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1991 single by Extreme

"More than Than Words"
More than words.jpg
Unmarried by Farthermost
from the anthology Pornograffitti
B-side
  • "Squeamish Place to Visit"
  • "Kid Ego"
Released March 23, 1991 (1991-03-23)
Recorded 1989
Genre
  • Soft stone[1]
  • acoustic rock[2]
Length
  • five:33 (album version)
  • 4:09 (radio edit)
Characterization A&M
Songwriter(s)
  • Gary Cherone
  • Nuno Bettencourt
Producer(s) Michael Wagener
Extreme singles chronology
"Get the Funk Out"
(1991) 		"More Than Words"
(1991) 		"Hole Hearted"
(1991)
Music video
"More Words" on YouTube

"More than Words" is a vocal past American stone band Extreme. Information technology is the fifth runway and tertiary single from their 1990 anthology Pornograffitti. It is a ballad built around acoustic guitar work by Nuno Bettencourt and the vocals of Gary Cherone (with harmony vocals from Bettencourt). The song is a detour from the funk metallic mode that permeates the band's records. Equally such, information technology has often been described every bit "a blessing and a expletive" due to its overwhelming success and recognition worldwide, but the band ultimately embraced it and plays it at every show.

Content [edit]

The song is a ballad in which the singer wants his lover to do more to prove her beloved other than proverb the phrase "I love you." Bettencourt described it every bit a alert that the phrase was becoming meaningless: "People employ it so easily and so lightly that they think yous can say that and set up everything, or you can say that and everything'southward OK. Sometimes you have to do more and y'all have to prove it—there's other means to say 'I dear you.'"[3]

"Information technology became a monster. It took a life of its own and we couldn't kill it. ... I think it'll pass the test of time."

—Gary Cherone talking about the song.[four]

"That song gave us the freedom to make the record we really wanted to make when we started recording our third disc," Cherone told KNAC. "It got usa doing huge tours all over u.s. and around the world... As the nineties went on, however, nosotros really started to resent the song. We were tagged 'the More Than Words guys'. Nosotros didn't like the perception the song created almost the band. I recollect being on tour with Aerosmith in Poland... it was on that bout we decided we would not play the vocal. We only didn't do it. A couple nights into the tour, Steven Tyler writes in big letters on our dressing room door, 'Play the fucking vocal!' His mental attitude was nearly male parent-like. He was like, 'Expect, this is your first time in Poland. When do y'all think y'all will be dorsum? They want to hear information technology, so play it!'"[v]

Critical reception [edit]

AllMusic editor William Ruhlmann noted that on the song, the band pursued "acoustic balladry".[6] Kira Fifty. Billik from Associated Press described it as a "sweet, pure acoustic ballad" "whose message is that the words "I love you lot" are becoming meaningless."[7] It was likewise labeled every bit a "nontraditional love vocal".[viii] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that this "tender, sparsely produced rock/beloved ballad proves that sometimes less actually is more. The spotlight here is on the band'south striking song harmonies, too every bit its shimmering acoustic guitar piece of work."[9] The Daily Vault'southward Sean McCarthy said that it is a "beautiful, minimal audio-visual number [that] made the band huge" and added that "for the band, "More than Than Words" is the song that volition nevertheless get airplay."[10] Diane Cardwell from Amusement Weekly called it "a simple, nigh folkie carol using but two voices and a single acoustic guitar."[eleven] Kirsten Frickle from El Paisano described information technology equally an "all-acoustic ballad that is then beautiful it will make your pilus stand on end".[12] Music & Media labeled the vocal equally "folky"[thirteen] and "a calming piece of music, aptly produced by Michael Wagener." They added, "Information technology shows the ring from a totally dissimilar bending. And information technology must be said, they handle this ballad extremely well."[fourteen] Alan Jones from Music Calendar week stated that it is "a subdued, lilting acoustic workout that suggests zip more than Simon & Garfunkel in its more angelic passages."[xv] Carrie Borzillo from Record-Journal chosen it an "Everly Brothers-style" song.[xvi] Sandwell Evening Postal service wrote, "If ever a song could be unrepresentative of a band's output, Extreme'south worldwide smash hit ballad More Than Words is it."[17] Marc Andrews from Boom Hits said it is "eye-moistening".[18] Tom Nordlie from Spin noted information technology every bit "a love ballad that sounds like the Everly Brothers or early on Beatles." He added, "Singer Gary Cherone harmonizes with himself equally guitar-friend Nuno Bettencourt strums clean, jazzy chord accessory, and that's it. No sudden escalation to bombast in the heart, no reneging on the song'south original promise."[19]

Chad Bowar writing for LiveAbout placed the vocal on his list of the "Best xx Hair Metal Ballads of the '80s and '90s".[20]

Chart performance [edit]

On March 23, 1991, "More Than Words" entered the The states Billboard Hot 100 at number 81 and soon later on reached number one. It also reached number ii in the United Kingdom, where the group had success before its American breakthrough. Though they had fabricated a few European charts before, this brought the band to their first mainstream success in the Usa.

Music video [edit]

The song's music video was filmed in blackness and white and was produced and directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. It starts with Pat Badger turning off his amplifier and putting down his bass, and Paul Geary putting downwards his drumsticks. Nuno and Gary are so seen performing the song, while the other band members are shown in front of them.

Rail listings [edit]

CD maxi

  1. "More than Words" — v:33
  2. "Child Ego" — four:04
  3. "Squeamish Place to Visit" — 3:xvi

seven-inch single

  1. "More Than Words" (Remix) — three:43
  2. "Nice Place to Visit" — 3:sixteen

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Other versions [edit]

Westlife version [edit]

"More Than Words"
Promotional single by Westlife
from the album Grandes Exitos and Westlife
Released
  • 1999
  • 2002 (unmarried)
Genre
  • Popular rock
  • soft rock
Length 3:53
Label
  • Sony BMG
  • Lideres
Producer(s) Steve Mac

Irish boyband Westlife covered the song for their 1999 debut-album Westlife and released as promotional single in their Venezuelan only compilation album Grandes Exitos (2002), peaking at number three on the Venezuelan singles chart. The single featured sectional remixes of three of the group'southward biggest hits.[62]

Track listing [edit]

  • Venezuela [62]
  1. "More Than Words"
  2. "I Lay My Beloved on Y'all" (Single Remix)
  3. "World of Our Own" (Single Remix)
  4. "Uptown Girl" (Radio Edit)

Glee Cast version [edit]

This song is featured in the eighteenth episode of the fourth flavour of the Tv set series Glee, "Shooting Star". It is performed by Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans and Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce. This song is released in the album Glee: The Music, The Complete Season Four.

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