#squeeze band

[northwestofinsanity]

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford at a festival in the early, formative days of Squeeze.

#Squeeze #uk squeeze #squeeze band #pFFFt #I don’t know why it’s so funny #(actually I do) #oh lord have mercy #for a band that’s seldom thought of for hippie culture… #Chris Difford #Glenn Tilbrook

[hellogoodbyegirl]

Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze in the music video for 'Tempted'

#ba da 's and woohoohoo's :) #he's so cute and dare i say hot at the same time #glenn tilbrook #squeeze band #squeeze #uk squeeze #my gifs

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Lmao not James Bond making it into my Spotify Wrapped

#as he should !! #this is the year of the Daniel for me #tbf 4/5 of my top songs are Daniel-related #4th one came from a 00q playlist ngl #daniel craig #spotify wrapped #yungblud #queen band #years & years #jamie cullum #set it off #chris cornell #casino royale #bond theme #you know my name #james bond #00q #good old fashioned lover boy #squeeze band #autoheart

[fleetshotter-minstrel]

“The Past has been bottled and labelled with Love…” (1981). 😽😾😺🙀

#squeeze band #labelled with love #1980s pop #early 1980s #youtube

[bro-man-dude-guy]

Collection update! Going well so far! Planning on getting more Lemon Demon tapes soon and ironically i still don’t have a CD player

#lemon demon #squeeze band #nyrst #anthrax #amorphys #too many to name tbh ill keep it at that #hate tagging

[mywifeleftme]

313: Squeeze // Singles: 45's and Under

Singles: 45's and Under Squeeze 1982, A&M

Easy day at the office reviewing Squeeze’s first compilation, Singles: 45’s and Under. I’ve always thought of Squeeze as the smoothest, most traditionally pop of the British New Wavers. They’re like Costello without the pickled sarcasm; XTC without the berserk resistance to medication; Dave Edmunds with the ability to develop an original thought. As such, in my experience they’ve been a far easier sell to new fans than any of those guys because they simply sound cool and good as hell without making every song a litmus test of how much you can bear Tifford and Dilbrook’s star personas. Even on the Cool for Cats-era stuff when they’re drenching their music in Devo-levels of freaky squelch (see “Goodbye Girl”), there’s always a sturdy classicism to what they do, a sense of craft that a McCartney or a Bacharach would instantly respect, a lightness of melody that hovers over you all day after a single listen. While the countrified “Labelled with Love” has always struck me as a hair too precious, every other song is an indispensable gem, with “Pulling Muscles From a Shell,” “Take Me, I’m Yours,” and “Up the Junction” (the proto “Common People”?) standing out among the power poppers. Squeeze’s post-East Side Story years are a notoriously mixed bag, but you’d have to have a real bone-deep aversion to blue eyed soul or sophistipop for the languid charms of “Black Coffee in Bed” to elude you. Really, has anybody ever done this kind of thing better without feeling the need to beat you over the head with their genius?

313/365

#squeeze #new wave #jools holland #chris difford #glenn tilbrook #squeeze band #'70s music #'80s music #music review #vinyl record

[datascatvislorturlough]

My YouTube wrapped is pretty much as expected, though not with the two I thought being in first place.

Top 5 artists:

Survivor

Mike & The Mechanics

Tears For Fears

Pet Shop Boys

Squeeze

Top 5 songs:

Tempted by Squeeze

Sugar Sugar by The Archies

Breakaway by Big Pig

Electric Boogie from a Reggae compilation album

Automatic by the Pointer Sisters

I think Survivor is first for artists because I added two "new" songs to my playlist. No idea why Tempted is number one for songs, like, at all. I listened to Pet Shop Boys It's A Sin for longer in single periods of time than total for Tempted. I am confused.

#youtube wrapped #youtube music #survivor band #mike & the mechanics #mike and the mechanics #mike + the mechanics #tears for fears #pet shop boys #squeeze band #tempted by squeeze #sugar sugar by the archies #the archies #breakaway by big pig #big pig #big pig band #electric boogie #reggae #automatic by the pointer sisters #pointer sisters #music #80's music #80s music #classic rock #new wave #rock music #pop music

[therecordconnection]

Ranting and Raving: "Up the Junction" by Squeeze

Squeeze are one of the great unsung bands of the second British Invasion. A band that has never gotten their well-earned praise.

