I was privileged to see them front row in Philadelphia just a few months ago. Literally made me cry, being a British 60 year old who grew up in London ! Took me right back there.
God!!! Squeeze were the perfect band. The song writing, the musicianship, the quality. They should have been the next Beatles. Their songs will never die and that is a legacy to be proud of!
"It's funny how the missus always looks the bleedin' same". The whole, wonderful song is a series of witty, , observant, genius couplets. Like all things of beauty, this song is a joy forever.
My grandad used to play this in his car while we were on our way to pick up a chippie every Thursday , I’m now 15 and still doing this with him cos a legend lol
According to " Squeeze Lore" the two females were paid in Amphetamines to be extras lol hence the cringe dancing lol. And speaking of.... This song is so addicting!
I remember hearing this for the first time on a Saturday morning on Donnie Sutherland’s “Sounds” -a tv show here is Australia back in the 70s and into the early 80s I think. I sat there with my tape recorder and taped it off the tv and listened to it over and over
Music is passed down from Father to Son, when i was a child my Dad listened to The Squeeze, so now im older and my Father has passed away i find myself listening to these songs and know all the words from growing up with them. Music aint like this nowadays. And i thank my Father for introducing me to the Squeeze. R.I.P Dad love your son Paul.
Edward Sanchez sorry to hear that brother. Shit is hard when you loose a loved 1. At least we still have our memorys of the people we have lost. Good luck for the furure matey.
In my family we were talking about my nephews music taste and whats on offer for him in the current Top 10. I liked a lot of the music in it, I'm not going to trash it or condemn it, there was lots of good music in there, maybe I couldn't relate to it like him but I wasn't going to write it off. So we compared what was in the charts when we were his exact age. I had..Blondie, Gary Numan, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, some stuff from the Grease soundtrack, Bee Gees, Boomtown Rats, Cliff, The Stranglers, Kate Bush..the list went on and on. It was hard not to be a little bit smug. Maybe in 40 years time I'll be humbled by how many of his Top 10 went on to immortality. But I'll be 91 by then and probably won't care.
Everyone's dancing and having a party but one of the best drummers is maintaining his own cool and is drumming away seeming oblivious. You gottta love Gilson!!!
As influential as the Beatles in a lot of ways. America likes to claim credit for the Beatles and Squeeze - Because America loves their music! We do, we do, we do!!!
This is sheer brilliance. No pretentiousness, just a great tune and everyone looks like they are enjoying. And the dancers/backing singers are really banging it and giving it some! What energy. Thank you for sharing.
Just saw Squeeze in Tennessee. 50 years and counting!!!!!! Cool for Cats brings back so many memories. Now I can watch the video whenever I want. What a joy.
Im an old git of 81 but this song still hits the spot musically and is great to dance to. Terrific tempo and features Jools Holland who surely deserves royal regonition for his work in music unlike some bonzos. Rock on everybody. 😇😂😈
@jeffferoce2633 According to Jools' autobiography, he had originally played to fill a space in the middle of Uncertain Smile, but when the album came out, Jools played it through and when he got to the bit he thought his piano part was meant to be, he was disappointed it hadn't been used, but continued listening until the end where, as we know, there is the piano solo, pieced together from two improvised parts!
Yes, there was so much great New Wave, Post-Punk, Synthpop, etc. during that time. I feel so lucky that I got to be a teenager at the same time that this creative musical movement was unfolding.
And with boatloads more freedom and leverage to be whom they were than we're seeing today. They could take two or three years between albums, as fellow Briton Adele has indicated she plans to do, and people would still be paying attention. That's why decades later they've got plenty of gas remaining in the tank and not subsisting on Power Bar elements.
+Daniel Marquis It really was the best time for music. Punk, Two Tone, New wave, even all that New romantic stuff sounds great today. I feel sorry for young people these days.
this era was the end of Britain (as we thought we knew it.(oh how profound is thee)). It was Englandograd. British industry was ruined. The empire was long dead. Thatcher and co. were loading weapons and preparing for the massive counter-assault. Within a decade teenagers were going to raves, taking E, loving acid house, jungle, drum 'n bass and boys knew that being a DJ was very cool for cats and this kinda stuff was for grandparents. The very thing we thought was kind of neat - the street corner naff slice-o-life attitude of this song was transparent irrelevant to them. I thought this was cool but only understood a few lines of the last verse..disco, girl, wall, home, dog, bone, nasty rash, fail, reality is different from TV.
