Thanks for doing this video. I’m a huge Squeeze fan , I’ve seen them many times. This song is one of my favorites❣️So glad you enjoyed it.The fact that you never heard it before speaks volumes about how underrated Squeeze is.
"I'd beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business" Classic Squeeze line. Chris Difford who writes the majority of the lyrics is a master story teller, a lot of Squeeze stuff are stories told to music. For me they are one of the most under rated bands.
I don't recall a band that looked more like a gang than Squeeze did; Chris Difford's lyrics and Glen's music make for one of the greatest songwriting duos ever. They look like the hot boy next door band/gang and it sounds local but brings everyone into a local pop feel.
Squeeze are a very underrated band and are often ignored when late 70s/early 80s music is discussed. They specialised in well crafted songs which were often relatable, poignant vignettes of ordinary life.
Stonewall classic song, love it "I'd beg for some forgiveness but beggings not my business". Another Nail in my Heart would be a good one to listen to next.
I never thought it would happen With me and the girl from Clapham Out on a windy common That night I ain't forgotten. When she dealt out the rations With some or other passions I said, "You are a lady" "Perhaps," she said, "I may be" [Verse 2] We moved into a basement With thoughts of our engagement We stayed in by the telly Although the room was smelly. We spent our time just kissing The Railway Arms we're missing But love had got us hooked up And all our time it took up [Verse 3] I got a job with Stanley He said I'd come in handy And started me on Monday So I had a bath on Sunday I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers She said she'd seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her [Bridge] I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter I put away a tenner Each week to make her better. And when the time was ready We had to sell the telly Late evenings by the fire With little kicks inside her. [Verse 4] This morning at 4:50 I took her rather nifty Down to an incubator Where thirty minutes later She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another [Verse 5] And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging. The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie No more nights by the telly No more night nappies smelly [Verse 6] Alone there in the kitchen, I feel there’s something missing. I’d beg for some forgiveness, but begging 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.
Oh yay! One of my favorites from back in the day. They have many awesome songs. Cool for Cats, Is That Love, Pulling Mussels From a Shell, Another Nail in My Heart, Tempted, Black Coffee in Bed... so good!
I saw Squeeze live a couple of years ago supporting Madness they were great, I think the telling lyrics in the song is “She left me when my drinking became a proper stinging”
Your face Nick as the little story went south! Thanks for doing Squeeze. They have so many cracking songs. I saw them just a couple of months ago and they are just as wonderful as they were 30 years ago. Hope you do a lot more of them. Tempted, another nail in my heart, goodbye girl would be good starts.
One of the few hits that doesn't have a chorus. and maybe also one of the few songs where the title of the song doesn't get mentioned until the last line.
Great synopsis Nick - you're really enthusing here, one of my favourite bands ,and still touring as a 7 piece - I saw them 6 months ago, and they played this.
In the last verse, the guitars drop out, a synth violin reolaces them with a melancholy melody that follows behind the vocals. This strips the song away a bit at the end to emphasize loss. Brilliantly done.
Glad you got round to this, one of my favourites from that era. If you like a song with a good story, check out The Queen and the Soldier by Suzanne Vega, surely one of the saddest songs ever.
One of my all time favourites ... try Another Nail in my Heart for another great pop song from Squeeze, or Labelled with Love for them going all country for a heart breaking story song.
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Love Squeeze and appreciate all the many "reaction" videos like this about Squeeze. It's well deserved recognition for a band and songwriting partnership that--as of 2024--have been together for 50 years. Still performing, and writing NEW music. The one thing that many of these reactions, however, fail to delve into is that the Lyrics, written by Chris Difford, are just as much what makes Squeeze... Squeeze. Chris writes the lyrics and hands them off to Glenn to compose the music. That's why often the music is upbeat, while the lyrics are often full of pathos. It's a great juxtaposition. So is Chris's baritone voice against Glenn's tenor. Listen to "Melody Motel" from the Frank Album for a great example of this.
