Favourite Artists Track 465 - Squeeze - nominated by Gordon, Voting

[Spacepig]

So this week, thanks to Gordon, we investigate English pop/rock band Squeeze.

Checking on Wiki, I was surprised to discover that they still appear to be active, and amazed to find out that they have an impressive 16 albums to their name. No shortage of tracks for us to choose from then.

Usual thing, noms in by 10 pm Sunday evening, remember to give us a link to your chosen song, and come back to vote next week.

Have a good one :-)

[Craig White]

staying safe,

Up The Junction

https://youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo

[Tim]

staying dangerous

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEfVx...

[Jemma]

After Tim

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love

https://youtu.be/LIootgmoOnQ

[Brass Neck]

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcie...

[Val]

After Brass

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9QZh...

[theDuke]

I'd forgotten Jools Holland was once a member of this band, who returned to appear in this optically bending music video in 1987, directed by Ade Edmondson apparently...

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpc8u...

[Lez]

Gordon, could I possibly have something from 'Difford and Tilbrook' -' a Squeeze album in all but name' ?
Please!

[Gordon]

Lez wrote: "Gordon, could I possibly have something from 'Difford and Tilbrook' -' a Squeeze album in all but name' ?
Please!"

Yes, but not any solo works.

[Gordon]

After Duke.

This is my second-favourite Squeeze song, but I've already got a wooden spoon from the Simon & Garfunkel round and I don't think anyone would vote for my favourite (King George Street).

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)

https://youtu.be/3WngGeI9lnA

[Lez]

After Gordon

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook

https://youtu.be/1kT-7yVUaiY

Thanks Gordon

[Sj]

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted

https://youtu.be/WXKfFeb2ua0

[Spacepig]

After Sj

Well, all the hits seem to have been taken, I don't really know any of the album tracks, tried a few, nothing stood out, so in desperation, I am going with Gordon's cast off.

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted
King George Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eCl...

[SussexWelsh]

After Spacepig

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted
King George Stree
The Elephant Ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhGuZ...

[Spacepig]

11 noms again this week, meaning we keep the 4 point voting system.

You all know the drill by now, voting in by 10 pm Thursday evening, no late votes counted.

This week's playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

And the noms:

Up The Junction
Take Me I'm Yours
Labelled With Love
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted
King George Street
The Elephant Ride

Enjoy the week ahead, my local independent record shop opens up again tomorrow, can't wait for my next day off (Thursday), got a wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket :-)

[Lez]

Labelled 4
Junction 3
Take Me 2
King George 1

Up The Junction - 3
Take Me I'm Yours - 2
Labelled With Love - 4
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted
King George Street - 1
The Elephant Ride

[Gordon]

Wot, no Slap & Tickle?

After Lez

King George Street - 4
Tempted - 3
Take Me, I'm Yours - 2
Labelled with Love - 1

Up The Junction - 3
Take Me, I'm Yours - 4
Labelled With Love - 5
Cool For Cats
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 3
King George Street - 5
The Elephant Ride

[Sera69]

After Gordon

4 - Take Me I'm Yours
3 - Cool For Cats
2 - Hourglass
1 - Tempted

Up The Junction - 3
Take Me, I'm Yours - 8
Labelled With Love - 5
Cool For Cats - 3
Black Coffee In Bed
Hourglass - 2
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 4
King George Street - 5
The Elephant Ride

[Brass Neck]

"Wot, no Slap & Tickle?" - not with anyone you don't live with under current lockdown rules I'm afraid. Cost Niall Ferguson his job.

[Tim]

Brass Neck wrote: ""Wot, no Slap & Tickle?" - not with anyone you don't live with under current lockdown rules I'm afraid. Cost Niall Ferguson his job."

... and that Labour whip.

[Jemma]

After Sera

Junction - 4
Black Coffee - 3
Pulling Mussels - 2
King George - 1

Up The Junction - 7
Take Me, I'm Yours - 8
Labelled With Love - 5
Cool For Cats - 3
Black Coffee In Bed - 3
Hourglass - 2
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 2
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 4
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Brass Neck]

Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: ""Wot, no Slap & Tickle?" - not with anyone you don't live with under current lockdown rules I'm afraid. Cost Niall Ferguson his job."

... and that Labour whip."

See, doing the honourable thing is still possible in British politics, despite the piss-poor exemplars set by those at the heart of our current government.

[Tim]

Brass Neck wrote: "Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: ""Wot, no Slap & Tickle?" - not with anyone you don't live with under current lockdown rules I'm afraid. Cost Niall Ferguson his job."

... and that Labour whip."

See..."

The difference being that all of the Labour people (and Professor Ferguson) undeniably broke the rules - going to a (or more than one, allegedly) funeral with 100 others present, going to a birthday party, travelling circa 160 miles on an unnecessary trip, having a family picnic in a park (that might be a Welsh only curiosity), and getting together with a person outside one's own household.

In the case of Stephen Kinnock, Kier Starmer proved himself to be two-faced by pompously stating he would have sacked Cummings, whilst having previously given Kinnock a shadow cabinet job after he broke the rules by driving from Wales to London to wish his dad happy birthday.

Mr Cummings has a vulnerable child (autistic, and apparently frightened of strangers; a condition which won't be helped by having baying mobs of leftist haters outside his door, egged on by the likes of Owen Jones and Emily Thornberry, who should be ashamed of themselves), for whom I guess it was impossible to find suitable childcare in London if they should have needed it under current lockdown conditions. I would be just as supportive if it had been a Labour politician or adviser who'd done what he did, and was coming under fire. The welfare of the child is paramount in such a case, and is covered under the exceptional circumstances guidelines, as Dr Jenny Harries described during a press conference on 24th March (before the events occurred).

