Squeeze - Up The Junction
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Taken from the Squeeze album 'Cool For Cats'
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Lyrics below:
I never thought it would happen
With me and a girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain′t forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said: "You are a lady"
"Perhaps" she said: "I may be"
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
I got a job with Stanley
He said I′d come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
And little kicks inside her
This morning at four-fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
And now she's two years older
Her mother′s with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The Devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there′s something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging′s not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it′s my assumption
I'm really up the junction
Music video by Squeeze performing Up The Junction. (C) 1979 A&M Records Ltd.
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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!
Probably the most impressive lyrically written song of all time
Yep well said
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.
Good gosh, man. THIS is songwriting 🏆
" she gave birth to a daughter, within a year a walker. Love every line in this song
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 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
still brings a tear after all these years. What a song
Who needs a chorus with a story like that. Pure genius !!
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.
If you could write a pop song and craft it into 3 minutes of pure lyrical content that perfect embraces all the ingredients and elements of a pure pop song then squeeze are the masters of this formula absolutely brilliant.
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
Absolutely amazing chord progression in the bridge. Great track, always has been!
"Begging's not my business", I always really liked that line.
if you like this you might like my brother’s music. his name is Stu Morris and 'Daisy' is a good song by him....
Brilliant songwriting and Jools Holland on keyboard. Saw them live in 1979 - loved them then, still love them now.
There are no repeat verses in this song ,it's unique 😮
This one always brings a tear. Just a masterclass. Was so fortunate to see them last weekend at the Salt Shed in Chicago. In the top 3 concerts of all time for me. Played all the songs I loved and more. So good.
one of the best songs in the world
DEAD RIGHT
Definitely one of the best musical intros I've ever heard :)
Errrm. Yes.
Won't get any argument from me ♥️♥️♥️
Yep!
These lyrics were brilliant. What a song.
Simply class !!…….was great back then & it’s still bloody brilliant now !!
most underrated band in history. the chord progression and theory in this music is genius
That goes for the bridge. It's astonishing! The verse is rather simple. But still amazing!
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
This is really really REALLY great to listen to on loop.
Dark lyrics and cheery tune, whatever your musical tastes you can relate to Squeeze songs, Londoners baby.
wow, I grew up listening to this with my parents singing along to the radio in the glorious 80's. What the fook happened to music, and the world?!?!
Stock, Aitken, oh, and Waterman...
@@timminns4633 I ask myself that very question every day
Bloody love this song. Up the junction is just one of those great songs that will live forever
One of my all time favourite songs,, masterpiece
Dear God....I Miss The Eighties.
this was the 70s
Yeah defo 70s
@charles1964
Yeah....the title block says (C) 1979 A&M Records. MTV debuted in Aug.1981 - This song and "Cool For Cat's" video's were shot the same day as both tunes were popular in the Clubs; and got a lot of airplay on FM Radio. New Wave acts in general were getting much more attention in the Eighties. Even now, The Pretenders "Birds of Paradise" brings me 🎵"back to your room, the things I remember...." but those two kids are long gone....
Everyone says ‘it’s got no chorus ‘ but it does have a middle eight (actually it’s 10 bars ) ‘I worked all through the winter…’ with some interesting chord changes which eventually leads you ‘home’ to the original tune… which makes you expect everything now will be ‘happy ever after’ but it isn’t (‘she left me for a soldier..’). Brilliant songwriting.
Simple narrative that somehow hints at more and being in general.
They don’t make music like this no more. This is a brilliant story of a song.
I really love this song so much classic
SQUEEZE, JUST SUPERB.
My new favorite Sqeeze song.
Don't be fooled by the catchy pop vibe - this song goes right for the jugular.
Brilliant.
On top of the best song ever written, green shiny jeans!
Bravo Glenn
You noticed them too? ... I love shiny PVC jeans. Black are my favourite!