I was watching EastEnders today and for those who don't know it, there's background music playing on certain scenes throughout the episode. Today Cool for Cats by Squeeze. Christ I hadn't heard this song in years. And it is already 44 years old having come out in 1979. An absolutely incredible song that brought back some fantastic memories!!!!!!!
Saw it once in a music program in 1979 and fell in love with the dancing girls. Their dance is so energetic! I have been looking for it for a long time.
I'm so impressed that the girls not only keep up that pace but that the brunette doesn't clonk her head on anything and they don't knock anything over.
Backing singers up front and manic as they should be, and Jools Holland looking cool in shades and smoking a huge cigar. It's always a great video to watch.
Wow........The more i listen to the music of my generation, the more i truly believe just how blessed we were. Memories come flooding back, lost loves, lost opportunities and always the thought of.................i wish i could have the time back again. Reality is.......that is not going to happen........But at least i have the songs to remind me of the best days of my life. I am sure that others of my generation feel the same................so best we can do is reminisce and let those days come flooding back!!! I sooooo miss those times and i wish i appreciated it more................... Big Jim (New Zealand).
I've always said that I and my generation grew up in the best time for music. Punk, ska, new wave, 2 tone and all the others that came along from the mid seventies to the mid 80's (before Stock, Aitken and Waterman really dominated everything)
I LOVE this music, but listening to it also gives me a pain in my heart because I'll never get to relive those glory days again. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, but damn I sure miss those days. All I have left of them are great memories.
We didn't have the gadgets because we didn't need them. Today we need them to remember how much simpler, innocent and nicer life was despite the hardships.
These guys were cruelly underated because they industry cast them as a teeny band.Actually they were superlative song writers. Much admired by musos who knew their stuff.
Well, I DID see 'em at Madison Square Garden in 1983 or thereabouts, supporting "Sweets From A Stranger." Most bands don't make it that far! Don Snow on keyboards...no offence to Snow, but when I saw them again with Jools Holland, hoo boy!
'Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (Official Music Video) 2150pm 24.7.23 it's funny how a band like this had so many band members when it's a case of 4 piece at the most... they must get really crap wages what with all those blokes beggaring about at times trynna make it look like they know what the craic is...
I've watched this on several occasions with the children and they absolutely love this video. Why can't we make these brilliant tunes and fun videos anymore? Everything is marketed and talentless.
"IN A WORLD DECAYING IN ORBIT, FALLING IS THE MOON.!" no matter what industry we look at (music, wineries, and politics (etc), the earlier days of its beginning & time, hardly resemble developing incline.. for products, the market will fix as it goes, according to labels as related to price - and sounds of songs, in movies, enticed; our older day thoughts would be nice.. but, either way along steps or play, those on stage cannot push, past the point of brilliant compose - the choices are equal to wiggle & tush.. whom did play for, was once in voice, with meticulous pen and energies of choice, but, those days, now rare, can surely attest - that you get what they offer, instead of what's best.!
who are those girls anyway, should be given tons of credit for this vid which could easily be best pop video ever for some. come on Squeeze, tell us definitively who the heck they were
Squeeze, The Kinks, Madness, Pulp: All these bands have some of the most clever and witty lyrics which tell stories that sum up working class British life at the time they were made. Not to mention great tunes.🙂
Could also say working class Australia at the time and where I grew up back in the day too. For example if you left the local dance with a girl it was accepted that "you'd give the dog a bone" or they'd just leave.😆🍆😍
@Darren - yes, you are so right. Their albums were great but their live performances were FAR better. I urge folks here who are too young to remember Squeeze to check for videos of of their lives shows. You will enjoy them. :)
Straight from my 5th year school days in 1979/80. I thought Jools looked cool but I never watched this vid for 40 odd years and it takes me right back.
