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Squeeze: New Wave’s Literate HitmakersWith their classic albums, explore how Squeeze’s Difford and Tilbrook turned sharp, witty narratives and melodic hooks into some of new wave’s most literate and enduring songs in the '70s and early '80s.
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Hourglass video commentaryOptical illusions, impossible rooms and visual chaos turn Squeeze’s comeback video into a wonderfully inventive trip through the absurd.
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- Trixies Pt 2 - in Four Albums, One Way Out
- Tempted - in Songs of 1981
- The Prisoner - in Songs About Starting Over
- His House, Her Home - in Songs About Home & Family
- Last Christmas - in Christmas Songs
- Separate Beds - in Deep Cuts ('79 to '81)
- Wild Sewerage Tickles Brazil - in Headscratchers: Weird New Wave Songs
- Tempted - in Songs Featured in Movies
- Pulling Mussels - in Summer Songs
- Cool For Cats - in Modern Songs That Sound Like New Wave Classics
- I Learned How to Pray - in A Song is a Friend You Haven't Met Yet
- Hourglass - in Songs That Are Covers
- Labelled With Love - in New Wave's Masquerade Ball
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