Track Listing

1. Frank - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
2. If It's Love - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
3. Peyton Place - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
4. Rose I Said - Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze, Eric "E.T." Thorngren
5. Slaughtered Gutted And Heartbroken - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Squeeze, Glenn Tilbrook
6. (This Could Be) The Last Time - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
7. She Doesn't Have To Shave - Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze, Eric "E.T." Thorngren
8. Love Circles - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
9. Melody Motel - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
10. Can Of Worms - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
11. Dr. Jazz - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze
12. It's Too Late - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Squeeze, Glenn Tilbrook
13. Red Light - Squeeze
14. Frank's Bag - Squeeze
15. Good Times Bring Me Down - Squeeze
16. Any Other Day - Squeeze
17. Who's That - Squeeze
18. If I'm Dead - Squeeze
19. She Doesn't Have To Shave - Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze, Eric "E.T." Thorngren
20. Melody Motel - Eric "E.T." Thorngren, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19120 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 77 minutes

Album Description
After 1987's shiny, big-budget Babylon and On album, the unfairly overlooked follow-up, Frank, comes much closer to the sound of classic Squeeze with a `back-to-basics' approach, forming a compulsively entertaining and assured album with irresistible songs like If It's Love and She Doesn't Have to Shave.

This expanded re-issue includes 8 bonus tracks - demos, unreleased tracks (including the stunning, Jools Holland-sung blues song Good Times Bring Me Down), radio sessions, a luxurious booklet and new liner notes.

Customer Reviews

Frank is available again - at last
A great return to basics after the excesses of the mid 80's. This album is intimate, vibrant and thrilling. The remastering job is very good, not too loud / too compressed like all other reissues out there. But the usual flaws with expanded editions are there, mainly the missing track: of all the non-album songs released at the time (and there were not that much with only 2 singles with 2 b-sides each), all are there except the excellent bass/piano/vocal version of Vanity Fair which appeared as an extra track on the If It's Love 12" and CD single. So you'll still have to buy The Big Squeeze if you want that particular song.

A Bona Fide Squeeze cracker!
Definitely one of my all time favourite Squeeze albums - often overlooked, it's a real cracker packed with melodious gems and Chris Difford's lyrics have never been more acutely observant and incisive....and downright brilliant! From the ashes of a doomed extra-marital affair (Rose I Said) to being joyously & newly loved-up (This Could Be The Last Time) to observing the daily realities of a modern relationship (Can Of Worms). Add to that the sheer joy of Glenn Tilbrook's melodies being at their catchy best (If It's Love, Peyton Place, She Doesn't Have To Shave, Is It Too Late, Melody Motel......all excellent). A definate bona-fide Squeeze cracker!
Jool Holland makes a welcome return to the band on this album - and boy, he's on top form here! Listen out for the sublime piano solo on Peyton Place or Jools' catchy sing-a-long vocals on Dr. Jazz. Fantastic stuff.
Also included on this remastered reissue are some great bonus tracks & b-sides: Who's That and Red Light being two stand out tracks.
Essentially, to these ears, this album sounds like the band having FUN again - and it shows in the resulting superb musicianship on show here... top notch.

If you're new to Squeeze and don't already own this album, trust me, you can't go far wrong with this album. Give it a go, you won't be disappointed...!!

LISTEN OR THE TORTOISE GETS IT !
Frank was Squeeze's 1989 low key follow up the big selling Babylon and on album and as such hopes were high for another hit record. There is no question that Frank was artistically superior to it's predecessor, but with no potential singles, an almost complete lack of studio polish and very little marketing, it's not suprising the album tanked.
This is a shame because the first 'side' of the record is stunning. 'If It's Love', 'Peyton Place' and 'Rose I Said' are an opening salvo of tracks up there with Difford & Tilbrooks best. 'Slaughtered, Gutted & Heartbroken' is a glorious vehicle for one Of Difford'd finest lead vocals, whilst Jools Holland's best Squeeze track ever 'Dr Jazz' gives the later half of the record a much needed kick.
So why no glowing review - Frank does lack cohesion and, despite the undoubted musicallity of Tilbrook, Holland, Lavis, Wilkinson and Difford, there is something lacking when compared to the magnificent 'Play' Or 'Some Fantastic Place'.
Of the 'new' tracks 'Who's That' had potential to appear on the album propper, 'Red Light' is a decent stab at rockabilly and Jools Hollands second offering for inclusion 'Good Times Bring Me Down' is nearly as good as 'Dr Jazz'.
Definately worth reinvestigation.


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