SQUEEZE - Michael McDonald Could Have Out Done Them Better ???

You gotta read this review.....

allenbroadway (1 week ago)
I think Steely Dan and Michael McDonald could have done it better

Comparing Squeeze, (a great UK Brit Pop band WUNDERKIND from the 80s')
to the dreary sounds of Michael (pass me a doobie) Doobie Brother McDonald or Steely Dan is a terrible unforgiveable mistake of a comparrison. Each had very different pop sensibilities.

For example, Squeeze will put you in a happy upbeat place. Where McDonald puts you in a literal Mc Donalds NEAR CLOSING TIME where you are running out of time and cell phone minutes listening to him warble over the loudspeaker while you are on a business road trip -- wondering what your entire purpose in this world REALLY IS.... ??

And Steely Dan makes you feel like ordering a 7 and 7 and sticking your head in a pothole and calling it a day. After all, you cannot get a time machine back to 1977 so why bother.

But you don't get those feelings when you listen to Squeeze. And man get a load of JOOLS HOLLAND on the keyboard. GREAT STUFF. I also adore the endless guitar solos that just build and build and build. There is so much life in those builds. I just find so much depth in those songs. It is unreal.

The last I heard Mc Donald was doing AT&T commercials.... (LISSSSEN BAYBEEEEE ETC.)

Posted by Cantu on Oct. 2, 2007 at 9:34 PM