My god I'm absolutely addicted to british music like this. I'm not even british but somehow I absolutely love stuff like Squeeze, Steve Harley, The Kinks, The Jam, and of course the other usual suspects. Hats off to you Brits, you make the best music in the world. Much love from your german brothers! Edit: recently visited England and I loved it. The people, the music, the architecture, the football and THE FOOD!!! I'll have to return soon, I long for a sunday roast again...
@@shaunwhite1337 I can see you're a man of great taste in cars ;-) Unfortunately, music-wise, we haven't done much since... Brahms and Beethoven I guess :D
I worked with this slag, fucked her way to Madison Avenue management from a Cotswold town in England, proper bangtail. I said about Squeeze and she started laughing and said I knew nothing about music if I liked a band called "Squeeze" so then I said "What about someone like Jools Holland" and she said he was a legend and knew his stuff. So as you can see, "Oxygen thief" was too kind a mantle
He wrote the song when touring America. He was doing his laundry in a hotel just outside of New Orleans and was missing home and started to write down the lyrics. Quite incredible!
What makes this song so amazing is there is NO chorus, but it still works! It resolves at the very end....keeps you engaged until the very end....so well done. Masterclass songwriting!
I will point you to "Slip Inside This House" by The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. The album version is 8m long, and, has a LOT of singing/lyrics, and there is no actual chorus. It uses "Slip Inside This House" as more of what we'd call a "chaotic attractor" these days!
This is one of the rare songs where pretty much every line is absolutely perfect ... Its almost ridiculous how well this is written - not just the lyrics but also the chord progression and melody ... And on top of that the vocal delivery is amazing - the timbre of the voice almost reminds me of John Lennon ... One of the great British songs
First time hearing this band and this song. Those were the two observations i made as well, being a hobby musician. It's a very well made song in every sense. A very talented singer/songwriter and they don't come in droves.
It’s funny, cause I see young people mocking older people’s comments of the type ‘I’m 56…and this song reminds me of my youth’. They roll their eyes and post mocking replies like ‘I’m a 102 year old alien and this song reminds me of my planet Zwnon…” But they don’t get it. You see, the people posting this type of comment can’t believe they ARE 56-cause trust me, none of us do-especially when going down memory lane with music like this. It evokes the strongest sensory memories. Especially melancholy songs like this one. Not to mention, you need to truly have lived some to truly understand great lyrics like these, too. And once you do, it hits you harder that you are getting older. All I can say to those mocking young folk…I hope you live long enough to understand how this feels-and get to post these kind of comments yourself. Cause the gift of aging is bittersweet-and music often reminds us how quickly time has slipped away..and how much has changed. Yet, also how we are still young in our hearts.
Honestly I'm only seventeen and I myself don't understand when other people my age mock that. Even now, when I listen to songs I used to like when I was ten I can somewhat feel that to some extent- and that's bound to feel even stronger when it's as long ago as this was and when someone's life has changed as much as it would have in that time
We have the last laugh, we can reminisce about ACTUAL music, when these youngsters are in their 50s/60s, what will they have to look fondly back on, Jay Z, P Diddy, Cardi B, Tayor Swift?!!! 🤔😬🤣. What a f🧲ckin monumental anti climax that's going to be. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
@@natemcfarlane4972 Well, it's Kitchen-Sink Drama, isn't it? English realism for the working class. That's why we love it. The small things that happen to us as we meander shambolically through life.
I think this is possibly the greatest example of how a three minute pop song can tell a complex story. So many pop songs are trite clichés of emotional vacuity but this goes from boy meets girl, both fall in love, get married, have a child and relationship collapses, in just over 180 seconds, all with a kernel of emotional truth.
I think that this might be the perfect pop song. The tune is catchy as hell, the lyrics are razor sharp, nuanced, and poetic and delivered by a class bunch of musicians.
Agreed. Tempted gets all the love and Paul Carrick knocked it out of the park but this one hits so good. It’s become my favorite Squeeze song. Right up there with a bunch of other ‘perfect’ songs.
@@steves2074 In the UK this song and,directly before it,Cool For Cats achieved Squeeze's highest position in the singles chart,both getting to number 2,in 1979.
@@rjjcms1 wow that's cool to know. in the US, all we ever got from squeeze on most radio was tempted and mussels... college radio played more and i got introduced to more of their songs that way.
@@steves2074College radio must have been quite a saviour on your side of the Atlantic in the 70s,80s and 90s! Anyway,here's a fullewr rundown of their UK hits: Their breakthrough came around Easter 1978 with Take Me I'm Yours,which reached number 19 (only!) in the hit parade and I remember seeing at or near the start of an edition of Top of the Pops (with Jools Holland on piano) one Thursday evening near the start of the school Easter holidays (I was 13 then). Cool For Cats was actually the first single I bought,as I started having just enough pocket money to do so. It was the height of the coloured and themed vinyl craze and for some reason friends at school were trying to buy it pink vinyl (one of them already had Dr Feelgood's Milk and Alcohol in,yes,milk and alcohol (looked like brown beer of some kind) coloured vinyl. When I rocked up to the record shop the only copies left were in plain old black. I still have it among my old singles collection today. It peaked at number 2 in April 1979 when Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes (from the animated movie version of Watership Down) was number 1. Up the Junction also got to number 2,in June/July 1979,kept off the top by Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric? Slap & Tickle made number 25 in the early-to-mid autumn. In 1980 they scored another Top 20 hit with Another Nail in My Heart (number 17 in April) and followed it with Pulling Mussels From the Shell early that summer. The following summer they had Is That Love? and then Tempted,which though receiving great reviews over here appears to have been a far bigger hit in the United States. That autumn they hit number 4 with the country-influenced Labelled With Love. After that their chart fortunes declined somewhat,but they continued having minor hits with Black Coffee in Bed and Annie Get Your Gun (both 1982) and the rather dark but intriguing Last Time Forever,with its bloody "slasher" video (mid-1985). After what appeared to be some time out they returned to notch a number 16 hit in 1987 with Hourglass and had sporadic further minor hits after that.
@@rjjcms1 thanks so much for this timeline and breakdown!! Blue eyed soul was always popular in the US which i think is why tempted hit so high. All these others are fantastics. I personally like black coffee in bed a lot
As a proud American, I love my American music roots. But God damn, a small country like England has accumulated one massive amount of talented musicians. Staggering, actually.
