Is it weird that I continue to be fascinated by this thread but don't use any of these services?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
An obvious and logical one but still funny/wtf is McCartney's top Spotify : by FAR "FourFiveSeconds" (+700 million ! followed by "Wonderful Christmas Time" at... only 176 million).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 19 November 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
Seems Spotify streams aren't much of an arbiter of a song's actual popularity in many cases, although it'd be interesting to know whether some of the random picks mentioned here do actually become legacy songs because of exposure via algorithmic quirks.
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 November 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
By far Squeeze's top song on Spotify is "Tempted" and while it was arguably by default their biggest hit single in the US (#49) it was essentially a commercial flop not even hitting the top 40 in the UK. I'm not exactly sure how it bubbled up to become their legacy track.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
"Tempted" was a fairly big MTV hit upon release, and has been in tons of commercials and movies. Also: Paul Carrack=GOLD.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
Oddly enough, "Hourglass" was a way bigger US Pop hit (#15), as was something called "853-5937" (#32).
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
By far Squeeze's top song on Spotify is "Tempted" and while it was arguably by default their biggest hit single in the US (#49)
I just peeked at their singles sales and was surprised to learn that this is not a true statement!
While I remember "Tempted" being huge here in the states, 2 other singles charted higher (and I don't recall either of them by name):
"Hourglass" (#15 US Top 40, 1987)
"853-5937" (#32 US Top 40, 1988)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
xp
Okay, I remember "Hourglass", sounds like a Was (Not Was) production.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
"853-5937" does not *ring* a bell... (sorry)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
"Hourglass" was helped along by it's video.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
"853-5937" sounds like an undiscovered CVS Jam.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
I remember seeing the videos for both of those Squeeze songs at the time, and in fact there was an article in the newspaper where someone with that phone number complained about all the crank calls they were receiving.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
"tempted" has been the general public's go-to squeeze song pretty much from the day it was released! also, it is great.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
"Tempted" is tbh the only Squeeze song I could even name offhand. You hear it all the time in North America ime, not sure if they have any others in regular rotation?
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
"Black Coffee In Bed" & "Pulling Muscles from Michelle"(sic) both got almost as much airplay as "Tempted" in my parts iirc
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
I first heard "Tempted" on the Reality Bites soundtrack.
― jaymc, Friday, 20 November 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
"Pulling Mussels..." is a muzak staple/CVS Jam.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:50 PM bookmarkflaglink
yeah Guitar magazine was raving about them as a power-pop band in one issue I read as a kid and I had only heard "Tempted" at the time and was very confused
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
also how many damn songs are phone numbers
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
Is this one as good as "867-5309"?
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
or "634-5789"?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
"Pulling Muscles" is good - I like more than "Tempted" tbh - but I've never it before. Does this really get regular airplay? I was a regular CVS customer for a few years there.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
I doubt there will ever be another hit song with a phone number for its title now that phone numbers are 10 digits.... (actually I recently learned there are still some parts of the US you can place local calls by dialing only the last 7 digits, though where I live you've needed to dial all ten digits since the late '90s. Don't know how it works in the UK now)
― Lee626, Friday, 20 November 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
yeah the last time you could dial just 7 numbers where I lived was the early 90s I think. I remember the rollout, we were all aggravated at the 'extra work'. like most places I suspect it's cos they divided our city, which was formerly all 305 area code, to 305 and 407.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
I wonder how many people nowadays even would recognize "Pennsylvania 6-5000" as a phone-number song...
― Lee626, Friday, 20 November 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
I doubt there will ever be another hit song with a phone number for its title now that phone numbers are 10 digits
Also cell phones have made it unnecessary to memorize phone numbers.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:24 (three years ago) link
The answer was no btw.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
Haha *Mussels
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:34 (three years ago) link
Can't believe I forgot all about "Hourglass." Seems like an act's highest charting hit without much of an afterlife.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 November 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
tempted is by far the most famous squeeze song, the kind of song that americans know even if they don’t know the performer.
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
maybe “mussels” and “black coffee” approached the song in airplay (which I doubt) but i’ve never heard either in a commercial, while “tempted” shows up all over the place
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah but I'm wondering if in the UK "Cool for Cats" or "Up the Junction" are better known than "Tempted" - they were much bigger hits.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
I only know Up The Junction, Cool For Cats (from an advert) and Hourglass (from NOW 10) - don't think I know Tempted, name doesn't ring any bells.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
It's the song from the Gap ad
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
I've had a listen and it is familiar, not sure from where though (only Gap ad I remember had Mellow Yellow), would never have guessed that it was Squeeze.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Tempted somehow manages to be the best Squeeze song without sounding all that much like Squeeze
(but seriously, do people not all have 45s and Under lying around now? This used to be a basic in-every-dorm-room kinda record and it is ace beginning to end.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Almost certainly yes. Labelled with Love was their other big UK hit. Tempted didn't hit the top 40 but must have had enough radio airplay or I wouldn't remember it; 853-5937 didn't crack the top 90 and I can't say I'm surprised.
― the 120 days of sod 'em (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
^ first line should be in italics!
I think they released a rerecorded "90s version" of Tempted at one point, no? Maybe to cash in on soundtrack or commercial placements
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, November 20, 2020 9:10 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fwiw, "tempted" is squeeze's highest-charting u.s. single, peaking at #8 on the mainstream rock chart, while the other two didn't chart. their highest-charting hot 100 song was "hourglass," which is surprising to me.
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
xp it was for the reality bites soundtrack
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
Difford later said, "The reason this song (Hourglass) exists in my mind is purely for the video."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
"Hourglass" got a shitload of MTV play in late '87, and they were CMJ/college radio mainstays through at least 1993.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
it is ace beginning to end
So is Tempted! (/paulcarrackjoke)
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Friday, 20 November 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Ha, beat me to it!
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
it is their "what a fool believes"
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
Speaking of the Doobies, #11 "Listen to the Music" has twice as many streams as #1 "What a Fool Believes" which also loses out to "Long Train Runnin" by 50 million streams. Their other #1 "Black Water" is even further behind.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
That kind of lines up with my experience w/them on Classic Rock radio, except "Black Water" is up there with the other two as songs I'd all hear multiple times before a single airing of "What A Fool Believes".
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
yeah WAFB's position at the top of Yacht Rock canon doesn't translate to classic rock radio spins
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link