#35
Reviewed by Craig Fitzgerald
February 1 1980
Squeeze
Argybargy
Genre: Power Pop
Allen’s Rating: 5 out of 5
Craig’s Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
Another Nail in My Heart
Separate Beds
Misadventure
I Think I'm Go Go
Farfisa Beat
Vicky Verky
I’ve always liked Squeeze from afar. I was 11 — the same age as my son is now — when this record came out, so I was nowhere cool enough to own it then. What amounted to “hits” on this record, I knew, though. When I finally started listening to decent radio, “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell),” “Another Nail For My Heart,” and “If I Didn’t Love You” got regular airplay, so I felt like I had a pretty good handle on what this record was all about. The surprise here was that out of the 11 songs on it, I absolutely love NINE of them, and the other two get a “pretty, pretty good” rating. This is 36 minutes of sweet, fun, perfectly written pop. I’m not sure it really got better than than Side One of this record in 1980. Every single song is fantastic. The surprises for me were the killer riffs in “Farfisa Beat” and “There At the Top” and the lovely songwriting in “Separate Beds”. Even the Jools Holland-penned, Robert Goulet-esque “Wrong Side of the Moon” is a treat. This is a great, great record.
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