ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST : SQUEEZE BBC Sessions Vol 8 1993 - 1998

 Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 1993-1998

Paul notes: It's time for another Squeeze BBC album. This one, "Volume 8," is meant to be a collection of studio sessions.

In 1993 and 1994, Squeeze had at least three BBC studio sessions to promote their 1993 studio album "Some Fantastic Place." Most of their performances were later included in their archival album "The Complete BBC Sessions." However, unfortunately, they played some of the same songs multiple times, with barely any difference between the versions. So I've only included one version of each. I believe the songs they played multiple times were "Third Rail," "Some Fantastic Place," and "Tempted."

They went on to release the albums "Ridiculous" in 1995 and "Domino" in 1998. Then they broke up for an extended time. Their next studio album of original material wouldn't come out until 2015. So I wanted material from those albums, but it seems they didn't do any more BBC studio sessions in that time, at least none that I could find. However, they did perform a BBC concert in Cambridge, Britain, in 1998. I thought about posting the whole concert, but these concerts mostly consist of them playing their biggest hits, and I've posted a bunch of concerts like that already. So instead I just took the relatively new songs they played in that concert ("Domino," "Donkey Talk," "Memory Motel," and "To Be a Dad"), plus one older hit that wasn't played in concert that much, "Goodbye Girl," and added it to this album. Since there's a mix of studio and live material, I removed the cheering noises from the live cuts with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program.

So that's why I said up above that this volume is "meant to be a collection of studio sessions," since about half of it actually comes from a concert. But now it plays like all studio sessions.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 have been officially released on the "Complete BBC Sessions" album. "It's Over" is from one of the exact same BBC sessions as some songs on that album, but it remained unreleased. The last five songs are from that 1998 BBC concert I mentioned above and are unreleased. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Third Rail 
02 Cold Shoulder 
03 Loving You Tonight 
04 Some Fantastic Place
05 It's Over
06 Hourglass 
07 Tempted 
08 Domino
09 Donkey Talk
10 Melody Motel 
11 To Be a Dad 
12 Goodbye Girl

I think I have mentioned before that some my favourite Squeeze album is their tenth album 'Some Fantastic Place’ about grief and loss and it reminds me of folk I came to lose myself and the whole album is a pinnacle of songwriting and singing and composition from the Lennon/McCartney of their Day in Difford and Tilbrook (noting this album featured the return, albeit temporary, of wunder-keyboardist and singer himself Paul ‘How Long’ Carrack)

*Some Fantastic Place marked another change for the band, in that Difford and Tilbrook, who typically write lyrics and music separately (with Difford usually giving Tilbook completed lyrics to write the music for), went for a relatively simplistic approach, sitting down together and writing the majority of the album as a team. The duo credited this approach with revitalising their working relationship, bringing about a "big jump" in their creativity level. Tilbrook commented: "It was like discovering a new partnership, because suddenly we were able to bounce ideas back and forth off each other

 noting by 1997 here they were pretty much just the duo of Glenn and Chris . . . .