Not forgetting the largest empire the world has ever seen which included eerrr........... oh yes that slightly insignificant landmass West of Ireland who’s name escapes me at the moment.
Saw them last night. Lot of love in the crowd for this great band. 50 years on and still putting on a great show. Cheers Glenn, Chris and the rest of the band.
I still want to know how he went from working hard to support the family to being such a drunken jackass that she left him for a soldier. Yeah, I know it is my problem.
No more nights by the telly, no more nights nappies smelling… He wanted to go out with his mates, he wasn’t mature enough to be a dad that young. She said she’d seen a doctor, and nothing now would stop her. The baby wasn’t planned. He sounds like he was terrified to be a dad. He wasn’t ready for it and he knew it. The devil came and took me - from bar to street to bookie. He stopped giving a shit and self-destructed. Great song
It's a masterclass in how to tell a story spanning years in 3 minutes or less with a vocal range almost anyone could sing. Squeeze got it completely spot on here. I love the angst of the last verse too... "AND NOW SHE'S 2 YEARS OLDER". Every mistake you'll ever make as a working class boy or girl, right here. Still knocks me back.
Difford was a hell of a lyracist. And Tillbrook was so good at taking a simple melody, hook it into your brain, where it lives forever! Such an underrated band.
When this song finished playing, the first time I heard it, I realized my wife was going to leave me. I was shattered, and like the storyteller, knew I was up the junction. She had sent me on my own to pick up my son from camp on the Isle of Wight, then spend some time there with him on a holiday - just the two of us - the first of, what would be, many - over the coming years. We had been renting the same cottage for several years, but that year she stayed in London. Great song, but hearing it always puts me in that car - alone - waiting for my son, and wondering if she had already found her soldier.
that song must touch atleast 1million fellows memorys,, then years later advicing the next generation how to be more cautious !!,, as the saying goes,, History really DOES repeat its self cos 'kids just dont listen' you cannot teach 'experience', because that they have to learn it themselves. BUT WHAT A BRILLIANT SONG 👍
Something is definitely CORRUPT. This masterpiece NEVER gets steered in my direction, and I've been playing the You Tube '80s hits for years now. Meanwhile, I can't get RID of that half-brained "My Sharona" which never fails to appear on the right as a "suggested" song. Well, it ain't a song, it's audio bubble-gum.l
I'd never heard this song before, when it came on in the supermarket. I held my head back in the hope of catching some of the lyrics so I could put them in google when I got home! Glad I found it, it's definately one of the best songs ever written.
I had a similar experience, I heard it for the first time ever in a hair salon and the line "alone here in the kitchen, I feel there's something missing" was the one that got me!
This song speaks to so many people in so many different ways, it's not full of bourgeois clichés or empty rhetorics, the lyrics aren't made to be pretty, they're made to be real and true, which is what I appreciate most about this song... A story of love and loss encapsulated beautifully in the most powerful artform there is, music!
Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there’s something missing, I’d beg her for forgiveness, but begging’s not by business - that line still gives me chills, decades later. Perhaps because it describes my own life 😆 I’ve always chose to be alone, rather than backing down, or losing an argument in a relationship. Pride is a terrible affliction. People lose out on so much, because they can’t back down
This song is always in my head. I lost my daughter to my alcoholism (she's doing really well, top at GSCEs and planning to save the world through agriculture). My sister took over the mum role. I still love her so much though. This song makes me cry. I also have the book Up the Junction, which is well worth reading.
Feel for you sister. Haven't been allowed contact with my daughter for 13 years, now aged 17. Occasional pictures on the internet. Very beautiful. We stay strong in the grace of our Lord. The love we know is what we are and our Father knows it. He will never let it be forgotten. He hears our cries every day and suffers with us. But also, He will always answer prayer: "“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven." Matthew 18:19 NASB
Dear Amy, I also once lost my son to his dad who was abusive to me. He beat me up, broke my bones and my self-confidence and dignity. But because of my former drug addiction no one believed me. I got hooked up again but finally came into the methadone program. I did everything to straighten myself and get back on track. Two years later my ex was arrested in Amsterdam with drugs and my son then 6 years old came back to me. This happened 30 years ago. He’s doing great now. So please never give up. You have to make yourself strong for her. She might need you one day! And this song has been one of my favorites when I was 11 or 12. They were so young when they made it! I still love it.
Yeah but Amy don't give up. You turn yourself around and try to do something amazing with your life (in other words opposite of being an alcoholic) and see what happens.
Yep. It's line straight from the bloke in the pub. In fact this song is pub poetry. Shakespeare would of understood the pattern, flow and use of common words placed within a working class narrative..
1:48 she looked just like her mother if there could be another. still gets me that line. i have an ex mrs and a daughter that just does lol. real lyrics, real music. love squeeze
I still have all my old Squeeze vinyl 45s from the 70s and early 80s, and even now, listening to this song it stirs memories and brings me to tears, a rare thing indeed. A requiem to those of us whose lives screwed up and didn't turn out the way we had hoped or planned.
AMEN.I am 53 so I remember this quite well.I am also a casualty of failed dreams IE: MUSIC.Then if that wasn'nt enough ,just keeping a day job and playing was hard but now I don't even play anymore and on unemployment.I have a great opportunity in July to get hired with Pittsburgh local govt. service.My point:U R not done living and learning yet because U R still here and ALIVE....MY advice,if U R spiritual is to PRAY and ask for guidance.HOOK UP WITH THE MAN WHO MADE IT ALLL>>>GOD.Don't give up and don't feel bad.JESUS IS LORD...PEACE TO YOUR ACHING SOUL!!!
Yes great song and how it pans out for almost everyone, I was lucky enough to sustain a musical career right through bringing up my two sons which kept the wolf from the door, if you can play you'll never starve my mum used to say and so true, trouble is most folks want security of a day job then think "shit where did my life go" I hate my job but need the money bla bla
i'm giving you a thumbs up even though you are rivalling me for the most votes on my comment lol. to be honest, i think we are both saying the same thing about this song. those lyrics are just so 'real'. sorry for repeating myself, but they really are. good music taste btw
One of the Greatest songs ever written, it is everything a Great Song should be, and a true one of a kind song.. I was a kid when this song used to come on the Radio and I understood the subject immediately, Goes to show How far songwriting has dropped now compared to then 😵💫
I just saw them in London 2 weeks ago when we were on vacation there! They still sound great and it was amazing when they played this song and everyone in the audience sang along! Loved the entire show so much. 🥰
I worked my way through college in Seattle at a cool Italian restaurant in Pioneer Square (80s). The head waiter managed to get a Squeeze compilation tape for the MUZAK tape system the restaurant used. Of course it was never used when we were open - we rocked to that tape for hours during setup / after hours. Another Nail for My Heart, Pulling Mussels From a Shell... good times!
