Saturday, May 11, 2024

Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 10-14-1985

For much of the 1980s, it seemed like the British band Squeeze performed a BBC concert every time they released another studio album, and here's another example of that. 

In 1982, Squeeze broke up, when they arguably were at their peak of commercial and critical success. But they only stayed apart for three years. They reunited for a benefit concert, decided they liked being together, and recorded a studio album that year, "Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti." This concert was from part of a tour to support that album.

The sound quality here was a bit below par for the BBC, even though it's an unreleased bootleg. I boosted the lead vocals on all the songs, and especially on the banter between songs (using the audio editing program UVR5), and I think it sounds very good now. 

There was a more significant problem with the song "Is That Love," where there was a sonic flaw in one part of the songs. But I was able to patch that with another bit from elsewhere in the song. That's why that one has "[Edit]" in the title.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk (Squeeze)
02 Another Nail In My Heart (Squeeze)
03 Is That Love [Edit] (Squeeze)
04 In Quintessence (Squeeze)
05 talk (Squeeze)
06 Hits of the Year (Squeeze)
07 Last Time Forever (Squeeze)
08 By Your Side (Squeeze)
09 talk (Squeeze)
10 King George Street (Squeeze)
11 Up the Junction (Squeeze)
12 No Place like Home (Squeeze)
13 Annie Get Your Gun (Squeeze)
14 Take Me, I'm Yours (Squeeze)
15 Pulling Mussels [From the Shell] (Squeeze)
16 Labelled with Love (Squeeze)
17 Black Coffee in Bed (Squeeze)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16622377/SQUZE1985BBSssonsVlum6InCncrtHmmrsmthOdonLndonBrtin__10-14-1985_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a concert at Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on September 6, 1985.

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