Extra clever writing. The song is called Up The Junction and it revolves around a girl from Clapham. Clapham Junction is the busiest railway junction in Europe with thousands of trains everyday passing through on their way elsewhere. There was an old London expression "Like Clapham Junction" that was used in the same way as Yanks use "Like Grand Central Station" meaning a very very busy and over crowded. It goes with the speed of the story in the song.
My favorite Squeeze song. "Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's something missing I'd beg for some forgiveness But begging's not my business!" Begging's not my business... indeed!!
Entirely appropriate reaction to this song and this band. I wish I had first heard it as an adult too as I was too young to really understand it when it came out. I loved it at the time, of course, but didn't appreciate it as much as some of their other stuff until a few years later. At the time I was much more taken with Cool For Cats ( the single), Slap & Tickle, Take Me I'm Yours with their more understandable themes for someone in their early teens. Too many great tracks to narrow down a top five to recommend but you could do worse than the songs I mentioned above.
This song works so well because it doesn't follow any other song structure. There's no chorus or bridge. It's just a well told story. There's lots of really good poet moments. "Late evenings by the fire and little kicks inside her". Such a fantastic way of say she's pregnant. Most "adults" will connect with at least one part of his story.
I've never seen the video to this but holy shit, what a smart idea, the women just thanklessly, facelessly working in the background to cater for the men
This guy here is so cool! All the others react to All the generic songs. They watch each other and just copy each other, same songs constantly. Not this guy! He knows and reacts to all the unique bands and songs. He deserves all credit. He knows his music!
Apparently this video was filmed in the kitchen of John Lennon's former home. Squeeze have many great songs and at least two classic albums - Argy Bargy and East Side Story. They didn't really get the success they deserved.
To really understand what's happening in the song you need to watch the female vocalists in the background. It's part of the performance. It's actually the chorus being performed by the chorus line. It's just presented as action instead of vocals. Also, look where Glen is sitting.
Hi Nick . I see from your bio you, like me , suffer from anxiety and depression. One song I listen to is : Good to be on the road again by Cornershop, brilliant song ,rubbish video.
Thanks for doing this video. I’m a huge Squeeze fan , I’ve seen them many times. This song is one of my favorites❣️So glad you enjoyed it.The fact that you never heard it before speaks volumes about how underrated Squeeze is.
"I'd beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business" Classic Squeeze line. Chris Difford who writes the majority of the lyrics is a master story teller, a lot of Squeeze stuff are stories told to music. For me they are one of the most under rated bands.
I don't recall a band that looked more like a gang than Squeeze did; Chris Difford's lyrics and Glen's music make for one of the greatest songwriting duos ever. They look like the hot boy next door band/gang and it sounds local but brings everyone into a local pop feel.
they've been called that time's lennon and mccartney 😎 saw 'em live 3 times 🤩🤩🤩
All these years later, this song still breaks my heart everytime I hear it.
Am a Squeeze groupie, seen them too many times to count. Highly recommended live and recording!!! THE BEST!
Squeeze are a very underrated band and are often ignored when late 70s/early 80s music is discussed. They specialised in well crafted songs which were often relatable, poignant vignettes of ordinary life.
Wonderful, Nick.
Thank You.
Really good Novels resonate; for example...'The L Shaped Room'. xxo
Stonewall classic song, love it "I'd beg for some forgiveness but beggings not my business". Another Nail in my Heart would be a good one to listen to next.
Jools Holland has incredible piano work on the song "Uncertain Smile" by the band "The The". Look for the 6:52 long version.
Thirty years ago I learned the words to this song in one night, I can still recite them now.
Great tune, great band, first band I saw live.
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain't forgotten.
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said, "You are a lady"
"Perhaps," she said, "I may be"
[Verse 2]
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly.
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
[Verse 3]
I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
[Bridge]
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better.
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her.
[Verse 4]
This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
[Verse 5]
And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging.
