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Squeeze- a band to celebrate my impending 50th
KBslittlesis
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Righto, I’m off to Cardiff Monday to see Squeeze supported by Heaven 17 on Wednesday night.
It seems the tour has been a real success. I haven’t heard a bad word.
It seems the tour has been a real success. I haven’t heard a bad word.
So in homage to our amazing talented local lads, what’s your favourite lyrics? No not just song, but lyrics.
I’ll start you off,
’my assets froze while yours had dropped’
There are sooooooooooo many xxxxxx
I’ll start you off,
’my assets froze while yours had dropped’
There are sooooooooooo many xxxxxx
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'You've got to throw the stone to get the pond to ripple'1
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The devil came and took me from bar to street to bookie.8
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The past has been bottled and labelled with love.2
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My grandparents lived in Delafield Road...2
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Used to walk down Delafield Road to schoolChizz said:My grandparents lived in Delafield Road...0 -
All I got was bitter and a nasty little rash2
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The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go
They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow
They're counting out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again
In and out of Wandsworth with the numbers on their names...
Shape up at the disco and I think I've got a pull
I ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone...
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The whole of Labelled with Love, and this from Pulling Mussels:
"But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet..."
I recall a gig in the nineties at Clapham Grand where it felt like every other punter in the huge audience was an Addicks fan. Difford and Tilbrook stood alone on the stage with just acoustic guitars. "We are going to do a local folk song for you now" said Chris to a huge roar.
He turned his guitar around and patted out the two bar drum pattern at the start of "Up the Junction".
The entire crowd started to sing "I never thought it would happen...".
From start to finish the duo on stage never sang a word.
Absolutely magic.
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Never chew a pickle with a little slap and ticklegolfaddick said:'You've got to throw the stone to get the pond to ripple'0 -
Wow! Thank you for sharing that xAlgarveaddick said:The whole of Labelled with Love, and this from Pulling Mussels:
"But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet..."
I recall a gig in the nineties at Clapham Grand where it felt like every other punter in the huge audience was an Addicks fan. Difford and Tilbrook stood alone on the stage with just acoustic guitars. "We are going to do a local folk song for you now" said Chris to a huge roar.
He turned his guitar around and patted out the two bar drum pattern at the start of "Up the Junction".
The entire crowd started to sing "I never thought it would happen...".
From start to finish the duo on stage never sang a word.
Absolutely magic.1 - Sponsored links:
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Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.2 -
I am sure I saw Squeeze with Dire Straits (who I had never heard of then) supporting them in the late 70's. Can't be certain now but I think it was at the Albany.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.
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Her love was life and happiness
And in her steps I trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place
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Kneeling with torchlight shiningBefore me in my bedMy eyeballs stuck in readers wivesPubic hairs proudly counted everydayManhood took me slowlyOut into the milky way1
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Don't like this one, it doesn't even Rhymestonemuse said:
I am sure I saw Squeeze with Dire Straits (who I had never heard of then) supporting them in the late 70's. Can't be certain now but I think it was at the Albany.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.4 -
I saw them on Friday night at Indigo and they were bloody awesome...As I approach my 50th too, I'll go with:'Please be upstanding...'0
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She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens
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Yep, I’m privileged to say I saw them with Jools too.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.1 -
Happy Birthday to you Charlie!Charlton Charlie said:I saw them on Friday night at Indigo and they were bloody awesome...As I approach my 50th too, I'll go with:'Please be upstanding...'1 -
Just tried singing it to "Up the Junction", and it just about works!snowinberlin said:
Don't like this one, it doesn't even Rhymestonemuse said:
I am sure I saw Squeeze with Dire Straits (who I had never heard of then) supporting them in the late 70's. Can't be certain now but I think it was at the Albany.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.2 - Sponsored links:
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Cowboys in their chaps.1
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Chris Difford should be the next poet laureate. Lyrics above from ‘some fantastic place’ are the ones I would chose above all others closely followed by most of ‘pulling mussels’1
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If it was at the Albany in late 1977, that was the first concert Dire Straits played under that name.stonemuse said:
I am sure I saw Squeeze with Dire Straits (who I had never heard of then) supporting them in the late 70's. Can't be certain now but I think it was at the Albany.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.1 -
Was also there Friday and agree that they were fantastic. (I’ll be 50 in April).Charlton Charlie said:I saw them on Friday night at Indigo and they were bloody awesome...As I approach my 50th too, I'll go with:'Please be upstanding...'
Most of my favourite lyrics have been mentioned but got to agree with @BowieAddick on some fantastic place.2 -
Great band, great songs. Managed to have a close up at the Pelton Arms a couple of years ago before they went on tour1
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I said to my reflection
let’s get outta this place.1 -
Me too. I’d just started work in London back in ‘77, and was staying on a friend’s sofa in Hampstead. Bought NME, and the nearest gig to me was Squeeze at The Brecknock in Camden. Just a big pub. Not sure if I’d heard them before that night, but they were excellent.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.
PS When we showed the Jimmy Seed film in the Swan last year I met Chris Difford, who was sitting at the bar reading a book (hoping not to be disturbed, I suspect).4 -
Whenever I hear that song it always makes me think of one of my mates, who had absolute hysterics at my scandalised expression when it finally dawned on me what that last line actually meant.Stig said:The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go
They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow
They're counting out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again
In and out of Wandsworth with the numbers on their names...
Shape up at the disco and I think I've got a pull
I ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone...
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Met Jools and the boys at a pub in Canterbury around 1978. I had never heard of them. They were supporting Dr Feelgood at the Odeon. Superb gig.Chizz said:
If it was at the Albany in late 1977, that was the first concert Dire Straits played under that name.stonemuse said:
I am sure I saw Squeeze with Dire Straits (who I had never heard of then) supporting them in the late 70's. Can't be certain now but I think it was at the Albany.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Saw both Squeeze and Heaven 17 last year, albeit not at the same gig - both cracking nights out.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.3
