Friday, August 24, 2007

Friday Night Videos

This one's trippy, weird and addictive--the band Squeeze's biggest hit in the U.S. Their career was complicated by the fact that an obscure U.S. band was already using the name Squeeze when they started up, so all of their North American releases for the first part of their career were marketed as "Squeeze U.K." Sadly, the rest of the album doesn't live up to the promise of this song, but that doesn't make the video any less fun.



Previously on Friday Night Videos... The Divynls.

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3 comments:

  1. Mikal Trimm5:57 PM

    I would've thought "Tempted" was their biggest (in fact, only) U.S. hit -- I never even heard this song before now, and I have '45's & Under' (their Greatest Hits package)...

    Not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work, Joe -- er, Jayme.

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  2. Jayme Lynn Blaschke10:22 PM

    Well, Mr. Trimm, "Hourglass" off of Babylon and On charted at no. 15 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart in 1987, whereas "Tempted" only reached no. 49 back in '81. 45s and Under was released in '82, so it only includes music from the early incarnation of the band.

    Poo-ya!

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  3. Mikal Trimm6:40 PM

    Shows how screwed up the US was in the late eighties, then...grumble, snarl.

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