Welcome to My Music Mondays. I haven’t done one of these in a while but the basic premise is that each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at The Outfield.

A week ago, because of The Beatles: Rock Band, I was on a big Beatles kick. Sticking with the British themed pop/rock groups I unnaturally morphed into an Outfield kick. I can’t really explain it but at least it explains this post in some way.

While I am sure that I first heard The Outfield in the 1980s, most likely from their biggest hit “Your Love”, I don’t particularly remember buying anything by them until roughly 1993. In 1993, the Philadelphia Phillies made it to the World Series and a local news station used The Outfield’s song “Winning It All” as part of a highlight montage and shortly thereafter I bought their album Rockeye and have been a fan ever since.

Favorite Album: Rockeye

The album doesn’t contain my favorite song by them but it does contain the most I like by them and it is responsible for me owning their work outside of 80s compilation discs.

10 Favorite Songs

10. Give It All You Got
9. Tonight You’re Mine
8. Every Time You Cry
7. Say It Isn’t So
6. Take Me Home
5. Young Love
4. My Paradise
3. Closer to Me
2. Winning It All
1. Your Love

Welcome to My Music Mondays. I haven’t done one of these in a while but the basic premise is that each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at The Beatles.

I’m not going to beat around the bush here. I am not a Beatles fan (or at least I wasn’t but that is a story for another post), regardless despite admiring their contributions to the music industry, I’ve never really been big into them but due to my review of The Beatles: Rock Band for Hooked Gamers (which should go live in the next couple days), I’ve been thinking about the band a whole lot and ultimately decided I should at least share my 10 favorite Beatles songs with everyone.

10 Favorite Songs

10. Something
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Can’t Buy Me Love
7. The Ballad of John and Yoko
6. Hey Jude
5. Back in the U.S.S.R.
4. Come Together
3. I Saw He Standing There
2. Here Comes the Sun
1. Let it Be