Saw them in a small club in Dublin in 92. Super guys, they had drinks and chats with the audience before and after the show and during intermission. Great concert.
Are these the greatest Lyrics of all time, I've heard and listened to most of the greatest songsmiths in my 64 years, Jackson Browne ,Lindsey Buckingham, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Stevie Nicks, Janis Ian, Jimmy Nail, Paul Simon, Mark Knoffler, Donald Fagen, Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Arlo Guthrie, not even John Lennon could better this. I love this, i'ts totally beautiful, unforgettable, and takes me back to the wonderful freedom of 78 and 79 .The way they have arranged the words and deliver them is magic, the manner in which he captures the life and times and fecklessness of the characters in Clapham and 'windy common' inspired by Nell Dunn's prizewinning and much acclaimed book of stories in that part of London in the late Fifties In my view there should be a monument erected in Battersea for those guys.'Labelled with Love 'is equally brilliant, it's another absolute masterpiece of storytelling and beautiful music intertwined.
In 1980 it sounded somewhat odd to the then 14 year old me to hear people talk about the war, "40 years ago" can you imagine. Today this 56 year old reminds those days 40 years ago as if they were yesterday.... No wonder that people who were 14 in 1940 and lost 4 years of their normal youth due to war were still thinking in 1980 as if it was yesterday, and were still stockpiling coffee, candles and other non perishable goods, you never know if war would come again.
+Brandon Henderson Its absolutely up there...as the other lad mention 10cc, im not in love i also love. But lyrically, this is a all time classic of British music. I said to my mrs that it should be for our first dance when we get wed.. 3 kids, and one is a brand new boy, im 46 so im really up the junction.. but wouldn't swap it for anything..as beggin's not my business.. its just loaded with brilliant lyrics , and jools looks pretty dam cool too...
+Brandon Henderson You won the debate, regardless of what his argument was. This song makes me happy then breaks my fucking heart all in a span of a few minutes. One of the best songs ever.
So reminds me of another time. I spent my twenties and half my thirties hanging out in Clapham junction, Clapham Common, Clapham South (where I tried to learn Russian), all those memories. Is the windmill the name of the big pub on Clapham Common. Never outta there then. Such a beautiful musical story full of meaning and poignancy and reality.
Very few bands were truly able to capture the essence of the early Beatles' songs in a modern way. This is the type of pop tune I wish I could write as a songwriter.
I have adored Squeeze since I first heard Take Me I'm Yours when I was a child. A lot of people question why they weren't more famous 🤔. My theory us that they were actually so talented and versatile that they didn't fit into a particular genre. They could literally write and play anything. Pub rock like Cool For Cats. Soul as in Tempted. Country notably on Labelled With Love. Sheer sublime Pop like Is That Love. My own personal favourite is Another Nail In My Heart. The charts in the late seventies/early eighties were amazing with huge names coming through. However, they usually had a main style such as Pop, Rock, Ska, Mod Revival, etc. Squeeze were all of these with a cheeky side of sassiness. Love love love them forever ❤
This song still almost brings a tear after 43 years!! I've got the cover of "Cool for Cats" on my office wall along with another hundred of my favorite records. "Up the Junction's" still the standout tune for me from that great album.
@@fredfurball Hula Fred: I think one of my dear kitties is using your moniker as an alias. Sorry that I can't respond to your query since I lived through the entire "New Music" video revolution of the late 70's and 80's without owning a TV (still don't have one at the age of 70) and have never watched the performance you mention. I've tried introducing my college history students to Squeeze but they seem to prefer Echo & the Bunnymen, the Church, and especially the (English) Beat. I think Chris and Glen might be a bit too obviously ironic for them.
drinking beer down the local friday nights ,chatting up some iffy sort by the chippy car park , losing a score on the 3.00 at newmarket ,driving a beat up cortina ,smoking no6s and waaaaay less scumbag wrong uns decorating the street corners ..and listening to squeeze on the radio ...oh to be an englishman in the late 70s ..love it
Sadly it reminds me of an influx of Iranian beige that flooded London in 1979...maybe because I was young at the time and knew people who lived like this song.. in retrospect, I feel a nostalgia for the 1970's..it was a grimy era..London was grittier, Hammersmith, the West End..I was a hippy but punks were much more prevalent, posing with their glue bags under the Westway on a Saturday morning.
happentodie crime was about 40% higher in the 1970s! It's much safer now. And young people are much better behaved. Nostalgia......... everything is through rose-tinted glasses
I wouldn't agree at all that kids are ''better behaved'' nowadays..it is terrifying to see the power kids have over their weak parents..toddlers smacking their fathers about? never in 1970's did one see a child slapping it's parents at such a young age. Kids are much, much worse behaved according to an old headmaster recently retired- and the rot set in with feeble parenting, and spoiled, entitled brattery.
Yes remember it well the birds seemed better the cigs I use to smoke were NO. 6 the days when you could have a smoke whithout some mard arse looking at you as though you've just pulled out your plonker and started to play with yourself Yes less scum bags proper days with proper music
The interesting thing about Squeeze is how varied their songs were. Some were just plain tongue in cheek, some were ballads, some were proper pop songs and some were pure dramatic storytelling. This fits very much into the latter (despite Jools and his cigar). The only other British band that I can think of from that era who attempted to do something similar with their repertoire was Madness.
This is the one song that plonks me right back to the days of my youth...every time i hear it, i'm back there... stop cutting onions in front of me! 🌹❤️
My god I'm absolutely addicted to british music like this. I'm not even british but somehow I absolutely love stuff like Squeeze, Steve Harley, The Kinks, The Jam, and of course the other usual suspects. Hats off to you Brits, you make the best music in the world. Much love from your german brothers!