It's quite hard to believe that the band that gave us the masterpiece that is Up The Junction, also gave us this antithetical but equivalent masterpiece! ❤
I saw this on the tv the other day and it transported me right back to that time. I played the album so much that the couple next door complained. I remember it so well dancing around my formica furniture in the bedroom. It makes me feel sad that those young women dancing around with the black leather jackets and red spandex on will be middle aged now - just like me! The confidence - the cocky swagger it all changes when you're older - then the next generation re-claim it! Thanks for the memories.
I was in Willesden Green in London in 1991, half a world away from home, not much money, not having a great time. But then I walked into a pub and heard this song playing.
I was in Willesden Green in 1984, half a world away from home, no money, and having a great time, and my love of Squeeze was a key thing that brought me to London. London became home, still is, but I'm now half a world away in Boston. Listening to Squeeze makes me cry now.
The backing singers/dancers genuinely seem to be having a lot of fun and are into it, great to see. I didn't even know you could overdose on Red Bull in 1979! :)
I'm really glad that this piece of youthful, human greatness (lyrics, video, and song) were captured and preserved for them and all of us. Top piece of fun!
Yes, what was like as a 20 something Gen Xer going out with high expectations and realizing the reality at the end of the night. Male or female. Overall incredible times!
I'm Australian but seriously where would the world be without British music from rock to ska and everything in between amazing and thank you
G’day mate us Poms are just blessed this way my friend ! Have a good one ☝️
@@tobylots hey mate Aussie bands made some great music in the 70s and 80s what I was trying to say is British music lead the way
Me too brother, some of the best music in the world. Apart from the Angels, Rosey Tats etc etc
@@scrumpyhunter8561 oz rock was on a different level..could never compare aussie musos to anything else...they are on another level
Do you remember that they had to be called UK Squeeze?
His accent makes this song so much better than it already is.
So true
It does !!!
@@bogmanstar889 innit sounds so chav and is not proper English
That's pretty much how most of my bloody mates talk, mush.
@@bogmanstar889 sauff laudern
Just saw them tonight, and the whole audience was singing. Love,love, love them.
I couldn't get the night off for their show with Psychedelic Furs in St Louis.
I was privileged to see them front row in Philadelphia just a few months ago. Literally made me cry, being a British 60 year old who grew up in London ! Took me right back there.
I saw them two nights in a row with The Psych Furs and they were excellent!! Second row for the first night. AMAZING!!!!!!
Jealous! Saw Psychedelics at Camden Roundhouse a few years ago, never seen Squeeze but 🤞
So glad that nobody ever said "Girls, take it down a bit"
God!!! Squeeze were the perfect band. The song writing, the musicianship, the quality. They should have been the next Beatles. Their songs will never die and that is a legacy to be proud of!
I agree, some of their other hits were fantastic!👍
agreed
Next beatles 😂😂😂
"It's funny how the missus always looks the bleedin' same". The whole, wonderful song is a series of witty, , observant, genius couplets. Like all things of beauty, this song is a joy forever.
You should listen to Marillion "Punch & Judy"...
I kiss her for the first time, and then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee so I give the dog a bone
Never a bad lyric from Squeeze.
Who swear like how's your father lol
All I get is bitter and a nasty little rash lol
Chris Difford is awesome on this. "I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone" 😂😂😂 Modern poetry at its best.
they were forced to alter it to play Totp! Lol
How many times have I played this song? Not enough!
One more time..... At least...😁
American girl here, yes! British music is The Best!!
It used to be good but am not sure about that anymore. Maybe am just getting old.
Why wouldn't it be? It's nature.
@@paulreynolds9003 is any music good today?
The music, the lyrics, the video, the vibe - this pop song is a fresh as ever.
Theo video has a Punk vibe that I dig.
Hi I recommend an indierock song that is called 'Life changes' By Robert Nix
Chris Difford and Glenn Tillbrook were an amazing songwriting team. They deserve a lot more love.
Difford and Tilbrook equal to Lennon and McCartney.
Lyrical genius
They deserve a bit more recognition than they got
They're still at it...
@@crlchs if not as prolific most certainly as artistic , wordsmiths, same calibre as ray davis or ian dury
All these years later, still a banger.
My grandad used to play this in his car while we were on our way to pick up a chippie every Thursday , I’m now 15 and still doing this with him cos a legend lol
"I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone"
Went right over my head as a kid.
