ALBUM OF THE DAY: SQUEEZE-Cool for Cats -the second studio album by Squeeze, released in 1979. Cool for Cats contains four UK hit singles,more than any other album the band has issued. The album peaked at number 45 in the UK Albums Chart, spending 11 weeks in that position.
*Its a pop masterpiece *
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Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. In the UK, their singles "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", and "Labelled with Love" were top-ten chart hits. Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with "Tempted", "Black Coffee in Bed", and "Hourglass",and were considered a part of the Second British Invasion.
Billboard said Cool for Cats was a "hard-rocking" album with "hard-edged power pop".
Alluding to the record, Steven Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Cool for Cats as "the work of a rock & roll band [...] that lathered on the keyboards and herky-jerky rhythms"
In 1979, Billboard selected Cool for Cats as one of its "recommended LPs" and cited "Slap and Tickle", "Hop, Skip & Jump", "Up the Junction", and "It's So Dirty" as the album's "best cuts".
Squeeze:
Glenn Tilbrook – keyboards, lead guitars, vocals
Jools Holland – keyboards, vocals
Chris Difford – rhythm guitars, vocals
Harri Kakoulli – bass
Gilson Lavis – drums