Edit: recently visited England and I loved it. The people, the music, the architecture, the football and THE FOOD!!! I'll have to return soon, I long for a sunday roast again...
Danker broder x
But you germans make the best cars..i drive a german car..and listen to our great music . ..regards your English brother ..
@@shaunwhite1337 I can see you're a man of great taste in cars ;-)
Unfortunately, music-wise, we haven't done much since... Brahms and Beethoven I guess :D
Brits are music. Germans are Engineering. Yanks like me love our Uncles (Europe).
Vorsprung durch Technik
Love this track
“ I’d beg for some forgiveness, but beggings not my business” what a lyric by a legendary band!!
The golden era of British lyricists. Tilbrook and Difford, Weller, Dury, Costello...
Fuckin spot on my friend
Think it's "I'd beg" as in I *would* but...
Always had the idea this was kind of the point of the line - that he did not beg as it wasn't his thing.
One of the best lines in music
Bloody love this, British music at it,s best
Squeeze wrote quietly devastating, everyday stories within bright, catchy tunes. The definition of bittersweet. It's an art form.
Difford n Tilbrook were every bit as good as L&M
Did not
@@RosannaMahon No they weren't but they were the closest to
I worked with this slag, fucked her way to Madison Avenue management from a Cotswold town in England, proper bangtail. I said about Squeeze and she started laughing and said I knew nothing about music if I liked a band called "Squeeze" so then I said "What about someone like Jools Holland" and she said he was a legend and knew his stuff. So as you can see, "Oxygen thief" was too kind a mantle
I hear a lot of Ian Dury-like wordplay in some of those lines. That's not a bad thing.
How to tell a story perfectly in 3 minutes, Absolutely brilliant
Lp
I just used the word brilliant to describe "Another nail for my heart" when sharing to Facebook, Brilliant indeed !
It is perfect, the sort of thing that The Beatles could do so well, too. This is an achingly sad song and uniquely British.
I totally agree.. not a single word is wasted in his telling of the story and you can hear the pain and regret in his voice.. so powerful.
Excellent Band clever BASTARDS on all lyrics MATE!
How do you write a song like that at 21. Beyond brilliant.
He wrote the song when touring America. He was doing his laundry in a hotel just outside of New Orleans and was missing home and started to write down the lyrics. Quite incredible!
@@twobobruss: Lyrics written by their guitarist, not by singer.
@@janloudin1033 I didn’t specify who wrote it
@@twobobruss You didn't indeed , but to answer you , purely a god given talent...fabulous song 😊
Love it, still remember all the words.
What makes this song so amazing is there is NO chorus, but it still works! It resolves at the very end....keeps you engaged until the very end....so well done. Masterclass songwriting!
I will point you to "Slip Inside This House" by The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. The album version is 8m long, and, has a LOT of singing/lyrics, and there is no actual chorus. It uses "Slip Inside This House" as more of what we'd call a "chaotic attractor" these days!
it doesnt have a vocal chorus - but it does have a melody x
A masterclass of songwriting, manages to tell a sad, short story in a little over 3 minutes. Stunning
ITS CALLED GENIUS.
They are clever lads. Consummate songwriters and arrangers.
This is one of the rare songs where pretty much every line is absolutely perfect ... Its almost ridiculous how well this is written - not just the lyrics but also the chord progression and melody ... And on top of that the vocal delivery is amazing - the timbre of the voice almost reminds me of John Lennon ... One of the great British songs
It's an all time classic but most people can't see it
Totally agree.. Cool for cats is also.. But yep this and labelled with love are story's ❤❤❤
I also feel tempted sits at the same level
First time hearing this band and this song. Those were the two observations i made as well, being a hobby musician. It's a very well made song in every sense. A very talented singer/songwriter and they don't come in droves.
'she looked just like her mother - if there could be another.' Beautiful line.
😭
I know, makes me so emotional, he lost her 💔
It always makes me cry
Really sad song......deep sad story told in under 3 minutes
... great line ... one of many ...
This song is quietly a flawless masterpiece
Underrated comment
Some of the lyrics are a bit janky, e.g. "no more nights nappies smelly."
not flawless...nappies smelling is weak
It was the 70's and yes they did 😅😅
People, don't argue, the song is perfect.🤫
"The devil came and took me / From bar to street to bookie"
What a line that is, damn.
I always thought he said “barter street”. Cheers for solving a decades old mystery
Almost as good as Atlantic City
Thanks for that- I’m in Ladbrokes at the moment and couldn’t quite hear it…
I use that line every time I’m in the shit, with my girlfriend. 👹🥃🍺🐎🐎💸💸
Me all over ! Bets and pints have fucked me up.
It’s funny, cause I see young people mocking older people’s comments of the type ‘I’m 56…and this song reminds me of my youth’. They roll their eyes and post mocking replies like ‘I’m a 102 year old alien and this song reminds me of my planet Zwnon…”
But they don’t get it. You see, the people posting this type of comment can’t believe they ARE 56-cause trust me, none of us do-especially when going down memory lane with music like this. It evokes the strongest sensory memories. Especially melancholy songs like this one. Not to mention, you need to truly have lived some to truly understand great lyrics like these, too. And once you do, it hits you harder that you are getting older.
All I can say to those mocking young folk…I hope you live long enough to understand how this feels-and get to post these kind of comments yourself. Cause the gift of aging is bittersweet-and music often reminds us how quickly time has slipped away..and how much has changed.
Yet, also how we are still young in our hearts.
Honestly I'm only seventeen and I myself don't understand when other people my age mock that. Even now, when I listen to songs I used to like when I was ten I can somewhat feel that to some extent- and that's bound to feel even stronger when it's as long ago as this was and when someone's life has changed as much as it would have in that time
We have the last laugh, we can reminisce about ACTUAL music, when these youngsters are in their 50s/60s, what will they have to look fondly back on, Jay Z, P Diddy, Cardi B, Tayor Swift?!!! 🤔😬🤣. What a f🧲ckin monumental anti climax that's going to be. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
This song is ageless, typically English and brilliant.
I thought that myself, there's something so achingly English about it and I can't say quite what.
@@natemcfarlane4972The spirit of it is very British in an inexplicable way, but it’s also laden with many Britishisms.
@@natemcfarlane4972 Well, it's Kitchen-Sink Drama, isn't it? English realism for the working class. That's why we love it. The small things that happen to us as we meander shambolically through life.