I never knew that so many women owned dogs....
I'm shocked!
Yep, used to sing that line at home, amazed how I never got told off now
You caught up then? :-D
I get it. Her dog was hungry.
A lyrical masterpiece. Sounds as good now as it did on release.
Those two women are doing the absolute most lol.
fancy seeing you here emezie!
love u
Absolutely moist
Bopping along big time
According to " Squeeze Lore" the two females were paid in Amphetamines to be extras lol hence the cringe dancing lol. And speaking of.... This song is so addicting!
Hey - careful - the blonde was my mum!! 🤣
One of the catchiest songs ever, it keeps playing in my head. It's the vocal rhythm that really does it for me
Years ahead of it's time.
Lyrically brilliant.
It will never grow old.
----just the listener's
I remember hearing this for the first time on a Saturday morning on Donnie Sutherland’s “Sounds” -a tv show here is Australia back in the 70s and into the early 80s I think. I sat there with my tape recorder and taped it off the tv and listened to it over and over
Oh god, I remember Sounds with Donnie Sutherland! What a great time of life. Fantastic music where every song isn’t over produced and tuned.
I an aussie as well, and re - tape recorder, didn't we all do that!
Do you remember the music show "After Dark" ?
Music is passed down from Father to Son, when i was a child my Dad listened to The Squeeze, so now im older and my Father has passed away i find myself listening to these songs and know all the words from growing up with them. Music aint like this nowadays. And i thank my Father for introducing me to the Squeeze. R.I.P Dad love your son Paul.
SIMO 2017 same with my mother :(
Edward Sanchez sorry to hear that brother. Shit is hard when you loose a loved 1. At least we still have our memorys of the people we have lost. Good luck for the furure matey.
SIMO ❤❤'s
I feel your pain. Both of mine are gone, but the music and the memories will never die. They were good times.
SIMO We'll all be with Dad soon mate ;)
Squeeze were such a bunch of talented guys. I love the vocalist's nonchalant attitude on this song!
And don't forget Jools Holland. As good as it gets.
Reminds me of secondary school. 1979 was a brilliant year for British music. Great band, Squeeze.
1969 was better.
Honestly im born in the newer generation but i love classic rock and music from the 70’s 80’s or 90’s.
Arguably the best year for mainstream music. Check out the top 10s
Everyone goes on about the 80's. Late 70's is where all that innovation started.😀
In my family we were talking about my nephews music taste and whats on offer for him in the current Top 10.
I liked a lot of the music in it, I'm not going to trash it or condemn it, there was lots of good music in there, maybe I couldn't relate to it like him but I wasn't going to write it off. So we compared what was in the charts when we were his exact age.
I had..Blondie, Gary Numan, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, some stuff from the Grease soundtrack, Bee Gees, Boomtown Rats, Cliff, The Stranglers, Kate Bush..the list went on and on. It was hard not to be a little bit smug.
Maybe in 40 years time I'll be humbled by how many of his Top 10 went on to immortality. But I'll be 91 by then and probably won't care.
Everyone's dancing and having a party but one of the best drummers is maintaining his own cool and is drumming away seeming oblivious. You gottta love Gilson!!!
This captures the late 70's perfectly. Cracking tune
How many close calls did they have with the guitar head and those girls?
When it comes to perfectly crafted catchy songs with clever lyrics, Squeeze were pretty much in a league of their own. This is just fabulous.
Alright.
Now let's get a puff on Jules's blunt. Great keys andall.
Ian Dury's ghost says "Hold my walking stick."
Squeeze were absolutely brilliant. Up the junction, labelled with love.... classics.
Up the juction did not mean, got a idea called M25,
Yeah
As influential as the Beatles in a lot of ways. America likes to claim credit for the Beatles and Squeeze - Because America loves their music! We do, we do, we do!!!
Pulling Muscles from a Shell
@@crlchs I've never heard an American claim credit for the Beatles and I've been around a lot of Americans.
The girls are simply amazing - I just can't get enough of their vibe!
Michelle Collins is one of them
@@dandronemoan4041 Never was able to find out the other.
How do their sunnies stay on?
@@dandronemoan4041 Even she isn't sure of that.
