Track Listing

1. Satisfied
2. Crying in My Sleep
3. Letting Go
4. Day I Get Home
5. Truth
6. House of Love
7. Cupid's Toy
8. Gone to the Dogs
9. Walk a Straight Line
10. Sunday Street
11. Wicked and Cruel
12. There Is a Voice

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32900 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

DEFINATELY NOT GOING TO POT
1991's PLAY album saw Squeeze signed up to Warner Bros and entering the final phase of their recording career (to date). It was another record full of clever lyrics and smart pop melodies, except this time around the cheerful matiness of early releases was jetissoned in favour of slick production and a more American sound.
PLAY is also Squeeze's darkest record by far (Cosi Fan Tutti a close second) and requires patience and repeated listens to fully understand what messers Difford & Tilbrook were aiming for.
Satisfied and Sunday Street were both lifted as singles - the former a mid-paced mood piece with a distinctly Beatlesque feel, the latter a catchy if rather forced take on English weekend life. But it's the album tracks that really lift PLAY onto the upper teirs of early 90's rock/pop.
Letting Go is a stunning jazz/pop song beautifully performed with a lovely Tilbrook vocal and a wonderfully emotive Difford lyric. Wicked & Cruel is a thundering and sarcastic ode to a soon-to-be X and House Of Love is a woozy piano driven stomper which could have been a single (but wasn't).
If you are looking for another Cool For Cats or Hourglass then this isnt the Squeeze CD for you. If you want a mature, adult orientated rock record with flashes of Beatles/Kinks brilliance then PLAY is well worth hunting down.
cw

A Grower
I've always liked Squeeze but didn't like this album on first listen as it is unlike anything else they've done.
I persevered with it because I had tickets to see them live and knew they'd be playing several tracks from the new album. I'm very pleased I did.
Play is one of my favourite albums by anybody ever but I think it needs a few listens to fall in love with it. I believe it's about to be reissued.

Undiscovered Gem
This a great Squeeze album, but if you want Cool For Cats etc. then don't get this get a greatest hits cd, this is a fantastically melodic and catchy album, didn't spawn any hits didn't sell well so Reprise droped them (they re-signed with A&M after) but it's one of my fav Squeeze cd's staund out songs for me are Wicked and Cruel, Gone to the Dogs, House of Love, the cd is not in print any more so try and snap up a copy from somewhere and give it about three plays before you make up your mind, you wont be disappointed.