As Australian born,by English parents--I have to agree with you
A memorable song - 'with thoughts of our engagement we moved into a basement' is a classic line ...
I think this is possibly the greatest example of how a three minute pop song can tell a complex story. So many pop songs are trite clichés of emotional vacuity but this goes from boy meets girl, both fall in love, get married, have a child and relationship collapses, in just over 180 seconds, all with a kernel of emotional truth.
I agree with you, but the thong thong thong song is much better viewing. Chaz n Dave are pretty good if you’re looking for reality
No mention ov marrage
He thought it just a squeeze
Four words: The Kinks: Two Sisters - the most devastating 2 minutes in music history.
NAILED IT! Great post!
I think that this might be the perfect pop song. The tune is catchy as hell, the lyrics are razor sharp, nuanced, and poetic and delivered by a class bunch of musicians.
Agreed. Tempted gets all the love and Paul Carrick knocked it out of the park but this one hits so good. It’s become my favorite Squeeze song. Right up there with a bunch of other ‘perfect’ songs.
@@steves2074 In the UK this song and,directly before it,Cool For Cats achieved Squeeze's highest position in the singles chart,both getting to number 2,in 1979.
@@rjjcms1 wow that's cool to know. in the US, all we ever got from squeeze on most radio was tempted and mussels... college radio played more and i got introduced to more of their songs that way.
@@steves2074College radio must have been quite a saviour on your side of the Atlantic in the 70s,80s and 90s! Anyway,here's a fullewr rundown of their UK hits:
Their breakthrough came around Easter 1978 with Take Me I'm Yours,which reached number 19 (only!) in the hit parade and I remember seeing at or near the start of an edition of Top of the Pops (with Jools Holland on piano) one Thursday evening near the start of the school Easter holidays (I was 13 then).
Cool For Cats was actually the first single I bought,as I started having just enough pocket money to do so. It was the height of the coloured and themed vinyl craze and for some reason friends at school were trying to buy it pink vinyl (one of them already had Dr Feelgood's Milk and Alcohol in,yes,milk and alcohol (looked like brown beer of some kind) coloured vinyl. When I rocked up to the record shop the only copies left were in plain old black. I still have it among my old singles collection today. It peaked at number 2 in April 1979 when Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes (from the animated movie version of Watership Down) was number 1.
Up the Junction also got to number 2,in June/July 1979,kept off the top by Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric? Slap & Tickle made number 25 in the early-to-mid autumn.
In 1980 they scored another Top 20 hit with Another Nail in My Heart (number 17 in April) and followed it with Pulling Mussels From the Shell early that summer. The following summer they had Is That Love? and then Tempted,which though receiving great reviews over here appears to have been a far bigger hit in the United States. That autumn they hit number 4 with the country-influenced Labelled With Love. After that their chart fortunes declined somewhat,but they continued having minor hits with Black Coffee in Bed and Annie Get Your Gun (both 1982) and the rather dark but intriguing Last Time Forever,with its bloody "slasher" video (mid-1985). After what appeared to be some time out they returned to notch a number 16 hit in 1987 with Hourglass and had sporadic further minor hits after that.
@@rjjcms1 thanks so much for this timeline and breakdown!! Blue eyed soul was always popular in the US which i think is why tempted hit so high. All these others are fantastics. I personally like black coffee in bed a lot
I'm 76 and this still brings a small tear. A wonderful story told so beautifully.
Good on you Tony
I am 52 and it still makes me cry all these years on.
Am so glad I was around in the late 70s.
I am having a little tear now. I married a girl from Clapham. Thankfully we are still together.
You know it mate
As a proud American, I love my American music roots. But God damn, a small country like England has accumulated one massive amount of talented musicians. Staggering, actually.
And on our tiny island cities like Manchester lead the way when it comes to music.
Good aye we
Thank you, no idea how we do it.
@@mikemccann5776 Squeeze were from London
Not forgetting the largest empire the world has ever seen which included eerrr........... oh yes that slightly insignificant landmass West of Ireland who’s name escapes me at the moment.
I adore this song - it tells such a story, it's like reading a book. And it captures late 70s / early 80s English life so brilliantly.
They should do an arabic/Pakistani version for modern england
@@ivand9610 Oh no, most of the population wouldn't understand it!
@@CathyKitson but what about in 20 years?
@@ivand9610 Well, idk. We'll still be speaking English.
@@ivand9610 There's always a racist moron somewhere, isn't there?
Saw them last night. Lot of love in the crowd for this great band. 50 years on and still putting on a great show. Cheers Glenn, Chris and the rest of the band.
Squeeze are just brilliant. Yes they are really under rated.
I couldn't agree more, Emma, we were all punk rockers back then and we loved them too. Every song a story, every song a joy to listen to.
How are they underrated? They are still really popular and very well respected, especially by me!
@@2760ade Another idiot who doesn't know what underrated means...
@@markrae1317 Ha ha, yes! The word 'underrated' is overused on RUclips for some reason!
@@2760ade It really is! Almost as much as 'surreal'.
Takes a special skill to tell a full story in 3 minutes!! ❤❤
I still want to know how he went from working hard to support the family to being such a drunken jackass that she left him for a soldier.
Yeah, I know it is my problem.
No more nights by the telly, no more nights nappies smelling…
He wanted to go out with his mates, he wasn’t mature enough to be a dad that young.
She said she’d seen a doctor, and nothing now would stop her.
The baby wasn’t planned. He sounds like he was terrified to be a dad. He wasn’t ready for it and he knew it.
The devil came and took me - from bar to street to bookie.
He stopped giving a shit and self-destructed.
Great song
It's a masterclass in how to tell a story spanning years in 3 minutes or less with a vocal range almost anyone could sing. Squeeze got it completely spot on here. I love the angst of the last verse too... "AND NOW SHE'S 2 YEARS OLDER". Every mistake you'll ever make as a working class boy or girl, right here. Still knocks me back.
Summed up perfectly
Nailed it.
There is a strange raw beauty to this song.
It's the story of so many lives.
Right about the vocal range, but this fantastic song is hard to sing and play.
Difford was a hell of a lyracist. And Tillbrook was so good at taking a simple melody, hook it into your brain, where it lives forever! Such an underrated band.
