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Packet Of Three: Vote for your favourite Squeeze singles |
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0 | 0% |
| Annie Get Your Gun |
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2 | 6.06% |
| Another Nail in My Heart |
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6 | 18.18% |
| Bang Bang |
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0 | 0% |
| Black Coffee In Bed |
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1 | 3.03% |
| Christmas Day |
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1 | 3.03% |
| Cool For Cats |
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14 | 42.42% |
| Electric Trains |
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0 | 0% |
| Goodbye Girl |
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2 | 6.06% |
| Heaven Knows |
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0 | 0% |
| Hourglass |
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1 | 3.03% |
| If It's Love |
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1 | 3.03% |
| Is That Love |
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3 | 9.09% |
| It's Over |
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0 | 0% |
| Labelled With Love |
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9 | 27.27% |
| Last Time Forever |
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2 | 6.06% |
| No Place Like Home |
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0 | 0% |
| Packet Of Three EP |
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0 | 0% |
| Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) |
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7 | 21.21% |
| Slap And Tickle |
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5 | 15.15% |
| Some Fantastic Place |
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0 | 0% |
| Take Me I'm Yours |
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9 | 27.27% |
| Tempted |
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5 | 15.15% |
| Third Rail |
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0 | 0% |
| This Summer |
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2 | 6.06% |
| Trust Me To Open My Mouth |
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0 | 0% |
| Up The Junction |
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20 | 60.61% |
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Packet Of Three: Vote for your favourite Squeeze singles
I loved that run of singles back in the day when coloured vinyl was all the rage. The Squeeze never reached the summit singles-wise but they gad a couple of near misses and I think, some great songs. I've never understood how Christmas Day never charted though and I'll be including it in the three votes allowed here alongside Pulling Mussels and Up The Junction. It'll be interesting to see exactly which single comes out on top from the singles list compiled from the Official Chart Company UK Top 100.
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So many great tracks in there - but I'd wholeheartedly recommend their last album Cradle To The Grave, which is a real return to form.
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It has to be ''Up The Junction'' for me, closely followed by ''Cool For Cats'' and ''Labelled With Love''.
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Cool For Cats, Another Nail & Take Me I'm Yours!
Hard to get down to just 3, but I think these 3 should certainly be at the top!
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Early days but Up The Junction is leading the way. Christmas Day Fabulous, released on white vinyl, no idea as to how it never charted. So where would Christmas be without Mary and Joseph, Morecambe and Wise, Laurel and Hardy etc - perhaps one of the most underrated festive songs ever gets my vote here. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) "They do it down at Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki" - anyone who remembers childhood days at Camber Sands will love the resonance - the way this song begins too, bang, straight in there - and the gem - "Behind the chalet, my holiday's complete" - I expect many of us have been there - it's all rather clandestine and very British, great tune and deserves the nod. Up The Junction At the time, lyrical genius, working class song about the trials of young love, but there are always discussions about the lyrics, apparently "Up The Junction" is a British phrase meaning "you're screwed" whereas I just thought he was in a pub called The Junction, meanwhile here's a decent write up from The Guardian... Quote:
Up the Junction took as long to write as it takes to read it. My mum and dad used to watch The Wednesday Play on BBC1, and I got drawn into those half-hour, kitchen-sink dramas. One was called Up the Junction, an adaptation of Nell Dunn’s book by Ken Loach. I pinched the title, but the rest of the story is from my imagination, though there was a Railway Arms pub in Blackheath, where I was living. I never “got a job with Stanley, who said I’d come in handy”, but I loved those Ian Dury-type rhyming couplets. The line “I’d beg for some forgiveness, but begging’s not my business” still makes me chuckle. It sums up male stubbornness. Up The Junction gets the nod over Another Nail In My Heart (which would have been a fourth choice) and Cool For Cats. Their third best-seller, Labelled With Love, I did really like at the time but nowadays I find it a bit labouring, I reckon it'll pull a few votes though.
Our manager said he’d eat his hat if Up the Junction was a hit – and then it reached No 2 in 1979. It’s still one of my favourites. Many years later, the “girl from Clapham” turned up in another Squeeze song, A Moving Story. She’d moved to the sea front, remarried, and her daughter was getting married, too. I thought they deserved a happy ending. Squeeze: how we made Up the Junction |
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Up The Junction
At the time, lyrical genius, working class song about the trials of young love, but there are always discussions about the lyrics, apparently "Up The Junction" is a British phrase meaning "you're screwed" whereas I just thought he was in a pub called The Junction, meanwhile here's a decent write up from The Guardian... Up The Junction gets the nod over Another Nail In My Heart (which would have been a fourth choice) and Cool For Cats. Their third best-seller, Labelled With Love, I did really like at the time but nowadays I find it a bit labouring, I reckon it'll pull a few votes though. ''Labelled With Love'' strikes me similarly, although in a very different way. It wasn't a change of direction i liked at the time, but it is a very classy country influenced song, on reflection. Chris Difford is a master of the deadpan vocal on ''Cool For Cats'', and i just find his delivery and the song very infectious. I liked these working class New Wave/Pub Rock type songs at the time. Not sure whether Ian Dury may have been an influence somewhere. |
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'take me im yours' is the perfect pop song...
