Squeeze: When Squeeze 'Went Beyond'!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- In today's video I look at 10 (approximately!) tracks where Squeeze (OK, Glenn) experimented by taking the band outside their usual stylistic parameters and doing something more edgy or 'cutting edge'. Please share your views on these tracks, or nominate other contenders as you wish!
I think, as you do in this, the particular emphasis on East Side Story is warranted when talking about “Going Beyond,” I can’t help but think of “There’s No Tomorrow,” to my ears, it sounds so “late Beatles” in its instrumentation and sound and to me that is a true highlight of that album being “beyond” their usual lot.
One of their most Beatles-derived tunes for sure.
The whole album “The Knowledge” is (IMHO) experimental especially “Rough Ride” with the opera singer.
So unlike Squeeze.
True Steve, I nearly mentioned that.
My thoughts exactly.
Nice shirt James 👍.....Squeeze are and probably always will be so diverse from one album to another, don't think they have ever been political in there lyrics apart from certain tracks from 'the Knowledge' so hopefully they have got that out of there system.
Got the shirt for my birthday on Wednesday!
I thought "Temptation from Love" with Glenn singing with Cathy Dennis was a departure. As was the "Great Escape" with its hard edged sound.
Generally, 90% of Squeeze songs sound exactly like Squeeze. Which might explain why their songs were/are rarely covered?
Good suggestions, I do like both those songs. I remember 'The Great Escape' playing in HMV when I went to buy the album!
Good description of A&E: a bit of a clunker. I just don't really feel that the lyrics hit the spot - it hadn't occurred to me that GT might have written some or all of the lyrics. It does sound clunky
I'm pretty sure Glenn's lyrical fingerprints are on that one!
I don't mind the politics as long as it's done well. They've usually always portrayed a working class background despite the dreaded "kitchen sink" label which has haunted them throughout their career. Those critic-penned words demonstrate their failings as purveyors of songs that only deal with minor, insignificant issues. The truth is that if Chris and Glenn were playwrights or screenwriters they would be lauded as modern day geniuses; witness Jimmy McGovern’s “The Street” , or Alan Bleasdale's "Boys from the black stuff" - hailed as contemporary works that reflect modern society through ordinary people. Squeeze songs are about love, betrayal, domestic abuse, crime, drink, drugs, poverty and a whole lot more through the eyes of ordinary people. Sorry if that's a bit tangential to the experimental theme.
I totally agree Wayne. In the epilogue to my book I pointed out that Morrissey and The Smiths sucked up all the credit for doing working class songs, but Chris meet them to it by several years and got hardly any plaudits for it.