It's notable that of the two people who 'shopped' him, one later confessed to having lied by tweaking dates on an app he was using as 'evidence', and the other had made his own long distance journey (from County Durham to Berkshire and back) to bring his adult daughter back from where she was staying with her boyfriend's family, having returned from America just before lockdown kicked in.

[Brass Neck]

You're right, he's a saint and in no way responsible for the increasing flouting of lockdown and distancing rules over the last couple of weeks.

[Craig White]

sitting on the fence regarding that devious, pompous wee slimebag,

4 - mussels
3 - labelled
2 - cool
1 - coffee

Up The Junction - 7
Take Me, I'm Yours - 8
Labelled With Love - 8
Cool For Cats - 4
Black Coffee In Bed - 4
Hourglass - 2
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 6
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 4
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Tim]

Brass Neck wrote: "You're right, he's a saint and in no way responsible for the increasing flouting of lockdown and distancing rules over the last couple of weeks."

Sure, because there was absolutely no instances of people flocking to beaches and parks on sunny days and bank holidays before the story emerged was there.

[Fishy_Jim]

After Tech:

Take Me, I'm Yours - 4
Hourglass - 3
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 2
Cool For Cats - 1

Up The Junction - 7
Take Me, I'm Yours - 12
Labelled With Love - 8
Cool For Cats - 5
Black Coffee In Bed - 4
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 8
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 4
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

NOTE: For some reason, the Cool For Cats video has been replaced by a duplicate of Up The Junction.
Here's a replacement link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2cE...

[Brass Neck]

Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "You're right, he's a saint and in no way responsible for the increasing flouting of lockdown and distancing rules over the last couple of weeks."

Sure, because there was absolut..."

That's what I said? You didn't think I was being in any way sarcastic/ironic surely?

[theDuke]

After Jim:

Take Me, I'm Yours - 4
Tempted - 3
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 2
Cool For Cats - 1

Up The Junction - 7
Take Me, I'm Yours - 16
Labelled With Love - 8
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 4
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 10
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 7
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Val]

After Duke

Labelled With Love - 4
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - 3
Tempted - 2
Up The Junction - 1

Up The Junction - 8
Take Me, I'm Yours - 16
Labelled With Love - 12
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 4
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 13
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 9
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Spacepig]

After Val

Up The Junction - 4
Black Coffee In Bed - 3
Tempted - 2
Take Me, I'm Yours - 1

Up The Junction - 12
Take Me, I'm Yours - 17
Labelled With Love - 12
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 3
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 13
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 11
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Brass Neck]

T - 4
BCIB - 3
UTJ - 2
TMIY - 1

Up The Junction - 14
Take Me, I'm Yours - 18
Labelled With Love - 12
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 6
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 13
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 15
King George Street - 6
The Elephant Ride

[Tim]

after BN

Tempted - 4
Up The Junction - 3
Pulling Mussels - 2
King George Street - 1

Up The Junction - 17
Take Me, I'm Yours - 18
Labelled With Love - 12
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 6
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 15
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 19
King George Street - 7
The Elephant Ride

[Spacepig]

One slight correction to make on the final run in: In my haste to vote, I have gone and robbed Black Coffee In Bed of the points they had before I voted, sorry Val. Here's the corrected scores so far:

Up The Junction - 17
Take Me, I'm Yours - 18
Labelled With Love - 12
Cool For Cats - 6
Black Coffee In Bed - 10
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 15
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 19
King George Street - 7
The Elephant Ride

[Sj]

Yep reckon 'Cool For Cats' lost out a bit there due to lack of a video

Take Me I'm Yours ~ 4
Cool For Cats ~ 3
Up The Junction ~ 2
Labelled With Love ~ 1

Up The Junction - 19
Take Me, I'm Yours - 22
Labelled With Love - 13
Cool For Cats - 9
Black Coffee In Bed - 10
Hourglass - 5
Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) - 15
The Apple Tree - Difford & Tilbrook
Tempted - 19
King George Street - 7
The Elephant Ride

[Spacepig]

Okie dokie then, first off, apologies for the snafu with the video for Cool For Cats, absolutely no idea what happened there. I didn't know about the cock up until I came back to vote today, and by then most people had voted, and I did see that Fishy Jim had posted a link, so I didn't see much point in fighting with the playlist by that point.
As for the missing clip costing the song votes - I doubt it, I find it hard to believe that any of us in here don't know the song, I kinda reckon the voters just preferred others.
But, if anything goes wrong with the playlist in the future, might be best if someone could send me a Message, that way I will get an email and I can deal with it asap.

So, with all that out of the way, let's get to the medals.

Taking the honours this week, Tim with Take Me, I'm Yours. A draw for second place with Tech and Sj sharing the silver with their noms Up The Junction and Tempted. And Gordon gets to keep his own bronze gong with Pulling Mussels (from the Shell).

12 voters for the 11 noms, good going, and a special thank you award to the 10 of us who managed to completely ignore the political nonsense :-)

[theDuke]

Congrats Tim, Take Me, I'm Yours, is a tough one to beat.

[Craig White]

2nd equal? why, i never thought it would happen.................

[Brass Neck]

Tech XXIII wrote: "2nd equal? why, i never thought it would happen................."

No, second AMONG equals Tech.