Squeeze were never going to be huge megastars. Their discography is too varied, their humor too odd and too British, and their songwriting was of a kind that didn't really appeal to American sensibilities. Though the band managed to have a few hits here in the states ("Black Coffee in Bed," "Hourglass," and, most importantly, "Tempted") they never got much further than that. Part of me thinks they didn't really care about conquering America since they never bothered to try and appeal to us. Certainly songs like this were never going to do it. There's British slang all over this song that makes no sense unless you head on over to Genius and look at some annotations.

But it's songs like this one that I think made Squeeze a special band. A different band. These were guys that wrote songs with a subtle and understated magic to them.

Squeeze's songs were created through the songwriting partnership of dual guitarists/vocalists Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. Unlike Lennon/McCartney, it's very easy to figure out which one did what. Difford handled the lyrics, Tilbrook then took those lyrics and set them to music. "Up the Junction" is one of the best things they wrote together and it deserves some praise.

So, why don't we start with defining what the phrase "up the junction" means. It's simple. It means: Up shit creek without a paddle. Boned. In a mess of trouble. You're screwed, basically. The phrase doesn't appear until the end and it isn't until the end where it's revealed why the song is called that.

I said Squeeze's songwriting was of a kind that didn't really appeal to American sensibilities and that's clear right from the first listen. Americans love a chorus they can sing along to. Tom Petty's famous songwriting philosophy was, "Don't bore us, get to the chorus." Squeeze breaks that rule by virtue of not having one. The song has six verses and a bridge that all have the same melody and progression through the song's 3:05 runtime. Tilbrook settles on one core groove and while drummer Gilson Lavis and keyboardist Jools Holland add little flourishes and extra spices here and there, the song rarely changes. This would normally be detrimental and lead to the song being boring, but the lack of chorus makes it stronger. Difford explained that he and Tilbrook agreed that having repeated lyrics would break the flow of the song, to which he is absolutely right. This song never feels like it's overstaying its welcome. The story remains engaging the entire time and nothing derails it. Difford and Tilbrook cited Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" as an influence on "Up the Junction," which fits because that's another song that tells a full story without a chorus. Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain" is structured the exact same way.

Lyrically, this is one of Difford's best and it's a masterclass on how to tell a well written, well focused, and well paced slice-of-life story in just three minutes. The verses tell the story of a guy who met a girl from Clapham (a district in London), fell in love with her, had a daughter with her, and proceeded to then lose his girl and daughter when he became an alcoholic and they left him.

Each verse contains eight lines a piece, with each one focusing on a different part of this couple's relationship. Verse 1 they meet. Verse 2 they move in together. Verse 3 the guy gets a job and his girl gets pregnant. The bridge has the guy work through the winter and the girl moving forward with her pregnancy. Verse 4 has their daughter be born. Verse 5 describes the guy's alcoholism and his family leaving him. The final verse details his current state of being alone without his girl and their child. Each of these verses are perfect. There is no extra fat or any needless detail. Difford could've published these words strictly as a poem and it wouldn't be diminished. This song is also a great example of how clever he could be with his words. Like here:

"She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another"

It's stuff like this that's simple, but very very sweet. It helps paint a picture and while some of Difford's lines suffer from being written by a young songwriter early in his career ("We stayed in by the telly / Although the room was smelly" is a bit of a silly rhyme) it never detracts too much overall.

The only time the song goes through any significant change musically is during the final verse, where Tilbrook and Difford stop playing their guitars and let Holland fill the empty space with his keyboard taking over command. It creates a more somber mood compared to the rest of the song and allows the music to better reflect the final lyrics, which is about being left alone and having regret for how things fell apart and how he probably won't be able to fix it.

"Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's something missing I'd beg for some forgiveness But begging's not my business And she won't write a letter Although I always tell her And so it's my assumption I'm really up the junction"

Suddenly, the title's meaning becomes very clear and it's heartbreaking.

