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

SQUEEZE - THIS IS GREAT - THIS IS LOVE

Valentines Day.... thats today isn't it? Eh.. er.. I think.....

But let me tell you something that I REALLY LOVE... Squeeze. Definately not a chicky band -- this one is straight from the heart. What makes this band endure the tests of time is due to the fact that this bands tells stories.... and tells them very well. In the span of just 3 minutes you get an entire story of what happened in the life time of an average schlugg.... He doens't want to get dirty on the dance floor, he doesn't want to steal your drugs, he doesn't even want to get nasty in the back of a cab..... if anything he just wants to live his life.... and hang out with his best mates at the local pub.... and kick out sweet jams like this.

A recent re-run of the Sopranos really nailed it. The thugs were getting into the music biz and these mob cretins were creating rock music, ala... The Smashing Pumpkins.. and this record producer blurts out, "This shits horrible.... I was around a long time and I met them all Hendrix, Joplin , The Who...etc. Those kids had a spark, they were magic, and I didn't even like their music .... but these kids today... especially this band you brought in here.... they got nothing... these guys are nowhere".

I feel the same way about a lot of bands we must endure today. Squeeze was a real band and they had real lyrics. You had to have somewhat of a brain to appreciate them. Which is probably why they never got really HUGE in their time. Oh... they did alright in fact they did more than just... OKAY. But they never really got as huge as some of these other acts that I won't even bother mentioning.

Yes yes... I first seen these guys appear on the Uncle Floyd Show in Newark New Jersey. Me and Floyd Vivino have good taste.

This stuff is like a great wine..... These are finely crafted pop songs.
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Ted Cantu writes for the Fascube Network - he can be found at 911Copywriters

SQUEEZE - UP THE JUNCTION

SQUEEZE - IN QUINTESCENCE

what a band......

I had a good ear for music even as a kid.... no wait, let me finish. Let me explain. That is not an egotistical statement. You see in 1980 if you admitted you liked anything with a melody in junior high you would get flattened down to hamburger meat. Everything in 1980 was 666 and the definition of a "musician" preferably had something to do with long hair and beards, mustaches, mutton chops etc. IN short, you had to look like a troll from Lord of the Rings.

ENTER SQUEEZE.

I saw their first debut on the Uncle Floyd Show from Newark New Jersey as a kid. They did two songs -- BLACK COFFEE IN BED... and IVE RETURNED. They were able to tell an entire story of breaking up, getting thrown out, sleeping in a car and getting back together again in under 3 minutes. And I really dug Jooles Hollands keyboard playing and the soulful vocals.

I had to smuggle these albums home from the record store and make sure I would not be jumped by our local neighborhood thugs. U2, The Police and Squeeze were not welcome in the east coast neighborhood I lived in. So I had to smuggle anything I got home quickly ... how times have changed.

This is off the album ARGY BARGY.
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cantu fascube 2006

SQUEEZE - ANOTHER NAIL IN MY HEART