Your Love

Album

Play Deep

Label

Columbia Records

Genre

Power Pop

Composer(s)

John Spinks

Entered Chart

Feb 15, 1986

Peak Date

May 10, 1986

Released

February 1986

Recorded

1985 Studio Air Studios (London)

Catalog #

Columbia 38-05796

B-Side

61 Seconds

The music video has an extended intro and was directed by Jon Jopson.[13] The concept for the clip has the band filming a music video for the song, and prominently features a painting motif (similar to the cover of the album from which the song was taken). 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 video. Willette was interviewed about her role on the blog Noblemania in 2013, and gave details about the shoot; it was shot in Astoria, New York 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.[14] The band appears mainly as 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.[10] The video was first added to MTV's schedule during the week of 19 February 1986,[15] and began attracting major rotation. It peaked at number two on MTV's Top 20 Countdown in late April 1986

With a distinctive guitar riff and an unforgettable opening line, "Your Love" became one of the most memorable hits of the '80s. When lead singer Tony Lewis declares, "Josie's on a vacation far away, come around and talk it over," we know he's up to something. Our hero spends the rest of the song in seduction mode, trying to convince this girl (probably and ex-girlfriend) to have a one-night-stand. He pulls every trick from the player's handbook: Nobody Will Ever Know ("Stay the night but keep it undercover") I Really Need Comfort ("Another shoulder to cry upon") I Don't Know Where Else To Turn ("I ain't got many friends left to talk to") It Won't Mean Anything ("I just wanna use your love tonight") Does he capture his prey? We never find out, but it's clear that Josie deserves better. Formed in Manchester, England, and signed to Columbia Records as "The Baseball Boys," the group changed their name to The Outfield and released their debut album Play Deep in 1985. Like all of their original songs, "Your Love" was written by the band's guitarist, John Spinks, who died of liver cancer in 2014 at age 60. The song became an '80s classic and the showcase song for the band, which scored four more Top 40 hits: "All the Love in the World" (#19, 1985), "Since You've Been Gone" (#31, 1987), "Voices of Babylon" (#25, 1989) and "For You" (#21, 1990). In 2013, Saturday Night Live did a skit based on this song where host Josh Hutcherson speaks in the song's lyrics, trying to convince Josie's friend to have an affair. In the skit, Hutcherson is Josie's younger brother. It's a great visualization of the dynamic, as the girl rebuffs him at first, but is drawn in when he gets to the blue talk ("I can't hide the way I'm feelin'..."). A remix by Diplo charted on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in 2024, 38 years after it first became a hit. "Your Love (Remix)" is from Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: The Mixtape, released April 26, 2024.

Josie's on a vacation far away
Come around and talk it over
So many things that I wanna say
You know I like my girls a little bit older

I just wanna use your love tonight
I don't wanna lose your love tonight

I ain't got many friends left to talk to
Nowhere to run when I'm in trouble
You know I'd do anything for you
Stay the night but keep it undercover

I just wanna use your love tonight (whoa)
I don't wanna lose your love tonight

Try to stop my hands from shakin'
Somethin' in my mind's not makin' sense
It's been a while since we were all alone
I can't hide the way I'm feelin'

As you're leaving, please would you close the door?
And don't forget what I told you
Just 'cause you're right, that don't mean I'm wrong
Another shoulder to cry upon

I just wanna use your love tonight (yeah)
I don't wanna lose your love tonight (yeah)
I just wanna use your love tonight
I don't wanna lose your love tonight
I just wanna use your love tonight
I don't wanna lose your love tonight

(Use your love, lose your love) Your love
(Use your love) Well, I don't wanna lose
(Lose your, tonight) I don't wanna, no, I don't wanna
I don't wanna lose (use your, tonight) your love
(Lose your, tonight) Your love, your love
(Use your, tonight) Your love
(I don't wanna lose your love tonight) Ah
(Use your, tonight)