What Squeeze pulls off here is a fantastic tale of love and loss in a short amount of time. It's pop music at its absolute finest. It's a song that deserves more love. Hell, the band who made it also deserves more love. It saw success in its day, becoming one of Squeeze's highest charting U.K. hits, peaking at #2 in 1979. Now, all these years later, it remains one of the band's best songs. What you get with "Up the Junction" and others are works from two songwriters who sought to push the boundaries of the average song structure and were always trying to play with different sounds and ideas to see what might land and what might not. Squeeze were a band of underdogs and this song wonderfully shows what these guys had to offer.

Squeeze was always cool for cats and they'll remain cool for you, too.

#ranting and raving #squeeze band #uk squeeze #original post

[jae-in-a-trenchcoat]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

#I wanna squeeze these two #trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls fanart #trolls branch #trolls poppy #queen poppy #branch x poppy #broppy #my art

[eggofthefish]

BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER LETSPLAY, my children need fed so even if it's a silly doodle I figure I would release some onto you.

Mr. Bergen Slayer JD my beloved, a concept by the lovely @priestessofnox with her awesome fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/52871335/chapters/133734883

GAHHH I love the concept. I'm going to draw more but I need to post this or by golly I never will, I suck at posting stuff!

#trolls john dory #my art #john dory #trolls band together #trolls fanart #Higgledy-Piggledy!JD #i want to squeeze him i love him my beloved #hug him #sketch #BergenSlayer!JohnDory #BergenSlayer!JD

[northwestofinsanity]

1978 Debut-Album era Squeeze

(I could not find color versions of these photos like the few floating around from this shoot that are in color… and unfortunately, the only versions I can find of some of these have watermarks covering faces -but I figured I’d share them -and I’ve got a few more to post later)

#Squeeze #uk squeeze #squeeze band #Jools Holland #Gilson Lavis #Chris Difford #Glenn Tilbrook #Harry Kakoulli #posting in smaller sets and separating portrait vs landscape so on some Tumblr formats they’re not cut-off in preview form

[hellogoodbyegirl]

Formerly of Squeeze (at the time) presenting: Difford and Tilbrook for 'Hot Duos'

#HOT DUO AM I RIGHHHHHTT ahhhhhhh #this is from ebay btw #glenn tilbrook #chris difford #difford and tilbrook #squeeze #squeeze band #uk squeeze #what does 'hot duos' mean? #potential answers from myself: #attractive duo? temperately hot? or hot gossip (meaning they're popular?)

[benoits-neckerchieves]

There’s this song that has 3 different versions with slightly different lyrics and it was playing the wrong one in the background of my Wrapped how dare you Spotify

🎶 I met her in a poolroom bArRoOm ⚠️ Intolerable

🎶 My wife has moved to Jersey gUeRnSeY ⁉️ Unacceptable

🎶 I lost my silver razor bLuE aDdReSs bOoK 😫 Insufferable

#thanks i hate it #spotify wrapped #songs #squeeze band #music rant #song of the day #music ramblings

[andromeddog]

speirs!

#my art #band of brothers #ronald speirs #ron speirs #anyway another boring bust drawing bc that’s all i could squeeze out but i rly wanted to draw him #idk if the real speirs was like this but matthew settle had this STARE #very intense and a bit insane i loved it

[morkiemcfly]

I’ve barely seen anyone else mention how in TOTK Link’s Royal Guard cap is in a chest in Zelda’s old bedroom in Hyrule Castle. Like, why is that there Link? Why is part of your old uniform in her room hmmm??

#also his hair band in Zelda’s well but that’s a bit more obvious #Fujibayashi is really trying to squeeze in as much Zelink as he can lol #tears of the kingdom #totk #zelink #link x zelda #the legend of zelda #zelda totk #zelda #legend of zelda

[coulrology]

Okay Google, play Primadonna by Marina

#trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #velvet and veneer #trolls velvet #iggy's art #haven’t had ANY time to draw bc college is sucking up any bit of time i have 💔 #BUT I HAD TO SQUEEZE THIS LIL SOMETHING IN BC. 😀😁 VELVET AND VENEER ARE MAKING ME GO CRAZY INSANE they are so catered to me.. #those two are already close to the top of my kinlist EXPECT MORE ART WHEN I GET TIME 🙏💥💥