The Outfield's "Your Love": I have a bone to pick with VH-1 Classic

Apart from the fact that the geniuses that run it took a beautiful concept and killed it a few years ago just as I got it on my cable system, that is. I get an assortment of music videos ON DEMAND through FIOS, and some of them are in their own precious little VH-1 Classic section, which is itself divided into several subfolders.

Incidentally, I'm already nostalgic for the day when it was hip to ask, "Remember when MTV used to show videos?" That gave way to, "Remember when VH-1 used to show videos?" Now it's, "Remember when VH-1 Classic used to show videos?" Ah, progress...

Here's my beef: While it's nice to watch The Outfield's "Your Love" with the click of a button, whoever programs VH-1 Classic's On Demand selection did the British pop rock band and its fans a disservice by putting this video in the "One-Hit Wonders" subfolder. Now, I'm not a crazed Outfield devotee obsessed with monitoring the group's "propers," but just a guy who got a good deal on one of their greatest hits collections years ago and enjoyed it.

That's right, greatest HITS. "Your Love"(#6 on the Billboard Hot 100 according to Wikipedia) is clearly the band's high point, but The Outfield charted with several other singles in the 1980s, most notably "All the Love," which peaked at #19 and received mucho play on the radio and on, yes, MTV.

Any group that boasts a second successful single on the same album as its most known hit should not be labeled a "one-hit wonder." We're not talking Musical Youth here. Just because many radio stations and outlets that celebrate the 1980s ignore the other songs does not mean they didn't make an impact. VH-1 Classic should put "Your Love"in its I Love the 80s section rather than give this mostly forgotten but pleasant band an unnecessary dis.

And, oh, yeah, it should start showing videos in the afternoons and evenings again, expand its playlist, and never show "The Jacksons: An American Dream" again. But fixing this thing with The Outfield would make a nice start.