"And when the time was ready, we had to sell the telly."
its actually brilliant, because the use of language reflects the poignancy and reflection of the song
"And when the time was ready, we had to sell the telly" is how you would tell the story if all this happened to you
It's beautiful
song is still so gdamn good !!!!
Haven’t heard this in ages, they had some great songs. Pulling musscles from a shell was their best.
This song is very important to me.
Good God was Jules Holland ever that young 😂😂😂
Fantastic!!.
I heard this when it first came out. It’s still absolutely true.
YOUR AMAZING
Amazing song
Poetry in motion~ A novella 📖
A timeless classic
Filmed in John Lennon's old house/kitchen.
A1 super classic.
Look at Jools, chomping on that cigar at the bottom of his stairs 🎶
clean cinematography
Brilliant group Brilliant tune 🎶 can't beat a bit of squeeze
I seem them live last week ,, unbelievable,,if you ever get a chance go and see them
Love that song , went to see him twice
The best of pop music and you don't have to be from their side of the pond to find resonance in the stories.
Lennon and McCartney got nothing on Difford and Tillbrook
You're right about Lennon and McCartney, but hardly anyone is prepared to say it, as if it's heresy. The other one in the same league is Andy Partridge of XTC.
Chris Difford's poetic lyrics with Glen Tilbrook's wonderful voice and arrangement complete a fantastic song.
All time çlassic
Jools Holland rocking the keys
Any woes you face in life are down to listening to Squeeze.
South London 1980s classic life!
Jools with the cigar 😆
Supported you guys for years.
Truth heals
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ”
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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Will
Lived it even got a job at the Stanley factory in St Albans 🤪🤣
many memories for me
I’m 14 years old but I’m happy to be listening to songs like this, my dads got a great taste in music.
One of my fav songs...35 years later...love it
The late great Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) got 90% of his songwriting tricks from these lads. He even recorded his voice the same way.
What a bunch of brilliant musicians, one I'd pay to see reform.
Seriously underrated band, great lyricist's
Their finest moment. And such a great pair of songwriters..❤. remember the first time hearing this and going ok where's the chorus..??.. Pure class..
Is there anyone in the UK of a certain age that doesn't know all the lyrics of this classic?
NOICE
Anyone else think this chap should have been poet laureate?
They had a quirky sound but pulled out a simple fun song that people related to
The 2 lovely girls from the "Cool for Cats" video have been put into the background in this video, almost demonstratively, I think.
Perfect 👌🏼
This song premiered about the time as a young man I was getting married. No money, Too young, too dumb, too full of c** to know what we were doing-love had got us hooked up. Later divorced . . . this song says it all.
My favourite song with no chorus
Classy band ..Great songwriting.
At school at this ti
Me wish i cud go back 2 this time
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.
One of the most beautiful pop songs ever written. Ray Davies meets Richard Rodgers. And Jools Holland smoking a stogie.
Takes a special skill to tell a full story in 3 minutes!! ❤❤
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 UA-cam for some reason!
@@2760ade It really is! Almost as much as 'surreal'.
“ 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
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..
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
How to tell a story perfectly in 3 minutes, Absolutely brilliant
26 and love this reminds me of pimlico when me old man was growing up
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.
'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 ...
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.
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 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
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 😅😅
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?
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
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!
Dylan always got his due for the worldliness of his lyrics but the writing of Chris Difford and Elvis Costello resonates more with me in hindsight. Must be my unsophisticated working class background. It's a shame Squeeze isn't better appreciated.
How many rock lyrics include "kidney machines" ?
Don't forget The Jam.
Appreciate all 3 .
Truly , madly , deeply.
Depends on my mood : )
Along with Ray Davies Costello and Difford are some of England's greatest song writers.
Mick Jaeggar , Bowie , The Who , and a million more exciting , EXCELLENT, songwriters . English songwriters are sooo good . But never forget , there’s Bob Dylan and everyone else .
@@vinm300 what about "brucellosis"?
"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.
Top 5 pop songs of all time. Full stop.
Well said totally agree
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 .