'slap n tickle' is pure class imho... but tbh they didnt do a bad track, and i was lucky enough to see them live at rock city nottingham in 81 (or 2?) a fantastic set. |
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Chris Difford is a master of the deadpan vocal on ''Cool For Cats'', and i just find his delivery and the song very infectious. I liked these working class New Wave/Pub Rock type songs at the time. Not sure whether Ian Dury may have been an influence somewhere. Difford also mentions the continuation of the life of 'the girl from Clapham, in a song called A Moving Story which I've never heard. I'd like to but Youtube doesn't have it, here are the words anyway... Quote:
She moved from Clapham Incidentally, where is the Youtube embedder and other trimmings DS said would happen after the upgrade? Not even any new smilies. And didn't look back Her life was changed in an instant The van was filled up And tied to the rack Her home that now seemed so distant Kissing goodbye To her friends on the stairs She felt a loss deep within her Sat in the front seat with stuff everywhere The neighbours said they would ring her They moved to the sea front And loved their new view Of tides coming in on the shingle She and her daughter Found new things to do At last it was good to be single And in the summer The place came alive Lights on the pier in the evening The fresh sea air And could cut with a knife Such a wonderful feeling She worked in a pub Where bands would appear On a tiny stage in the corner She watched them load in With tattered old gear The place would get like a sauna London had gone now Her new life was strong She found herself a new karma She fell for a man Who played with a band And took her life from it's drama She moved from Clapham And didn't look back The past was neatly extinguished He was much younger But she lived with that He struggled hard with his english She felt his loving And proudly reclaimed All of the warmth she'd been lacking They lay in bed Looking out at the rain No more moving or packing She moved from Clapham And didn't look back Her life had changed in an instant
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Early days but Up The Junction is leading the way.
Christmas Day Fabulous, released on white vinyl, no idea as to how it never charted. So where would Christmas be without Mary and Joseph, Morecambe and Wise, Laurel and Hardy etc - perhaps one of the most underrated festive songs ever gets my vote here. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) "They do it down at Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki" - anyone who remembers childhood days at Camber Sands will love the resonance - the way this song begins too, bang, straight in there - and the gem - "Behind the chalet, my holiday's complete" - I expect many of us have been there - it's all rather clandestine and very British, great tune and deserves the nod. Up The Junction At the time, lyrical genius, working class song about the trials of young love, but there are always discussions about the lyrics, apparently "Up The Junction" is a British phrase meaning "you're screwed" whereas I just thought he was in a pub called The Junction, meanwhile here's a decent write up from The Guardian... .
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something to do with Clapham Junction wasn't it, and also he was screwed ?
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Chris Difford's lyrics for Up the Junction tell a two-minute story, the title a nod to the 1963 novel of the same title by Nell Dunn, followed by a BBC play directed by Ken Loach in 1965, then a film in 1968. The tale begins on a "night I ain't forgotten" up on the common, when the girl falls pregnant. They decide to have the baby, he gets a job with Stanley ("He said I'd come in handy"), and starts the job on a Monday, "so I had a bath on Sunday". But then things go wrong; he starts drinking too much, and the girl moves in with a soldier. He has his freedom back – "no more nights by the telly/ No more nights nappies smelling". He wants her back, but "begging's not my business".
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It has to be ''Up The Junction'' for me, closely followed by ''Cool For Cats'' and ''Labelled With Love''.
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Mine are Annie Get Your Gun, Is That Love? and Last Time Forever.
Picking up on some of your points earlier, and I have always believed Up the Junction to refer to Clapham Junction due to the opening lyric "I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham". By way of some trivia, it is apparently the only song to be have a title only mentioned at the end of the song. |
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By way of some trivia, it is apparently the only song to be have a title only mentioned at the end of the song.
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That's nice but I seriously doubt that it's the only song ever that lyrically ends with the song title.
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I should have been clearer and said that it uniquely mentions the title at the end of the song but nowhere any earlier in the song.
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To lead a better life I need my love to be here... Its title is Here There And Everywhere - it ends that way but doesn't say Here There And Everywhere any place before the end which would mean that Up The Junction is, I think, not unique.
Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with the wave of her hand Nobody can deny that there's something there There, running my hands through her hair Both of us thinking how good it can be Someone is speaking but she doesn't know he's there I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care But to love her is to need her everywhere Knowing that love is to share Each one believing that love never dies Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care But to love her is to need her everywhere Knowing that love is to share Each one believing that love never dies Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there I will be there and everywhere Here, there and everywhere |
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That's nice but I seriously doubt that it's the only song ever that lyrically ends with the song title.
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Virginia Plain by Roxy Music is another.
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Difficult to choose, but plumped for Take me, Labelled and Up the junction. If I had another choice it would be close between Another Nail and Tempted.
I got to see them earlier this year performing most of the old favourites interspersed with the Cradle to the Grave songs. Will be going back again later next year to their next tour. |
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Apparently Goodbye Girl was re-released in April this year but I've no idea why.
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Hard to get down to just 3, but I think these 3 should certainly be at the top!