When this song finished playing, the first time I heard it, I realized my wife was going to leave me. I was shattered, and like the storyteller, knew I was up the junction. She had sent me on my own to pick up my son from camp on the Isle of Wight, then spend some time there with him on a holiday - just the two of us - the first of, what would be, many - over the coming years. We had been renting the same cottage for several years, but that year she stayed in London. Great song, but hearing it always puts me in that car - alone - waiting for my son, and wondering if she had already found her soldier.
So did she? Women man
that song must touch atleast 1million fellows memorys,, then years later advicing the next generation how to be more cautious !!,, as the saying goes,, History really DOES
repeat its self cos
'kids just dont listen'
you cannot teach 'experience', because that they have to learn it themselves.
BUT WHAT A BRILLIANT SONG 👍
I could write a song to this story
Had she?
Things that never happened for 10….. 🤣
One of the most beautiful pop songs ever written. Ray Davies meets Richard Rodgers. And Jools Holland smoking a stogie.
This song raises my spirits and breaks my heart every time I hear it. I hope everyone for whom it rings true has managed to find peace.
The joy and then the sorrow.
Amen. Not far from my own story. God bless us all x
2024 right here! Love Squeeze.
One of the best, most honest, songs ever written.
By a genuine band, with no pretensions.
not one of the best, THE best
Christopher Difford is a lyrical genius
The best bit of being 59 in 2024 is that tracks like this are the tracks I grew up with
Every single line is absolutely amazing
Rubbish every line is stunning
Top 5 pop songs of all time. Full stop.
Well said totally agree
Our abandoned dad's all need this song. It is helpful.
Born in 1964. Still listening to these classic lyrics
I was 1967......my neighbours all like it too...well at least the cops haven't been called for a noise complaint so I assume they like it 😂
1965 ❤
Better than the music today at least them days you could understand the words
I was born in 1966 .
1964 here too... had your 60th yet? Yes, they are great lyrics.
Superb. Don't tell a story like this in a song anymore!
Stunning song
How the beejeesus has this got less than a million views. This is part of the rich tapestry of British Music
+Joey BSide 1,146,127. Excellent. Guess my leg up worked. Kind of. Maybe. OK it didn't
Joseph Fieldstaff-Hughes n
Something is definitely CORRUPT. This masterpiece NEVER gets steered in my direction, and I've been playing the You Tube '80s hits for years now. Meanwhile, I can't get RID of that half-brained "My Sharona" which never fails to appear on the right as a "suggested" song. Well, it ain't a song, it's audio bubble-gum.l
2.396,620. happy now?.
Explanation: DISNEY DISNEY DISNEY.
Some songs have memorable lines , most song don't have any , this song has about 2 dozen .... masterpiece
A bath on Sunday 😅
I’d beg for some forgiveness… but begging’s not my business! 👌
The one about stinky diapers, right?
Some very effective lines, but also some real clunkers.
I'd never heard this song before, when it came on in the supermarket. I held my head back in the hope of catching some of the lyrics so I could put them in google when I got home! Glad I found it, it's definately one of the best songs ever written.
I had a similar experience, I heard it for the first time ever in a hair salon and the line "alone here in the kitchen, I feel there's something missing" was the one that got me!
Glad to hear you discovered a masterpiece of music genius..
I bought it on purple vinyl in “79” I believe , still one of my favourite tunes .
A life story in 3 minutes. Brilliant.
All time classic open your eyes people
All time classic open your eyes people
This song speaks to so many people in so many different ways, it's not full of bourgeois clichés or empty rhetorics, the lyrics aren't made to be pretty, they're made to be real and true, which is what I appreciate most about this song... A story of love and loss encapsulated beautifully in the most powerful artform there is, music!
Ringo utters the phrase 'bourgeois clichés' in the film 'A Hard Day's Night!
Yes
Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there’s something missing, I’d beg her for forgiveness, but begging’s not by business - that line still gives me chills, decades later. Perhaps because it describes my own life 😆 I’ve always chose to be alone, rather than backing down, or losing an argument in a relationship. Pride is a terrible affliction. People lose out on so much, because they can’t back down
i'd beg for some
People voted for Hitler and enjoy Coldplay. Can't trust people, mate. But stay true to your moral compass.
@@jonnozomboid2649 Super Hans!
This band is way too underated
KurtAndEdRuleAll Yeah but it would be nice if more of their songs got played rather than just Cool for Cats
SeekThySocialist Awesome...Bring old Skool back !!!
Tempted, as well.
The most overrated comment on RUclips is about bands being underrated ffs.
Lets just enjoy it for what it is.... thank f it's not a rap....
Best opening verse to a song ever, bar none
It's a sad song and totally brilliant!!
This song always goes off in my head when I am in England and riding the train line that goes through Clapham Junction.
Ditto
This song is always in my head. I lost my daughter to my alcoholism (she's doing really well, top at GSCEs and planning to save the world through agriculture). My sister took over the mum role. I still love her so much though. This song makes me cry. I also have the book Up the Junction, which is well worth reading.
Feel for you sister. Haven't been allowed contact with my daughter for 13 years, now aged 17. Occasional pictures on the internet. Very beautiful. We stay strong in the grace of our Lord. The love we know is what we are and our Father knows it. He will never let it be forgotten. He hears our cries every day and suffers with us. But also, He will always answer prayer: "“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven." Matthew 18:19 NASB
Dear Amy, I also once lost my son to his dad who was abusive to me. He beat me up, broke my bones and my self-confidence and dignity. But because of my former drug addiction no one believed me. I got hooked up again but finally came into the methadone program. I did everything to straighten myself and get back on track. Two years later my ex was arrested in Amsterdam with drugs and my son then 6 years old came back to me. This happened 30 years ago. He’s doing great now. So please never give up. You have to make yourself strong for her. She might need you one day! And this song has been one of my favorites when I was 11 or 12. They were so young when they made it! I still love it.
Keep the faith Amy, life is bittersweet & perhaps something better to come....
@@tatjanatadayon7181 great to hear Tat! Keep the faith!
Yeah but Amy don't give up. You turn yourself around and try to do something amazing with your life (in other words opposite of being an alcoholic) and see what happens.
" she gave birth to a daughter, within a year a walker. Love every line in this song
"I begged for some forgiveness... but beggin's not my business." Genius. This is a perfect song in every way.
