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First person who mentions "Tempted" loses.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's really tough to pick only one, but "Up the Junction" condenses everything I like about Squeeze into a tidy 3:10.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cool For Cats" does it for me.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Vicky Verky!

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

While acknowledging the sublimity of "Up the Junction," ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)."

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

If I...If I... If I Didn't Love You

― bahtology, Friday, 17 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cool For Cats", despite the none more eighties video, resplendent with backing singers seemingly dragged off the dancefloor at 2am in an Essex nightclub.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Love all the ones mentioned, but "Cool for Cats" can't really count as representative because of the Jools vocal. My vote: Black Coffee in Bed.

― Jesse Fox Mayshark (Jesse Fox), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

A second vote for "If I Didn't Love You." I'm going to listen to Argybargy this weekend.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

cool for cats

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm afraid I lose Paul cos the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread was "Tempted"!

I do love all the other ones mentioned so far too but Tempted is gut-wrenching and beautiful. "Cool For Cats" I've sung at karaoke though! "Up The Junction" is awesome, my obscure-ish not-chosen-yet pick would be "Revue".

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I just happen to be anti-Carrack when it comes to Squeeze. If you want to list "Tempted," then by all means do so.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Another Nail in My Heart"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

last time forever

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 18 January 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take Me I'm Yours," but I think everything on SINGLES 45s AND UNDER is excellent.

― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

for some reason, i just heard "take me i'm yours" for the first time in years and laughed my ass off ... someone releasing something sounding like that nowadays would be mocked mercilessly. or be considered the next electro-clash phenomenon (sarcasm)

my vote would go for either "goodbye girl" or (god help me) "tempted"

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 18 January 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I second "Another Nail in My Heart". One of my favorite guitar solos. I like pretty much all of East Side Story, including "Tempted". It's a great fucking song, for fuck sakes.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Is that Love", definitely.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Saturday, 18 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"Black Coffee in Bed"

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Is That Love?" for me too.

(Note to self: play East Side Story more.)

― Jeff W, Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

This is too hard!

"Someone Else's Bell" has to be it. I'd hate to never hear that song again.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 27 September 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I second "Another Nail in My Heart". One of my favorite guitar solos.

OTMFM. one of my fave solos, too.

as you were.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Someone Else's Heart

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I always hate when my one-to-pick is so obvious and uninspired, even tho it DESERVES to be chosen. So as a substitute for "Up The Junction", I choose its (figurative) flipside "Slap & Tickle", with the similar rhyme scheme plus a "Take Me I'm Yours"-like electro-chug. (Besides, they COULD be two songs about the same couple, who knows?)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

hourglass

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Pulling Mussels. "They do it down on Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki" is possibly my favourite opening line in a song ever.

― Curtis Wastor (Curt Soda), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Up the Junction"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Another Nail In My Heart

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Annie Get Your Gun

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

lately, "What the Butler Saw"

of all time, probably "Elephant Girl"

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

(that is to say that lately I've been listening to "What the Butler Saw" a lot lately, but would probably regret picking it. not that it came out recently or something)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

"Up the Junction"

-- Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:17 (9 months ago)

^^

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Squeeze Poo haha

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tempted reminds me of burger king.

― Jeff, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Someone Else's Bed"

Better than any of the singles.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm "Someone Else's Heart" I think it's called.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's also a "Someone Else's Bell."

I'm gonna go with "If I Didn't Love You," ever so slightly over "Up the Junction."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna go with "If I Didn't Love You," ever so slightly over "Up the Junction."

I would go OTM with you on this but once my mom (she's like 80) happened to be in my car when "Up The Junction" came on and she started crying and said that it was just about the saddest song she had ever heard.

I have now played it for my son (14), who agrees and now he keeps it on his ipod.

That is all way too fucking deep. Gotta go UTJ...

― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

because I have perverse taste, I love Sweets From a Stranger most; because Black Coffee in Bed has already been mentioned, I was going to say I've Returned because it is massively underrated -- but no, "Black Coffee" it is

― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's an awesome story, saxby.

― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

for some reason, i just heard "take me i'm yours" for the first time in years and laughed my ass off ...

i should clarify, i LIKE "take me i'm yours." it does sound kinda daft, but it's a really good song!!

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 28 June 2007 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

"Slap And Tickle" for me. Barely.

― sleeve, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

"Take Me, I'm Yours" may be a bit dated, but the surging beat and monotoned harmonies still deliver to this day and frankly, it makes a lot of their "more refined" singles sound way too gay (even though i still find ways to enjoy them in the privacy of my own home).

― christoff, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

So many good ones...not mentioned are "Is That Love" and "Labeled With Love," two more brill short stories put to terrific music. And I love, love, love me some "Hope Fell Down" from Difford & Tilbrook

― ellaguru, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Last year I wrote "Someone Else's Heart", but perhaps it's "Another Nail In My Heart", or "Cool For Cats", and there a lots of others. How come that no one mentioned "It's Not Cricket", "Slightly Drunk", "King George Street", "Separate Beds" or "Heaven"? All of them huge classics.
(Changing yy vote: perhaps because last night I watched some Squeeze videos on Youtube, including this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FgKfGlKjxh0)

― zeus, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Up the Junction" can choke me up too if it hits me in the right mood -- the coldness in Tilbrook's voice as he sings "I'd beg for some forgiveness / but begging's not my business" is a killer.

That said..."Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" is the pick.

― The Deacon, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

goodbye girl goddammit

― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, HOW am i the first person to nominate it?

― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Deacon, I was gonna say that line gets me every time. But I'm gonna go with "Heartbreaking World" for not-snotty Jools awesomeness

― Morley Timmons, Friday, 29 June 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

While acknowledging the sublimity of "Up the Junction," ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)."

The title says “the” but surely he is singing “from A shell.”

― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 13:17 (two years ago)

lately, "What the Butler Saw"
of all time, probably "Elephant Girl"
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah, good picks past self!

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 13:46 (two years ago)

Any song with chris doubling glenn's vocal an octave lower.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 15:34 (two years ago)

I put on this old A&M Records new wave sampler the other night and man did "Take Me I'm Yours" sound great after not hearing it in years. Actually all of it did.

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― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 15:35 (two years ago)

Yeah, "TMIY" has become one of my favorites in recent years. Last time I heard it I became obsessed and listened to nothing else for a week

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

"TMIY" is a really perfect record and one of the best debut singles ever

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:51 (two years ago)

Pulling Mussels by a nose.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 18:01 (two years ago)

it's weird that the Wikipedia article for Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" doesn't mention TMIY ?

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 18:59 (two years ago)

it's obviously a reference, right?

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 18:59 (two years ago)

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