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[1] Chris Difford compared the song's music to "a kind of B-52s, American club sound." [1] The band's opinion of the song was not high. In an interview, Tilbrook conceded that the song was a filler track. Chris Difford concluded that "the song's crap," explaining, "It's an album filler at best and one of the few which I don't remember recording ...
Argybargy was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 32 in the UK and becoming the first Squeeze album to chart in the US. The album has since been recognized as a classic of new wave and features multiple of the band's most famous songs, including " Another Nail in My Heart ," " Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) ," and " If I Didn't ...
Chris Difford said about the lyrics, "This was a song about touring, which could be a very strange experiences. It would get to the stage where I'd think 'I don't know where I am, I don't know which county I am in, what time we're onstage, or who I'm sleeping with.' 'I think I'm go go' was the turn of phrase in the band at the time."
Squeeze are a British rock band active from 1974 to 1982, from 1985 to 1999, and from 2007 to the present date. Founded by Glenn Tilbrook (guitar, vocals), Chris Difford (guitar, vocals), Jools Holland (keyboards) and Paul Gunn (drums), the group have released 15 studio albums, 14 compilation albums, 4 live albums, 1 extended play, 48 singles and 34 music videos.
AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described it as "the almost ideal opener" and said that it "strangely enough sounds like [Elvis] Costello's 1981 album, Trust (it really was an incestuous scene)[.]" [1] Another AllMusic critic, Stewart Mason, opined: "A quintessential (sorry) Squeeze song, 'In Quintessence' kicks off the band's masterpiece, 1981's East Side Story, in grand style."
The song has since appeared on Squeeze compilation albums, such as the American version of Singles – 45's and Under (in the UK, the album instead featured the East Side Story track "Labelled With Love"). The song was also a live favorite for the band; Difford said of performing the track, "I used to love playing this song live.
"Another Nail in My Heart" is a 1980 song by new wave band Squeeze. Written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, it was released on the album Argybargy.Notable for Tilbrook's guitar solo right after the first verse, the song features marimba in its opening at the suggestion of newly acquired bassist John Bentley.
Squeeze now consists of a rotating band membership assembling around the two songwriters. Beginning in the summer of 2014 and continuing into 2015, Difford & Tilbrook began touring as a duo, playing Squeeze hits in smaller venues in the UK. Squeeze, still operating as a full band, continued to play occasional festival shows during this time. [1]