@@MountainGoatSoftware Oh yeah -- of Kenny Everett fame!
The world was cooler than we realised back then
Very
Special tunes
Certainly better than the current dystopian nightmare.
Those were the good old days when music was the best!
I soooo miss the late seventies, early eighties. Take me back. I didn’t know what i had until it was gone.
Can I come with you and stop time that would be paradise
Yea walking over a bridge and seeing The Jam, The Clash and Mods painted on it as I walked to the record shop to buy Too Much Too Young
Bittersweet times. In and out of love - and the music coming at yer. YES. Didn't know what we had. Then it was gone....
@@calicocatz7890 I fell deeply in love with a girl, a song I used to play to remind me of he was liar by the sex pistols... It didn't end well
@@somethingelse4878 Hopefully you won't look back to what you have NOW in 10 years time and have the same thought 🙃
That Cockney accent singing is damn brilliant, best late 70s song that I listened to.
Yeah its great ..as an Aussie I love it.
America needs it’s own cockney accent 😍
This is sheer brilliance. No pretentiousness, just a great tune and everyone looks like they are enjoying. And the dancers/backing singers are really banging it and giving it some! What energy. Thank you for sharing.
I played this for my cat and he did seem cooler afterwards
LastAvailableAlias 🤣😂😹
lols
Brilliant lol 😊😊
I grab em by the front paws and make em dance like a person when this comes on.
They love it (not)🤣
You have a cat?
Timeless classic, one of the best songs of the era.
Mr Jools Holand on keyboard!!!!...excellent
And Pepsi and Shirley sponsored by tightfit 🎉
Just saw Squeeze in Tennessee. 50 years and counting!!!!!! Cool for Cats brings back so many memories. Now I can watch the video whenever I want. What a joy.
The wonderful Squeeze are more London than fish & chips. I'm a Londoner and I hate fish & chips. Doner kebab please mate 😉
Im an old git of 81 but this song still hits the spot musically and is great to dance to. Terrific tempo and features Jools Holland who surely deserves royal regonition for his work in music unlike some bonzos. Rock on everybody. 😇😂😈
You too baby! 💃
Yah, Jools is great. He's the keyboardist who does that incredible piece of work on the song 'Uncertain Smile' by The The. Incredible.
@jeffferoce2633 According to Jools' autobiography, he had originally played to fill a space in the middle of Uncertain Smile, but when the album came out, Jools played it through and when he got to the bit he thought his piano part was meant to be, he was disappointed it hadn't been used, but continued listening until the end where, as we know, there is the piano solo, pieced together from two improvised parts!
Outstanding,all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash
@@SteveTomlinson-o4u yeh, but funny how their missus always look the bleedin' same!
There is no Era I love more, than the music scene that took place between the late seventies and mid-eighties. Squeeze was SO COOL!!!
Yes, there was so much great New Wave, Post-Punk, Synthpop, etc. during that time. I feel so lucky that I got to be a teenager at the same time that this creative musical movement was unfolding.
Daniel Marquis you mean cool for cats
And with boatloads more freedom and leverage to be whom they were than we're seeing today. They could take two or three years between albums, as fellow Briton Adele has indicated she plans to do, and people would still be paying attention. That's why decades later they've got plenty of gas remaining in the tank and not subsisting on Power Bar elements.
+Daniel Marquis It really was the best time for music. Punk, Two Tone, New wave, even all that New romantic stuff sounds great today. I feel sorry for young people these days.
this era was the end of Britain (as we thought we knew it.(oh how profound is thee)). It was Englandograd. British industry was ruined. The empire was long dead. Thatcher and co. were loading weapons and preparing for the massive counter-assault. Within a decade teenagers were going to raves, taking E, loving acid house, jungle, drum 'n bass and boys knew that being a DJ was very cool for cats and this kinda stuff was for grandparents. The very thing we thought was kind of neat - the street corner naff slice-o-life attitude of this song was transparent irrelevant to them. I thought this was cool but only understood a few lines of the last verse..disco, girl, wall, home, dog, bone, nasty rash, fail, reality is different from TV.
Such a Cockney classic.
