUTE

I actually never noticed the Sting vocal resemblance, though now I can't unheard it. I actually thought "Your Love" was a Rick Springfield song until this polling process started.

unheard it, i mean.

*unhear* it! autocorrect killing me.

I actually thought "Your Love" was a Rick Springfield song until this polling process started.

Was actually gonna reference Rick Springfield in my post upthread.