Squeeze - Greatest Hits (1992)

Artist: Squeeze
Title Of Album: Greatest Hits
Year Of Release: 1992
Label (Catalog#) :A&M Records [397 181-2]
Country:: UK
Genre: New Wave, Pop Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Bitrate: 16bit/44.1kHz
Time: 76:37
Full Size: 480Mb(+3%)(covers)
Info:wiki

Their best anthology yet-'cause this one takes you from the early stuff through all their best LPs and onto the U.S. and UK charts! Their U.S. hits Tempted and Hourglass join their UK hits Last Time Forever; Labelled with Love , and Trust Me to Open My Mouth plus Black Coffee in Bed; Take Me I'm Yours; Goodbye Girl; Pulling Mussels (from the Shell); Up the Junction; Is That Love?; Cool for Cats , and eight more!
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Art, craft, fashion, and commerce, despite widespread presumptions, have hardly been synonymous in the record business. A prime example is Squeeze, one of the U.K. new wave's most traditional-minded bands and largely the conceit of songwriters Chris Difford (words) and Glenn Tilbrook (music). Despite glowing critical comparisons with Lennon and McCartney, tireless touring, initial successes in Britain, and a perennially popular hits compilation (45's and Under), Squeeze's fortunes were mixed. Even their hard-won status as mid-'80s MTV sensations seemed to evaporate overnight. Perhaps they were just too smart for their own good. Tilbrook's hooks and melodies comfortably recalled the Beatles and the Kinks, but with ever surprising and sophisticated twists, while many of Tilbrook's cinematic lyrics were Broadway-sophisticated in their scope. "Up the Junction," "Pulling Mussels from the Shell," and "Tempted" (the latter burnished to perfection by the production of Elvis Costello and the vocals of veteran Paul Carrack) paint remarkably robust portraits of romantic tensions set in contexts so rich with detail you can almost smell and taste them. This 20-track compilation effectively expands upon 45's and Under by appending the best of the band's final three '80s albums, even if a few provide discomfiting evidence that the band was being positioned as the English equivalent of Huey Lewis and the News. But like its effervescent early singles, what would the Squeeze saga be without a compelling twist or three? --Jerry McCulley

Tracks:
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1. Take Me, I'm Yours
2. Goodbye Girl
3. Cool For Cats
4. Up The Junction
5. Slap And Tickle
6. Another Nail In My Heart
7. Pulling Mussels
8. Tempted
9. Is That Love
10. Labelled With Love
11. Black Coffee In Bed
12. Annie Get Your Gun
13. King George Street
14. Last Time Forever
15. No Place Like Home
16. Hourglass
17. Trust Me To Open My Mouth
18. Footprints
19. If It's Love
20. Love Circles