Product Description

This set charts Squeeze's course from their late '70s beginnings through the sadly overlooked FRANK in 1989. While all these selections weren't bona fide hits, they were all released as singles and certainly should have been chart-toppers.Leaders Difford and Tilbrook know how to craft true pop gems (and the Beatle comparisons they received are more than warranted), with hooks that manage to be innovative in sometimes subtle ways--"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" being a case in point. That these twenty songs possess the familiarity of warmly remembered hits even if they're a new experiencefor the listener says much about the high level of writing,arranging and playing skills that characterise this blue chip ensemble.

Track Listing

1. Take Me I'm Yours
2. Goodbye Girl
3. Cool For Cats
4. Up The Junction
5. Slap & Tickle
6. Another Nail In My Heart
7. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
8. Tempted
9. Is That Love?
10. Labelled With Love
11. Black Coffee In Bed
12. Annie Get Your Gun
13. King George Street
14. Last Time Forever
15. No Place Like Home
16. Hourglass
17. Trust Me To Open My Mouth
18. Footprints
19. If It's Love
20. Love Circles

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1109 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 76 minutes

Customer Reviews

Cool for more than Cats
You gotta admit that this is the business when a quintet of South Londoners ignored the whole punk thing and got down to making music in the style of the 60s and 70s.Especially the 70s when Wings ruled.
They said Difford & Tilbrook were the new Lennon & McCartney-thats the bands built in songwriting unit but though many times they were as good there were no takers for their songs other than their own original versions.
Maybe Squeeze should do a covers album as Difford & Tilbrook make their own albums either solo or collectively.
Maybe somebody should do a tribute album-with so much variety the songs could easily be done 50s style.
As it stands Squeeze never had a No 1 hit and not much of an American career so they are bound to live on as a singles band

awesome
i may only be 19 yrs old and probably not really old enough to know them properly, but they were an awesome band. i love every single song of theirs. its still ace now. so go, go buy it. u will love it

A great contribution
Squeeze had its roots in the same UK lyricism and wit as late 1970s Elvis Costello. These charming songs succeed through their deft characterisation and catchy tunes. There is also plenty of stylistic variety, from the plaintive rock of Goodbye Girl to the out and out country of Labelled With Love. Other great songs here include Tempted, Pulling Mussels From The Shell, Up The Junction, Tale Me I'm Yours, Hourglass, King George Street and Trust Me To Open My Mouth. This is fine pop music, quirky and charming, especially when Squeeze go into story-telling mood as on Labelled With Love. The sound is peculiarly British but the songs have universal appeal. Squeeze emerged during the punk revolution but they outlived that era and their memorable songs have stood the test of time very well.