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more night nappies smelly
[Verse 6]
Alone there in the kitchen,
I feel there’s something missing.
I’d beg for some forgiveness,
but begging 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.
Oh yay! One of my favorites from back in the day. They have many awesome songs. Cool for Cats, Is That Love, Pulling Mussels From a Shell, Another Nail in My Heart, Tempted, Black Coffee in Bed... so good!
I saw Squeeze live a couple of years ago supporting Madness they were great, I think the telling lyrics in the song is “She left me when my drinking became a proper stinging”
'Labelled With Love' is another Sqeeze song well worth checking out.
"She looks just like her mother,
If there could be another"
So simple, such an economy of words, and says so much. Poetry.
Probably one of the Greatest stories ever told within a song. ❤
Yep.. Cool for Cats is a must 😻
your reactions were so great. it’s such a perfect little story. but when you exclaimed “pants!” that was great. LISTEN TO ALL THE SQUEEZE
Loved them growing up, still listen to them.
They look so young . Didn't we all .
I saw them in Sheffield, when "Take me I'm yours," their first hit, was in the charts.
Your face Nick as the little story went south! Thanks for doing Squeeze. They have so many cracking songs. I saw them just a couple of months ago and they are just as wonderful as they were 30 years ago. Hope you do a lot more of them. Tempted, another nail in my heart, goodbye girl would be good starts.
Yes, I'll definitely do more of them!
Goodbye girl , great tune , also the name of a great tune by another British band from the early 80s “Go West “
My fave band of all time Nick.
Well, I'm glad I got to them!
All Squeeze is good Squeeze. Thanks for this Nick!
One of the few hits that doesn't have a chorus. and maybe also one of the few songs where the title of the song doesn't get mentioned until the last line.
It's one of my fav songs I've ever reacted to.
Great synopsis Nick - you're really enthusing here, one of my favourite bands ,and still touring as a 7 piece - I saw them 6 months ago, and they played this.
One of the great things about this song is the acceptance of his life and how it turns out, bittersweet, honest, with perhaps a tinge of regret.❤
Not one word wasted, no chorus, nothing. You need to listen to Cool For Cats now.
In the last verse, the guitars drop out, a synth violin reolaces them with a melancholy melody that follows behind the vocals. This strips the song away a bit at the end to emphasize loss. Brilliantly done.
Your enthusiasm for this track is justified 👍🏻an excellent song all round
Glad you got round to this, one of my favourites from that era.
If you like a song with a good story, check out The Queen and the Soldier by Suzanne Vega, surely one of the saddest songs ever.
Love this, tempted is a great song aswell. Oh and labeled with love
PS One of my favorite lyrics ever is "I'd beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business".
That line was great! So many quotable lines in 3 minutes.
Howay young'un, great reaction
An album in my top 10 of all time!
Classic '80s song (1979, but '80s to me!). Band members have all aged remarkably well.
I'd forgotten about this one.
Ta for that.
One of my all time favourites ... try Another Nail in my Heart for another great pop song from Squeeze, or Labelled with Love for them going all country for a heart breaking story song.
Love Squeeze and appreciate all the many "reaction" videos like this about Squeeze. It's well deserved recognition for a band and songwriting partnership that--as of 2024--have been together for 50 years. Still performing, and writing NEW music. The one thing that many of these reactions, however, fail to delve into is that the Lyrics, written by Chris Difford, are just as much what makes Squeeze... Squeeze. Chris writes the lyrics and hands them off to Glenn to compose the music. That's why often the music is upbeat, while the lyrics are often full of pathos. It's a great juxtaposition. So is Chris's baritone voice against Glenn's tenor. Listen to "Melody Motel" from the Frank Album for a great example of this.
This was filmed in the kitchen at Weybridge, John Lennon's former estate in Surrey.
