Bangin'

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Bangin'
Bangin' album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released12 June 1987 [1]
Recorded1986
Studio Air, London
Genre Pop rock
Length40:36
Label Columbia
Producer William Wittman
The Outfield chronology
Play Deep
(1985)
Bangin'
(1987)
Voices of Babylon
(1989)

Bangin' is the second album by the English pop rock band the Outfield, released in 1987. [2] [3] It yielded the top 40 hit, "Since You've Been Gone". The album also contained two other singles, "No Surrender" and "Bangin' on My Heart". "Bangin' on My Heart" reached number 40 on the Billboard rock chart. The album was certified gold by the RIAA. The band supported the album with a North American tour. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
New Musical Express 3/10 [7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Windsor Star C [4]

The St. Petersburg Times wrote: "The Outfield specializes in what you could call an early '80s American Sound... It's music by recipe: You take hyper-macho hard rock and tone it down so it will appeal to the over-17 set." [9] USA Today called the band a "middleweight, pop-rock group." [10] The Los Angeles Times deemed them "nice, clean Anglo popsters with plenty of teeth in their smiles but none in their music." [6] Newsday opined that some songs "make Bon Jovi sound like innovators, make the Starship seem like a band on the cutting edge." [11]

Track listing

All songs were written by John Spinks except noted.

  1. "Somewhere in America" – 4:12
  2. "Bangin' on My Heart" – 3:57
  3. "No Surrender" – 4:47
  4. "Moving Target" – 4:18
  5. "Long Way Home" (John Spinks, Rick DiFonzo) – 4:22
  6. "Playground" – 4:59
  7. "Alone with You" – 3:17
  8. "Main Attraction" – 3:54
  9. "Better Than Nothing" – 4:04
  10. "Since You've Been Gone" – 4:46

Personnel

The Outfield
Additional personnel

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