Play (Squeeze album)

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Play
Play cover
Studio album by Squeeze
Released July 1991
Genre Rock
Length 52:25
Label Reprise Records
Producer Tony Berg
Professional reviews
Squeeze chronology
A Round and a Bout
(1990)
Play
(1991)
Some Fantastic Place
(1993)

Play is a 1991 album by the British New Wave group Squeeze. It is the band's ninth album, and their only released by Reprise Records. It is also of note as it is the first LP in the Squeeze discography to feature only four official members instead of five (Steve Nieve took on many of the keyboard duties that would have gone to Jools Holland in the past). Tony Berg produced the album, which, despite weak sales, is a fan favorite. In the liner notes to the 1996 Squeeze compilation Excess Moderation, Glenn Tilbrook stated that he considers Play the beginning of Squeeze's "renaissance period."

The liner notes to the album are, appropriately, in the form of a play that incorporates the lyrics of the songs in a script that also references the plays Our Town by Thorton Wilder and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.

  1. "Satisfied" – 5:10
  2. "Crying in My Sleep" – 5:03
  3. "Letting Go" – 5:01
  4. "The Day I Get Home" – 4:50
  5. "The Truth" – 4:12
  6. "House of Love" – 3:23
  7. "Cupid's Toy" – 4:31
  8. "Gone to the Dogs" – 3:54
  9. "Walk a Straight Line" – 3:50
  10. "Sunday Street" – 4:16
  11. "Wicked and Cruel" – 4:14
  12. "There Is a Voice" – 4:01

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