Squeeze
The Singles - 45's and under
Audio CD (August 22, 1995)
Original Release Date: 1982
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: A&M
Song Title:
1. Take Me I'm Yours2:48
2. Goodbye Girl3:01
3. Cool For Cats3:14
4. Up The Junction3:12
5. Slap & Tickle4:01
6. Another Nail In My Heart2:57
7. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
8. If I Didn't Love You4:13
9. Is That Love?2:34
10. Tempted4:00
11. Black Coffee In Bed6:13
12. Annie Get Your Gun3:24
A clever Brit Pop band gets their due, February 6, 2005 By J. Carroll "Jack" (Island Heights,NJ) :
Squeeze crafted some of the catchiest pop songs that nobody ever heard. "Tempted," Pulling Mussels," and "Black Coffee in Bed" are easily three of the better pop songs to come out of that time of flux when the 70's were crossing over into the 80's. Lumped together with a number of "one hit wonder" types of that time period, Squeeze deserved much more success than they achieved. This collection does a nice job collecting their strongest work of the original configurations of the band.
"And here in the bar, the piano has found another nail for my heart." For anyone who likes their music with intelligence and appreciation for the difficulty of crafting a good meaningful pop song this is some good stuff.
LYRICS FROM "BLACK COFFEE IN BED" :
There's a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was...
From the lips without passion,
To the lips with a kiss...
The stain on my notebook
Remains all that's left
Of the memory of late nights
And coffee in bed.
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