I was watching EastEnders today and for those who don't know it, there's background music playing on certain scenes throughout the episode. Today Cool for Cats by Squeeze. Christ I hadn't heard this song in years. And it is already 44 years old having come out in 1979. An absolutely incredible song that brought back some fantastic memories!!!!!!!
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@@ijustdidahugeshit imagine being gaeh in 2023
@@jay1jayf I am not gay. I am a woman who loves women.
Those dancers are amazing. The energy!
Maz Roberts, Kim Leslie.
In the '80's, they called it "Cocaine".
Eartha Kitt, Lady Diana Spencer
Blond is Michelle Collins otherwise known as Cindy Beale EastEnders
@@arlington5able It doesn't look like her.
The drum fill half way through the first verse is stunning
I overlooked it massively. Thank you for pointing that out! Very clean staccato work!
Simple, understated and effective. Nice.
Love the drums on this. You know what they say, less is more and sometimes simple and understated is better.
Gilson Lavis is a master at playing just what the song needs. No fat on his drumming at all.
Pink floyd time
Saw it once in a music program in 1979 and fell in love with the dancing girls. Their dance is so energetic!
I have been looking for it for a long time.
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@@ijustdidahugeshit
My condolences
@@totallyfrozen I am a woman
I too fell in love with the girls as 14 year old Aussie boy obsessed with all things London.
@@ricklocke1187 I am planning to get pregnant
I read somewhere that Paul McCartney thought it to be one of the greatest pop song ever written, I personally think its one of the best, a classic..
I saw them in 2022 and they sound exactly the same as all their studio recordings. Proper band.
I fancy this, I fancy that. This song is pure poetry. Love it
Try Ian Dury. Another poet. 😀
What a Classic. The Sweeny getting a mention makes it one of my favourites.
British music and British TV drama are the best!! 🥰
The clever wit and tongue in cheek talk is priceless 😁
Funny how great music brings back great memories and times
this song. is a working class anthem. masterpiece
Too right. When the working class had cool and strength, knowledge and style.
#theresaguydownthechipshopswearsheselvis
💯 This and "Common Man"🎯🎯
Total brilliance and hilarious - 'Davy Crocket rides around and says it's cool for cats.'
I seen these live in Plymouth last night as part of the 50 tour. Absolutely brilliant well worth seeing.
Just time travelled back to the 80's. Music is brilliant. This is brilliant.
I'm so impressed that the girls not only keep up that pace but that the brunette doesn't clonk her head on anything and they don't knock anything over.
They are also very cool and sexy 2 great qualities for women
they edited that part :D
they probably do, they just edit.
It is amazing how she didnt get whacked by the guitar. Maybe the glasses are covering two black eyes!
Probably took a few tries to get that part.
This and Up the Junction are genuine masterpieces
@@briancoffey7181
And Pulling Mussels is pretty great too
I bought the Squeeze Singles album over forty years ago and I still love it!
I loved Squeeze back in the day and still do!
I have seen them in concert many times!!
[02 December 2021] It never fails to baffle me that Squeeze could go from sounding like this to sounding like "Tempted" in two years.
Backing singers up front and manic as they should be, and Jools Holland looking cool in shades and smoking a huge cigar. It's always a great video to watch.
Catchy song with two of the sexiest female backing vocalists.
Didn't the girls go on to do something else...
those two girls are mesmeric, absolutely brilliant video, everything great about british pop music back in the day
My grandmother's brother was a drummer for squeeze. Just found out and decided to check them out. Pretty cool!
"My grandmother's brother was a drummer for squeeze "
Are you having a Laugh?
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo I mean.. no?
Wow........The more i listen to the music of my generation, the more i truly believe just how blessed we were.
Memories come flooding back, lost loves, lost opportunities and always the thought of.................i wish i could have the time back again.
Reality is.......that is not going to happen........But at least i have the songs to remind me of the best days of my life.
I am sure that others of my generation feel the same................so best we can do is reminisce and let those days come flooding back!!!
I sooooo miss those times and i wish i appreciated it more................... Big Jim (New Zealand).
Yes, many of us feel exactly the same!
@@JimmehRulez Edge of boomer. Not really in any demographic. A time of transition. Reflected in the music of the era.
