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The Music Thread Strikes Back

b3h said:
I always think Squeeze are underrated.

But that's maybe as I'm a bit younger and I doubt anyone I know my age has even heard of them, let alone think they're class. Maybe weren't underrated back when?

Actually, that's a lie - a couple of my mates might just about remember us murdering Cool For Cats on Rock Band when pissed!
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Squeeze have a top singles back catalogue

Take Me, I'm Yours
Cool For Cats
Up The Junction
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
Tempted
Labelled With Love
Hourglass
Some Fantastic Day
It's Over
This Summer

All brilliant.

Albums are a bit more patchy
 
b3h said:
I always think Squeeze are underrated.

But that's maybe as I'm a bit younger and I doubt anyone I know my age has even heard of them, let alone think they're class. Maybe weren't underrated back when?

Actually, that's a lie - a couple of my mates might just about remember us murdering Cool For Cats on Rock Band when pissed!
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They were the first band I’d seen live although it was way past their heyday.
 
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b3h said:
I always think Squeeze are underrated.

But that's maybe as I'm a bit younger and I doubt anyone I know my age has even heard of them, let alone think they're class. Maybe weren't underrated back when?

Actually, that's a lie - a couple of my mates might just about remember us murdering Cool For Cats on Rock Band when pissed!
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Yeah an excellent band. Difford and Tilbrook are as good a writing duo as any
 
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Deutsch Wolf said:
Squeeze have a top singles back catalogue

Take Me, I'm Yours
Cool For Cats
Up The Junction
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
Tempted
Labelled With Love
Hourglass
Some Fantastic Day
It's Over
This Summer

All brilliant.

Albums are a bit more patchy
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Just looking on Wiki. Expected a number 1 tbh

Cool For Cats / Up the Junction were no.2

Found this on it:

"Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" from "Watership Down", before Racey's "Some Girls" squeezed in and pushed "Cool for Cats" down to Number 3. And then Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric" kept "Up The Junction" off the top spot a couple of months' later."

I suppose charts aren't everything. My Dad had their tapes in the car, hence I got into them 😀
 
Vienna by Ultravox was famously kept off No 1 by Shaddap You Face by Joe Dolce Music Theatre. The 80s were wild.

I've always quite liked Simply Red (well, their 80s/90s stuff, no idea about anything more recent) because of my Ma and similar tapes in the car situations :D I'd worry about losing my street cred by admitting that, but then I realise I last had any in around 2002.
 
b3h said:
Just looking on Wiki. Expected a number 1 tbh

Cool For Cats / Up the Junction were no.2

Found this on it:

"Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" from "Watership Down", before Racey's "Some Girls" squeezed in and pushed "Cool for Cats" down to Number 3. And then Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric" kept "Up The Junction" off the top spot a couple of months' later."

I suppose charts aren't everything. My Dad had their tapes in the car, hence I got into them 😀
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Bright eyes was number 1 at the time of the Alan Sunderland FA cup final in 1979. Watched both the final and a TOTP a couple of days earlier from a hospital bed having broken an arm.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I've always quite liked Simply Red (well, their 80s/90s stuff, no idea about anything more recent) because of my Ma and similar tapes in the car situations :D I'd worry about losing my street cred by admitting that, but then I realise I last had any in around 2002.
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Gave up making choices based on what I thought peers or others think I should like when I first heard sometimes by James. They weren't "rock" & at the time I was (more accurately I was a twat). I loved the song but James weren't my kinda band. Was conflicted for a couple of days, then accepted I did like it/them. Borrowed the laid album & widened my horizons for the better.
Tastes get more eclectic as you age.

That said what we hear growing up shapes us as well as creating fond memories. I still get nostalgic if I hear the Johnny hates jazz album, Steve winwood, or Queen given my dad's love of them especially on car journeys.
 
lemonjelly said:
@b3h hourglass is a fucking TUNE! If you're exploring
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Had to check but yeah I've heard it. I've let them keep going and going on Spotify so probably heard most - a few patchy ones as DW says ha.

At least half are karaoke worthy.

Tickets on sale right now, at big venues :LOL:. And their tour history is quite something. Perhaps wrong on the underrated part! Just feels like it in my age group I guess.
 
There's an elastic band in underpants! Well, I think it's elastic.

One day, mate, one of us will finally land a good joke. I have faith.
 
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