East Side Story

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Vanity Fair” mines lyrical territory that’s all over East Side Story: beleaguered women trying to cope in impossible situations and a sexist world. Working her fingers to the bone, the song’s unappreciated protagonist ends the day in true Squeeze fashion—by getting blind drunk. “She comes home late with another screw loose”, Tilbrook sings under a groaning orchestra, “She swears to have had just a pineapple juice / Falls asleep fully clothed in her bed / With her makeup remover by her head”. America loved Hourglass, with its tongue-twisting chorus, though Difford suspected this success had much to do with the promotional video. “It’s been played a lot, and everyone you speak to compliments you on it,” he said at the time.

Lose Jools Holland’s Wrong Side Of The Moon and perhaps Here Comes That Feeling and Argybargy might just settle the argument. EAST SIDE STORY, 1981 Squeeze albums – East Side Story I’m not strapped to the song emotionally but it was a great live number and sums up being on the road and having fun. It’s a comfortable pair of jeans as a song."East Side Story is the fourth studio album by new wave group Squeeze. The album peaked at number 19 in the UK Albums Chart, spending 26 weeks in the listing. [4] Other songs go the character-sketch route. The women Difford writes about come to life in all their dignity and sorrow: the harried housewife underestimated by her family and frustrated by her routine in “Woman’s World”; the would-be social climber whose best efforts constantly come up heartbreakingly short in “Vanity Fair”; the British GI bride left widowed by her drunken American husband and subsequently without a true home in “Labelled With Love.” These are short stories in song, the details of the lyrics and the twists in the melodies delivering the emotional punches without any of the manipulation commonly found in the pop music of the time.

History hasn’t been kind to the production, while the reach of Squeeze’s ambition exceeds its grasp, but Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti is still an important entry in the band’s canon, presaging a more sophisticated direction. BABYLON AND ON, 1987 Squeeze albums – Babylon And On After a brief hiatus, during which Difford and Tilbrook issued a solo album imaginatively titled Difford & Tilbrook, Squeeze returned with Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, probably as well known for the sleeve (tea cosy, fan, dessert) as for the songs.I can't help but blame Squeeze's craft and stylistic commitment to explain why I was fooled. (It couldn't have been my fault!) The older I get the more I'm receptive to bands that are able to update old styles for the present. (Something I used to really dislike, unless it was a style I really liked.) Squeeze's brand of power pop is distinctly traditional but also has enough modern touches to confuse people into calling it "new wave." Is That Love is the eighth song on East Side Story, and is one of Squeeze’s best known titles. It charted 35 on the UK Singles Chart and Ireland at number 15. It placed, in Israel of all places, number one, and remains Squeeze’s only number one hit single anywhere. Ultimately, Squeeze settled on one disc, with production duties assigned to Costello and Roger Bechirian (though Edmunds did helm In Quintessence). This was written around the time I got married. I remember being in the bathroom and seeing Cindy’s wedding ring next to the soap, which inspired me to write the lyric. I don’t think it was particularly about our marriage, but it started off a sequence of ideas in my head."