@@MrChannel2010 ok
I've always said that I and my generation grew up in the best time for music. Punk, ska, new wave, 2 tone and all the others that came along from the mid seventies to the mid 80's (before Stock, Aitken and Waterman really dominated everything)
Nailed it big jim
I LOVE this music, but listening to it also gives me a pain in my heart because I'll never get to relive those glory days again. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, but damn I sure miss those days. All I have left of them are great memories.
We didn't have the gadgets because we didn't need them. Today we need them to remember how much simpler, innocent and nicer life was despite the hardships.
Couldn't have worded it better buddy
Know the feeling...miss them too.
I wish we could go back Carlos
Hey Carlos as long as you have not got a rash things are good.
Just a wonderful pop song, and Chris Difford's Cockney accent is just adorable.
emma duncan He ain't no cockney he's south east London
Don't you mean souf eas Lundn?
SahfeasLondn
@@michaelspriggs3652 I'm an eastender and the original cockneys were from all over london. Bow bells is from st Mary le bow in the city
@@chrisevans7520 SarfeassLAAANDAN
These guys were cruelly underated because they industry cast them as a teeny band.Actually they were superlative song writers. Much admired by musos who knew their stuff.
Although they’re admired in the biz I don’t think Mr Difford ever got the accolades he was due.
Well, I DID see 'em at Madison Square Garden in 1983 or thereabouts, supporting "Sweets From A Stranger." Most bands don't make it that far! Don Snow on keyboards...no offence to Snow, but when I saw them again with Jools Holland, hoo boy!
Bty, brilliant drummer with Mr Gilson Lavis if I'm correct, really tight but inventive too
'Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (Official Music Video) 2150pm 24.7.23 it's funny how a band like this had so many band members when it's a case of 4 piece at the most... they must get really crap wages what with all those blokes beggaring about at times trynna make it look like they know what the craic is...
What a groove like energy assume is not speed's.
Absolutely one of the finest bands out of Britain. Ever.
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One of the many, many reasons British music is the best in the world
I've watched this on several occasions with the children and they absolutely love this video. Why can't we make these brilliant tunes and fun videos anymore? Everything is marketed and talentless.
"IN A WORLD DECAYING IN ORBIT, FALLING IS THE MOON.!"
no matter what industry we look at (music, wineries, and politics (etc), the earlier days of its beginning & time, hardly resemble developing incline.. for products, the market will fix as it goes, according to labels as related to price - and sounds of songs, in movies, enticed; our older day thoughts would be nice..
but, either way along steps or play, those on stage cannot push, past the point of brilliant compose - the choices are equal to wiggle & tush..
whom did play for, was once in voice, with meticulous pen and energies of choice, but, those days, now rare, can surely attest - that you get what they offer, instead of what's best.!
This was first ever 80s song I loved as a child. Mostly because of my cat obsession
@@scladoffle2472 Bet you don't have children and have been purposely sterilised... pheww!
Who's cool for cats in 2024 and always??
Great group 😂 fxcking loved them few beers and js 😂 and crazy nights looking kinda rough 😂😂😂
Haitians!😆
AndyZach@@AndyZach ye I just got that one, Springfield ye 😂
One of my all time favorite videos of such a great tune.
Chris Difford changed me forever with this song. Mind you this was my first cassette tape ever at the ripe old age of 7.
There's so much I love about this track, but perhaps the best bit is that Chris Difford sings it in his own Sarf London accent.
who are those girls anyway, should be given tons of credit for this vid which could easily be best pop video ever for some. come on Squeeze, tell us definitively who the heck they were
I met Chris Difford in a bar in Amsterdam in I think 1989, and I only recognized him because of this video. Pretty Cool Cat he was.
This guy is rapping. Proper ahead of his time for 79
This band had some talent. Difford, Tilbrook, Jools Holland on keys, Gilson on drums, and later, Paul Carrack.
Squeeze, The Kinks, Madness, Pulp: All these bands have some of the most clever and witty lyrics which tell stories that sum up working class British life at the time they were made. Not to mention great tunes.🙂
Could also say working class Australia at the time and where I grew up back in the day too. For example if you left the local dance with a girl it was accepted that "you'd give the dog a bone" or they'd just leave.😆🍆😍
Those girls are just fabulous, stuck in my brain since I first saw the video all those decades ago.
