Hey all you cool cats and mussel pullers….I hope
you can be tempted to squeeze in some time to listen to episode 122
of Love That Album Podcast.
For this month’s episode, I am joined again by
guitarist Shane Pacey to talk about Squeeze. This is the band that
has over its history combined hook-laden melodies with tales of human
frailty and surviving difficult circumstances. You can smile and
dance to the music before you realise, “Hey, that’s a song about
infidelity / domestic violence / being arrested for stealing because
you can’t afford to feed your unborn child”…..oh and they wrote
a song about masturbation (but it wasn’t the one I thought it was
for a long time).
Nominally, we tasked ourselves with delving into
the band’s third long player, Argybargy. However, as is customary
at LTA Headquarters, we spent a lot of time discussing Squeeze as an
entity as well as the record under focus. Were Difford and Tilbrook
really the new Lennon and McCartney of their day? Could their songs
have worked in the twenties around the piano in an old British Music
Hall environment? What were Butlins holiday camps? All these
questions and many more are skirted around on this episode.
You can download the show from Spotify, Stitcher
or iTunes (search for “Love That Album podcast”) or from the
website at http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com.
Once again, my huge thanks go to Shane for taking
the time out to join me on the show and giving “some old chat”.
You can (and should) check out his brand of blues at either
https://shanepaceytrio.com.au
or at https://bondicigars.com/.
If you like Bert Jansch, Shane has a great new album called The
Gardener available at
https://shanepacey.bandcamp.com/album/the-gardener
which would definitely have been approved of by the great man.
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Right click to download episode 122 here.