I thought it was "I'd beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business."
Still sends shivers down my backbone after all these years, how anyone can give this masterpiece the thumbs down is beyond me, this is a classic!
but begging's not my business......what a line....what a song.!!
haha, was just thinking about that line while watching. I agree, these guys were masters!
"Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there's something missing. I'd beg for some forgiveness but beggin's not my business."
I saw them live last summer in Brentwood.
Two groups: Us who know the lyrics, and them that don't.
I pity them.
Yep. It's line straight from the bloke in the pub. In fact this song is pub poetry. Shakespeare would of understood the pattern, flow and use of common words placed within a working class narrative..
Love that line!
Saw these guys last week in NYC! Simply awesome! Was supposed to see them 40 years ago but had to work. They did not disappoint!
1:48 she looked just like her mother if there could be another. still gets me that line. i have an ex mrs and a daughter that just does lol. real lyrics, real music. love squeeze
Love how the last lyrics of the song are the only time they say 'up the junctionnnnn'-🎸 great name for this song---
I still have all my old Squeeze vinyl 45s from the 70s and early 80s, and even now, listening to this song it stirs memories and brings me to tears, a rare thing indeed. A requiem to those of us whose lives screwed up and didn't turn out the way we had hoped or planned.
No-one's life does, if that's any comfort to you. It is a very poignant song.
AMEN.I am 53 so I remember this quite well.I am also a casualty of failed dreams IE: MUSIC.Then if that wasn'nt enough ,just keeping a day job and playing was hard but now I don't even play anymore and on unemployment.I have a great opportunity in July to get hired with Pittsburgh local govt. service.My point:U R not done living and learning yet because U R still here and ALIVE....MY advice,if U R spiritual is to PRAY and ask for guidance.HOOK UP WITH THE MAN WHO MADE IT ALLL>>>GOD.Don't give up and don't feel bad.JESUS IS LORD...PEACE TO YOUR ACHING SOUL!!!
Yes great song and how it pans out for almost everyone, I was lucky enough to sustain a musical career right through bringing up my two sons which kept the wolf from the door, if you can play you'll never starve my mum used to say and so true, trouble is most folks want security of a day job then think "shit where did my life go" I hate my job but need the money bla bla
i'm giving you a thumbs up even though you are rivalling me for the most votes on my comment lol. to be honest, i think we are both saying the same thing about this song. those lyrics are just so 'real'. sorry for repeating myself, but they really are. good music taste btw
Gwen Ever I had one of their tunes on multicoloured vinyl many moons ago, another nail in my heart, sold it on a few years ago for nice price
"I'd beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business." - Best line in any song according to my old mam.
Personally its my second. My first is The Verve This is Music; "I stand accused, just like you, of being born without a silver spoon"
You're old man was a wise cookie.
Fantastic line
Step 2 song
Love that line.
This song's lyrics are so spot on throughout the song..... SQUEEZE.
Young lust turning to love,marriage,parenthood, desperation,anger,then sorrow,regret and reflection all in just under 3 minutes. Brilliant.
Wow sums it perfectly
I'm 66 from NY l drove everywhere in the northeast to see this band
Good gosh, man. THIS is songwriting 🏆
Some of the greatest lyrics ever written.
The perfect pop song. Wish I'd written it !!
accidentally found this song.. and its everything i didnt know i needed in my life. its been on replay for hours now.
One of the Greatest songs ever written, it is everything a Great Song should be, and a true one of a kind song.. I was a kid when this song used to come on the Radio and I understood the subject immediately, Goes to show How far songwriting has dropped now compared to then 😵💫
I just saw them in London 2 weeks ago when we were on vacation there! They still sound great and it was amazing when they played this song and everyone in the audience sang along! Loved the entire show so much. 🥰
@@beachmom62 great!!!
thank you!
This is beyond amazing...from our youth
What a wonderful song, hadn't heard it in years. Brought me to tears. I'm sixty years old now, glad young love passed me by.
Take care old man LOL
The brilliant Squeeze
I worked my way through college in Seattle at a cool Italian restaurant in Pioneer Square (80s). The head waiter managed to get a Squeeze compilation tape for the MUZAK tape system the restaurant used. Of course it was never used when we were open - we rocked to that tape for hours during setup / after hours. Another Nail for My Heart, Pulling Mussels From a Shell... good times!
I adore this song. South London x beautiful xxx
Don’t worry! If your listening to this in 2024 you are not alone
i thought people stopped posting these fucking cringe comments years ago
Yes, I've read the same message to so many tunes. Its a marketing thing
a facebook reel led me to this video lol
@@ChunkyLover69420calm down mate, just enjoying a good tune
@@robpugh1000 not a marketing thing, a genuine person loving this song..
One of the best tunes of all time
Saw them in a small club in Dublin in 92. Super guys, they had drinks and chats with the audience before and after the show and during intermission. Great concert.
That's what you call class, unlike most bands who are stuck up there own backside.
You are so lucky, you saw them!
"Begging's not my business", I always really liked that line.
Lavis on drums is an excellent artist
The song has no chorus... yet it's brilliant and totally memorable. Not many songwriters could accomplish that...
It’s a perfect song. Fantastically catchy tune and with a complete story from start to finish.
All time classic
I love the way the music at the beginning and end make it sound like an episode of a soap opera..genius
My favourite tune ever. Gonna be playing at my 'funeral '. . Simply beautiful English, and world wide poetry.. ❤✌️
11 years old in 79. A brilliant song and a great year. Takes me back. Wish I'd been 18 in 79.🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧😇
I was 21😊
Are these the greatest Lyrics of all time, I've heard and listened to most of the greatest songsmiths in my 64 years, Jackson Browne ,Lindsey Buckingham, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Stevie Nicks, Janis Ian, Jimmy Nail, Paul Simon, Mark Knoffler, Donald Fagen, Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Arlo Guthrie, not even John Lennon could better this. I love this, i'ts totally beautiful, unforgettable, and takes me back to the wonderful freedom of 78 and 79 .The way they have arranged the words and deliver them is magic, the manner in which he captures the life and times and fecklessness of the characters in Clapham and 'windy common' inspired by Nell Dunn's prizewinning and much acclaimed book of stories in that part of London in the late Fifties In my view there should be a monument erected in Battersea for those guys.'Labelled with Love 'is equally brilliant, it's another absolute masterpiece of storytelling and beautiful music intertwined.