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Julia gale is dark haired girl. She's in ba Robertson's bang bang video dancing too. And in kids show Grange Hill as Tricia yates elder sis.
I think that's Laura Dern and Michelle Pfeifer.
One of the most underrated in my estimation.....even greater live. Great, great band !.
A bit late, granted, but going to see them on 31October 2017, can't bloddy wait!
@Darren - yes, you are so right. Their albums were great but their live performances were FAR better. I urge folks here who are too young to remember Squeeze to check for videos of of their lives shows. You will enjoy them. :)
I always heard they were better live than on Vinyl. Sadly never got to find out myself.
Absolutely! Tilbrook a very underrated compiser
A big hit from '79.
A song that will stand the test of time I think.
How much longer do we need to wait to confirm this?
Straight from my 5th year school days in 1979/80. I thought Jools looked cool but I never watched this vid for 40 odd years and it takes me right back.
It's quite hard to believe that the band that gave us the masterpiece that is Up The Junction, also gave us this antithetical but equivalent masterpiece! ❤
Good point. The narrator of Cool for Cats quits when he's ahead. I'd like to think he isn't the same person as the protagonist of Up the Junction.
@@chrisamies2141 I'd say they're either 2 completely different people, or the guy from Cool for Cats has grown up when it comes to Up the Junction!
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And both videos filmed on the same day!
@@MickyMadHatter cool, thanks for the info, i never knew that! 👍
Seriously underrated band- musicians, lyricists and Jools! Loved them growing up.
I just found out that Jools Holland was in Squeeze. Was that really him playing those keyboards?
That certainly was! He was part of the original line up and left the band in 1980.
Happy 40th anniversary to one of the coolest songs ever.
Love the guy on the keyboard!! Oh, I didn't realise it was Jools Holland, cool!
Great song Great group.
I saw this on the tv the other day and it transported me right back to that time. I played the album so much that the couple next door complained. I remember it so well dancing around my formica furniture in the bedroom. It makes me feel sad that those young women dancing around with the black leather jackets and red spandex on will be middle aged now - just like me! The confidence - the cocky swagger it all changes when you're older - then the next generation re-claim it! Thanks for the memories.
Good to hear some youngsters appreciate our music.
Nice one sunshine.
Everything that made the new-wave exciting and fresh right here.
The percussion is so basic and flat...... and works perfectly..... a true masterpiece of talent.... have always loved this song.
I was in Willesden Green in London in 1991, half a world away from home, not much money, not having a great time. But then I walked into a pub and heard this song playing.
I was in Willesden Green in 1984, half a world away from home, no money, and having a great time, and my love of Squeeze was a key thing that brought me to London. London became home, still is, but I'm now half a world away in Boston. Listening to Squeeze makes me cry now.
one of the best lines ever in any song-- she invites me in for coffee I give the dog a bone
Why is a line about feeding her pet dog a great line ?
Implication of a euphemism
@wenesdae.I love 'It's funny how their missus'
Always look the bleeding same'
I’m sorry does this mean an erection ?
Stephane Roshardt so he did get an erection and put it in cider . Dirty
The backing singers/dancers genuinely seem to be having a lot of fun and are into it, great to see. I didn't even know you could overdose on Red Bull in 1979! :)
i think they were on something stronger than redbull
Achingly cool and probably the cleverest thing you'll see today.
...its not likely on the tv if its cool for cats....
Or you could look at an Adam Curtis film and see something cleverer.
@@gliddofglood no
Friend just sent me this video. Between the dancing girls, the lyrics and the musicians energy I’m hooked😭😭😭😭
I went to see Squeeze in 1982 in Liverpool, Im now 52 and she is 71 and we are going to see them again together, glad were still both alive lol
I'm really glad that this piece of youthful, human greatness (lyrics, video, and song) were captured and preserved for them and all of us. Top piece of fun!
Yes, what was like as a 20 something Gen Xer going out with high expectations and realizing the reality at the end of the night. Male or female. Overall incredible times!
Great lyrics with a tune to match.The Sweeney's doing 90,class.
Those girls were the best boppers in the business!
It's great to hear and see this again.
Even better, it sends me down that hole for a real reunion with the happy days.