And it must be said, they handle this ballad extremely well." Īlan Jones from Music Week stated that it is "a subdued, lilting acoustic workout that suggests nothing more than Simon & Garfunkel in its more angelic passages." Carrie Borzillo from Record-Journal called it an " Everly Brothers-style" song. Pan-European magazine Music & Media labeled the song as "folky" and "a calming piece of music, aptly produced by Michael Wagener." They added, "It shows the band from a totally different angle. The spotlight here is on the band's striking vocal harmonies, as well as its shimmering acoustic guitar work." The Daily Vault's Sean McCarthy said that it is a "beautiful, minimal acoustic number made the band huge" and added that "for the band, "More Than Words" is the song that will still get airplay." ĭiane Cardwell from Entertainment Weekly called it "a simple, almost folkie ballad using just two voices and a single acoustic guitar." Kirsten Frickle from El Paisano described it as an "all-acoustic ballad that is so beautiful it will make your hair stand on end". īillboard stated that this "tender, sparsely produced rock/love ballad proves that sometimes less really is more. Billik from Associated Press described it as a "sweet, pure acoustic ballad" "whose message is that the words "I love you" are becoming meaningless." It was also labeled as a "nontraditional love song". When do you think you will be back? They want to hear it, so play it!'" Critical reception ĪllMusic editor William Ruhlmann noted that on the song, the band pursued "acoustic balladry". He was like, 'Look, this is your first time in Poland. A couple nights into the tour, Steven Tyler writes in big letters on our dressing room door, 'Play the fucking song!' His attitude was almost father-like. it was on that tour we decided we would not play the song. I remember being on tour with Aerosmith in Poland. We didn't like the perception the song created about the band. We were tagged 'the More Than Words guys'. As the nineties went on, however, we really started to resent the song. "It got us doing huge tours all over the states and around the world. "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 took a life of its own and we couldn't kill it. Sometimes you have to do more and you have to show it-there's other ways to say 'I love you.'" The song is a ballad in which the singer wants his lover to do more to prove her love other than saying the phrase "I love you." Bettencourt described it as a warning that the phrase was becoming meaningless: "People use it so easily and so lightly that they think you can say that and fix everything, or you can say that and everything's OK. As such, it has often been described as "a blessing and a curse" due to its overwhelming success and recognition worldwide, but the band ultimately embraced it and plays it at every show. The song is a detour from the funk metal style that permeates the band's records. It is a ballad built around acoustic guitar work by Nuno Bettencourt and the vocals of Gary Cherone (with harmony vocals from Bettencourt). " More Than Words" is a song by American rock band Extreme, released as the fifth track and third single from their second album, Pornograffitti (1990), in March 1991.
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