Classic song,great band
Extra clever writing. The song is called Up The Junction and it revolves around a girl from Clapham. Clapham Junction is the busiest railway junction in Europe with thousands of trains everyday passing through on their way elsewhere. There was an old London expression "Like Clapham Junction" that was used in the same way as Yanks use "Like Grand Central Station" meaning a very very busy and over crowded. It goes with the speed of the story in the song.
When I was a dj they were big they were easy to play lots of songs good picks
Perfect story telling in a song.
My favorite Squeeze song.
"Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business!" Begging's not my business... indeed!!
My favourite part!
This is one of only four songs to have been in the UK charts that only announces the title as the last line.
This is the kind of fun fact I live for!
One of my favourite songs. So kitchen sink British. ❤
Absolute smash 💥
Thanks for doing this song. More and more proto-punk and power pop, please!
Entirely appropriate reaction to this song and this band. I wish I had first heard it as an adult too as I was too young to really understand it when it came out. I loved it at the time, of course, but didn't appreciate it as much as some of their other stuff until a few years later. At the time I was much more taken with Cool For Cats ( the single), Slap & Tickle, Take Me I'm Yours with their more understandable themes for someone in their early teens. Too many great tracks to narrow down a top five to recommend but you could do worse than the songs I mentioned above.
squeeze were a great band who did catchy songs.
Love this song. Few things more elegant than rhymed couplets.
Great song 🙏🏼
This song works so well because it doesn't follow any other song structure. There's no chorus or bridge.
It's just a well told story. There's lots of really good poet moments. "Late evenings by the fire and little kicks inside her". Such a fantastic way of say she's pregnant.
Most "adults" will connect with at least one part of his story.
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are (were) super well respected songwriters, you'll find loads of great tracks in their catalogue.
They were even touted as a new Lennon and McCartney when they first came on the scene!
And filmed in John Lennon’s kitchen!
That was a brilliant summation of the track. A significant contribution I would say!
I've never seen the video to this but holy shit, what a smart idea, the women just thanklessly, facelessly working in the background to cater for the men
This guy here is so cool!
All the others react to All the generic songs.
They watch each other and just copy each other, same songs constantly.
Not this guy!
He knows and reacts to all the unique bands and songs.
He deserves all credit.
He knows his music!
This is one of the nicest comments I've ever gotten. Thank you so much!
Apparently this video was filmed in the kitchen of John Lennon's former home. Squeeze have many great songs and at least two classic albums - Argy Bargy and East Side Story. They didn't really get the success they deserved.
To really understand what's happening in the song you need to watch the female vocalists in the background.
It's part of the performance. It's actually the chorus being performed by the chorus line. It's just presented as action instead of vocals.
Also, look where Glen is sitting.
Argy Bargy is the album to pick up
You should give Billy Bragg - 'New England' a go.
Or Levi Stubb’s Tears.
Love that you love this go down the squeeze rabbit hole Argybargy East side story suites from a stranger ETc Love you
Not a bad song in their repertoire.
Spot a young Jools Holland on keyboards
Looking stylish to boot!
I watched you discover The Smiths. Now I shall watch you discover Squeeze 😊
Oh, we'll be coming back to Squeeze for sure! Loved everything about this.
Check out Squeeze - pulling mussels
I believe there was a key change at the end but a great reaction nonetheless.
storytelling is a lost art in songwriting, ain;t it?
It was used in Breaking Bad in the garden scene where Hank goes to toilet and finds out who Heisenberg is.
Difford & Tillbrook's songwriting has been compared to the Beatles.
This song when it came out was seemed quite a happy tune, until you get into the lyrics
Hi Nick . I see from your bio you, like me , suffer from anxiety and depression. One song I listen to is : Good to be on the road again by Cornershop, brilliant song ,rubbish video.
I've always loved this but it has a mix of brilliant lyricism but some truly awful rhymes.
Great song though
"Despite his looks" ...wtf ?!!
I don't remember what I said about whose looks, but these guys are hot
"He's telling the story & it sounds happy"
No, it's not happy. The music might be "happy" but the story mostly sucks.