An absolute anthem when I worked in a south London pub in the early ‘90s. Probably still is
Love this song
In 1980 it sounded somewhat odd to the then 14 year old me to hear people talk about the war, "40 years ago" can you imagine. Today this 56 year old reminds those days 40 years ago as if they were yesterday.... No wonder that people who were 14 in 1940 and lost 4 years of their normal youth due to war were still thinking in 1980 as if it was yesterday, and were still stockpiling coffee, candles and other non perishable goods, you never know if war would come again.
I spent at least 15 minutes debating that this was the best song of the 70s outside a skinhead's porch last night.
+Brandon Henderson Its absolutely up there...as the other lad mention 10cc, im not in love i also love.
But lyrically, this is a all time classic of British music.
I said to my mrs that it should be for our first dance when we get wed..
3 kids, and one is a brand new boy, im 46 so im really up the junction..
but wouldn't swap it for anything..as beggin's not my business..
its just loaded with brilliant lyrics , and jools looks pretty dam cool too...
+Brandon Henderson You won the debate, regardless of what his argument was. This song makes me happy then breaks my fucking heart all in a span of a few minutes. One of the best songs ever.
+Brandon Henderson What did the skinhead say ?
+Arch Stanton i'd imagine work by rihanna
Dannybhoy1 Knights in white satin hoods
So reminds me of another time. I spent my twenties and half my thirties hanging out in Clapham junction, Clapham Common, Clapham South (where I tried to learn Russian), all those memories. Is the windmill the name of the big pub on Clapham Common. Never outta there then. Such a beautiful musical story full of meaning and poignancy and reality.
Squeeze are just brilliant, and I'm sure that this is one of the only tracks that has the title of the track as the last line
Very few bands were truly able to capture the essence of the early Beatles' songs in a modern way. This is the type of pop tune I wish I could write as a songwriter.
Oddly enough it was apparently filmed at John Lennon’s old kitchen (the Imagine house)
My Dad showed me this song. He said he used to love it and now I in turn love it. Great song
My dad showed me this song too
Same. He always had it playing in the car. I just picked it up🤷
I have adored Squeeze since I first heard Take Me I'm Yours when I was a child. A lot of people question why they weren't more famous 🤔. My
theory us that they were actually so talented and versatile that they didn't fit into a particular genre. They could literally write and play anything. Pub rock like Cool For Cats. Soul as in Tempted. Country notably on Labelled With Love. Sheer sublime Pop like Is That Love. My own personal favourite is Another Nail In My Heart. The charts in the late seventies/early eighties were amazing with huge names coming through. However, they usually had a main style such as Pop, Rock, Ska, Mod Revival, etc. Squeeze were all of these with a cheeky side of sassiness. Love love love them forever ❤
So great!
This song still almost brings a tear after 43 years!! I've got the cover of "Cool for Cats" on my office wall along with another hundred of my favorite records. "Up the Junction's" still the standout tune for me from that great album.
So do you think the two women in the background of this video are the same two dancers on Cool for Cats?
@@fredfurball Hula Fred: I think one of my dear kitties is using your moniker as an alias. Sorry that I can't respond to your query since I lived through the entire "New Music" video revolution of the late 70's and 80's without owning a TV (still don't have one at the age of 70) and have never watched the performance you mention. I've tried introducing my college history students to Squeeze but they seem to prefer Echo & the Bunnymen, the Church, and especially the (English) Beat. I think Chris and Glen might be a bit too obviously ironic for them.
Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness but beggings not my business.
Just wonderful turn of phrase
I love how in the final verse the guitar drops out and the vocals are more emphasized.
Yeah, it's a subtle but really good change of mood. I can imagine a lonely guy full of regret, sitting at his kitchen table. It works perfectly.
@@leeosborne3793 Good insight, it does suggest a lonely guy etc.
Plus the slightly funereal keyboard notes, brought more to the fore.
This song breaks my heart 💔every friggin time. And brings me back to the windy Common up the road from where I lived in 80s n 90s.
drinking beer down the local friday nights ,chatting up some iffy sort by the chippy car park , losing a score on the 3.00 at newmarket ,driving a beat up cortina ,smoking no6s and waaaaay less scumbag wrong uns decorating the street corners ..and listening to squeeze on the radio ...oh to be an englishman in the late 70s ..love it
Sadly it reminds me of an influx of Iranian beige that flooded London in 1979...maybe because I was young at the time and knew people who lived like this song.. in retrospect, I feel a nostalgia for the 1970's..it was a grimy era..London was grittier, Hammersmith, the West End..I was a hippy but punks were much more prevalent, posing with their glue bags under the Westway on a Saturday morning.
happentodie crime was about 40% higher in the 1970s! It's much safer now. And young people are much better behaved. Nostalgia......... everything is through rose-tinted glasses
I wouldn't agree at all that kids are ''better behaved'' nowadays..it is terrifying to see the power kids have over their weak parents..toddlers smacking their fathers about? never in 1970's did one see a child slapping it's parents at such a young age. Kids are much, much worse behaved according to an old headmaster recently retired- and the rot set in with feeble parenting, and spoiled, entitled brattery.
the good old days-now the world has gone tits up
Yes remember it well the birds seemed better the cigs I use to smoke were NO. 6 the days when you could have a smoke whithout some mard arse looking at you as though you've just pulled out your plonker and started to play with yourself Yes less scum bags proper days with proper music
Glenn Tilbrook's voice is so unique, absolutely perfect for Squeeze's distinctive sound. Phenomenal songwriter as well.
Who needs a chorus with a story like that. Pure genius !!
Awesome and under appreciated band. I still have them on vinyl !
The interesting thing about Squeeze is how varied their songs were. Some were just plain tongue in cheek, some were ballads, some were proper pop songs and some were pure dramatic storytelling. This fits very much into the latter (despite Jools and his cigar). The only other British band that I can think of from that era who attempted to do something similar with their repertoire was Madness.
I'd beg for some forgiveness but begging not my business. Class line.
This is the one song that plonks me right back to the days of my youth...every time i hear it, i'm back there... stop cutting onions in front of me! 🌹❤️
Still fabulous after 45 years
Probably the most impressive lyrically written song of all time
Yep well said