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Track Listings
| 1. Take Me I'm Yours |
| 2. Goodbye Girl |
| 3. Cool For Cats |
| 4. Up The Junction |
| 5. Slap And Tickle |
| 6. Another Nail In My Heart |
| 7. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) |
| 8. Is That Love ? |
| 9. Tempted |
| 10. Labelled With Love |
| 11. Black Coffee In Bed |
| 12. Annie Get Your Gun |
| 13. Last Time Forever |
| 14. Hourglass |
| 15. Some Fantastic Place |
| 16. Loving You Tonight |
| 17. This Summer |
| 18. Without You Here |
| 19. Library Girl - previously unreleased |
| 20. Last Call For Love - previously unreleased |
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A crucial compilation of one of the UK's finest bands, showcasing the very best of their contribution to the fine art of the pop single. Squeeze provided amiably clever popular music which struck hearts, tickled the ribs, moistened the eyes and tapped the feet. Difford & Tillbrook were indecently good at narrating a good domestic yarn over a suitably pithy couplet. They produced a steady stream of enduring pop classics over three decades including the hits Cools For Cats, Hourglass, Black Coffee In Bed, Pulling Mussells (From The Shell) and Up The Junction.
Essential Squeeze is a 20 track album including all their key hits along with two previoulsy unreleased tracks, 'Library Girl' and 'Last Call For Love' (both newly mixed by Glenn Tilbrook this year).
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Squeezed full of tunes,
This review is from: Essential Squeeze (Audio CD)
When I was a kid, I remember buying 'Up The Junction' on 7" mauve coloured vinyl with 'It's So Dirty' on the B-side. Fast forward to the present day and I hear that this is Lily Allen's favourite song.The songwriting partnership of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are quintessentially English in their writing which is typically about kitchen sink dramas. We have a great British tradition of this sort of thing ranging from: Ray Davies/The Kinks, Paul Weller, Morrissey and Blur etc. This compilation has a really crisp clear sound to it, which brings out fully, the hooks melodies and harmonies of the band. It also has two previously unreleased tracks that have been lovingly remixed by Glenn Tilbrook. This is 100% freshly 'squeezed' pop perfection, so I guess you could say that "the past has been bottled and labelled with love" straight onto this one cd 'Best Of'.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
UNDERATED GEMS FROM DEPTFORD,
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This review is from: Essential Squeeze (Audio CD)
Squeeze - a great band with supreme songwriters and a live reputation second to none. They slogged their way accross the UK and most of America in the late 70's & early 80's. Most of the record buying public didn't even realise they were still releasing albums throughout the late 80's and 90's. The quality of their albums went up whilst their sales went down. Harsh but true.But of course that is not the whole story. This compilation goes a long way to redressing the balance and highlights not only the major hits - Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Labelled With Love, Hourglass and Tempted - but also the quality of later singles such as Last Time Forever, Some Fantastic Place and This Summer. Songwriters Difford & Tilbrook were masters of many genre's and could effortlessly handle soul, rockabilly, Beatlesque pop, country and powerpop. The songs on this compilation are all remastered and the sound quality is pristine - Is That Love, Pulling Muscles From A Shell and Black Coffee In Bed still sound wonderful a full two decades later. The only complaint i have with Essential Squeeze is that the Big Squeeze compilation did the same job and added a few extra key tracks that are missing from this release - where are Electric Trains and Footprints ? - plus it also had all the key b-sides - but for sound quality alone this is great stuff. To summarise - if you like your pop/rock with brains, great lyrics and big Beatlesque melodies then Squeeze will be a revelation. cw
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great,
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This review is from: Essential Squeeze (Audio CD)
One of the best bands this country has ever produced and certainly one of the most underated. Although they have now produced probably more greatest hits albums than original albums this is worth getting if you are new to Squeeze to hear their varied material, great lyrics and tunes. This also has two unreleased tracks which are great to listen too. They will be releasing all their old albums during this year so worth getting those too.
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